tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31665361071682006872024-03-08T09:48:28.308+05:30Holy Baptism in the Syriac EastHoly Baptism in the Syriac East by Rev. Dr. Lonappan Arangassery MST is a praiseworthy attempt for knowing and understanding deeply the East Syrian perspectives on Christian Initiation. Mar A.D.MattamLonappan Arangasseryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16292618090025512308noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166536107168200687.post-20357878770027392512012-04-01T22:37:00.000+05:302012-04-01T22:37:14.302+05:30Ephrems Publications, Satna -2010<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span></b><br />
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<div align="LEFT">Preface ........................................................................................vi</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">Foreword ....................................................................................xi</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">Abbreviations...........................................................................xiv</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">Introduction ................................................................................ 1<br />
</div><div align="LEFT">Chapter 1 Water and </div></span><div align="LEFT"></div></span><div align="LEFT"><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Baptism</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">” in the World Religions</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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<div align="LEFT">2. Water and Ablutions in Judaism............................................... 7</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">3. Figures and Types of Baptism in the OT.................................. 9</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">4. Baptism of John the Baptist.................................................... 10</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">5. Baptism in the New Testament............................................... 10</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">6. Baptism in the Apostolic Church ........................................... 11</div><br />
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<div align="LEFT">Baptism in the Early Syriac Writings</div></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">1. Baptism in Didachè ................................................................ 16</span></span><br />
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<div align="LEFT">2. Ephrem of Nisibis................................................................... 65</div></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span></b><br />
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<div align="LEFT">2. Narsai of Nisibis..................................................................... 92</div><br />
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<div align="LEFT">2. Yohannan Bar Zo‘bi............................................................. 129</div></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span></b><br />
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<div align="LEFT">2. Patriarch Timothy II (+1332) ............................................... 138</div></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span></b><br />
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<div align="LEFT">Baptismal Liturgy in the Syriac East</div></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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<div align="LEFT">2. Highlights of East Syrian Baptismal Liturgy ....................... 179</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">3. Effects of the Mysteries of Initiation.................................... 188</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">4. Baptism of Adults and SMC Innovations............................. 193</div></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"></span></span><br />
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<div align="LEFT">2. Mysteries of Christian Initiation........................................... 205</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">3. Necessity of Baptism for Salvation ...................................... 209</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">4. Infant baptism in the Church ................................................ 210</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">5. Requirements for Baptism and Chrismation ........................ 214</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">6. Minister of Baptism in the East and West ............................ 215</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">7. Minister of Chrismation in the East and West...................... 216</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">8. Formula of Baptism in the East and West ............................ 217</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">9. Formula of Chrismation in the East and West ..................... 217</div><br />
<div align="LEFT">10. Indelible Imprint of Mysteries of Initiation........................ 218</div><br />
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<div align="LEFT"><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Sensus Ecclesiae </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">and Church Enrollment .......................... 220</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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Bibliography with Abbreviations.......................................... 229</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span>Lonappan Arangasseryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16292618090025512308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166536107168200687.post-9401360945361435562012-04-01T10:04:00.001+05:302012-04-01T10:06:15.470+05:30FOREWORD<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Foreword<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">For the last few decades the Syro-Malabar Church was engaged in the work of restoration and revision of the liturgical texts of the Church. Most of the texts have already been published. The new text of Sacraments (</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Order of Sacraments</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">) came into effect on 6<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> January 2005. The Book of Ordination services was effective from 14<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> September 2007.