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To: Theo
It's not a new denomination.

Rome has always recognized local rites, whether Ambrosian or Mozarabic (which date from the earliest days of the Church), or the Eastern churches which recognize the authority of the Holy Father. The Roman Rite is simply the most common, the others are just as Catholic and just as valid. I've always admired the Maronite rite, which still says the words of consecration in Aramaic . . . the very words that Christ himself used at the Last Supper.

The Anglicans simply join all the other Catholic groups that are allowed to preserve their own customs in worship. In point of fact, their translation (Cranmer's brilliant work, preserved in this country in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer) is in most parts more accurate and true to the original Latin than the English translation currently in use in the Roman Rite. That's going to change this year, though, we're finally getting a decent (or at least more decent) translation.

37 posted on 01/30/2011 4:27:16 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Clearing up misunderstandings about the Church is like the labors of Sisyphus. Not to mention ill intentioned attacks (Did you catch the John Paul II in Hell thread before it was yanked an hour ago?)


41 posted on 01/30/2011 4:32:27 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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