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Armenian in the Mass. The Armenian CathoHc Church is 

 pecuHar, in that it is a Church of only one people, the Arme- 

 nians. No one who is not an Armenian belongs to it, and only 

 Armenians are ordained to the priesthood. They have their 

 missals and church books in Armenian, but there are also 

 the disunited or Gregorian Armenians, who do not belong to 

 the Catholic Church. 



Besides these, there are a few small communities of Chal- 

 deans, from eastern Turkey in Asia and from Persia. They 

 also use the ancient Syriac in the Mass, but in a varied form 

 from the Maronites. 



These are the Catholics of the Eastern rites in the United 

 States, who have come hither to make up part and parcel of 

 the Catholic Church in America. It behooves us to know 

 something about them, to welcome them, and to see that they 

 do not stray from the faith. 



