The Holy Mysteries in the Syriac Tradition
The Sacraments/Holy Mysteries in the Maronite Tradition:
– Instructor: Fr. Alex Harb
– Via ZOOM
– Monday 30th of January, Monday 6th of February, Monday 13th of
February, Monday 20th of February
– Time: 5pm PST, 6pm MST, 7pm CST, 8pm EST (two hours each session)
The Holy Mysteries- Course Outline
Day 1 What are the Holy Mysteries?
How many mysteries are there?
Latin normatism
Seven sacraments, but there are other sacraments
Who knows more about you, your spouse or your doctor?
Ultimately, there is only one mystery.
God is love.
Theosis for different aspects of life. God became man that we can become like God.
Ephrem
Day 2 Baptism, Chrismation, the Eucharist, and the Trinity, and the Incarnation, and Creation
Liturgical Rites
https://malankaralibrary.com/book/details/1762/Introduction_to_Eastern_Christian_Liturgies
https://www.maronitefaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Baptism-book-legal-size.pdf
https://malankaralibrary.com/book/details/1394/Baptism_and_Chrismation_in_the_Syriac_Tradition
https://www.maronitefaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MPIL_v.17_2008_p.239-264.pdf
Day 2 part 2( day 3)
https://malankaralibrary.com/book/details/1762/Introduction_to_Eastern_Christian_Liturgies
https://www.maronitefaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Eucharist-Syriac-1.docx
https://www.maronitefaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Harb-Baptism-Maronite.docx
https://www.maronitefaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Word-Mystery-Kingdom-1-2.pdf
Day 4 Coronation, the 9 or 10 ordinations, and God and the Incarnation and Creation and Revelation and the Church
Liturgical Rites
Day 5 The Synod of Mt. Lebanon and Anointing of the Sick and Confession and Ecclesiology and Eschatology
Liturgical Rites and how Latin normatism and poor theology hurt the Church
The Shihimto and the Divine Office
Topic: The Sacraments/Holy Mysteries in the Maronite Tradition with Fr. Alex Harb
Time: Jan 30, 2023 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Every week on Mon, until Feb 20, 2023, 4 occurrence(s)
Jan 30, 2023 05:00 PM
Feb 6, 2023 05:00 PM
Feb 13, 2023 05:00 PM
Feb 20, 2023 05:00 PM
Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.
Weekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZYqduyorT0tE90oGy-LH1J0kNqd-Wk1RB6a/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGqqTovGteTtxCORpwQB4j4Z_TztiFaj_oNkzj8Tgx7MymmPcxTNv9IG4ni
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82715036799?pwd=aUN5R2lxTTFUalRHMkdMem1UaW9vZz09
Resources for the Course
“Polemics regularly cause havoc with history, leading people to assume that the piety of one age must be defended as having been the piety of all earlier ages.” Rev Charles Dollen The Catholic Tradition, Mass and the Sacraments II page 50
Sacraments of the Assyrian Church
The Sacraments in General Part 1
The Sacraments of the Assyrian Church of the East
Sacraments in the Syriac Orthodox Church Video
From St. Ephraim the Syrian, Hymns on the Faith 10 To Christ on the Incarnation, the Holy Spirit, and the Sacraments
1. Lord, you have had it written:
‘Open your mouth and I will fill it’
See, Lord, your servant’s mouth and his mind are open to you!
Fill it, O Lord, with your gift,
That I may sing your praise according to your will.
Refrain: Make me worthy to approach your Gift with awe!
3. Though your nature is one, its expressions are many;
They find three levels, high, middle, and lowly.
Make me worthy of the lowly part,
Of picking up crumbs from the table of your wisdom.
4. Your highest expression is hidden with your Father,
Your middle riches are the wonder of the Watchers [i.e. angels]
A tiny stream from your teaching, Lord,
For us below makes a flood of interpretations.
8. In your Bread is hidden a Spirit not to be eaten,
In your Wine dwells a Fire not to be drunk.
Spirit in your Bread, Fire in your Wine,
A wonder set apart, [yet] received by our lips!
17. See, Fire and Spirit in the womb that bore you!
See, Fire and Spirit in the river where you were baptized!
Fire and Spirit in our Baptism;
In the Bread and the Cup, Fire and Holy Spirit!
18. Your Bread kills the Devourer [death] who had made us his bread,
Your Cup destroys death which was swallowing us up.
We have eaten you, Lord, we have drunk you,
Not to exhaust you, but to live by you.
22. See, Lord, my arms are filled with the crumbs from your table;
There is not room left in my lap.
As I kneel before you, hold back your Gift;
Keep it in your storehouse to give us again!
[Translation by R Murray, Eastern Churches Review 3 (1970), copied from T.M.Finn, “Early Christian Baptism and the Catechumenate: West and East Syria”, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville
Final class
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eO3oRF7lm7iWAS_ovc1shKVdV1-B477x/view
https://malankaralibrary.com/ImageUpload/3bc53fe264139a345e801fce58099713.pdf
https://www.maronitefaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/maronite-funeral-rites-1.pdf
https://www.maronitefaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Eucharist-Cyrillona.pdf
https://www.maronitefaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Word-Mystery-Kingdom-1-2.pdf
Scripture in the Syriac Tradition