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the work has been hazardous. In the process to come to a consensus at the Synod, a number of compromises had been made. As a result, several texts are not fully satisfactory; a revision is needed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vatican II gives clear norms with regard to the restoration and renewal of liturgical texts in general, and for the Oriental Churches in particular</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">in the decree <i>Orientalium Ecclesiarum</i>. The Decree <i>OE </i>says:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It is the mind of the Catholic Church that each individual Church or rite retain its traditions whole and entire while adjusting its way of life to the various needs of time and place” (</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">OE</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> 2). Further it states that changes are to be made with fidelity to tradition and only when changes are needed. “All members of the Eastern Churches should be convinced that they can and ought always preserve<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their own legitimate liturgical rites and ways of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>life, and that changes are to be introduced only to forward their own organic development” (</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">OE</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> 6). <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">While revising the liturgy there are various aspects of the question to be born in mind: “In order that sound tradition be retained, and yet the way remain open to legitimate progress, a certain investigation – theological, historical and pastoral – should always be made into each part of the liturgy which is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be revised” (SC 23). One is compelled to say that these norms have not been fully observed in the whole work. For this reason a critical study of the texts is welcome to make sure where a revision is needed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">The understanding of the mysteries of Christian Initiation and their historical and theological development differed in the Latin West, Greek Orient and Syriac East.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among the Oriental Christian Churches, those within the Syriac liturgical tradition have a pride of place since they represent and are heirs to the Semitic world where Christianity was born.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3166536107168200687#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: ML; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">In general terms the Decree on Ecumenism affirms:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In the study of revealed truth East and West used different methods and approaches in the understanding and confessing divine things. It is hardly surprising then, if sometimes one tradition has come nearer to a full appreciation of some aspects of a mystery of revelation than the other, or has expressed them better.”(UR 17). <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Ecclesial traditions being part of the divinely revealed and undivided heritage of the Universal Church and handed down from the Apostles through the Fathers have unique and inalienable role to play in the formation and growth of each and every Church <i>sui iuris</i>. Pluralism and diversity in theology, liturgy, spirituality and discipline are no more merely permitted or just tolerated but are recognized as true and genuine signs of ecclesial growth in tune with particular traditions and cultural values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Diversity does not in any way harm the unity of the Church, rather enhances it and this diversity is at the basis of the formation of different ecclesial traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">In the light of the above mentioned norms and principles several of the new liturgical texts need a revision. In this context the book <i>Holy Baptism</i> <i>in the Syriac East</i> by Rev. Dr. Lonappan Arangassery MST is a praiseworthy attempt for knowing and understanding deeply the East Syrian perspectives on Christian Initiation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fr. Lonappan Arangassery who is a well known liturgical theologian makes a detailed study of the Mystery of Holy Baptism and analyzes all the important East Syrian patristic and liturgical sources while exposing the Mystery of Holy Baptism in the Church of the East. The author gives lots of useful pieces of information on the theology of baptism and its praxis in the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syro-Malabar Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">“The faithful have a right to a true liturgy, which means the liturgy desired and laid down by the Church, which has in fact indicated where adaptations may be made as called for by pastoral requirements in different places or by different groups of people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Undue experimentation, changes, creativity bewilder the faithful. The use of unauthorized books texts means a loss of the necessary connection between the <i>lex</i> <i>ordandi</i> and the <i>lex credendi.[…].</i> And Paul VI of venerable memory stated that: “Anyone who takes advantage of the reform to indulge in arbitrary experiments is wasting energy and offending the ecclesial sense” (<i>Inaestimabile Donum,</i> Foreword</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">) </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">In the present liturgical text of the Sacraments in the Syro-Malabar Church, especially in the celebration of the Mysteries of Christian Initiation many elements and rituals are ambiguous and confusing leaving them to the whims and fancies of the parish priests or the celebrating priests. On the one hand when priests fail to celebrate the Mystery of Holy Baptism as stipulated and ordered by the legitimate authority of Church, it causes confusion and bewilderment among the faithful and offends ecclesial sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand it is equal to denying the faithful their right to a true liturgy and rendering the Mystery ineffective.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="ALBodytext" style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Fr Lonappan Arangassery has a done a valuable service to the Syro-Malabar Church for his clear exposition of the important rituals. The clarification given on the meaning and mode of making the three separate signings, the fingers used in these signings, and the oils used for the various signings, for consecrating the oil and water of baptism etc. are of great help to the pastors who respect the rights of the faithful and heritage of the church. The work is a very useful handbook for pastors, priests, ministers at sacred Mysteries, students of theology and those engaged in catechesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my earnest desire and hope that this book will have wide readership and circulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Mar Abraham D. Mattam<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop Emeritus of Satna</span> <br />
<div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3166536107168200687#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Cf. S. P. Brock, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life</i>, Kalamazoo 1987, x; S. P. Brock, “The Syriac Orient: a third “lung” for the Church?” in OCP 71 (2005), 5-20; S.P. Brock, “The two poles of Syriac Tradition”, in C. Payngot, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Homage to Mar Cariattil</i>, Rome, 1987, 58-62.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>Lonappan Arangasseryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16292618090025512308noreply@blogger.com0