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Apr 18, 2020 · On this week’s episode of The Catholic Talk Show, Ryan Scheel, Fr. Rich Pagano, and Ryan DellaCrosse discuss The Eastern Rite Catholic Churches with Fr. Elias Rafaj, the pastor of St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church in Houston, Texas. The guys discuss some of the following:
Fr. Zerchaninov returned to Russia where he built up the Catholic community in St. Petersburg, and was appointed head of mission for the Russian Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in 1908. In due time, the nascent Russian Catholic Church had its first Apostolic Exarchate established for them in 1917.
- Who Are These Byzantine Catholics?
- How Did They Come to Be Byzantine Catholic?
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Well, to be matter of factual, they are the members of the following churches: Albanese, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Greek-Melkite, Hungarian, Italo-Albanese, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian, Slovak, and Ukrainian (hey that’s us!). You can see the number of Bishops in each of these churches, as well as in the other rites of th...
An in-depth reading of history would take several posts (subscribe if you are interested in reading about this in a future series), although Catholic Answers has a good basic history of the development of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. https://www.catholic.com/tract/eastern-orthodoxy This covers the Great Schism, (the mutual excommunication of the ...
Our family owns The Byzantine Rite: A Short History by Robert F. Taft. You can get it from amazon.ca here, or amazon.com here. A visual of the historic development of the Eastern Churches can be viewed here. A post about other Eastern Churches: Catholic Education.org – The Other Eastern Churches Want to read about some differences between the Roman...
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Feb 18, 2022 · While Roman Catholics are considered part of the “Latin Church” and use the Roman Rite, each of the Eastern Catholic Churches use one of five different Eastern Rites: Alexandrian Rite. Armenian Rite. Byzantine Rite. East Syriac Rite. West Syriac Rite. A “Rite” is a liturgical, theological, spiritual, and disciplinary patrimony.
Traditional Byzantine Rite Seasonal Greetings. For most of the year the greeting is “Slava Isusu Khrystu” (“Glory to Jesus Christ”). Starting on Christmas Day, it is traditional to say “Khrystos rozhdayet’sya” (“Christ is born”) and to respond “Slavite Yoho” (“Glorify Him”). This greeting is continued for 40 days ...
The Byzantine liturgy takes its name from Byzantium, the little Greek colony on the Bosphorus which Constantine made his capital in the year 230. Today the Byzantine (Greek) rite is the most widely used of all the liturgies after the Roman rite. The vast majority of Eastern Catholics are members of this ancient rite, as are most Eastern ...
ROMAN RITE TODAY. Priest faces people across the altar. The image is: gathering around the Lord’s table here and now. BYZANTINE RITE TODAY. Priest faces East, towards altar along with the people. The image is: leading the people to the Heavenly Liturgy in God’s Kingdom. We like things that are new and modern, and use them in worship, too.
