The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-08-22

kindly by the Empress Maria Theresa
: and the Emperor Joseph IL Foday
they number four and a half millions
SO that this branch of the church is
about half as numerous as the Catho.
llc church in the United States. Leo
XIII has conferred special honors and
taVors upon this heroic church. Aided
by Francis Joseph of Austria, he has
founded college for the Ruthenians in
Kome, and placed it under the care of
the Jesuits.
The Greek Rite.
This rite, in communion with the Ro-
man see. uses the liturgy of St John
| Chrysostom, and on certain fixed days
/ that of st. Basil.
In the Greek church many priests are
| permitted to celebrate mass at the same
altar, using the same species as the
principal officiant. Tilis~ custom is in a
certain manner conserved among the
( Latins in sthe ceremony of the ordina-
/ ton Of priests.
In the Greek rite, besides the main
altar, there is Il smaller altar, where
are prepared the 1eavened bread and
wine, and where, the deacon, when the
people have communicated, consumes
the bread and wine remaining in the
chalice, and performs the ablutions.
With regard to the sacred vestments
used by this rite, they are quite differ
ent both in size and pattern from those
of the Launs, but are Identical in their
symbolism. The priests cope has main-
tanned its primitive shape. The Greek
bishop wears an ornament suspended
from his girdle and reaching to his
knee. He wears over his shoulders a
robe that recalls the antique pallium
~,
church. His headgear is the tradition
al symbol of patriarchaI majesty char
acteristic of the eastern churches.
The deacon wears a stole bearing the
Greek word Agios, holy" repeated
three times.
During the mass the Greeks, instead /
OF the familiar genufiecions of the |
Latin church, make the sign of the |
cross in the Greek fashion-that is by |
reversing the usual process and carry /
ing the hand from the right to the left |
shoulder At the conservation, or most |
solemn part of the mass, amid the most |
profound silence, the word "Agios" is
uttered by all the officiating priests at
once
At the communion the bishop, pom
places in the hands of each
of the celebrants and deacons a parti-
they may administer communion to
themselves. This is, of course, a nota-
bic departure from the Latin custom
After the bishop has communicated
under both species, the celebrants and
deacons drink a few drops of the con-
wine from the chalice. The
people next receive the communion un-
der both species.
Communion over, the sacred vessels
are purified by the deacon.
The Greek rite is represented in Rome {
by an institution known as the Greek
college. One Of the most interesting |
features in its curriculum is the cul- ]
ure of music in connection with the /,
sacred ceremonies. The maestro of
music is D. Ugo Gaisser. The school
ollowed IS that known as the Byzan-
inc, and the text books are edited in {
'onstantinople and Athens. 1t is mod
lied on the antique music of Greece.
The Greek college, which was con- t
lrmed by the pope in December of '
69f, is under the direction of the Ben S
dictines 2
The official report of the propaganda {
ives the list of eastern rites in full i
ommunion with the holy see as fol- O
oWs: The Ethiopic or Abyssinian Rite O
arking back to the Apostle St. Mat t
new; the Armenian Rite. originating Z
18th st. Gregory the nluminator; the
optic Rite. whose father is st. Mark t
ne evangelist; the Greek Rite. which a
divided into various families. the n
ure Greek, the Bulgarian Greek. the b
-uthenlan Greek, the Melchite Greek, p
nd the Roumanian Greek. Then there b
re the Syrian Rites. divided into the S
lre Syrian, the ChaIdaic. the Maron- b
e, and the Malabar All these various A
tes accept the jurisdiction of the Ro- Il
an see, and their patriarchs exercise n
faculties until they have received fe
e pallium from the Holy Father. II