East Syriac Rite of the NZ Church of the East

 

Aotearoa New Zealand Apostolic Byzantium

Church of the East

Where the Lotus meets the Cross

 

Bishoped by Matriarch Rahelamma Rima Yara Iman

 

East Syriac rite (liturgy of Addai and Mari)

 

Theology 1) diophysitism – two natures exist in Jesus – divine and human. This definition states that Christ is One Person and One Hypostasis in Two Natures.

and 2) Nestorianism - Nestorian Mariology rejects the title Theotokos ("God-bearer") for Mary, thus emphasizing distinction between divine and human aspects of the incarnation. Nestorian Christology promotes the concept of a prosopic union (The term prosopon is most commonly used for the self-manifestation of an individual hypostasis. Prosopon is the form in which hypostasis appears. Every hypostasis has its own prosopon: face or countenance. It gives expression to the reality of the hypostasis with its powers and characteristics.) of two natures (divine and human - dyoprosopic concept (in Christology) advocates that Christ has two persons (divine and human) in Jesus Christ thus trying to avoid and replace the concept of a hypostatic union. (Christology to describe the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one hypostasis, or individual existence. In early Christian writings, hypostasis was used to denote "being" or "substantive reality" and was not always distinguished in meaning from terms like ousia ('essence'), substantia ('substance') or gnoma (specific term in Syriac Christianity).

 

Syriac Christianity comprises two liturgical traditions.^[10] The East Syriac Rite (also known variably as the Chaldean, Assyrian, Sassanid, Babylonian or Persian Rite),^[11] whose main anaphora is the Holy Qurbana of Saints Addai and Mari, is that of the Iraq-based Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East and Ancient Church of the East, and the Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and Chaldean Syrian Church (the latter being part of the Assyrian Church of the East).

The West Syriac Rite (also called Antiochian Syriac Rite or St. James Rite), which has the Divine Liturgy of Saint James as its anaphora, is that of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Lebanon-based Maronite Church and Syriac Catholic Church, and the Indian Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (part of the Syriac Orthodox Church), Malabar Independent Syrian Church. Modified version of this rite are used by Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church^[12][13][14] and the more strongly Reformed St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India.

 

Anaphora:

The Anaphora is the most solemn part of the Divine Liturgy, or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, during which the offerings of bread and wine are consecrated as the body and blood of Christ. This is the usual name for this part of the Liturgy in Greek-speaking Eastern Christianity. In western Christian traditions which have a comparable rite, the Anaphora is more often called the Eucharistic Prayer for the four modern anaphoras in the Latin liturgy, with the first anaphora having the additional name of the Roman Canon. When the Roman Rite had a single Eucharistic Prayer (between the Council of Trent and Vatican II), it was called the Canon of the Mass.

"Anaphora" is a Greek word (ἀναφορά) meaning a "carrying back" (hence its meaning in rhetoric and linguistics) or a "carrying up", and so an "offering"^[1] (hence its use in reference to the offering of sacrifice to God). In the sacrificial language of the Greek version of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint, προσφέρειν (prospherein) is used of the offerer's bringing the victim to the altar, and ἀναφέρειν (anapherein) is used of the priest's offering up the selected portion upon the altar (see, for instance, Leviticus 2:14, 2:16, 3:1, 3:5).