Religion:Ritual family

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Short description: Families of culturally and historically connected Christian rituals

Rites (Latin: ritus), liturgical rites, and ritual families within Christian liturgy refer to the families of liturgies, rituals, prayers, and other practices historically connected to a place, denomination, or group. Rites often interact with one another, such as in liturgical Latinization, and contain subsets known as uses. There are two broad categories which ritual families fall into: Latin or Western rites associated with Western Christianity and Eastern rites associated with Eastern Christianity.[1] The most common rite is the Roman Rite, itself a Latin liturgical rite and further subdivided into several uses.[2][3]

Definition

The word rite is often used to describe particular Christian rituals. Rite has also come to refer to the full pattern of worship associated with a particular Christian denomination or tradition,[4] typically comprising the liturgies for the Eucharistic celebration, canonical hours, and sacramental rites.[5] Rites typically result from local variations and traditions, sometimes becoming further distinguished as uses of ritual families.[2] Some ritual families originated with the early focal points of Christianity, such as Rome (Roman Rite), Alexandria (Alexandrian liturgical rites), and Antioch (East and West Syriac Rites).[6] The Roman Rite of the Catholic Church is further subdivided between the liturgies from the post-Second Vatican Council period, such as the Mass of Paul VI and Liturgy of the Hours, and the pre-conciliar liturgies, such as the Tridentine Mass and Divine Office according to the Roman Breviary.[7]

Some Christian denominations encompass multiple ritual families. The Catholic Church utilizes the various Latin liturgical rites of the Latin Church alongside the rites that compose Eastern Catholic liturgy.[7] The use of those liturgical rites are determined by the particular church of the celebrating clergy; other Catholic rites are associated with Catholic religious orders, such as the Dominican Rite and Carmelite Rite.[6] The liturgical rites of the Eastern Catholic Churches are often distinct from the same rites as practiced by non-Catholic denominations, sometimes as the result of Liturgical Latinization.[8] Within Eastern Orthodoxy, the Byzantine Rite – including the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom and Byzantine adaption of the Liturgy of Saint Mark – is predominant, with some limited usage of the Western Rite.[9]

See also

References

  1. Keiser, Michael (1993). Children of Promise: An introduction to Western Orthodoxy. Eustis, FL: Sanctus Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-9637046-0-5. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Liturgical Rites". New Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/liturgical-rites. Retrieved 17 January 2023. 
  3. McNamara, Edward (25 October 2016). "Why So Many Rites in the Church". Zenit News Agency. https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/why-so-many-rites-in-the-church-4827. 
  4. Kurian, George, ed (2001). "rite". Nelson's Dictionary of Christianity. Nashville: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 9781418539818. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmA18QOiBUUC. Retrieved 20 January 2023. 
  5. Griffin, Patrick (1912). "Rites". Catholic Encyclopedia. 13. New York City: Robert Appleton Company. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13064b.htm. Retrieved 17 January 2023. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 "The Rites of the Catholic Church". Catholic News Agency. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource/56009/the-rites-of-the-catholic-church. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Zuhlsdorf, John (27 January 2016). "The different Rites of the Latin Church". Madison Catholic Herald. https://madisoncatholicherald.org/zuhlsdorf/. 
  8. Boniface Luykx (1993). "Thirty Years Later: Reflections on Vatican II's Unitotis Redintegrotio and Orientolium Ecclesiorum". Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies) 34: 365. https://sheptytskyinstitute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Reflections-on-Vatican-IIs-Unitatis-Redintegratio-and-Orienalium-Ecclesiarum.pdf. Retrieved 23 January 2023. 
  9. Jerome Shaw (22 February 2013). "On the Western Rite in the ROCOR". New York City: Historical Studies of the Russian Church Abroad. https://www.rocorstudies.org/2013/06/17/bishop-jerome-of-manhatan-on-western-rite-in-the-rocor/.