Syro Malabar Holy Qurbana in English
The Anaphora of the blessed Apostles, Mar Addai and Mar Mari is the ancient most Eucharistic Prayer. It is often characterized as “Gemma Orientale” (‘the Gem of the East’) by liturgical scholars. The Syro-Malabar Nazrani Church is blessed to have this great liturgy as its patrimony. Let us try to realize the UNIQUENESS of our Church… Let us learn to LOVE our Church… Let us work hard to PRESERVE this most precious treasure unaltered, for the coming generations…
Many have mistaken the name ‘SYRO-Malabar’ with ‘ZERO-Malabar.’ The term SYRO signifies the great SYRIAC tradition (SYRO being the abbreviated form of SYRIAC, as in ‘Indo-American’). Our Church is named after our liturgical language, that is Syriac. Syro-Malabar Nazrani Church means, the Church of the Syriac Christians Of Malabar. In a similar way, we call the Church that has Latin as its liturgical language, the ‘Latin Church.’
