28. However, We may leave aside these statements
without further inquiry, since they are unnecessary for justifying the
retention of the commemoration of emperors or kings in the text of the Greek
Euchologion. But it is worth remarking that when Greek Catholics were asked if,
in making these commemorations they intended to offer prayers for the Turks to
whose temporal sovereignty they have been subject since they were deprived of
their own leaders, they answered that their intention at all times was to pray
for Orthodox kings and Christian princes. This is asserted by Goarius in his in
notis ad Euchologium, p. 38, where he says that when he asked Greek Catholics
whether they intended to include Turks in their prayers, they invariably
replied that they meant only our Christian kings, and that they proclaimed in
the churches as lords in faith and religion those whom they wanted as rulers.
For those alone they unfailingly desired to pray even when the published books
suppressed the prayers."
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