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Being that that Easter Vigil is known as the day for Roman Catholics when Catechumens enter the Catholic Church, what about Eastern Churches? Catholic and Orthodox, Byzantine rite, etc. Is this an equivilent for Eastern Rite Churches to the Latin Eastern Vigil catechumenate?
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I can only really answer for myself - I was received in September [ UGCC]
People I know entering Holy Orthodoxy are often Baptised and Chrismated on Lazurus Saturday
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so then Lazarus Saturday is when a catechumen enters the Church in the Byzantine Rite(Catholic and Orthodox)?
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I was Illuminated on Theophany Sunday.
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Chrismations are done on Lazarus Saturday, but more importantly, on Holy Saturday (with baptisms). We have 12 catechumens to be chrismated this year (I don't know how many baptisms).
Since I'm in the choir, I'm hoping I can get home to take a short nap between the baptisms and Nocturns!
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So then an Adult can be baptized/chrismated on any feast in the various Eastern rites?. I know R.C.I.A. for the Latin Church was brought back after the Second Vatican Council, and for example, it is said 150,000 adults will enter the Catholic Church this Easter Vigil. It seems the Latin Rite, atleast since Vatican II is more formal about R.C.I.A., and Eastern Catholics less formal? I am not sure how it was done before the council either for the Latin rite
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sorry 150,000 catechumens for the United States of America, I meant
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RCIA is a process, one developed specifically for the Latin Church, and everyone goes through it in the same way. The Eastern Churches take a more personalistic approach, because all of us are at a different point in our spiritual pilgrimmage. Moreover, though in the early Church almost everyone was accepted into the Church on the Paschal Vigil (which is the reason for the Lenten fast), at least by the second millennium divergent usage had begun to appear. The Slavs, at least, see Theophany as an appropriate feast on which to baptize adult catechumens, because on that day Christ was baptized in the Jordan.
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My change of ritual Church was completed on Lazarus Saturday 2005.
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"My change of ritual Church was completed on Lazarus Saturday 2005."
But you could hardly be called a "catechumen", could you?
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RCIA is a process, one developed specifically for the Latin Church, and everyone goes through it in the same way. [...] Actually, not the Latin Church, but the English-speaking Latin Church. When I was received into the Church in Norway, it happened on an ordinary Saturday evening. As a baptized person, I made a profession of faith and was confirmed after having previously made my first confession (following a year of catechesis). There should be a very clear difference between baptism of adult catechumens and the reception of baptized (i.e. already Christian) persons into full communion with the Catholic Church.
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More, personal, I like that. I for one do not care how we get them in, as long as there is an opening for all to enter.
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"My change of ritual Church was completed on Lazarus Saturday 2005."
But you could hardly be called a "catechumen", could you? Nope, I wasn't a catechumen, but I found it interesting that a liturgical date of significance was chosen for my transfer.
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