What is the difference between Roman Catholic and Byzantine Catholic?

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dochawk said:
There was never a time when the One, Holy, and Apostolic Church consisted of a single church, nor that it was all directly ruled from Rome.
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What is meant by the word ONE when people refer to the ONE Holy Catholic Church ?
 
Honestly, I don’t know. Can you answer that question, please? Thanks!!! 🙂
 
Depends who you ask. By Catholic definition, Church of Christ mentioned in Nicene Creed subsists in Catholic Church. There are those in imperfect union with it, but generally union with Catholic Church is decided by communion with Roman Pontiff. Those in imperfect communion with Catholic Church are not in perfect communion with Church of Christ as it subsists in it, but not every Catholic is in perfect union with it either. Vatican II declared this. Church is one because it has unity (visible at that) between it’s members who are in full communion with each other, and communion is transitive.
 
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PennyinCanada said:
If you went to a Divine Liturgy, in English, none of it would be familiar to you, except the reading of the Gospel. You might even wonder what country you were in.
Here is a person receiving communion under both species with a little spoon.
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I disagree. She would find that the creed, the Lord’s Prayer, the Holy, Holy, Holy, the Alleluia, the homily, and the words of institution have direct correlation with the Mass.

If she is familiar with the Divine Mercy chaplet, she would recognize the Trisagion hymn. She would recognize the scripture that is used throughout the liturgy. Most importantly, if she were to listen carefully to the prayers of the Divine Liturgy, she would recognize in them her own Catholic faith.
 
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dochawk said:
The attempt to stamp out Eastern Liturgy and impose the roman rite on the Ruthenians in the US has much to do with ACROD having come into existence . . .
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I think the tide is turning. One of things that was discussed at our Archeparical assemblies over the last year was that we should fully embrace our heritage and traditions, and that includes removing Latinizations. I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with the Latin Rite, so please no one take offense. But, we’re Byzantine. So we should be Byzantine.
 
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I’m Ukrainian Greek Catholic. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is the largest Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See, as @catholic03 mentioned above.
 
The Ukrainians recently started to hold Sunday Mass at a monastery of Dominican nuns just a couple miles from my house.
 
I really like the UGCC. There is a UGCC priest in Auckland, New Zealand who comes to my city of Wellington fortnightly.

Maybe one day I’ll attend a Divine Liturgy out of curiosity. I’ve a lot of respect for the Byzantine traditions and practices.
 
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I do not know where you live, but the best way to get to know any of the rites is to attended a Divine Liturgy. If you live near any metropolitan area in the North East, you can find at least one. The Eparchy of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian) has a list of all their active parishes across the US. I have also been to a Ukranian (same as Ruthenian basically, but has a different hierarchy), Maronite, and Melkite myself. It will seem both familiar and different.

PM me if you have any questions.
 
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PennyinCanada said:
If you went to a Divine Liturgy, in English, none of it would be familiar to you, except the reading of the Gospel.
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Yes and no.

MY first time, I was stunned by how much it had in common while being so different.
AlNg said:
What is meant by the word ONE when people refer to the ONE Holy Catholic Church ?
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The churches which are supposed to be in communion, that share the same faith (though they’ve been bickering for a millennium . . .)
Allyson said:
The Eparchy of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian) has a list of all their active parishes across the US.
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just go to mass times.org–it (at least usually) lists EC as well as RC.

There’s also a director kept in a sticky thread on the East & West forum at byzcath.org
 
Thanks, but as Margaret_Ann pointed out, I live in New Zealand where the Divine Liturgy is only offered weekly in one city that is approx. 10 hours drive away from where I live.

I hope to try and eventually attend the Divine Liturgy as I know that (at least a couple of years ago), it was celebrated fortnightly in my city.
 
AlNg said:
There are a lot of different beliefs among Catholics as we see from statements of some German bishops.
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What I wrote is dogmatically defined. People can disagree, Church does not.
 
@Margaret_Ann @catholic03. Whoops! Sorry for the comment placement confusion. I was responding directly to the OP.

@catholic03 - I spent some time in Texas where the one parish I knew of was about the same distance away. It is hit or miss in the US.
 
As a Roman Catholic, would I fulfill my Sunday obligation if I attended an Eastern church’s liturgy?
 
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