The Maronite Rite, located primarily in Lebanon, Cyrpus, Egypt, and Syria but with large populations of the faithful also in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, and Canada, has remained united with Rome since the time of its founder St. Maron, and uses the Syriac and Arabic languages in its liturgies.
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The Maronite is a SyrianRite, Syriac being the liturgical language, though the Gospel is read in Arabic for the benefit of the people. Many of the priests, who are not sufficiently learned to perform the Liturgy in Syriac, use Arabic instead, but Arabic written in Syriac characters (Karshuni).
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A Christianrite, in this sense comprises the manner of performing ... So also the strong romanizing of the MaroniteLiturgy was entirely the work of the Maronites themselves, when, surrounded by enemies in the East, they too turned towards the great Western Church, sought her communion, and eagerly copied her practices.
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but especially to center the point of elaboration of the rite from the 4th to the 10th century, The rite did not in fact originate in the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Byzantium now Constantinople, -- but had its liturgical roots in an involvel evolution from liturgies that were in use ... b, The Syro-Maronite rite:
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A couple of years ago I attended a Mass with His Most Eminent Beatitude Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Pierre Sfeir who is the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch. The Mass was I believe in all ... The Maronite Rite has always been in union with Rome, which is why there are no Eastern Orthodox Maronite Rites. ... The Maronite Rite...
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There are two types of anaphoras in our Maronite tradition; some originate from the Western Syriac model, such as the Anaphora of Saint James of Jerusalem and the Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles; ... In the Maronite rite, the Anaphora of Sharar uses the same internal order in the Qurbono and in the rite for the...
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Antiochian: West Syrian (Syro-Antiochian, Maronite, ... Byzantine: These Churches originate from the Byzantine tradition: Albanian, Belarusan [sic] Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, ... We have been accustomed to speaking of the Latin (Roman or Western) Rite or the Eastern Rites to designate these different Churches.
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It determines the order of the ceremonies and thus allows us to distinguish between large fan-lilies of rites (the Roman rite, the Ambrosian rite, the rite of Lyons, the Maronite rite, the rite of Saint John Chrysostom, etc.). ;
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Memphis new (PDF File)
The real deposit of the principles of Masonry written in the Chaldee language is pre-served in the sacred Ark of the Rite ofMemphis, and in part in the Grand Lodge of Scotland, at Edinburgh, and in the Maronite Convent on Mount Lebanon.”;
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The Maronite rite traces its origins to the work of St. Maron in the 4th century who founded a monastery east of Antioch. Later monks moved to the mountains in what is today Lebanon. This rite never fell into heresy and was only separated from Rome by the political reality of Moslem or Ottoman occupation.
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