The Orthodox all the world over must follow the Rite of Constantinople. It must not be thought that the rite has come down through the ages absolutely without change. Furthermore the comparative simplicity of the Dominican Rite, as manifested in the different liturgical books, gives evidence of its antiquity. It has unleavened bread, our confession and Judica psalm at the beginning of Mass, a Lavabo before the Canon, the last Gospel, etc. ritibus; Antwerp, 1736-8), represent the highest point of liturgical study. eccl. But the Byzantine patriarch was breaking the unity of the Church, denying the primacy, and plunging the East into schism. The celebrant in the Dominican Rite wears the amice over his head until the beginning of Mass, and prepares the chalice as soon as he reaches the altar. Besides the practical instruction that forms a part of pastoral theology, lectures on liturgical history would form a valuable element of the course of church history. Christian Pesch, S.J., in his "Prlectiones theologi dogmatic" (9 vols., Freiburg i. Three times a year only was there to be a commemorative Supper in the baldest form; on other Sundays the sermon was to suffice. SYRIAC. In the 1920's and 30's four bishops of this rite were reunited with Rome, and many members of their rite followed. Subsequent papal regulation went much further towards preserving the integrity of the rite. In particular the ordination forms received additions defining the order to be conferred. The Breviary differs from the Roman Breviary in its calendar, the manner of reciting it, arrangement of matter. It was a return to an older and purer form. Before discussing these rites it is important to note that different sources disagree on exactly what constitutes a rite and exactly how many there are. This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Jeffrey L. Anderson.
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There are also treatises which explain and arrange these rubrics, adding to them from later decrees of the S. Congregation of Rites. Maronites make up 17% of the population of Lebanon and by the law of that country the president of Lebanon is always a Maronite. It is of course possible to subdivide and to speak of the national Churches (of Italy, France, Spain, etc.)
The Office of the Dead must be said once a week except during the week following Easter and the week following Pentecost. When Christianity appeared Hellenistic Greek was the common language spoken around the Mediterranean. The Malankarese rite developed in India. Meanwhile a psalm is sung or a lesson read from the Bible, a thanksgiving follows (ibid., 55), and a final blessing. The most important is in the manner of celebrating a low Mass. For instance, the Collect for St. Juliana Falconieri (19 June) in the Roman Rite refers to the story of her miraculous communion before her death, told at length in the sixth lesson of her Office, but the truth of that story is not part of the Catholic Faith. However, it was recognized that these books were not entirely perfect, and that there was room for further revision. After Tenebr in Holy Week (sung at midnight) we notice the chant of the Tropi; all the Holy Week services present interesting archaic features. The order has also its own ritual and ceremonial for its receptions, professions, etc. In the fourth and fifth centuries the Rites of Antioch and Alexandria were used in Greek in the great towns where people spoke Greek, in Coptic or Syriac among peasants in the country. CARMELITE RITE.--ZIMMERMAN, Le crmonial de Maitre Sibert de Beka in Chroniques du Carmel Jambes-lez-Namur, 1903-5); IDEM, Ordinaire de l'Ordre de Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel (Paris, 1910), being the thirteenth volume of Bibliothque liturgique; WESSELS, Ritus Ordinis in Analecta Ordinis Carmelitarum (Rome, 1909); WEALE, Bibliographia liturgica (London, 1886). The first Lutheran services kept most of the old order. Cranmer was preparing further changes when Henry VIII died (see Procter and Frere, "A New History of the Book of Common Prayer" London, 1908, 29-35). Chaldean is the biblical term used for those from Babylon. Not all Armenian Catholics or Byzantine Uniats obey the same patriarch or local authority; yet they are "Churches" individual provinces of the same great Church, because each is bound together by their own rites. Two alleluias are said after the "Ite missa est" for a week after Easter; for the whole of the remaining Paschal time one alleluia is said.
