31. The rite of the greater entrance when a
patriarch or a metropolitan celebrates Mass is described by Christianus Lupus, Operum
super Conciliis, pt. 3, p. 760 of the Brussels edition. In his Vocabulario
Ecclesiastico under the word Prothesis, Magri describes in detail
the actions performed by the Emperor while standing at the sacred assembly on
the day of his coronation as emperor. Goarius explains most carefully the
complete ceremony of the greater entrance in his in notis ad Liturgiam
Sancti Joannis Chrysostomi, no. 110, as does Cardinal Bona in Rer.
Liturgic., bk. 2, chap. 9, no. 4. Everything done by the Greeks on this
occasion is likewise done by the Armenians, Copts, Ethiopians, and Syrian
Jacobites, as can be seen in Le Brun, Explanatione Missae, vol. 3; in
Chardon, Historia Sacramentorum, vol. 2, chap. 2; and in Renaudot, vol.
1, on in notis ad Liturgiam Cophtorum. Why, even in the city of Rome, on
the feast of St. Athanasius, the Greeks may be seen in their own church
performing all the ceremonies We have reviewed above. "And in this way
even today the Greeks perform the liturgy on the feast of St. Athanasius in his
basilica in Rome" (Lupus, loc. cit.).
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