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Offline Cryptinox

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Vernacular Eastern rites before V2?
« on: April 09, 2021, 02:50:22 AM »
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    • What Eastern Rites allowed vernacular before Vatican 2? I know that Pope Pius XII supposedly allowed Ruthenians in America to use English and I assume Ukrainian would be allowed. However the Syro Malabar Church in India only had Qurbana in Syriac prior to 1962 but Pope Pius XII allegedly approved of a new liturgy for them that would be allowed in Malayam. I am curious as to what language the Syro Malankara Church used also. I don't know if they would use Malayam or Syriac exclusively. I am also curious about what languages each rite was allowed to use in general. Coptic alone for Copts or arabic or vernacular too? Armenian alone for Armenians or other languages too? 
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    Re: Vernacular Eastern rites before V2?
    « Reply #1 on: April 09, 2021, 05:08:32 PM »
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    • Most Patriarchal eastern churches of Greek origin had liturgy in the vernacular pre VII.
    Many non patriarchal churches whose highest ranking clergy were only Metropolitans fell under a tighter Roman governance and Rome normally did not usually give permission for vernacular. Thus the Melkites for example used Greek, Syriac and Arabic long before Vatican II but the Malankara catholics had no such patriarch and so fell under standard Roman practice of preserving the sacred language when there was danger of extinction
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