Historic Worship In The Western (catholic) Church
The Roman rite was only one of several rites that existed in the Western church prior to the time of the Reformation, as shown in these eight entries. As the Roman rite gained influence, the traditions of other regions became assimilated to it. Some of the regional rites, however, retained a distinctive character up to the Reformation era. In the Council of Trent, Catholic liturgy was standardized and remained largely unchanged until Vatican II.…
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While there is a common core to historic Western Christian liturgy, there is also considerable diversity. Rites dif…
It is thought that North Africa was the birthplace of Latin Christianity. Because of Muslim expansion, however, the…
Great diversity evidently existed in the liturgies used in southern Gaul. Lack of documentation, however, makes it …
Ecclesiastical leadership in the Iberian peninsula held the liturgy in high esteem as a means of communicating the …
The Ambrosian, or Milanese, liturgy shared common features with both Western and Eastern rites and served as a link…
Celtic liturgies show the wide-ranging influence of the Irish missionary-monks, who tended to appropriate liturgica…
The Roman Rite, originally celebrated only in the city of Rome and its environs, was adopted by other Western churc…
The Council of Trent (15451563) initiated a period of liturgical standardization in the Roman Catholic church. Cath…