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"can I change rite & be married priest" #375538 02/10/12 02:21 PM
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 48 USA Tamiian Member
Tamiian Member Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 48 USA	I would appreciate all of your opinions and theological insight on this question- I was asked this question and wrote a response here: http://remnantofremnant.blogspot.com/2012/02/quaeritur-can-i-change-rite-become.html You might have better ideas and info Last edited by Tamiian; 02/10/12 02:22 PM.

Re: "can I change rite & be married priest" Tamiian #375546 02/10/12 04:51 PM
Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 695 Fraserview H Herbigny Member
Herbigny Member H Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 695 Fraserview	Perfect! could not have said it better. covered all the bases told it like it is and most of all caring and pastoral! thank you for the Wisdom. I also learned something

Re: "can I change rite & be married priest" Tamiian #375548 02/10/12 05:42 PM
Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 73 Kakhovka F Francois Member
Francois Member F Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 73 Kakhovka	Thanks for the nice article! I wish it could be this simple. Change of rite is impossible in some cases, because of lack of leadership in a certain Eastern Catholic Eparchy. It might be much simpler to convert to Orthodoxy.....

Re: "can I change rite & be married priest" Francois #375550 02/10/12 08:26 PM
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Tamiian Member Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 48 USA	It is certainly easier to become Orthodox

Re: "can I change rite & be married priest" Tamiian #375617 02/12/12 06:22 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 16 Massachusetts Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member
Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 16 Massachusetts	Preoteasa, Very, very well said! Many years, Neil (Btw, that's a beautiful photo, taken at St Mary's, if I'm not mistaken. You wouldn't, by chance, have another of just the iconostasis? Not that I don't think the clergy aren't photogenic , but I'd love to find a more close-up photo of the iconostasis than the one I currently use on the mission's directory entry.) "One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."

Re: "can I change rite & be married priest" Tamiian #375934 02/18/12 10:01 AM
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,431 New England Peter J Member
Peter J Member Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,431 New England	I think she hit the nail on the head with the word “honorable”. Ultimately it's an honor system: there are some married EC priests who were once Roman-rite (I know one of them personally) but this isn't meant to be a way to circumvent the Latin Church's prohibition on married clergy.

Re: "can I change rite & be married priest" Tamiian #375937 02/18/12 11:21 AM
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Andrew Ray Member Joined: May 2011 Posts: 36 Husak, Slovakia	Is there a link to what Fr. Maximos said concerning vocations? I have the impression I once read something about it, but do not see any thing about it on their monastery website.

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