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These liturgical books have been classified as seven: the Missal, the Pontifical, the Liturgy of the Hours (in earlier editions called the Breviary), the Ritual, the Martyrology, the Gradual, and the Antiphonary. [1] Another sevenfold list indicates, instead of the last two, the Cæremoniale Episcoporum, and the Memoriale Rituum. [2]
Since it covers only Eastern Catholic churches and rites, it does not mention those of Western tradition. A chart showing Catholic liturgical rites. The word "rite" is sometimes used with reference only to liturgy, ignoring the theological, spiritual and disciplinary elements in the heritage of the churches.
Liturgy encompasses the entire service: prayer, reading and proclamation, singing, gestures, movement and vestments, liturgical colours, symbols and symbolic actions, the administration of sacraments and sacramentals. Liturgy (from Greek: leitourgia) is a composite word meaning originally a public duty, a service to the state undertaken by a ...
A couple marrying according to the Mystery of Crowning at a Byzantine Rite Catholic wedding. While Eastern Catholic liturgies vary, the rituals celebrated generally have corresponding liturgies in the Latin liturgical rites and the other Eastern rites.
A 1961 Pontificale Romanum. The Roman Pontifical (Latin: Pontificale Romanum) is the pontifical as used in Roman Rite liturgies of the Catholic Church.It is the liturgical book that contains the rites and ceremonies usually performed by bishops.
The Mass is composed of two parts, the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Although similar in outward appearance to the Anglican Mass or Lutheran Mass , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] the Catholic Church distinguishes between its own Mass and theirs on the basis of what it views as the validity of the orders of their clergy, and as a result ...
The Vatican’s newly released document addressing the blessing of same-sex couples doesn’t pave the way for gay weddings at churches or with Catholic priests as officiants. ... promote a ritual ...
A Catholic order liturgical rite is a variant of a Catholic liturgical rite distinct from the typical ones, such as the Roman Rite, but instead specific to a certain Catholic religious order. Catholic order liturgical rites exist as variants of both Latin liturgical rites and Eastern liturgical rites , that is of both the Latin Church and the ...