Catholic Order Rites - Rites in The Strict Sense

Rites in The Strict Sense

  1. Benedictine Rite is the oldest of these rites, but it is not used to the celebration of Mass, but only to that of the Liturgy of the Hours.
  2. Cistercian Rite is used by a reformed branch of the Benedictines for Mass as well.
  3. Carthusian Rite is still in use.
  4. Carmelite Rite is only used by the Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel in Wyoming and the Brazilian Hermits of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel.
  5. Dominican Rite is rarely used today. It is used regularly at Holy Cross Priory, Leicester, England.
  6. Premonstratensian Rite is used by the community of St. Philip's Priory, Chelmsford

Two mendicant orders (Carmelites and Dominicans) kept their own rites until the second half of the 20th century. Other religious orders had and still have their own customs and privileges, and their own calendar of liturgical feasts, as does every nation and indeed every diocese. Among the Benedictines, this holds also for each congregation (i.e. branch) of the order. But the rite that they use for Mass is the Roman Rite, not a liturgical rite of their own.

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