Tradito:" Eastern rites not an Option for Trads
Apr 14, 2022 9:39:09 GMT -5
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Apr 14, 2022 9:39:09 GMT -5
EASTERN RITE "OPTION"
The question comes up whether the Eastern Rites offer an alternative for traditional Roman Catholics. The answer is no.
First, of all, Catholics are generally prohibited from switching rites. This is particularly true in the case of (traditional) Roman-Rite Catholics, who are already members of the Church's precedential rite. Therefore, in those rare cases where rite switching is permitted, the transition is almost always from the Eastern to the Roman, the rite of St. Peter.
Second, the Eastern Rites have in many cases abandoned their Apostolic form. At one time the Easterners had Apostolic rites, but many have now fallen away from these because of the constant wars and conquests of invasion in the East (from which the Western Church has thankfully been spared). The liturgical scholar Fr. Adrian Fortescue once wrote: "The ruthless destruction of the ancient rites in favor of uniformity has been the work not of Rome but of the schismatical patriarchs of Constantinople. Since the thirteenth Century Constantinople in its attempt to make itself the one center of the Orthodox Church has driven out the far more venerable and ancient liturgies of Antioch and Alexandria and has compelled all the Orthodox to use its own late derived rite."
Finally, since Vatican II many of the Eastern churches substitute a more vernacularized, Novus-Ordoized worship service. This is particularly true in the United States. Roman-Rite Catholics are easily duped by these "modernized" Eastern rites because they are ignorant of the Eastern Rite and their liturgical languages (Biblical Greek, Syriac, etc.).
It must be noted that the Eastern rites are practiced both by the Eastern Orthodox, who are formally schismatic from the Roman Catholic Church, and by the Eastern Unitates, who are part of the Roman Catholic Church. A particularly virulent form of the Eastern Schism is the so-called "Western Orthodox" rite, which is a sham to lure Roman Catholics to cross the fence into the Eastern Schism.
For example, Vatican II began to invade the Maronite Rite decades ago. The foreword in the June 1969 Maronite missal (The Divine Liturgy according to the Maronite Antiochian Rite, Maronite Chancery Office, Detroit) says: "It is a small step toward the total revision of our Liturgy, because our Maronite Missal should undergo changes even more basic than the present ones. We are anxiously awaiting the revisions of the Patriarchal Liturgical Commission. They have started working on the total revision of our Missal, Ritual, Pontifical, Calendar, Breviary, and public prayers." The current Maronite Missal (Qurbono: The Book of Offering, copyright 1994 by the Diocese of Saint Maron, Brooklyn) states in its foreword that the new Maronite liturgy is based on Vatican II decrees.
Yes, there is the rare Eastern-rite church with an Eastern-rite liturgy that has not been corrupted by history or Vatican II, but such a church is more by far like the proverbial needle in the haystack than the Traditional Latin Mass is!
A similar deception has recently come about with the "Anglican Use" service. To be sure, it is dressed up in finer English than usual Novus Ordo service, that often uses pretty vulgar English. But this is the same Church of England service declared invalid by Pope Leo XIII. It is completely consonant with the Novus Ordo and is thus "permitted" by Newchurch "authorities" where the true Mass, the traditional Latin Mass, is not.
From Traditio.com
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