This site presents some posts about the Syriac Liturgical texts and studies
Lectionary – CFMM 01150 https://syriac-liturgy.org/lectionary-cfmm-01150.html Lectionary – CFMM 01150 – Version 1.0 (22.12.2025) edited by Ephrem Aboud Ishac FWF Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfond IMAFO 22.12.2025 Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Manuscript: Church of the Forty Martyrs – CFMM 01150 Paper Written in 19th century. Vespers, Sunday of the…
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 story is about the dream of Joseph when he was shocked about the pregnancy of Mary, so the Archangel Gabriel appeared to him, … Continue reading Revelation of Joseph →
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. Today John, the prophet (who is coming from the priestly line of Levi and Aaron via his mother) is born with a joyful picture presented through several images. Mount Judah … Continue reading Nativity of John the Baptist →
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. The general theme is about the visit of Mary to Elizabeth. The latter, as we read in the … Continue reading Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth →
Today is the fourth Sunday in the Syrian Orthodox liturgical year named the “Sunday of the Annunciation of Virgin Mary: Yoldat Aloho (ie. Theotokos, or the God-Bearer”. Or the “third Sunday”, as we saw in the previous posts which you can read here: https://syriacliturgy.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/sunday-of-annunciation-of-zechariah/ https://wordpress.com/post/syriacliturgy.wordpress.com/151…
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”. Technically, this is the beginning of the nativity story while preparing the faithful members to think of how the ‘economia‘ mystery has started. … Continue reading Sunday of 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). The latter begins the liturgical year today, ie. after one week from the Patriarchate. That is why the … Continue reading The Beginning of the Syriac Liturgical Year 2: Sunday of the…
Today is the first Sunday in the Syriac Liturgical year, named the Sunday of the Consecration of the Church (Qudosh ‘Ito ܩܘܕܫ ܥܕܬܐ). The prayers of this Sunday are of course placed at the beginning of the Fenqitho (literary means ‘the Volume’, and later it got a specific meaning while indicating the specific liturgical books … Continue reading The Beginning of the Syriac Liturgical Year →
In this blog, I will introduce you to the main sources on the Syriac liturgical studies and texts.
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