Common Prayers Eastern Rite uses that we don't use?

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I’ve always wondered that one - if there were any particular prayers or in fact any particular saints favored by those in the Eastern rite or in the Orthodox Church that just aren’t emphasized in the Latin rite.
 
Several prayers come to mind that are used in the Byzantine Liturgy that I didn’t see in the Latin mass:

Thrice Holy hymn
Cherubic Hymn
Prayer before communion (O lord I believe and profess that this which I am about to receive…)

Outside of liturgy, the daily introductory prayers are said. Some of them I never prayed in the Latin rite:

Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth…
Jesus Prayer

There are many others, especially during Liturgy, but these are the ones that quickly come to mind.
 
One prayer that caught special attention during this Easter Liturgy(Syro Malabar ) was the concluding prayer that goes - " Risen Lord,…we, your children " (apologies, - forget the rest of the words but akin to , ’ we offer You, praise and thanksgiving …’ ) ; tried to think hard to remember if there are other prayers, in the Liturgy of East or West where our Lord is addressed in such a relationship - ’ we , the children ’ ; what is good to note is how it is very much biblical too since He addresses the disciples as ’ children ’ at His appearance on the shore , to Sts Peter, Thomas, John …

He , who is One with The Father, in His Divinity !

St.John , the youngest of the disciples, is the first to recognise that Fatherly voice !

It was good to see the tradition of how the truths of our faith are also taught through The Liturgy !

Hope that one of these days , there would be more understanding of the many unwritten ’ signs’ that our Lord gave to the disciples ( said to be the format of the Holy Mass itself !) that it would become the focus of true harmony for all, esp. for those who are trying to restore those old traditions !

Peace !
 
JohnCalominas said:
I’ve always wondered that one - if there were any particular prayers or in fact any particular saints favored by those in the Eastern rite or in the Orthodox Church that just aren’t emphasized in the Latin rite.
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There are 21 or 23 (depending on how one numbers) self-governing Eastern Churches in the Catholic Communion, and each have their own prayers and particular Saints which the other Churches may not normally commemorate.
 
And among these 20-odd sui juris churches are some half-dozen distinct rites.

There’s no such thing as “the Eastern Rite.”
 
dixibehr said:
And among these 20-odd sui juris churches are some half-dozen distinct rites.

There’s no such thing as “the Eastern Rite.”
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There definitely is an Eastern Rite. That’s what you call churches such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Byzantine Catholic. The list just goes on!:eek:
 
jjaponick said:
There definitely is an Eastern Rite. That’s what you call churches such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Byzantine Catholic. The list just goes on!:eek:
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Actually, the rite is known as the Byzantine Rite, not the Eastern Rite.
 

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There definitely is an Eastern Rite. That’s what you call churches such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Byzantine Catholic. The list just goes on!
Actually, the rite is known as the Byzantine Rite, not the Eastern Rite.<<

They Byzantine liturgical family is just ONE of the half-dozen Eastern rites.

There’s also Armenian.

West Syrian

East Syrian

Maronite

Alexandrian

Ethiopian.
 
Zabdi_Premjit said:
While there are several eastern rites, the churches listed by jjaponick seem to indicate that he was using the misnomer “Eastern Rite” to specifically refer to the Byzantine Rite alone.
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Doubtless, but I was trying to give him correct information.
 
One of the most beautiful prayers of the Maronites =

You have united O Lord,
Your divinity with our humanity.
And our humanity with your divinity.
Your life with our mortality
And our mortality with your life.

You have assumed what is ours
And you have given us what is yours.
For the life and salvation of our souls.

And one from the Melkites:

Christ has risen from the dead
Trampling down death by death.
And on those in the tomb
Bestowing life.
 
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