Maronite Church

The Maronite-led Lebanese Front was one of the war's two principal coalitions.

This source names Maronite Church directly: "The English Wikipedia article on the Maronite Church, community edited, citing CNEWA's "Eastern Catholic Churches Worldwide 2017" statistical compilation for a worldwide membership figure of..."

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Eastern Catholic church, own Syriac liturgical patrimony (the Maronite Rite) and married parish clergy, in full communion with Rome since the Crusader-era reunion, reaffirmed at Florence 1445 and the Synod of Mount Lebanon 1736.

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The Maronite church has been in communion with Rome without interruption since the twelfth century and its patriarch is confirmed by the pope.

The Maronite Church keeps its Antiochene rite in full communion with Rome and receives the definitions of the Roman councils.

The Maronite patriarch of Antioch and all the East is the head of the church, resident in Lebanon.

The Maronite church has been in communion with Rome without interruption and holds the papal office as Rome defines it.

The Maronite Church sings the West Syriac repertory, though much of its office has moved into Arabic while keeping the melodies.

The Maronite church is Chalcedonian and has been in communion with Rome without interruption since the twelfth century.

Received by the Maronite church, whose communion with Rome the council reaffirmed.

Received by the Maronite church, whose liturgical restoration followed the council instruction that the Eastern churches recover their own traditions.

Sung as Qadishat Aloho in Syriac with the addition who was crucified for us, which the Maronite church kept when it entered communion with Rome.

From the Father through the Son, in the Eastern Catholic form.

Baptism is followed at once by chrismation with the holy myron.

The Lebanese monastic orders are the historic backbone of this church, and its saints are largely monks and hermits.

Kept on December 25, at the close of the Season of the Announcements with which the Maronite liturgical year opens.

Confession is kept as one of the mysteries.

Chrismation is given with baptism by the priest, not deferred to a bishop and a later age.

Commissioned directly by a Maronite Patriarch for his own church, deliberately linking Christian narrative to Maronite communal identity in a peer-reviewed art historical reading of the work.

Fasting follows the Syriac calendar, with the Great Fast and the Fast of the Nativity.

Married men are ordained to the priesthood in the Middle East, and celibacy has been the practice for Maronite clergy in the diaspora.

Infants receive baptism and chrismation together.

The marriage rite is a crowning in the Syriac form.

The daily office follows the Syriac books, and Syriac remains the language of the central prayers of the liturgy.

The seven mysteries are held, in communion with Rome.

The Maronite anaphoras are Syriac, and the Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles is the one most used.

The words of institution are said in Syriac even where the rest of the liturgy is in Arabic or in a local language.

The Maronite rite is West Syriac, and this church has been in communion with Rome without an intervening break, which is what distinguishes it from every other Eastern Catholic church.

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