Lyons) and religious orders (Dominicans, Carthusians, Carmelites), therefore keep their special uses, and the independent Ambrosian and Mozarabic Rites, whose loss would have been a real misfortune (see LITURGY, LITURGY OF THE MASS) still remain. These liturgies remained in this form and have never been recast in any modern Greek dialect. St. Jerome in his Vulgate more than any one else helped to form liturgical style. St. Paul writes to people in Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy in Greek. The entire Ordinal was rearranged and revised in 1312 by Master Sibert de Beka, and rendered obligatory by the General Chapter, but it experienced some difficulty in superseding the old one. They do not all represent descendants of the earliest rites, nor can they be classified in the table of genus and species that includes all the old liturgies of Christendom. The formul used Sunday after Sunday are hallowed by too sacred associations to be changed as long as more or less the same language is used. These words represent very well the attitude of the papacy towards other rites at all times. Only the Georgians, who are Slavs in no sense at all, used their own language. The publication of the Reformed Breviary of 1584 caused the newly established Discaleed Carmelites to abandon the ancient rite once for all and to adopt the Roman Rite instead. CISTERCIAN RITE.--Missale Cisterciense, MS. of the latter part of the fourteenth century; Mis. cit., 51-8), a supplement to which describes "La manire de clbrer la cne" (ibid., 51-68). The Pope has several titles. In spite of the use of Latin the people have means of understanding the service. Since the first organization of patriarchates there has been an ideal of uniformity throughout each. St. Benedict wished the entire Psalter recited each week; twelve psalms are to be said at Matins when there are but two Nocturns; when there is a third Nocturn, it is to be composed of three divisions of a canticle, there being in this latter case always twelve lessons. They Wished to be counted among Western, Latin races, so they translated their liturgical books into their own Romance language.
The liturgy used by the church in Alexandria in Egypt is attributed to St. Mark the evangelist. We speak of any one such religious function as a rite the rite of the blessing of palms, the coronation rite, etc. The old rites are unconscious and natural developments of earlier ones and go back to the original fluid rite of the first centuries (see LITURGY). He is the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of the universal Church, Primate of Italy; hmong others. The Non-jurors in the eighteenth century produced a number of curious liturgies which in many ways go back to Catholic principles, but have the fault common to all Protestant services of being conscious and artificial arrangements of elements selected from the old rites, instead of natural developments (Overton, "The Non-jurors", London, 1902, ch. When Pius V made his reform, the Dominican Rite had been fixed and stable for over three hundred years, while a constant liturgical change had been taking place in other communities. Nevertheless the study of liturgy hardly yet takes the place it deserves in the education of church students. Cist. February 1, 1912. The rite in use among the Carmelites since about the middle of the twelfth century is known by the name of the Rite of the Holy Sepulchre, the Carmelite Rule, which was written about the year 1210, ordering the hermits of Mount Carmel to follow the approved custom of the Church, which in this instance meant the Patriarchal Church of Jerusalem: "Hi qui litteras noverunt et legere psalmos, per singulas horas eos dicant qui ex institutione sanctorum patrum et ecelesi approbata consuetudine ad horas singulas sunt deputati." processions and the taking of vows. The music for the Prefaces etc. The Irvingites have a not very-successful service-book of this type. The Catholic Encyclopedia describes the situation this way: "Within the Catholic Church Canonical rites, which are of equal dignity, enjoy the same rights, and are under the same obligations. This rite is located in Kerala State, India. In France Dom Guranger (L'anne liturgique) and his school of Benedictines opened a new epoch. div.
Arabic by the Melchites (Byzantine Rite). de sacris eccl. Very little of the arrangement of the old Mass remains in this service, for all the ideas Protestants reject are carefully excluded. There are so many feasts lower than double that usually no privilege is needed for votive Masses. 9. A name denoting the distinctive ceremonies embodied in the privileged liturgical books of the Order of Preachers. In this science England led the way and still takes the foremost place. ", X (Paris, 1610).
Bronislava, V., 30 Aug.; St. Gilbert, Abbot, 24 Oct.; St. Siardus, Abbot, 17 Nov. A new edition of the Missal and the Breviary was issued after the General Chapter of Prague, in 1890. Coeremoniarum juxta usum S.O. This general term includes blessings of persons (such as a coronation, the blessing of an abbot, various ceremonies performed for catechumens, the reconciliation of public penitents, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament etc. The style of the fifth and sixth centuries (St. Leo I, Celestine I, Gregory I) forms perhaps the main stock of our services. Changes in the text, when they have been made, have always been effected with the idea of eliminating arbitrary mutilations and restoring the books to a perfect conformity with the old exemplars at Paris and Bologna. Clement IV, through the general, John of Vercelli, issued a Bull in 1267 in which he lauded the ability and zeal of Humbert and forbade the making of any changes without the proper authorization. The language of any Church or rite, as distinct from the vulgar tongue, is that used in the official services and may or may not be the common language. cum Bulla Pii Papoe IX die 7 Feb., 1871; BONA, Op. These add nothing to the original text, but merely provide for the Addition of feasts and the more convenient recitation of the office. 
Latin. Albert and Angelus date respectively from the beginning and the end of the fifteenth century, but were transferred in 1503 from the canonical Office to the Little Office of Our Lady. 