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Saint Francis Exchange The Newsletter and Bulletin of the Oratory of Francis of MAY 2020 – MONTH OF OUR LADY the Pascendi Dominici revealed religion, and, of LETTER FROM Gregis (8 September 1907). The course, a hatred of God’s own THE veracity of the Holy Mother of mother, the Blessed Who is she that cometh forth God being despied by heretics, Mary. pagans and deamons and loved Contrariwise, the as the morning rising, fair as by devout Catholics is obvious faithful Catholic agrees with the moon, bright as the sun, and demonstrable. the opening words of Pius In very recent times the XII in his encyclical Ad Cæli terrible as an army set in modernist heretics of the Reginam (11 October 1954): array? – 6:9 NewChurch have attempted to From the earliest ages of the Catholic FTER driving out the coalese proper and true Church a Christian people, whether in pagans from Hungary, devotion of the Blessed Virgin time of triumph or more especially in Pope Sylvester II crowned with pagan earth/mother time of crisis, has addressed prayers of goddesses like the Devi, Gaia, petition and hymns of praise and as King of the veneration to the Queen of Heaven. Hungarians (Szent István and most recently the And never has that hope wavered Király) on the 25th of Pachamama of the Amazonians. which they placed in the Mother of the December 1000 (two hundred This is, of ocurse, a purposeful Divine King, Jesus Christ; nor has years to the day that Pope S. move by the NewChurch to that faith ever failed by which we are Leo III crowned harmonise the religions of the taught that Mary, the Virgin Mother Holy Roman Emperor). Pious world into a One World Relgion of God, reigns with a mother's legend tells us that upon his that it relative to politics and solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness return to Hungary, he laid his cultural whims, where with the glory of a Queen. emblems of kingship at the foot everything would and must be tolerated except for the One During this time when of the Blessed Virgin Mary and souls are being lost by the lies proclaimed her Magyarorszáy True Faith of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic and deceit of the NewChurch Királynője, that is, Queen of Church. enemies we must seek the aid of Hungary. The saintly king then Our Lady; that she destroys proclaimed the Feast of the their errors and converts their Assumption a national Holy hearts and minds. Let us lay our Day with Solemn Masses, hopes at her feet that she may Processions and other pious intercede on our behalf before obversances. To this day the the Throne of her Divine Son, people of Hungary have great Our Lord and King Jesus devotion to Our Lady and due Christ! to the love of her they remain As always, I am most faithful to the Catholic Faith. grateful for your prayers and Our Lady of Hungary has support. Be assured of my preserved the Faith with her paternal benediction and maternal care and aid for over a prayers, especially at Holy thousand years. . I remain, One of the greatest devotions in the Holy Church In Christ the King, is that of Our Lady as the Blessed Virgin Mary, Destroyer of S. King Stephen offering his emblems of Monsignor Thomas JF Sebastian Kingship to the Holy Queenship of the Blessed All . S. Virgin Mary. confimed this title of Our Lady This wicked and in his monumental work dangerous syncretism has at its against the of Modernism core a hate for God and His 2 Saint Francis Exchange Vatican II except in certain As for the latter part of QUESTIONS AND cities or Cathedrals. your question, is the ANSWERS Other greater rites of the official language of the Western

Eastern Church such as the Church because it was the Hello Monsignor: Is the Alexandrian (used in the Coptic, predominant language of the Q:Latin Rite the “main rite” Eritrean and Ethiopian Catholic west. As the Church of the West of the , and Churches), the Armenian, Syro- continued to expand so did the why did the Latin Rite receive Malabar, Chaldean and Maronite use of Latin in the liturgy. special importance over other rites and the various Greek Other approved Liturgical Western rites such as the Catholic churches (Albanian, Languages of the East, such as Gallican rite and Ambrosian Hungarian, Melkite, Ruthenian, Greek, were retained if those rite? Also, is Latin truly the etc.) are still in use, but, alas, were the original languages of language of the Church and of have also in recent years that Rite, however it was never the Angels, and if so why was conformed to the NewChurch the common vernacular but its the earlier Latin Rite infused reforms and changes. Most of more formal versions, e.g.: the with so much Greek? these Eastern Churches (always Greek of the Byzantine Rite is

in communion with ) not the spoken Greek of today, Thank you, N.B., RC, GA were often founded by the likewise the Armenian, Coptic

As always you ask Apostles who brought the Holy and Arabic languages of those A: wonderful questions. Just Faith to those lands. While rites. a few distinctions, the Latin or these rites have local variations Lastly, I have heard that Western Rite is used to every single one conforms to the same expression of Latin being distinguish between those of same basic liturgical form. The the language of the angels but that the Western Church, offered in KYRIE, GLORIA, CREDO, is pure pious sentiment and not Latin, and those of the Eastern SANCTUS, BENEDICTUS, doctrinal at all. The same can be Rite offered in several eastern and AGNUS DEI exist in all of said of liturgical Hebrew. Alas, languages such as Greek, these holy rites of the Universal the only Greek that remains in Armenian, Coptic and Church of Jesus Christ. The the Western Liturgy is the Kyrie Ukrainian (to name just a few). prayers of their Canons, called and the Reproaches or Improperia In the western Church the Anaphora (ἀναφορά of Good Friday. In the there are various Rites, some of meaning carrying back in Greek) traditional Solemn which you mentioned. These are virtually the same as the there is a Greek Subdeacon and rites developed by the Apostles Roman , again, with only Deacon who would sing the and their successors, the slight local variations. The rite Epistle and in Greek Bishops, in various cities. The of Rome, stilled called the after the Latin Subdeacon and , is named for S. was brought to that Deacon sing their portion of the (d. 397) the Bishop of city by Blessed Peter the Prince Mass; thus demonstrating the Milan, however there is no of the Apostles, and S. Paul. unity of the Universal Church direct evidence that he Because of the supremacy of the under the authority of the Pope. of Rome, the “created” the rite but that he helped keep it pure and in line mother of churches, naturally this If you have a question, please feel with the approved and accepted Rite took precedence over all free to e-mail: Liturgical Rite of that City. others. [email protected] There was also the Mozarabic Even at the Holy Rite used in parts of Spain and the Church Portugal, the Sarum Rite used in proclaimed the Roman Rite the Salisbury and much of , main rite of the Catholic the Gallican Rite used in parts of Church and canonised its Gaul (), which all fell into (cf. of 14 July 1570, general disuse even before S. ). 3 Saint Francis Exchange of the HOW TO DONATE BVM AND SEND MASS 25 December 2020 (Friday) STIPENDS Christmas

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