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The Old-Catholic Mariavite
Church, like the Orthodoxe Church, is formed by a synodality
in conformity with the practice of the first ten
centuries of the Old and Undivided Church. She maintains the
old constitution connected with the church according to which each Church,
in a given place, under the authority of its Bishop, regularly elected
and devoted, is the local expression of the Church
One,
Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. |
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The Old-Catholic Mariavite
Church is founded on the traditional principles of the Faith
and the dogmas. These principles are contained in the
Holy Scripture of Old and New Testament and in the
tradition of the Universal Church and were defined by the first
seven Ecumenical Councils. |
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The Old-Catholic Mariavite Church never
established new dogmas nor accepted those established by the Churches separated
after the schism of Christendom in 1054 between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy,
since she supports that only an Ecumenical Council, i.e. a council representing
Christendom in its totality, can establish a new dogma applicable to all
Christendom. |
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The Old-Catholic Mariavite Church does
not recognize the primacy of jurisdiction of only one bishop for all the
Universal Church nor its infallibility in the fields of the Faith and of
dogmas. |
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The Old-Catholic Mariavite Church recognizes
the seven sacraments. |
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The Old-Catholic Mariavite Church received
the apostolic succession of the Church Old Catholic of Utrecht (Holland)
whose validity was always recognized by the Roman catholic Church.
Thus, the Catholic Church Polish National of
the USA (Old-Catholic) is in intercommunion with Rome since April 1993.
Application of the canon 844: reciprocity in the reception of the Sacraments
of Penitence, Eucharistie and Onction of the patients for the faithful
ones of the two Churches. |
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According to the use of the undivided Church
of the first millenium, the celibacy is not imposed on the clergy. The
essential is that all keep the franciscain
spirit and are guided in the apostolate
by the watchword of Mother Marie-Francoise: Everything
for the greatest glory of God and for the honor of the Very Blessed Marie
Virgin. |
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The purpose of the Old-Catholic Mariavite
Church, founded on the Gospels, is to
bring God to the men by the apostolate. She also has two principal objectives:
to make known the Mercy of God (revelation made to the founder of the movement
mariavite, the blessed Marie-Francoise Kozlowska, August 2, 1893) and the
expansion of the worship of Our Lord Jesus-Christ present in the Very Blessed
Sacrament. |
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The worship of the Very Blessed Sacrament
in the life of faithful is expressed by the frequent reception of the
Holy Communion, according to words' of Christ: "A
less than you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood,
you will not have the life in you", (Jean 6.53) and by the
prayer
and the worship.
Each faithful is held to adore the Very Blessed Sacrament an hour per
week and solemnly, jointly, once per month and to take part in the Holy
Mass Sundays and feastdays. The clergy and the nuns are held with the daily
worship. |
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The Holy Communion is given to
faithful under the two species. |
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The auricular confession with the priest is advised with the children
and teenagers. The adults also can resort to it to their own request; but
especially they have the obligation
to confess
their sins in front of Christ and to receive the sacramental discharge
by the priest. |
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All the services of the Ministry are free according to the command
of Christ:
"You received free; give free "(
Mathieu 10.8). The clergy can, however, to accept voluntary gifts for the
services of the Ministry but should not require them. |
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Since Christmas 1906, the Holy Mass and the
very whole liturgy are practised in the language of the people,
with a marriage successful between the Gregorian one and and the Slavic
polyphony. In France, the liturgy is celebrated in Latin and French, with
also the use of the slavo-Gregorian masses made up at the beginning of
the century by the Mariavites Fathers. |
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The Old-Catholic Mariavite Church carries
the name of Marie, which imply for
her members the need for imitating the life of
Marie by silence, humility, the spirit of prayer, the love of
neighbour and the submission to the will of God (Imitating Mariae Vita). |
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The Old-Catholic Mariavite Church
believes that God is the single source of the
miracles. She is very reserved about the relics, images of the
Saints, statues, but does not reject however the deep veneration towards
the religious images, the relics and the memorial of the Saints. |
