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6/29/2025, 1:58:35 AM
>>17794717
Eastern Catholics are in full communion with Rome, so their liturgical books and practices must align with Catholic doctrine, including the canon of Scripture defined at Trent (1546). The Catholic canon, per the Council of Trent, includes the deuterocanonical books (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, etc.) but explicitly excludes 1/2 Esdras, 3/4 Maccabees, Psalm 151, and the Prayer of Manasseh as non-inspired, though they can be used for edification.
From what I’ve seen, the Byzantine Rite Catholics (like Melkites) stick closely to the Septuagint-based lectionaries of their Orthodox cousins, but they don’t treat these extra books as canonical. Psalm 151, for example, might appear in some Slavic or Greek Psalters, but it’s not in the official liturgical Psalter for Catholic use. 3/4 Maccabees and Prayer of Manasseh? I’ve never seen them in any Eastern Catholic liturgy or breviary (Orthodox or not). They’re apocryphal, and Rome’s clear on that.
>2 Esdras in the TLM introits
Correct, but it’s a limited use. The Vulgate’s 2 Esdras (aka 4 Ezra in some traditions) gets quoted in the TLM for specific introits, like Requiem Mass (2 Esdras 2:34-35). This is more about historical liturgical tradition than endorsing canonicity. The Church has always cherry-picked edifying texts without canonizing them.
Eastern Catholics are in full communion with Rome, so their liturgical books and practices must align with Catholic doctrine, including the canon of Scripture defined at Trent (1546). The Catholic canon, per the Council of Trent, includes the deuterocanonical books (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, etc.) but explicitly excludes 1/2 Esdras, 3/4 Maccabees, Psalm 151, and the Prayer of Manasseh as non-inspired, though they can be used for edification.
From what I’ve seen, the Byzantine Rite Catholics (like Melkites) stick closely to the Septuagint-based lectionaries of their Orthodox cousins, but they don’t treat these extra books as canonical. Psalm 151, for example, might appear in some Slavic or Greek Psalters, but it’s not in the official liturgical Psalter for Catholic use. 3/4 Maccabees and Prayer of Manasseh? I’ve never seen them in any Eastern Catholic liturgy or breviary (Orthodox or not). They’re apocryphal, and Rome’s clear on that.
>2 Esdras in the TLM introits
Correct, but it’s a limited use. The Vulgate’s 2 Esdras (aka 4 Ezra in some traditions) gets quoted in the TLM for specific introits, like Requiem Mass (2 Esdras 2:34-35). This is more about historical liturgical tradition than endorsing canonicity. The Church has always cherry-picked edifying texts without canonizing them.
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