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Hello,

This is a multi-facet question so bare with me. How do the Eastern Churches view the Latin tradition of the priest having a special intention for each individual Eucharist? What about the faithful bringing their own intentions?

Also how often do the Eastern Churches Celebrate the Divine Liturgy besides Sundays?

Thanks,
Devo

Devo, in some places the faithful write down the names of the living and deceased that they wish remembered, either on sheets or in a book with separate columns for living and deceased. Sometimes a commemorative prosphora is also offered with the names.

The priest then remembers each by name.

There is considerable variety in the practice of Eastern Catholics regarding the celebration of Divine Liturgy on ferial days. Some parishes have a daily Liturgy as a matter of course, others do not. It's best to inquire carefully if one wishes to attend. In areas where the clergy are in short supply, even if the priest does have a Divine Liturgy each day, he is probably doing so in more than one church, so that there is not a Divine Liturgy every day in every church.
The practice of the priest celebrating alone is discouraged (apart from cases of necessity, as happened often during the recent persecution); at a bare minimum a priest needs someone to make the responses.
Christ is Risen!
Incognitus

Is there any offical church "rule" that governs when you can celebrate a Divine Liturgy on ferial days and when you can't?

At least for the Byzantines (which means all those who follow the Constantinopolitan liturgical tradition), yes there is. There is no Saturday and no Sunday when the Divine Liturgy may not be offered. The full Divine Liturgy may not be offered on ferial days of Great Lent, on the first three days of Holy Week, or on Good Friday [except if the Feast of the Annunciation happens to occur on one of these days], but the Divine Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts may be offered on any ferial day of Great Lent, and should be offered on Wednesdays and Fridays of Great Lent, and on the first three days of Holy Week, plus certain other ferial days of Great Lent. There are a few other "a-liturgical" days, as they are termed, in the Calendar.
Christ is Risen!
Incognitus

Dear Devo,

At the Synod of Zamosc, this issue of intentions for Divine Liturgies came up . . .

In fact, according to Fr. Y. Fedoriw (+memory eternal!) who wrote a commentary on that Synod held in 1720, the fathers there FORBADE more than one intention to be prayed over during the Divine Liturgy.

Until then, as Fr. Fedoriw wrote, people were used to giving as many intentions as possible to the priest for the Divine Liturgy, in Orthodox fashion.

The difference was most noticeable during the 40-day commemoration of one departed - one had to, thereafter, give stipends for individual liturgies, whereas in the Orthodox CHurch it sufficed to notify the priest who would then commemorate the reposed each day for forty days etc.

Alex