Yes.
Table Altar. Versus Populum. Altar girls. Lectresses.
It's the least traditional of the eastern rites.
In NYC area, all true. In other places, ie, Cleveland, Ohio, is much more traditional. I've seen facing people, but not the other things. A Maronite priest gave my uncle last rites when the novus ordo parish refused.
I take it, then, Frances, that you've also been to Our Lady of Lebanon in Brooklyn?
That's the only Maronite Church I've ever been to... I wasn't aware that the Novus Ordisms I witnessed were unique to this area. But what a shame, anyway... Their Liturgical language is Aramaic. They seem to be aware of how wonderful a thing it is that they have preserved the very language Our Lord spoke daily as their Liturgical language... How that awareness does not translate into a rejection of the NO novelties they've adopted is beyond me.
There was an elderly priest there named Msgr. Sadek who was, as I recall, quite kind and pious and always orthodox in his sermons. I also met Bishop Mansour there a few times, but he seemed as reluctant to have his ring kissed as any Novus Ordo bishop I've ever met.
In any case, I stopped going there when I discovered Resurrection Coptic Catholic Church a few blocks away on 14th St. Very beautiful, very traditional (and very long) Liturgy. Probably the most beautiful Rite of Mass I've ever experienced outside of that Traditional Latin Rite.
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