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Priests in the Byzantine are permitted to remain married, if they were married before ordination.
“The second most widely used rite after the Roman,”; How is that possible? Is that to say the Byzantine Rite is used as the Greek Orthodox/Russian Orthodox?
The former name in the Roman Rite was also "The Mass of the Presanctified." Without a consecration it's not technically mass, so the name for it in the novus ordo is "Solemn Liturgical Action."
Oy veh!