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  • The Byzantine Rite, sometimes called the Rite of Constantinople or Constantinopolitan Rite is the liturgical rite used currently (in various languages, with various uses) by all the Eastern Orthodox Churches, by the Greek Catholic Churches (Eastern Catholic Churches which use the Byzantine Rite), and in a substantially modified form by the Protestant Ukrainian Lutheran Church.

  • The rite developed in the city of Constantinople (now Istanbul). It is the second largest liturgical rite in Christendom, second in worldwide usage only to the Roman Rite.

  • The Rite consists of the Divine Liturgies, Canonical Hours, forms for the administration of Sacred Mysteries (sacraments) and the numerous prayers, blessings, and exorcisms, developed in the Church of Constantinople. Also involved are the specifics of architecture, icons, liturgical music, vestments and traditions which have evolved over the centuries in the practice of this Rite.

  • Traditionally, the congregation stands throughout the whole service, and an iconostasis separates the sanctuary from the rest of the church. The faithful are very active in their worship, making frequent bows and prostrations, and feeling free to move about the temple (church building) during the services.

  • Scripture plays a large role in Byzantine worship, with not only daily readings but also many quotes from the Bible throughout the services. The entire Psalter is chanted each week, and twice weekly during Great Lent.

  • Fasting laws are stricter than in the West. On fast days, the faithful give up not only meat, but also dairy products, and on many fast days they also give up fish, wine and the use of oil in cooking. The Rite of Constantinople observes four fasting seasons: Great Lent, Nativity Fast, Apostles' Fast and Dormition Fast. In addition, most Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year are fast days. Many monasteries also observe Monday as a fast day.

  • This is NOT an Orthodox Church . It is a collection of renegades , nothing more .

  • @ComradeAgopian Unia.

  • @drledsabbath no priests are permitted to marry. Married men are ordained to the Holy Priesthood and yes, the Ruthenian Catholic church ordains married men to the Holy Priesthood.

  • This sounds a lot like the Orthodox Church I go to.

  • It's a liturgy, we don't have masses in our Church.

  • Sounds funny in English lol

  • It's like being in heaven...

  • This is a church in communion with the Vatican is it not

  • @umaara100 Yes it is. As with most Ruthenians and Byzantine rites, they pray for the pope a whole lot more than the westerners do.

  • The title of this video needs to be changed: "Mass" to "Liturgy"

  • @mattporcelli I agree. "Mass" is a Roman Catholic term. It is derived from the phrase, near the end, which is "Ite missa est," or "go, you are dismissed." It does not pertain to the Eastern liturgy.

  • This is so amazing!!!

  • Too bad this video isn't that great quality. Byzantine masses are the holiest masses ever in my opinion.

  • Actually, the can not marry.

  • Are these masses said in English or in Latin?

  • Byzantine are in communion with rome right? I am also told Priests in the byzantine right can marry? I am RC, Novus Ordo. I have been to tridnetine and charismatic masses. But never Byzantine. I'd try to attending one.

  • :D I'm Roman Catholic...This looks SOO cool! They sing/chant everything!

  • @Gymnasticspenguin96 before the 2nd Vatican counsel almost every thing was chanted in our church as well

  • I Am Byzantine and from Canonsburg Pa

  • Actually the priest in my town who is the pastor of the Byzantine Church does call it Mass. He called it a High Mass and Low Mass. I think, however, it is more commonly referred as the Divine Liturgy.

  • @oakking1 I've never heard of a distinction between High Mass and Low Mass in the Byzantine rite church. Only Divine Liturgy and Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified. High Mass and Low Mass were distinctions used in the Latin rites of the Catholic Church until the introduction of the New Mass in 1969. Is his Low Mass spoken, like in the traditional Roman Rite?

  • I am Roman and am thinking of switching Rites. There is a Byzantine Church in my town.

  • You can.

    It doesn't make a difference.

  • They are both Catholic so you can go to church at either one and still recieve the Eucharist

  • @oakking1 I myself considered switching rites until I found the Traditional Latin Mass. I still go to a Byzantine rite Divine Liturgy from time to time. The things that the Traditional Latin Mass and the Byzantine Divine Liturgy have that the New Mass does not are beauty, splendor, grace, solemnity, mystery, and reverence. They need to get rid of the New Mass, and restore the Traditional Mass to her proper place as the primary rite in the Roman rite Church! I <3 the TLM and the DL!

  • OMG I was there---

    This was a BEAUTIFUL divine liturgy!

  • Wow, very cool. I love the Byzantines.

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