Iran is an interesting anomaly among Muslim-majority countries in that it seems to treat non-Muslims decently and allows them to have public houses of worship.
is this a NO Church?The OP says as much.
Iraq was the same way. Tariq Aziz, Hussein's right-hand man, was a Catholic (Chaldean Catholic). Hussein protected Catholics against Muslim terrorists. They would have Catholic processions unmolested in the streets of Baghdad.No doubt one of the reasons why the bloodthirsty ʝʊdɛօ-masonic plunderers in our governments decided to descend upon Iraq.
is this a NO Church?if that is the Cathedral of Tehran, it was once Hannibal Bugnini's church.
What liturgy is offered here (besides the Novus ordo?) I noticed there are no kneelers.It actually does not have the NO — according to Wikipedia, it's a Chaldean cathedral.
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It actually does not have the NO — according to Wikipedia, it's a Chaldean cathedral.Even so, they've taken a lot after the NO. The altar is NO, and it seems they have altar girls.
Even so, they've taken a lot after the NO. The altar is NO, and it seems they have altar girls..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INouqp4uaKQ
It actually does not have the NO — according to Wikipedia, it's a Chaldean cathedral..
.It's the same Rite.
That's a different church.
No doubt one of the reasons why the bloodthirsty ʝʊdɛօ-masonic plunderers in our governments decided to descend upon Iraq.
This gives proof to the lie that attending mass is an arrestable offense in that country.Did you not read? It's not. Iran actually allows non-Muslims to openly worship because Shia Islam is not beheading people in public for wearing a crucifix like the Saudis.
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the Chaldeans actually have the bizzarity of Deaconesses, as do the Armenians. At an Orthodox Armenian liturgy I witnessed their use they sang in choir and stood behind the communicants putting chapel veils on the heads of the women and girls approaching the altar. Another deaconess stood in the bema removing them from their heads. Some of the OO sister churches were not part of the empire when the deaconesses were done away with and have no prohibitive canon against it. Essentially the Chaldeans and Malabar are highly Latinized because of Portuguese influence
Yes, there was a notion of "deaconess" in the early Church, but it was not an Order but a looser expression. So, for instance, people tended to be baptized in the nude or with few clothes on by immersion, and the deaconess would assist the females being baptized while the bishop stood behind a screen so as not to violate modesty. This sounds like the same kind of thing, a function where it's more appropriate for females to be assisting females.Along those lines there is the story of the conversion of Pelagia. When she begged the bishops to baptize her, they confided her to the deaconess Romana for her instruction.