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"Welcome!" -- "Ahlan wa Sahhlan!" -- "Sallam al-Maseeh!"
"Christ is among us" -- "Al-Maseeh baynana!"

The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is a Catholic Church within the Greek variant within the Byzantine Rite within the Byzantine Great Tradition. The Divine Liturgy, customs, etc. were set about 500-600 AD.
The usual Divine Liturgy is the Divine Liturgy of Our Father among the Saints John Chrysostom. (He was born, baptized, and ordained in Antioch.)
The Divine Liturgy of Our Father among the Saints Basil is celebrated on some special days.
The Divine Liturgy of Saint James is celebrated on his feast day, October 23.
The Liturgy of the Presanctified Species is used on those days of Great Lent when the The Liturgy of Our Father among the Saints Basil is not used.

Divine Liturgy

Byzantine Rite
Divine Liturgy
Appreciation Liturgy  --   Jesus Christ Present
CyberTypicon Definitions  --  Primer for Melkite Worship and Ritual  --  Elements in the Divine Liturgy
Anaphora  --   Entrances  --   Epiclesis  --   Pray for People  --   Standing Under Gospel
Customs
Qurban - Holy Bread
CyberTypicon  --   Gospel Readings for any year  --   Apostolos and Gospel Readings for this year
Kontakion, Troparion, Exapostilarion, and Vespers Sticheron or Doxastikon  --   For Nativity Cycle  --   For Pascha Cycle  --   For Other days
Ikonostasis  --   Ikons
Hymns
Vestments  --   Patterns For Clergy Vestments

Great Vespers

Vespers

Vespers of Clean Monday - Service of Forgiveness
Vespers of the Monday after the Great Feast of Pentecost - Kneeling Prayers

Great Compline / Salaat Ya Rabbal Quwwaat /r Ya Rabb Al-Quwwat

Great Compline / Salaat Ya Rabbal Quwwaat / Ya Rabb Al-Quwwat

Royal Hours

Madaayeh / Acathist Hymn / Akathist Hymn / Hymn of the Akathistos

Churching a Baby

Falling Asleep in the Lord

All Souls Saturdays -- Memorial for the Dead
Evlogitaria of the Dead -- Evlogitaria of the Resurrection

Great Feast of Holy Theophany, 6 January

Great Blessing of Water -- House Blessing

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Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center is dedicated to my cousins: Bucky (Richard C. Liles), Shirley (Shirley Jean Liles Buck), and Donna (Donna Bertha Liles Campbell). Bucky fell asleep in the Lord on Dec. 12, 2000, Shirley fell asleep in the Lord on Nov. 8, 2001, and Donna fell asleep in the Lord on March 9, 2020.
O God of all spirits and of all flesh, who have destroyed death, overcome the devil, and given life to the world: grant, O Lord, to the souls of your servants Bucky and Shirley, who has departed from this life, that it may rest in a place of light, in a place of happiness, in a place of peace, where there is no pain, no grief, no sighing. And since You are a gracious God and the Lover of Mankind, forgive him/her every sin he/she has committed by thought, or word, or deed, for there is not a man who lives and does not sin : You alone are without sin, your righteousness is everlasting, and your word is true. You are the Resurrection and the Life, and the repose of your departed servants Bucky and Shirley. O Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, together with your eternal Father and your all-holy, good and life-giving Spirit, now and always and for ages upon ages. Amen.

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