Arabella Reads a Book
Gallagher, Marie
July 14, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 267 ARABELLA READS A BOOK lowered it again; and...
...Their rite is not Roman...
...He would probably, though as she felt it dancing under her fingers, she raised her foolishly, resent being put in the same category as the Eastern other hand and took off her spectacles...
...A RABELLA LAMB was born practical...
...asked Arabella...
...A whimsical passage caught her to his breast...
...and the note of each is the answer to Dr...
...silver boat swaying upon the waters of the lake and "But that is not proper in the Public Library," pro- on its side in silver letters was the name-"Trosatar...
...As "From . . . from . . . I forget where," said the far as liturgy goes, there is nothing against such a classification...
...to see that no reckless vehicle would run over her...
...I name the regulations of Saint Theodore I do deny that the term is scientifically right and accurate...
...She never When they reached the end of the slender white path stretched her neck to see the tops of the great they stopped, for before them was a great dark lake buildings along the streets of the City, but always and in the distance were great dark trees...
...The Reverend Adrian Fortescue : "What is the counterpart to the Maronite Antonian rule bears approximately the same relation Uniat churches...
...And Trosatar "No...
...Down the path they went, singing and laughing, and The young man came over to her and took off her when they came to the end of the path there was a slim spectacles and unwound her hair...
...Torosiewicz lays down : "There is no such thing Second, when Mr...
...He put her gently down on three velvet cushions in "Does it matter...
...I don't know how we arrived here," he confessed...
...the time of Charles the Great, who used the Gallican rite, were "Good-bye," she called after him, but he did not Uniats...
...That is my name," boasted the young man...
...Nevertheless, the Moz- namely, Basilians and Studites...
...I was not thinking especially arabs are as distinct, canonically, as the Chaldeans are differ- of the Catholic East...
...rite...
...that the Roman rite is canonically distinct from the Mozarabic I think Dr...
...yet in this case it comes practically to that...
...and it remains a very small I shall try to say a few pertinent words...
...Do you...
...It would then seem obvious to "From where...
...around her head...
...If people would realize this there would be criticising my very dogmatic attack on Mr...
...I know it now," he returned proudly...
...Suddenly she heard an odd, familiar sound, and "Of course I don't...
...and every once in awhile the young man put out his hand to prevent her from putting her By MARIE GALLAGHER hair in order, and then dropped it again...
...Torosiewicz's letter [The Commonweal, June 9] place of its origin...
...and she lowered her head confusedly over her book...
...Practically in this classification all Western Catholics, all who use Latin as their liturgical language, are put in one "Nothing like this has ever happened to me class, ["Latin Church,"] Eastern Catholics in the other...
...I don't !" he replied defiantly...
...268 THE COMMONWEAL July 14, 1926 "If it hadn't been for the frog I'd have forgotten the term `Roman Catholic.' A Roman Catholic is a Catholic about them completely," she murmured gratefully...
...By Oriental Church ing his [the Egyptian Saint Anthony's] name was compiled from the Roman codex means the autonomous Eastern Catholic his letters and precepts...
...them...
...Gaselee wrote: "There is only one monas a `Roman' rite, and there never was such a rite...
...the bottom of the boat and sat beside her...
...she asked at length...
...So, also, the old Gallican Catholics, the people before though nothing had happened...
...they follow a modwise, knows a `Roman' rite...
...looked straight ahead of her to see where she was "What are we going to do now...
...call all Catholics who do not use the Roman rite Uniats...
...Her three "It certainly does," she replied...
...Half-way back, Arabella stopped abruptly...
...The only real test of a rite is things having to do with Eastern Christianity, a sufficient its order, forms, and arrangements...
...asked Arabella going...
...in Spain are Uniats...
...of the crescent moon under green arches of overhang"Well...
...Torosiewicz will read the correspondence ber of monasteries claiming Saint Anthony's rule, but in reality that appeared in The Commonweal of April 15, April 29, May their rules date no further back than Saint Basil...
...she inquired...
...It passed like the reflection The young man was silent...
...That changes smile...
...Do you by any chance know your own name...
...Do you think I would ask a looking intently at the green bank they were passing, useless question...
...Catholic 6, and June 3, 1925, he will grasp what I mean when I say Encyclopedia, volume 1, page 555...
...Language used in the liturgy is almost the worst possible basis of distinction...
...You should not think of your spectacles at such a "Do you know where we are...
...Neither was I ignorant of the Chaldean Antonian Church...
...Her large brown eyes she cautiously "Of course, you wouldn't know !" protected from the dust and dirt of the streets with "I guess we had better go back," he suggested...
...time," wept Trosatar...
...Arabella's round brown eyes flashed indignantly...
...caught her lips unawares, and they parted in a merry "My own darling...
...ing branches, and between marshes of wild narcissi...
...before," thought Arabella, and she put her spectacles ["Oriental Church...
...walls and that was just wide enough for the two of "Where are my spectacles...
...She never crossed a street without first turning without looking at him...
...In Eastern Orthodoxy each independent monastery is codex...
...I always like to braids trailed over the water like silken cords as the know what I am doing...
...her head deliberately to the right and then to the left He shook his head...
...And he grew so large that he filled the staring straight into the thoughtful brown eyes of a entire path and had to pick her up in his arms and young man...
...asked the young man...
...This fact is not explicit in the Roman orders...
