"It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass." s. Padre Pio "Evangelization with joy becomes beauty in the liturgy, as part of our daily concern to spread goodness. The Church evangelizes and is herself evangelized through the beauty of the liturgy, which is both a celebration of the task of evangelization and the source of her renewed self-giving." Pope Francis The Catholic Church includes 23 sui iuris churches. The Latin church is the largest. It is led by the Bishop of Rome, the Supreme Pontiff, successor of St. Peter, head of the apostles. Each has its own peculiar liturgical rites, from those ranging to a few hundred years ago to those tracing their origin back to the Early Church Fathers. In this video, we try to show examples from each of the liturgical rites from the Latin and Eastern sui iuris churches. Many rites have been reformed in the past century - we limit our presentation to the ones less common in the West. The Roman Rite is by far the most widespread of the many Latin liturgical rites. It comes in two forms: the Ordinary Form (which follows the 1970 Roman Missal promulgated by Blessed Paul VI) and the Extra-Ordinary Form (which follows the 1962 Roman Missal revised by St. John XXIII). Both Forms trace back to the Missale Romanum promulgated by St. Pius V in 1570. As I was saying, there are many other Rites in the Latin Church, some far more ancient than the Roman Rite. They include: - Traditional Ambrosian Rite (Milanese Rite) - Carthusian Rite (substantially the rite of Grenoble - to be noted that the monks prostrate during the Elevation) - Dominican Rite (Order of Preachers) - Traditional Mozarabic Rite (also known as Visigothic or Hispanic Rite) - Norbertine Rite (Canons Regular of Prémontré) - Rite of Braga - Sarum Rite (Use of Salisbury) The video also considers Eastern Catholic Rites, such as: - Alexandrian Rite (Liturgy of s. Mark) - Antiochene Rite - Byzantine Rite (Rite of Constantinople) - Carmelite Rite (Rite of the Holy Sepulchre - used by Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, Hospitallers, Templars, Carmelites of the Ancient Observance and the other orders founded within the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem) - East Syrian Rite (also known as Thomasine Rite, Assyro-Chaldean Rite, Persian Rite) - West Syrian Rite (Syrian or Syro-Antiochene Rite) Taken together, they show the beautiful unity and diversity of the Catholic Church, which is at once Universal and According to the Whole. This video does not do justice to the wondrous beauty of each of these liturgies, nor are they present them in their entirety. However, the symbolic element suffices to show that the liturgy, far from being a moment of social gathering, is truly the time when the kingdom of the Father is amidst us. To be noted that one of the videos show blessed Pope Pius XII at St. Peter's Basilica, the largest church in the world. Minimum amount of video was taken from a plethora of videos :) If you want me to take your segment down, please let me know :) In corde Iesu, per Mariam.
