Why is it that Ukrainian Catholic priests can get married?

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The_Idiot said:
I’m tired of seeing people posting questions regarding the Married Priesthood which are badly phrased and imply that priests may marry after ordination
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If we already knew the answers, we wouldn’t have to ask the questions. If the questions are “badly phrased” it just means we need to get more information. If you are so tired of the ignorance of others, you might think about not opening the threads. Seems to me that asking and learning is a way to unity and that teaching is a charitable activity.
 
Yesterday, I attended a Divine Liturgy at the Mission of St. Irenaeus for Ukrainian Catholics in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was a wonderful service presided over by a married bi-ritual priest.
 
peresieh said:
Yesterday, I attended a Divine Liturgy at the Mission of St. Irenaeus for Ukrainian Catholics in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was a wonderful service presided over by a married bi-ritual priest.
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Godd to know its patronage. The mission has been a long time coming and its birth is a credit to Subdeacon Adam deVille, who has worked hard to establish it. How was the turnout?
 
About 40 were there including a few young families with children and two religious sisters.
The Cathedral chapel worked well for the Liturgy. I am used to Ruthenian chant so I had a hard time with the Kievan English chant, but it was beautiful.
 
Have you ever confessed to a married priest? A world of difference with one who understands our every day lives as to one who tries to understand our every day lives.

Halyna,

Regarding your statement above, it seems to me you are saying that celibate priests live in some sort of vacum and have no understanding about marriage let alone everyday lives.

And yet, most priests come from a family that has married parents and so has some understanding of married life by growing up with them. Most priests have brothers and sisters who are married and have some experience of what marriage is for them, and most priests I know keep track on what is going on in society. So how is it that they don’t understand everyday lives?
 
Diakonia said:
Godd to know its patronage. The mission has been a long time coming and its birth is a credit to Subdeacon Adam deVille, who has worked hard to establish it. How was the turnout?
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It has indeed been a long time! I remember contacting Adam on Pentecost of 2009 b/c I saw that he was interested in starting a mission in Fort Wayne (of all places!). It’s been a long wait but God has blessed us! My next goal is to officially switch Churches from Latin to Ukrainian…hopefully within a year or 2…I would love for my kids to be able to receive our Lord soon…they were the only ones there who couldn’t 😦

Edit: I know this is in a married priest thread so I want to add that although our priest is married (with a wonderful family I might add lol!) he was ordained in the OCA not the UGCC. He was received into the UGCC last December.
 
1 Timothy 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach…
 
Alex2008 said:
Have you ever confessed to a married priest? A world of difference with one who understands our every day lives as to one who tries to understand our every day lives.
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My favorite Father-Confessor is a widower who became a Roman priest.

For those very reasons.
 
Patchunky said:
At last, someone is standing up for our rights!

orthocath.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/melkite-catholic-church-to-ordain-married-men-to-priesthood-in-usa/

😃
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Ironic that it was a Byzantine Eparch that worked diligently to get approval for married Byzantine Catholic priests in the USA, but Rome would not approve it until 1999.

October 02, 1999

But as of today, when the new law takes effect, “it is possible to ordain a married deacon [to the priesthood], with permission from Rome. The door is not closed,” said Metropolitan Judson Procyk of Pittsburgh, who has championed the traditional Eastern married priesthood.
post-gazette.com/regionstate/19991002byzantine4.asp
 
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