Rites of Religious Orders
Some religious orders celebrated Mass according to rites of their own, dating from more than 200 years before the papal bull Quo primum. These rites were based on local usages and combined elements of the Roman and Gallican Rites. Following the Second Vatican Council, they have mostly been abandoned, except for the Carthusian Rite (see above). Religious orders of more recent origin have never had special rites.
The following previously existing rites of Mass, distinct from the Roman Rite, continue to be used on a limited basis by the permission of ecclesiastical superiors:
- Carmelite Rite
- Cistercian Rite
- Dominican Rite
- Premonstratensian or Norbertine Rite
The Catholic Encyclopedia applied the word "rite" also to the practices followed (to some extent even now, a century later) by certain Catholic religious orders, while at the same time stating that they in fact followed the Roman Rite:
- Franciscan Rite
- Friars Minor Capuchin Rite
- Servite Rite
Read more about this topic: Latin Liturgical Rites
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