These rites so listed: Latin, Byzantine, Alexandrian, Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, and Chaldean,2 are actually families of liturgical expression. These rites are the descendants of the liturgical ...

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter of Catholicism.

Orthodox congregations, of course, never abandoned the traditional liturgy, but the generational trend has been towards greater stringency in observance of the particulars, and, more recently ...