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The Rite of Braga is very similiar to the old Tridentine Rite, much less ancient than the Mozarabic Rite (which could possibly be the oldest recension of a liturgy still in use; the ofher might be the pre-1980 version of the Carthusian Rite still in use in a minority of Charterhouses).  The...

The Gallican Rite and the Old Roman Rite do not really survive in an intact form.  Some scholars say the Mozarabic is closest to the old Gallican Rite, others say the Dominican and Carthusian Rites are more Gallican with less Romanization.

Only thing is, katchkar look nothing like Celtic crosses.

That sounds very nice actually.  I will definitely get the new version!

That would be interesting if it did, given that the EOs basically rejected it using an argument and a theological approach essentially derived from St. Severus.  Apthartodocetism was the main theological error of St. Justinian (who I think deserves a lot of credit for introducing into the...

I am a bit on the fence on whether to get this right away, in part because of late I have been a bit focused on the Panarion of St. Epiphanius of Salamis.  Everything in the Panarion is per se heretical, whereas in the case of the Roman Catholics, we tend to forget that they broke communion with...

Do any of those melodies likely survive in our liturgy?

No, the Coptic Church has had deaconesses for several decades.

By the way, I am genuinely curious as to whether or not the Romanian Orthodox Paulicians have retained any aspects of their old religion.  Given your interest in that sort of thing Rakovsky I would think you would be into it.

I do like it, actually.

Paulicians!

Indeed.  Kyrie eleison

I know of only one case where this happened, in Moldova, and the priest was arrested for gross negligence.  The priest apparently held the child under the water!!!

My mother wears a sort of small prayer rope that goes around the wrist.  I usually do not wear one, and I use them only occasionally.

If EO/OO reconciliation results in combined Eastern-Oriental parishes, I propose EOs stand on one side, and OOs on the other, so that by crossing themselves in opposing directions they can iconographically represent and re-enact the Parting of the Red Sea.  :P