How far will De- Latinizion go? (for Maronites especially)

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On the Icons I thought you had reinvent the Maronite style since the original uniquely Maronite icongraphy has died out except for some old historical Syriac ones. (I heard they created a new style based on Coptic, Byzantine and old Syriac Iconography).

The Novus Ordo stuff I don’t get though, what the bishops are doing seems like its totally against what JP II asked the Church to do.

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At its core, Maronite Iconography is Syriac Iconography, but it’s true that it had essentially died-out in practical use among the Maronites. I believe you’re correct about the revived style, and to me it’s basically ok, except that there are some iconographers who insist on aping the Slav-Byzantine style, which, frankly, I consider totally out-of-place.

The idea of liturgical restoration among the Maronites goes back to at least the days Mor Eliyo Petrous Hoywaek (of blessed memory) prior to WWI. The fact of WWI and its great toll among the Maronites put the project on hold, but it was reprised in the 1930s under Mor Eliyo’s successor, Mor Antonious Petrous Arida (of blessed memory). It bore fruit with the publication of the restored Ritual (in, I believe, 1942), which was an incredibly beautiful work of love, that was painstakingly done. (In very recent years, the Novus Ordo-inspired School of Neo-Latinization has taken its hatchet to that restored Ritual as well. I will only say that in doing so, they show their true colors. The chutzpah is almost unbelievable. I know some of them personally, which is why I say “almost.”)

In any case, the next project was the restoration of the Rite of Qourbono, but most unfortunately there were forces at work during and after the WWII years that sidelined it, and the death of Mor Antonious Petrous put the project into abeyance. It was revived in the late 1960s, but was, as one might expect (and again most unfortunately), tainted by the “prevailing winds” in Rome, has remained so to this day, and keeps getting worse. Hence we have what I call the Novus Ordo-inspired School of Neo-Latinization.
 
It was questioned by Malphono in this thread last year;

In Spanish it is: Y con tu espiritu-And with your spirit, not surprisingly, similar to the Latin, et cum spritu tuo.
Can’t speak for the Portuguese, but would guess it would close to the Spanish and Latin, rather than the current English use.

As for beards, I know a Latin Rite bishop with a beard, and a clean-shaven Maronite priest.
 
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