A Communication
268 THE COMMONWEAL July 14, 1926 "If it hadn't been for the frog I'd...
...detail in what language any of these may be used...
...I was not thinking especially arabs are as distinct, canonically, as the Chaldeans are differ- of the Catholic East...
...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...
...Neither was I ignorant of the Chaldean Antonian Church...
...So, also, the old Gallican Catholics, the people before though nothing had happened...
...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...
...Stephen Gaselee's less confusion of ideas on the subject...
...there are at least three Greek Newport, R. I. rites, those of Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople...
...In Eastern Orthodoxy each independent monastery is codex...
...a rule unto itself...
...the time of Charles the Great, who used the Gallican rite, were "Good-bye," she called after him, but he did not Uniats...
...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...
...Torosiewicz lays down : "There is no such thing Second, when Mr...
...First, Dr...
...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...
...That is, at any rate, an intelligible and reasonable use of LAWRENCE MAYNARD GRAY...
...There are still in the Orient a numchurches...
...and she lowered her head confusedly over her book...
...that the Roman rite is canonically distinct from the Mozarabic I think Dr...
...clear what we are talking about...
...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...
...I name the regulations of Saint Theodore I do deny that the term is scientifically right and accurate...
...T O the Editor:-Since I disclaim any scientific authority in So language is no test of a rite...
...There are now three Latin rites, those of Rome, UNIATS AND THEIR RITES Milan, and the Mozarabic rite...
...rite...
...The Reverend Adrian Fortescue : "What is the counterpart to the Maronite Antonian rule bears approximately the same relation Uniat churches...
...Then it is priate setting forth of authentic quotations from able scholars...
...people...
...Gaselee wrote: "There is only one monas a `Roman' rite, and there never was such a rite...
...If Dr...
...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...
...I do not deny that "Latin Catholic" is used officially...
...The rule bearRoman, Milanese, and Mozarabic rites...
...If people would realize this there would be criticising my very dogmatic attack on Mr...
...Gaselee's statement: following extract seems to me to justify my opinion: "There is only one monastic rule in the East, the Basilian...
...Their rite is not Roman...
...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...
...We should speak of the Uniats and Their Rites calls for nothing less than an appro- Roman, Byzantine, Alexandrine, Antiochene rites...
...who uses the Roman rite, just as an Armenian Catholic is one "I'll have all frogs banished I" cried the young man...
...No scientific publication, official or other- the Armenian Mechitarist Benedictines...
...neither did I mention institutions or ent from the Melchites...
...But in this case we need not trouble much about turn back...
...before," thought Arabella, and she put her spectacles ["Oriental Church...
...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...
...Yet this is not common use...
...and the note of each is the answer to Dr...
...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...
...A COMMUNICATION . . . We should never talk about a Latin rite, a Greek rite, a Syriac rite...
...As "From . . . from . . . I forget where," said the far as liturgy goes, there is nothing against such a classification...
...I was not ignorant of to Oriental rites...
...they follow a modwise, knows a `Roman' rite...
...The Studite merely as one disproof of Mr...
...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...
...Torosiewicz's letter [The Commonweal, June 9] place of its origin...
...and it remains a very small I shall try to say a few pertinent words...
...Even the Roman Mother Church than have those of Eastern Cathwhile she looked at him, he rose and walked off as olics...
...call all Catholics who do not use the Roman rite Uniats...
...into her pocket and went out to seek the young man...
...This fact is not explicit in the Roman orders...
...Nevertheless, the Moz- namely, Basilians and Studites...
...who uses the Armenian rite...
...The only real test of a rite is things having to do with Eastern Christianity, a sufficient its order, forms, and arrangements...
...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...
...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...
...asked Arabella...
...In this sense the faithful of Milan and the Mozarabic families young man sadly...
...Catholic 6, and June 3, 1925, he will grasp what I mean when I say Encyclopedia, volume 1, page 555...
...But think of calling himself a Uniat...
...in Spain are Uniats...
...Language used in the liturgy is almost the worst possible basis of distinction...
...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...
...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...
...yet in this case it comes practically to that...
...It would then seem obvious to "From where...
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