www.byzcath.org Forums Faith & Christian Life Faith & Theology Please tell me about the Syriac Catholic church

The modern problem from what I have read from commentaries is not necessarily latinization but modernization. The irony is that as some modernist eastern catholic leaders delatinize, they end up making their liturgies more similar to the modernized latin liturgy.

Not sure if you meant the "Syriac Catholic Church" based in Lebanon or the Syriac rite Eastern Catholic churches in general ?

the "Syriac Catholic Church" in the US has a jurisdiction/diocese called the "Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark". I don't know a whole lot about them. But they are a small church - with a total membership of like 150K people.
Yep, that's the one I am referring to

[quote=kynokefalos]Latinization is an ongoing problem in many of the Eastern Catholic Churches. My impression from a Syriac Catholic is that it's particularly dire in their neck of the woods (esp. Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara). I am indirectly aware of a family that changed ascription from the Syro-Malankara to the Latin Church and exclusively attend TLM because of the Latinized modernization the liturgy had been pushed toward. I don't know which churches are least affected by this and I think it can look very different in the United States vs. the old world home of your patriarchate. Melkite Divine Liturgy can vary from parish to parish in the US but they're pretty enmeshed with their Antiochian brothers back in the Middle East. My Melkite parish's liturgy has some slavic use touches because it was a Ruthenian mission 2-3 years ago. I'd rather we just follow the books from the eparchy but I'm not going to battle anyone over it right now.

Which Melkite parish are you near if you don't mind my asking? What's it like? We're thinking about moving to Florida from Texas and I was eyeing Delray Beach.