{"id":8824,"date":"2012-01-09T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=8824"},"modified":"2015-11-13T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T23:00:25","slug":"catholic-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/catholic-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday I celebrated the Feast of Theophany<\/a>\u00a0at Holy Angels Byzantine Catholic Parish with four of my Roman Rite friends. While we were there I attempted to explain how all the different rites<\/a> of the Catholic Church relate to one another. I don’t think I did a very good job at explaining it, so I’m going to have another go now…<\/p>\n

The Church began in Jerusalem (Acts 2<\/a>) and, over time, major Christian centres developed in the cities of Rome, Antioch and Alexandria. It was from these cities that the major rites of the Church developed. This can be seen more clearly from the following diagram I found on a friend’s Facebook page:<\/p>\n

\"Catholic<\/p>\n

The Second Vatican Council had this to say concerning the different rites of the Church:<\/p>\n

“[In] faithful obedience to tradition, the sacred Council declares that Holy Mother Church holds all lawfully recognized rites to be of equal right and dignity, and that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way” <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

–\u00a0Sacrosanctum Concilium<\/span><\/p>\n

So, although the Catholic Church is one Church, it is also a communion of Churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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