RE: Re: Back in the Saddle

From: Elena Dent <debadger_at_pacbell.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:53:00 -0700

True, but what fascinates me is that I'd heard of 'Greek Rite' Catholics only because my mom had a Greek friend who might've been my godmother but neither the friend, my mom, nor her parish priest knew for sure what 'Greek Rite' was. Many decades later, I was looking over some music in the International section and saw a CD of 'liturgical music of the Melkites, or Greek Rite church'. Hm. So, I bought it and the liner notes mentioned this obscure Lebanese, extremely old, Christian church's liturgical music is Arabic and Aramaic. And that Sister [name forgotten] is very popular all over the middle east at religious festivals because her Christian singing is in their own Arabic, not translated or sung in foreign languages.

Then I realized that the 'Greek Rite' church that went in up the street from my mom's church had to be the same thing, not Greek at all but an old Arabic Christianity and perhaps the oldest 'Christians' of all. But why is their rite completely accepted by the Roman Catholic church? This is very unusual. I asked a former boss, who was shocked that I'd even heard of Melkites (he is one), let alone actually had a CD of their music which I gave him. His wife (Irish catholic) was mildly exasperated because he'd been trying to translate the songs for her and she didn't particularly care for the music.

So I went websurfing and didn't see much at all about them at the time but there's a lot more now. Interesting stuff; the Melkites are the See of Antioch, which has had input from teh Crusaders as well as the Greek Orthodox churches and the Europeans again as they started to nibble at the Ottoman Empire.

Elena

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Episcopalians are Protestants.

And there's the unfortunate issue of the origins of Anglicanism. After
all, a girl could really lose her head over a hunky monarch, once upon
a time.

--Q.M.
Received on 2006-04-12 21:52:28