In the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Rite of Constantinople, the last rites consist of the Sacred Mysteries ( sacraments ) of Confession and the reception of Holy Communion.

Byzantine Christians ( Eastern Christians who follow the Rite of Constantinople: Orthodox Christians and Greek-Catholics ) call this day " Holy and Great Friday ", or simply " Great Friday ".

Because the Rite of Constantinople evolved as a synthesis of two distinct rites — cathedral rite of Constantinople called the " asthmatiki akolouthia " (" sung services ") and the monastic typicon of the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified near Jerusalem — its offices are highly developed and quite complex.

The translation must have been made very early, evidently before the division in the church over Chalcedon, before the influence of Constantinople over the Antiochian Rite had begun.

This was part of a conciliatory agreement with Eustathius, whereby the existence of the Byzantine Rite would be allowed in Italy in exchange for the establishment of Latin Rite churches in Constantinople.

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 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.

The Rite of Constantinople observes four fasting seasons: Great Lent, Nativity Fast, Apostles ' Fast and Dormition Fast.

Of these two traditions, the Rite of Constantinople developed from the Antiochene Rite.

With the council's elevation of Constantinople to primacy in the East, with the words " The Bishop of Constantinople ... shall have the prerogative of honour after the Bishop of Rome ; because Constantinople is New Rome ", the Constantinoplitan Rite gradually came to be the standard usage in every place under its jurisdiction.

Two distinctive liturgical traditions developed: the " Cathedral Rite ", strongly influenced by Byzantine court ritual and its interface with the liturgy at the Great Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, and the " Monastic Rite " developed in the great monasteries of the East.

In the arguments over ecclesiastical authority, the Greek Patriarch, John the Oxite, was expelled and fled to Constantinople and Bohemund established a Latin Rite church in the city, whose head took the title of Patriarch.

As a visible symbol of Catholic unity, it had been the custom to maintain Greek churches and monasteries in Rome and some of Latin Rite in Constantinople.

The following are Synaxes which are universally observed in the Rite of Constantinople:

One or other of these two creeds is recited in the Roman Rite Mass directly after the homily on all Sundays and Solemnities ( Tridentine Feasts of the First Class ).

Most traditional Wiccans worship the god and goddess, and a central part of Wiccan liturgy involves the Great Rite ; an act of actual or symbolic ritual sexual intercourse between the two deities.

In such cases its competence includes marriages between two Catholics, between a Catholic and non-Catholic, and between two non-Catholic parties whether one or both of the baptized parties belongs to the Latin or an Eastern Rite.

Petrushka ( 1911 ) and The Rite of Spring ( 1913 ) followed shortly afterwards, and the two also worked together on Pulcinella ( 1920 ) and Les noces ( 1923 ).

When Pope Pius V made the Roman Missal mandatory for all Catholics of the Latin Rite, he permitted the continuance of other forms of celebrating Mass that had an antiquity of at least two centuries.

In the current form of the Roman Rite adopted following the Second Vatican Council, Ordinary Time consists of 33 or 34 Sundays and is divided into two sections.

In the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite, the two weeks before Easter form the season of Passiontide, a subsection of the Lenten season that begins with Matins of Ash Wednesday and ends immediately before the Mass of the Easter Vigil.

The Catholic Church treats Good Friday as a fast day, which in the Latin Rite of the Church is understood as having only one full meal ( but smaller than a regular meal ) and two collations ( a smaller repast, two of which together do not equal one full meal ) and on which the faithful abstain from eating meat.

The Village has one bank ( Farmers State Bank of Fulton County ) two taverns ( Betty's Rite Bank Saloon and Phillips Tavern ), the St. David Optimist Club, three churches ( St. Micheals Catholic Church, Methodist church and Nazarene Church ).

This led Messiaen to use rhythmic cells that irregularly alternate between two and three units, a process which also occurs in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, which Messiaen admired.

In North America, Freemasons have the option of joining the Scottish Rite and / or the York Rite, two appendant bodies that offer additional degrees to those who have taken the basic three.

The Rule of that Council, that local uses which could show a prescription of two centuries might be retained, saved Milan, not without a struggle, from the loss of its Rite, and St. Charles Borromeo though he made some alterations in a Roman direction, was most careful not to destroy its characteristics.