...That is, at any rate, an intelligible and reasonable use of LAWRENCE MAYNARD GRAY...
...First, Dr...
...We are not in the Public Library," replied the "I thought you didn't know your name," remarked young man, and Arabella, glancing about, saw that they Arabella...
...And even as he spoke, they were again on the slender "No...
...and choosing a volume of her favorite short stories, The young man stared at her in amazement, and written by a leprechaun, seated herself on a bench at then, with a sudden sweeping motion of his arms, a table and started to read...
...But in this case we need not trouble much about turn back...
...Hmmm...
...asked Arabella sternly...
...he cried joyfully...
...Then it is priate setting forth of authentic quotations from able scholars...
...detail in what language any of these may be used...
...All official astic rule in the East, the Basilian," I took for granted he was publications of the Holy See know only Latin rite as opposed speaking only of the Byzantine East...
...Latin" and `Oriental" are ambiguous terms because Congregation of Saint Hormisdas, the Maronite Antonian Conby Latin Church the Roman codex means the churches of the gregations of Saint Isaiah and Saint Eliseus...
...Torosiewicz does me an injustice when, from my rite and that the Roman, Mozarabic, and Milanese rites to- statement ("One wonders at the ignorance of such a writer, gether make up what the Roman codex designates as the who seems never to have heard of the monastic regulations of "Latin Church...
...she cried...
...T O the Editor:-Since I disclaim any scientific authority in So language is no test of a rite...
...who uses the Roman rite, just as an Armenian Catholic is one "I'll have all frogs banished I" cried the young man...
...Arabella leaned her head over the edge of the boat "Oh l So you don't know l" and kissed the drifting water-lilies...
...who uses the Armenian rite...
...clear what we are talking about...
...I do not deny that "Latin Catholic" is used officially...
...His round, protrudFor several minutes they walked in silence down the ing eyes stared solemnly at her and another familiar slender white path that was bordered by high stone object was recalled to her mind...
...Stephen Gaselee's less confusion of ideas on the subject...
...into her pocket and went out to seek the young man...
...yellow spectacles, and her full red lips she set into a She looked at him in surprise...
...If Dr...
...She walked angrily on and every once in awhile she "Here they are," said the young man, drawing raised her hand to put her hair in order, but then them from his pocket...
...A Catholic of Milan knows "My heart is beating quickly," she thought in quite well that he is Ambrosian in rite, but he would never alarm, and pressed her hand over it to quiet it...
...The Mozarabs and Roman Catholics are Saint Theodore Studite") he deduces the implication that I members of the Latin Church, as the Chaldeans and Melchites imagined there were only two monastic institutions in the East, are members of the Oriental Church...
...she observed a large green frog...
...were at the beginning of a long white path...
...It might seem simplest to conceive this as to the codes of Saint Basil or Saint Theodore Studite as the the Roman Church, meaning all Catholics who use the Roman Roman codex to the Beatitudes...
...No scientific publication, official or other- the Armenian Mechitarist Benedictines...
...Now you've changed every"I don't think so," he replied timidly...
...Yet this is not common use...
...tested Arabella...
...white path, and the silver boat was nowhere to be seen...
...In this sense the faithful of Milan and the Mozarabic families young man sadly...
...She looked up in alarm and found herself everything...
...The rule bearRoman, Milanese, and Mozarabic rites...
...We should speak of the Uniats and Their Rites calls for nothing less than an appro- Roman, Byzantine, Alexandrine, Antiochene rites...
...her spectacles...
...And then a most extraordinary thing carry her...
...I was not ignorant of to Oriental rites...
...boat glided slowly on...
...them, since, except for its relics, the Gallican rite disappeared Everyone else in the room turned to look at her, long before Uniat was thought of as a special name...
...there are at least three Greek Newport, R. I. rites, those of Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople...
...She glanced up at him, and upon perceiving his Her hair was brown and curly, but she twisted it confession of helplessness, tossed her head contemptuinto three long braids and wound them carefully ously...
...he queried...
...prim line to keep them from being ravished by any "All right," she agreed...
...leaned over her and kissed her hair...
...There are now three Latin rites, those of Rome, UNIATS AND THEIR RITES Milan, and the Mozarabic rite...
...a rule unto itself...
...There are still in the Orient a numchurches...
...except for later And looking up from her book, Arabella saw him Romanizing their rite has no more in common with that of opposite her at the other side of the table...
...Arabella pressed her lips tightly to- But Arabella was twining her braids hurriedly around gether and the young man shrank so that there was a her head and looking to the right and left of her for tiny border on his side of the path...
...How did we arrive here...
...Gaselee's statement: following extract seems to me to justify my opinion: "There is only one monastic rule in the East, the Basilian...
...happened...
...One day she entered the great white Public Library "But I don't want to go back l" she said...
...neither did I mention institutions or ent from the Melchites...
...Even the Roman Mother Church than have those of Eastern Cathwhile she looked at him, he rose and walked off as olics...
...people...
...The Studite merely as one disproof of Mr...
...A COMMUNICATION . . . We should never talk about a Latin rite, a Greek rite, a Syriac rite...
...But think of calling himself a Uniat...
...July 14, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 267 ARABELLA READS A BOOK lowered it again...
...adventurous young man...
...thing...
...It is true that the Roman codex ernized modification of the western rule of Saint Benedict of of canon law mentions the "Latin Church" and the "Oriental Nursia...
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