Syriac Liturgy

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The sixth Sunday of Joseph’s Revelation is thematically the last Sunday before the Feast of the Lord’s Nativity since the next Sunday is called “Sunday before Christmas” without any specific theme.

The sixth Sunday is to celebrate the birth of John the Baptist, which is logically and chronologically connected with the themes of the previous Sundays.

The fifth Sunday in the Syrian Orthodox liturgical year is the “Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth”, which comes after the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary by Archangel Gabriel, which we saw in the previous Sunday.

Today is the fourth Sunday in the Syrian Orthodox liturgical year named the “Sunday of the Annunciation of Virgin Mary: Yoldat Aloho (ie.

Today is the third Sunday (or the second, as we saw in the previous post of last week) in the West Syriac liturgical year named the “Sunday of the Annunciation of Zechariah”.

In the West Syriac liturgical year, we notice an interesting difference in the tradition between the Rite of the Patriarchate with the Rite of the old Maphrianate of Tagrit (a city between Baghdad and Mosul in Iraq).

Today is the first Sunday in the Syriac Liturgical year, named the Sunday of the Consecration of the Church (Qudosh ‘Ito ܩܘܕܫ ܥܕܬܐ).

In this blog, I will introduce you to the main sources on the Syriac liturgical studies and texts.

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