#eastern rites

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LENT IS COMING!

Is anyone else getting excited or thinking about Lent?

Got any plans?

Devotionals?

Novenas?

What are you giving up or in some cases people do more?

Alms giving plans or service plans in the works?

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Hâc cathedrâ, Petrus sederat ipse

On this chair, Peter himself had sat

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The Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma was established Feb. 21, 1969 and Bishop Emil J. Mihalik was named the first bishop.

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Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, cujus judício univérsa fundántur: respíce propítius ad preces nostras, et eléctum nobis Antístitem tua pietáte consérva; ut christiána plebs, quae te gubernátur auctóre, sub tanto pontífice, credulitátis suae méritis augeátur. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Filium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

Almighty and everlasting God, by Whose judgement all things are established, mercifully regard our prayers, and in Thy goodness preserve the Bishop chosen for us: that the Christian people who are ruled by Thine authority, may under so great a Pontiff, be increased in the merits of faith.  Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

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Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell in unity. Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, Which ran down to the skirt of his garment: As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For there the Lord hath commandeth blessing, and life for evermore.

Psalm 132

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Know Your Rites: eastern and western Catholic churches

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* Taken from the Byzantine Missal for Sundays and Feast Days with Rites of Sacraments, and Various Offices and Prayers by Rev. Fr. Joseph Raya of the Patriarchal Clergy of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, and Baron José de Vinck; published at Birmingham, Alabama, by St. George's R. C. Byzantine Church in 1958, having been printed at Tournai, Belgium, by Société Saint Jean l' Evangéliste, Desclée & Cie.

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V./ Today, we honor Thy prophet, Josue, O Lord: By his prayers save our souls. R./ Chosen by Moses to lead the people of God into the promised land, * Thou didst lead them through the waters of the Jordan. * Thus, by Thine actions as well as by Thy name * Thou didst foreshadow the saviour, who leadeth us through the waters of baptism. * O holy prophet, Josue, * beg him now to save our souls.

Troparion and Kontakion of Saint Josue