{"id":1917,"date":"2021-07-07T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holyart.it\/com\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T08:08:50","slug":"ambrosian-rite-and-roman-rite-lets-see-the-differences-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.holyart.it\/com\/religious-items\/ambrosian-rite-and-roman-rite-lets-see-the-differences-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambrosian rite and Roman rite: let’s see the differences together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ambrosian and Roman rite. How do they differ? How is it possible that, within the Catholic Church, there are different rites? Let’s discover together the differences between two ways of living the faith that is the same yet distinct.<\/h4>\n\n

What do we mean by the\u00a0Ambrosian rite<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0Roman rite<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

In the lands where the Western Roman Empire<\/strong> once extended, the so-called\u00a0Latin Church<\/strong> has spread since ancient times. What is this about? Basically, a way of conceiving and living religion, above all of celebrating it, according to a series of liturgical rites that refer precisely to the Latin tradition, and which derive their origin from the Latin mass. The Latin Church is distinguished from the\u00a0Eastern Church<\/strong>, which in turn has differentiated itself over time into different ritual traditions: Byzantine, Alexandrian or Coptic, Syrian, Armenian, Maronite, Chaldean.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Latin Church\u00a0<\/strong>has also developed over time in different directions. It has conformed to the territories where it took hold, adapting to the\u00a0culture<\/strong>,\u00a0traditions<\/strong>,\u00a0differences between peoples<\/strong>. Particular ways of celebrating Christ have thus come to be created in different areas.<\/p>\n

Many of these different rites have over time been absorbed by other more preponderant ones, and are no longer practised. Let’s think, for example, of the Gallican\u00a0rite<\/strong>\u00a0widespread in France, or the<\/strong>\u00a0patriarchy<\/strong> one once practised by the patriarchates of Aquileia, Grado and Venice.<\/p>\n

Today the Latin Church or\u00a0Latin<\/strong> Rite fundamentally differs in\u00a0three\u00a0<\/strong>different official rites: the\u00a0Roman rite<\/strong>, the most widespread and practised; the Ambrosian\u00a0rite<\/strong>, typical of the Church of Milan and its surroundings; the\u00a0Hispano-Mozarabic rite<\/strong>, widespread in some regions of Spain.<\/p>\n

Then there are minor rites, linked to particular cities or the practises of specific religious orders, such as the\u00a0Carthusian rite<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In our country, therefore, the most practised and followed rites by the Catholic faithful are the\u00a0Ambrosian rite\u00a0<\/strong>and the\u00a0Roman rite<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Roman rite<\/strong>\u00a0is certainly the most widespread, as it is a direct descendant of that practised by the Church of Rome.<\/p>\n

On the\u00a0other hand, the Ambrosian rite<\/strong>\u00a0managed to resist when all the other minor rites were eliminated. Indeed, the\u00a0Council of Trent<\/strong>\u00a0(1545-1563) recognised its full legitimacy, above all thanks to the intercession of San Carlo Borromeo, one of the main supporters of the Council, as well as the Bishop of Milan.<\/p>\n

This particular rite probably dates back to the mandate of\u00a0Sant’Ambrogio<\/strong><\/a>, who was\u00a0bishop of Milan<\/strong>\u00a0from 374 AD until his death, and who later became the patron saint of the Lombard city. When Ambrose died, the inheritance he left in the archdiocese of Milan was of such magnitude that his successor was defined by the then Pope Gregory the Great as “vicar<\/strong>” of St. Ambrose, a definition previously reserved only to the bishop of Rome. Even today, the Ambrosian rite recognises the Archbishop of Milan<\/strong> as its head.<\/p>\n

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The Ambrosian rite, therefore, spread to the Archdiocese of Milan<\/strong>\u00a0and to the urban and rural areas that belonged to it in ancient times.<\/p>\n

At the end of the sixth century\u00a0Pope Gregory I<\/strong>\u00a0tried to suppress all the minor rites, to standardise the church of that time in a single, legitimate, Roman rite. But he did not succeed in eliminating the Ambrosian rite.<\/p>\n

The Ambrosian rite is strongly linked to the\u00a0figure of Christ<\/strong>\u00a0and has common features with the\u00a0Eastern liturgies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Let’s discover together the differences between the Roman rite and the Ambrosian rite.<\/p>\n

Difference Roman and Ambrosian rite<\/h2>\n

The differences between the Roman rite and the Ambrosian rite are found in particular in the\u00a0Ambrosian calendar<\/strong>, with particular reference to the period of Lent, in the\u00a0Ambrosian missal<\/strong>, in the\u00a0Ambrosian readings<\/strong>. There are also differences related to the\u00a0sacred vestments<\/strong>\u00a0and cassocks<\/strong><\/a>, which differ in the two rites for colours and accessories. We have tried to summarise all the differences in this list.<\/p>\n