Further valuable information is available on byzcath. I am concerned as to whether a divorced and remarried Catholic can be a eucharistic minister? Here is a local situation with which I am familiar. The first lady is a Catholic who had been a widow for some years; then she married a man who had been married three times before, and they were married by a Protestant minister.
The second lady, a Catholic who had been divorced from her first husband, later married a divorced man who is not a Catholic. They, also, were married by a Protestant minister. Both of these women were eucharistic ministers before they remarried and still serve in that capacity today.
Is it wrong for them to continue to distribute Communion in a Catholic church? I have chosen not to take the host from either of these women. Someone who is married outside the Catholic Church — i. An extraordinary minister of holy Communion gives public witness to his or her fidelity to church teaching. So I would hold off on making any judgments. Meanwhile, though, it would be wise for you to speak with a priest at the parish in question and tell him of your concern.
There are long, thin tapers being lit before icons of ancient pattern that are sometimes alienating in their austerity and lack of linear perspective. There are elaborate, brocade vestments and funny hats.
Not everyone is comfortable being surrounded by a new world of religious symbolism; but for a few it is heaven on earth. Some Catholics over the centuries have valued liturgical ritual and tradition primarily for their unifying and universalizing effect. Unity, for them, is strengthened by uniformity and weakened by diversity.
Similarly, for others, Catholicity means being able to walk into any Mass in any Catholic church in any country of the world and feel at home. Be that as it may, the Second Vatican Council took the risk of embracing a vision of Catholic unity rooted in the complementarity of ancient apostolic ritual diversity.
Where Eastern Catholic churches had abandoned their distinctive liturgical practices and adopted Latin ones, they were encouraged to return to their own authentic traditions. They did so not as museums for curious antiquities, but as living parts of the universal Church that serve the unity of the whole Church when they preserve the integrity of their traditions and adapt them to the needs of new times and places see Decree on the Catholic Churches of the Eastern Rite, 2.
As the peoples of the Old World have been displaced to the New, the old ethnic boundaries of the Eastern churches have become permeable. Most of the flow of people of the Eastern Catholic churches has been outward into the Roman Catholic parishes. But occasionally the flow moves the other way, as it did for my wife and myself, who, after nearly a decade of finding ourselves visiting Byzantine Vespers more and more often, realized that this was our Catholic home.
For brief descriptions of all the rites in the Catholic Church, see this article. Joel Barstad was raised in the Scandinavian Lutheran tradition where he developed a love for sung liturgy and the richness of a liturgical calendar.
For instance, baptism is conferred by immersion rather than the sprinkling of water. All three sacraments of initiation — baptism, confirmation called Chrismation in the Byzantine Rite , and holy Eucharist — are administered at the same time. Thus, infants or adults receive all three sacraments when they are brought into the church.
The sacrament of the sick is administered not only when someone is gravely ill, but also to the entire congregation at the end of Divine Liturgy Byzantine Catholic Mass various Sundays throughout the year.
There is a crowning ceremony and a sharing of the common cup. In fact, the priest, not the couple themselves as in the Roman rite, actually confers the sacrament.
Holy orders is conferred by a bishop in a manner similar to the Roman rite. However, married men can be ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in the Byzantine rite. Bishops are selected from the celibate clergy. One of the biggest differences most Roman Catholics would see between the Roman rite and Byzantine rite is the way the Mass — or as it is called in the Byzantine rite, Divine Liturgy, — is celebrated.
The whole liturgy is sung or chanted with a continuous back and forth between the priest and the congregation. First, the writer gets confused between Eastern Orthodoxy and Byzantine Catholicism. Byzantine Catholics and Roman Catholics are in full communion and may receive the Eucharist in either church even the Orthodox are welcome to communicate in the Catholic church although the Orthodox have stricter rules forbidding this.
Second, the article does not clearly distinguish between unchangeable Sacred Tradition and modifiable church customs and language. The differences between East and West Catholics and even the Orthodox in most matters falls under the latter kind of tradition.
For example, even when an Orthodox sates that they do not accept the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception or Purgatory, this has more to do with semantics and emphasis rather than substantial disagreement.
Third, there are a variety of non-Catholic autonomous and autocephalous Eastern communions, not just the Byzantine: the Eastern Orthodox primarily Byzantine origin , the Oriental Orthodox primarily Antiochene, Armenian, and Alexandrian traditions , and the Assyrian Church of the East similar to the Chaldeans. These non-Catholic sister churches have valid apostolic succession and sacraments and each has an equivalent hierarchy in full communion with Rome.
Some Catholics, such as the Maronites, do not have an Orthodox counterpart because they never split from the West. Eastern Catholics are autonomous self governing in terms of practical and spiritual matters but not autocephalous they look to Rome for final dogmatic approval although the local Patriarchs enjoy a high degree of privileged authority.
Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches exist because they were planted by the apostles who carried the Gospel via oral and liturgical Tradition throughout the world even before half the apostles wrote new scriptures. One imperfect analogy, since the church is more than simply a federation, is to see the different families of Catholic Churches as different states within one union of government.
Californians, New Yorkers, and Tennesseans might have very different cultures but all are American. Byzantines, Maronites, Melkites, Coptics, etc. Well Jesus will have a problem when He returns. Trying to choose who is right. I believe that Christians should celebrate that we all believe in Jesus Christ as lord and thank Him that we can celebrate Him in different places because of our not so important differences.
Absolutely correct. I am now going to go to the eastern rite Byzantine rite, which is in full communion with the roman Catholic Church. Both can go to eachothers liturgy. I have been roman Catholic all my life and am now going to the ea.
This information is incorrect. I believe you are mixing the Byzantine church with the Orthodox Church. Please update your information.
As others have said, this information is incorrect. I think there is a difference between comparing Roman Catholic religion and Orthodox Greek or Byzantine Christianity of today and a historical comparison.
You all have to remember that you live in the 21st century and what exists today and what was years ago are vastly different. These religions have never existed apart from the politics of men, despite the many reductionist attempts to cast a hunky dory light on their differences by the comment section in an attempt to present a united front as Christians.
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