What rite are you part of?

[Loveolivia]

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[couponfit]

Latin, I am curious what some of the differences are between the rites, like language, culture, traditions etc. I heard that some of the eastern rites do the sacrements all at once instead of consecutivly, I’m wondering what some of the other difference are.

The 2003 GIRM for Diocese in the US (section 245) allows a communicant to receive the blood of christ by sipping it from the chalice (ordinary or usual method), by tube, by spoon, or by intinction. For intinction, the EC’s and RC’s do it slightly different. But most importantly the norm in the RC is to sip the blood from the chalice, whereas in the EC it is to use intinction by spoon directly into the communicants mouth.

 

[VeiledCatholic]

My husband and I are of the Latin Rite but we do enjoy visiting the Byzantine Catholic church (Ruthenian) once per month in the next town over from us.

 

[twf]

Really, the particular church is the Latin Church, and the rite that is mostly used in it is the Roman Rite. It gets confusing, though, because the Roman Rite is often called the Latin Rite.

Yes, while there is much confusion and the terms are often used interchangably even, at times, by Church authorities, I strongly support the following usage (which I also think is in accord with the most general usage in canon law):

The Roman Church is properly speaking the Dioecese of Rome, which holds primacy among all the Churches - we must remember that each diocese is, theologically speaking, a particulr Church in its own right

The vast particular Church sui iuris that can be found spread across the world under the leadership of the Pope and the Roman Curia and which primarily uses the Roman Rite is, properly, the Latin Church

As a member of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, a particular local church which uses the Roman Rite, I am a Latin Catholic by virtue of canonical membership and a Roman Catholic by virtue of liturgical patrimony - but I would never identify myself as a member of the Roman Church, but rather the Latin Church, as I do not live in Rome

On this board the term the Roman Church is used to refer to the Western Church as often as the better suited term the Latin Church - but people always forget that in canon law the Church typically means the Diocese of Rome by this particular identifier…

 

[Peter_J]

The vast particular Church sui iuris that can be found spread across the world under the leadership of the Pope and the Roman Curia and which primarily uses the Roman Rite is, properly, the Latin Church

Quite right.

The Roman Rite could, perhaps, be called “a Latin Rite”, but not “the Latin Rite”.

 

[Vico]

Quite right.

The Roman Rite could, perhaps, be called “a Latin Rite”, but not “the Latin Rite”.

To distinguish from Ambrosian Rite, Mozarabic Rite, Bracarenses Rite, or Carthusian Rite, for example.

 

[Peter_J]

To distinguish from Ambrosian Rite, Mozarabic Rite, Bracarenses Rite, or Carthusian Rite, for example.

Yes, they could all be called “Latin Rites”. (I’m not proposing that we adopt that terminology b/c I think it would increase confusion. Just saying this to illustrates the wrong-ness of calling the Roman Rite “the Latin Rite”.)

 

[drfye]

The 2003 GIRM for Diocese in the US (section 245) allows a communicant to receive the blood of christ by sipping it from the chalice (ordinary or usual method), by tube, by spoon, or by intinction. For intinction, the EC’s and RC’s do it slightly different. But most importantly the norm in the RC is to sip the blood from the chalice, whereas in the EC it is to use intinction by spoon directly into the communicants mouth.

spoon instead eh, hmm you know, in school, they never gave us the wine, just the Eucharist.