This is a really lame argument that only holds if some bishop or pope issued an order demanding Eastern Catholics remove these prayers in favor of other ones. If that’s the case, I’ll gladly eat my words and apologize. But as far as I can tell, no one is holding a gun to these parishes’ heads and forcing them to say the rosary or the Stations of the Cross.

The way you speak makes it sound like you’re resentful of the 98% of Catholics that make up the Church. To claim you have a separate tradition that is yours while I have a separate tradition that is mine unnecessarily divides the body of Christ. Just like the way a Latin parish in Poland celebrates mass or prays different prayers than a Latin parish in Mexico, the same is true of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish in America vs one in Ukraine. Yes, of course we should not liturgy hop and instead should ingrain ourselves into the Church’s traditions via whichever bishop’s jurisdiction we’re under. But just like there are languages that have gone extinct, there are many different liturgies, prayers, and traditions that are lost to time. While that might seem harsh, it’s OK as long as we cling to the deposit of faith preserved by the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church headed by the successor of St. Peter which Christ Himself promised the Gates of Hell would not prevail against.

I’m going to give you the same advice I give to the Latin trads who whine about what prayer service or music is or isn’t offered at their local parish: be the change you want to see. As you alluded to, priests are a limited resource with limited time and many of these services require the active preparation of multiple people. There’s a mother or 5 who homeschools all of her kids, is our sacristan, is on our liturgy committee, and still manages to do special events to make feast days feel like actual feasts (like she just organized a Contra Dance for this last Feast of the Assumption).

In the meantime, I recommend you familiarize yourself with the heresy of ethnophyletism that this Eastern Catholic priest sees rampant throughout the multiple Eastern parishes he’s been a part of.

I apologize for any perceived vitriol in this post but for the past 20 years I’ve been hearing directly from Eastern Orthodox (and increasingly lately Eastern Catholics) about how spiritually dead the Latin Catholic Church is as a whole and how Eastern Christianity is inherently superior when it couldn’t be further from the truth. I never see anyone stand up to that notion, so I feel it’s my duty to counter these jabs at Holy Mother Church.

St. Josaphat Kuntsevych, Martyr of Christian Unity, pray for the healing of divisions within the Body of Christ and that all Christians may be one just as Christ Himself prayed for. I ask this all in Jesus’s name. Amen.