In 1132-34, two Augustinian canons of Ratisbon, Paul, said by Bäumer to be Paul of Bernried, and Gebehard, held a correspondence ( printed by Mabillon in his " Musæum Italicum " from the originals in the Cathedral Library at Milan ) with Anselm, Archbishop of Milan, and Martin, treasurer of St. Ambrose, with a view of obtaining copies of the books of the Ambrosian Rite, so that they might introduce it into their church.

The origin of the Ambrosian Rite is still under discussion, and at least two conflicting theories are held by leading liturgiologists.

In addition, the Ambrosian Rite has two proper Eucharistic Prayers, used mainly on Easter and Holy Thursday.

This is an English translation of the two hundred proper prefaces at present used with the Eucharistic prayers of the Ambrosian Rite.

The Vereinigte Großlogen von Deutschland or United Grand Lodges of Germany ( VGLvD ) is the regular Grand Lodge in Germany, it comprises five united Grand Lodges of varying traditions: two traditional German Grand Lodges, one Prussian Swedish Rite Grand Lodge, one English tradition Grand Lodge and one North American tradition Grand Lodge, the latter two Grand Lodges having been formed by occupying forces.

Over the centuries, the Arbëreshë have managed to maintain and develop their identities, thanks to their stubbornness and cultural value exercised mainly by the two religious communities of the Eastern Rite Greek-Byzantine, based in Calabria, the " Collegio Corsini " ( 1732 ) and then " Corsini-Sant ' Adriano " in 1794 and Sicily in the " Seminario Greco-Albanese of Palermo " ( 1735 ) then transferred to Piana degli Albanesi in 1945.

Bishop wearing a sakkosIn the Eastern Orthodox Churches and Eastern Catholic Churches using the Byzantine Rite, there are two vestments very similar to the dalmatic.

In Spain, several very different cultural streams came together in the first centuries of the Christian era: the Roman culture, which was dominant for several hundred years, and which brought with it the music and ideas of Ancient Greece ; early Christians, who had their own version of the Roman Rite ; the Visigoths, an North Germanic tribe who overran the Iberian peninsula in the 5th century ; Jews of the diaspora ; and eventually the Moors and Arabs.

This Latin Rite Order, while a contemplative Order, differs from traditional monastic Orders in three ways: 1 ) They do not take vows of stability, meaning that they can live in one house ( called a friary or sometimes a monastery ) typically for several years before being moved into a different community of the Order.

A publication of the then-National Council of Catholic Bishops explains: " We have been accustomed to speaking of the Latin ( Roman or Western ) Rite or the Eastern Rites to designate these different Churches.

This is in accord with the Introduction to the Rite of Confirmation, 17, which indicates that the episcopal conference may decide " to introduce a different manner for the minister to give the sign of peace after the anointing, either to each individual or to all the newly confirmed together.

Extensive use is made of responsories between the celebrant ( priest ) and faithful during the Mozarabic Mass, including during the Confiteor ( prayer of confession of guilt for sin ), which is quite different from that in the Roman Rite ( Tridentine or post-Tridentine ); though much of the preparatory prayers and other elements in the old Missal were borrowed from a Romano-Toledan Missal and is not originally part of the rite.

National parishes in Québec are Latin Rite Catholic parishes that serve the different ethnic communities in Montreal, such as the Irish, Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese.

Roman Catholic adults who haven't received their First Communion may go through a different ceremony called the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( RCIA ) to receive this sacrament.

Other congregations were added by different popes, until a complete organization was established by Pope Pius X in his Constitution Sapienti Consilio of 29 June 1908, according to which there were thirteen congregations, counting that of the Propaganda as only one ; however, the last-named congregation is divided into two parts: Congregation of the Propaganda for Affairs of the Latin Rite, and Congregation of the Propaganda for Affairs of the Oriental Rites, it may well be considered as two congregations, so that the total number of the congregations is fourteen.

A typical characteristic of the Latin rites different from the Roman Rite is the great variability of portions of the Roman Canon which change according to the liturgical year and the Mass.

The Ambrosian Rite during the centuries has lost its ancient variety, even if it maintains a richness of choices for the Preface and its first Eucharistic Prayer is slightly different form the Roman one mainly in the Words of Institution.

# The Great Entrance and Offertory .-- It seems appropriate to give the Byzantine name to this ceremony, for, according to St. Germanus's description, it resembled the Great Entrance of that rite rather than anything which is now found in either the Roman or the Mozarabic of today, or in the Celtic Rite ; and the Procession of the Vecchioni at Milan is altogether a different matter.