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Old Rite Russian Catholics? #346573 04/11/10 05:04 PM
Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 13 United States T Tradycja Junior Member
Tradycja Junior Member T Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 13 United States	Is there anywhere in the world where the Old Russian rite is celebrated in the Catholic Church?

Re: Old Rite Russian Catholics? Tradycja #346578 04/11/10 06:17 PM
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,564 Likes: 1 Dublin F Fr Serge Keleher Member
Fr Serge Keleher Member F Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,564 Likes: 1 Dublin	Yes: in Russia. The Old Rite is also used by Greek-Catholics elsewhere on an occasional basis. Fr. Serge

Re: Old Rite Russian Catholics? Fr Serge Keleher #346695 04/14/10 02:58 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 16 Massachusetts Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member
Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 16 Massachusetts	Tradycja, See also: https://www.byzcath.org/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/328071/1 https://www.byzcath.org/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/293057 Many years, Neil "One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."

Re: Old Rite Russian Catholics? Irish Melkite #346767 04/15/10 05:42 PM
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 35 Saint Cloud, Minnesota L latinmasstrad Member
latinmasstrad Member L Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 35 Saint Cloud, Minnesota	The most famous Old Rite Russian Catholic is the Servant of God Father Potapii Emelianov. While imprisoned in the GULAG, Father Potapii informed the NKVD, "In this place I have become an even more convince Catholic and nothing can shake me." He later died during the construction of Stalin's infamous White Sea Canal. The cause for his Beatification was opened in 2003.

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