Catholic Answers Live - Open Forum for Eastern Catholicism

How and why is eastern Catholicism different and the same as Catholicism in the west?

Questions Covered:

 

• 15:57 - When a Byzantine liturgy is celebrated, why are candles carried around by the servers and what are those sticks with the sunbursts on top? 
• 21:27 - I recently attended a Ukranian Catholic wedding and the priest said that marriage is forever, even in heaven. In the Roman Church, they say marriage ends at death. How can these both be true? 
• 28:38 - When I was in Ukraine to adopt my daughter, we attended a Mass there. People made the sign of the Cross throughout the entire liturgy, and it doesn’t seem to have a rhyme or reason. Why do they do this? 
• 37:40 - Why do you think there is so much liturgical churn in the western Church about various liturgical practices, but the east seems very peaceful and stable? 
• 44:44 - My son is in the seminary, in his fourth year in the western Church. How do you feel about having a family and being a priest? Do you feel pulled in too many directions? 
• 52:40 - Is it true that Eastern Catholics believe that there will still be more children born in heaven after the Second Coming?