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In their Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies (Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 2022) Alexopoulos and Johnson define “rite” as follows: A rite is a unique and integrated system of worship with its own rules […]

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I have already mentioned in the two “Altars and Alterations” posts that Patriarch Dwayhi (also spelt Doueihy and many variants) said that in his day (he died in 1704), the […]

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I write on 17 May in the Year of Grace, 2022, from Marazion, Cornwall, within sight of the former Benedictine monastery of Mount St Michael. To keep this short, it is a […]

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Parts one, two and three of this series appear at http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/01/28/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-i/ http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/02/04/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-ii/ http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/02/24/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-iii/ The Maronite and traditional Latin liturgies will have to be taken separately, and then compared. Once the Anaphora […]

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Part one and two appear at http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/01/28/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-i/ http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/02/04/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-ii/ The Maronite rite commences the liturgy of the Eucharist with an access to the altar (l-baytokh Aloho 3elet). It is specified only that […]

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Sunday of the Faithful Departed Fr Badwi says of this icon: “The eschatological world and the last day are open for the traveller passing from our world to the true […]

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The 500 Martyrs of Tyre We celebrate the feast of the 500 Martyrs of Tyre on 19 February each year. Why then? It falls within a period of specifically Maronite […]

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Part one appears at http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/01/28/ad-orientem-liturgies-part-i/ Last week we discovered three principles:  that when the people are directly addressed, whether in the Latin or Maronite rite, the priest faces them. The second is […]

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