Catholic/Orthodox Dilemma

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Just a piece of advice, since the other Christanons more or less answered all your questions, do a research on the Orthodox fathers and teachings first before converting. The differences are way bigger than you may think and it's better for you to be informed.

I was raised Catholic and then became Orthodox. After much study and search, I came back to the Catholic faith.

The Orthodox have a deep spirituality that may resound to your soul, as it did to mine, but that isn't enough. Become Eastern Catholic, seriously. Try and attend an Eastern Catholic service and see. All of the Catholic doctrine and the Eastern spirituality.
I am now Latin Catholic because I don't have any EC church near, but as soon as I have, I will join them.

What's it like going to Orthodox and then coming back?

Are there any ones I need to look at especially?

Calm down brother, I'm considering, I'm not dead set.

I've been trying to find a Tridentine mass to give it a try, but everywhere I look it's only for once a month. Is it really worth staying with novus ordo for 3 weeks to then get reward with Tridentine for once.
Also will Tridentine last? Are priests still instructed in Tridentine or is it a fading art?

and you wonder why people are attracted to the EO

Not him but I recommend Lossky's Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church as a good place to start.

No. I'd rather go full orthodox than full Novus Ordo

Tridentine Mass is the only one to stay.
Almost all Novus Ordo priests are unmotivated, unschooled in theology, heretics or whatnot.
The ones I know that do Novus Ordo and are good priests are also bi-ritual (they celebrate both NO and TM) and would rather celebrate the latter one.

This is the only mass priests are deliberately searching for to learn and the only priestly societies to get any callings are the ones celebrating TM.

I'm somewhat in the same boat. Sorta. I was baptized, but not really raised Catholic as a child, fell away as a teenager. Experimented with Buddhism in my 20s, then came back to Christianity about 2 years ago.

Initially, I thought about returning to Catholicism. I discovered Orthodoxy mostly on accident when reading through church history. More or less, I came to the conclusion that the specific claims the Orthodox Church makes on the papacy and governance of the early Church were true. At that point, I thought that it was essentially impossible to be Catholic in good faith while agreeing with the Orthodox on pretty much everything.

My advice is pretty simple. Don't think of who has the better liturgy or anything to do with aesthetics or culture. Instead understand that the Orthodox and Catholic Churches are both making a specific claim to be the continuation of the One True Church. Decide which one has the best claim on that, then join it. Like others have said, you can get a good Catholic liturgy at your local indult mass, or an Eastern Catholic Church. What matters really is which one is /true/

So if you believe Orthodoxy is true… then why would you not want to have the truth?


I don't despise Catholics. I think the Catholic Church is wrong on a couple of things, but I do not /hate/ it. Some Orthodox really can be Pharisaical about this, and it's really awful.

Can you tell me more about your journey and what issues influenced your decisions?

I hate Catholics and Orthodox alike. This place filled me with a sense of hatred for both sides.

Pray for me that I might stop coming here, if you want to help someone who has got physically sick with how much he came to hate himself and those who should be his brethren in Christ.