That's It I"m Becoming Eastern Catholic

[Resurrexi]

Yeah I totally wish I could become an Eastern Catholic. Seriously.

Anyway, this is a thread for wannabe Eastern Catholics.

Edited August 15, 2008 by StThomasMore

[Vincent Vega]

Sometimes I wish I'd been inducted into the Eastern Church so that I could become a priest and still be married, as I feel a strong call to both positions.
But alas, I'd miss the Latin Rite too much, I think. I don't know, though...you know, I've never attended an Eastern rite mass!

[Apotheoun]

[geetarplayer]

I wannabe a Maronite! They use Aramaic in their liturgy.

[mortify]

I'd like to marry a Maronite, Lebanese girls are very attractive

[Archaeology cat]

I would like to experience the Divine Liturgy sometime. I don't know of any Eastern Catholic churches around me, though.

[Paddington]

[quote name='mortify' post='1627737' date='Aug 15 2008, 01:01 AM']I'd like to marry a Maronite, Lebanese girls are very attractive [/quote]

The Greek guys got dibs on 'em.

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' post='1627929' date='Aug 15 2008, 05:36 AM']I would like to experience the Divine Liturgy sometime. I don't know of any Eastern Catholic churches around me, though.[/quote]
The link below gives a list of Ukrainian Catholic Churches in Britain:

[url="http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/ugparish.html"][u]The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Great Britain[/u][/url]

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1628048' date='Aug 15 2008, 06:43 PM']The link below gives a list of Ukrainian Catholic Churches in Britain:

[url="http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/ugparish.html"][u]The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Great Britain[/u][/url][/quote]
Thanks, Apo!

[Apotheoun]

No problem.

[url="http://www.melkite.org.uk/"][u]St John Chrysostom Melkite Parish - London[/u][/url]

[misereremi]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1627687' date='Aug 15 2008, 04:59 AM']Yeah I totally wish I could become an Eastern Catholic. Seriously.

Anyway, this is a thread for wannabe Eastern Catholics.[/quote]
Whenever I step into an Eastern rite Church I am a proper wannabe

[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1628134' date='Aug 15 2008, 10:01 PM'][url="http://www.melkite.org.uk/"][u]St John Chrysostom Melkite Parish - London[/u][/url][/quote]
YES! (Londone PMers, is’ a 2 min walk from Sloan Square.)

I love the Eastern liturgy. OK, this might be badminded, but I'm also very attracted to the liturgy and iconography of the Coptic Orthodox Church. I know that they are monophysites, but I am really humbled by the reverence, the beauty, and the richness of the Ethiopian Orthodox liturgy (vs Ethiopic Catholic liturgy).

But I am happy to be Latin rite. We get Eucharistic Adoration, which I’m not sure the Eastern rites do?

[Apotheoun]

I don't believe that the Oriental Orthodox are "monophysites": instead, they are "miaphysites," which means that they are Christologically orthodox.

[misereremi]

[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1628158' date='Aug 15 2008, 10:30 PM']I don't believe that the Oriental Orthodox are "monophysites": instead, they are "miaphysites," which means that they are Christologically orthodox.[/quote]
Thanks. I'm trying to understand this better. Depending on who I ask, I get different replies. My Coptic friends believe they were 'deliberately' misunderstood in the Council of Chalcedon. I don't know the history but I'm keen to learn.

[Apotheoun]

[i]I posted the information below in another thread, but it may be helpful here:[/i]


[quote name='Mateo el Feo' post='1233286' date='Apr 7 2007, 02:58 AM']You respond without answering my questions. Here are my questions again: [b]Maybe you could share the first document in which the term "miaphysite" occurs in Coptic literature. Was it before Chalcedon (i.e. 451 AD)?[/b] This would also help prove your claim that the Copts rejected Monophysitism before Rome.[/quote]
The term [i]mia physis[/i] was used by St. Cyril of Alexandria in his "Five Tomes Against Nestorius" in A.D. 430 in order to emphasize the reality of the incarnation in opposition to the Nestorian heresy; for, as he put it, after the union there is ". . . one nature of God the Logos incarnate ([i]mia physis tou Theou Logou sesarkomene[/i])" [St. Cyril of Alexandria, "Against Nestorius," I, 1, 6, 33]. Now, the use of this term (i.e., [i]mia physis[/i]) does not involve the blending of divinity and humanity in Christ; instead, it simply affirms the interpenetration ([i]perichoresis[/i]) of the two natures in the one person ([i]hypostasis[/i]) of the incarnate Logos. To put it another way, St. Cyril held that the Hypostatic Union involves a union of the two natures in a way that affirms their actual inseparability, without confusion or change; while also affirming their proper distinction [i]tei theoriai monei[/i] (in contemplation only).


Taken from: [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?s=&showtopic=66154&view=findpost&p=1233738"][u]Jihad Is A Much Larger Threat Than Nazism[/u][/url]

[Era Might]

I've thought about becoming an Eastern Catholic. But I think the main reason why I won't is because I would have to make a commitment to a parish which is not where I live. The nearest Eastern Catholic Church to me is not that far, but it is not in my city, and I want to be able to be part of a parish where I live. It is easier to evangelize locally when I am involved in the local parish. Also, this is a Western country, so it is easier to evangelize with Western spirituality, which has already shaped our culture so much (for example, Latin Americans would probably relate more to Our Lady of Guadalupe than to a Marian title from the East). So I think it is best for me personally to remain a Latin Catholic. But I can still attend the Divine Liturgy and other services at an Eastern Catholic Church, without actually becoming Eastern Catholic. I love the Divine Liturgy and the icons and the chant of the East.