Tridentine Community News May 9, 2021 – Fifth Sunday After Easter

The 23 Eastern Catholic Churches 15. Greek Byzantine Catholic Church 16. Hungarian Greek Catholic Church We Roman Catholics of the Latin Rite often forget that Holy 17. Italo-Albanian Catholic Church 18. Macedonian Catholic Church Mother Church “breathes with two lungs.” By that is meant that 19. Melkite Greek Catholic Church there are several Eastern Catholic Rites also in communion with 20. Romanian Greek Catholic Church Rome and the Holy Father, each of which has its own liturgies and 21. Russian Greek Catholic Church customs. Many of us have become familiar with, or at least more 22. Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (also known as the aware of, the Eastern Rites through Fr. Peter Hrytsyk, the bi-ritual Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church in the United States) Chaplain of the St. Benedict Tridentine Community who is also 23. Slovak Greek Catholic Church Assistant Pastor of Windsor’s Ss. Vladimir & Olga Ukrainian 24. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Catholic Church. A list of the various Rites of the All Catholics are free to Catholic Church, worship and receive Holy composed by Nicholas Communion at any of the Labanca of Rites of the Church. Just Catholic365.com, is be sure not to confuse the below. Diversity in Eastern Catholic Rites worship is a hallmark of with the Orthodox the Catholic Church that is Churches or independent not discussed or “Catholic” churches such appreciated much these as the Old Catholic days. Church, which use some of the same rituals but are A. Latin Rite separated from Rome.

1. Latin (or Roman) Parallels Between the Catholic Church Byzantine and B. Alexandrian Rite Traditional Roman 2. Coptic Catholic Church Rites 3. Eritrean Catholic Church Rhode Island’s Fr. Jay 4. Ethiopian Catholic Finelli posted this Church interesting chart that points out the common C. West Syrian (or thinking between the Antiochene) Rite Byzantine Rite, used by 5. Maronite Catholic several Eastern Rite Church Catholics Churches, and 6. Syriac Catholic Church the Traditional Latin 7. Syro-Malankara Catholic Mass. While at first Church glance there are many architectural, musical, and D. Armenian Rite rubrical differences 8. Armenian Catholic between the two, under Church the surface the guiding principles are arguably E. Chaldean (or East more similar between the Syrian) Rite two than between the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the 9. Chaldean Catholic Church Latin Rite. It’s no wonder that so many priests are comfortable 10. Syro-Malabar Catholic Church holding bi-ritual faculties in these two classic forms of liturgy.

F. Constantinopolitan (or Byzantine) Rite Tridentine Masses This Coming Week 11. Albanian Catholic Church 12. Belarusian Catholic Church Sun. 05/16 10:00 AM: High Mass at Old St. Mary’s (Sunday After 13. Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church Ascension) – Choir will sing Gregorian Mass VIII. Celebrant: 14. Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia Msgr. Ronald Browne

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