The East Syriac Liturgy, including the Anaphora of Addai and Mari (Brightman translation)

The East Syriac Liturgy, including the Anaphora of Addai and Mari (Brightman translation)

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The Communion

1 They open the veil and the deacon who said the cāruzūtha comes to the priest and says Let us pray. Peace be with us and the priest takes the hand of the deacon and places it on the chalice saying The grace of the Holy Ghost be with thee and with us and with the partakers thereof in the kingdom of heaven for ever. Amen

And the deacon answers

2 With thee and with us and with the partakers thereof in the kingdom of heaven

And the deacon says

3 Praise ye the living God They say the Anthem of the Bema on days of the mysteries Antiphon Blessed be thy body and thy blood, o our Lord, which thou gavest for pardon to the nations and thereby didst hallow our nature that we might sing and praise thy sovereignty And the deacon who read the apostle comes before the priest and says Let us pray. Peace be with us and receiving him he puts on him a veil and puts the paten on his arm and says The divine grace be with thee and with us and with the partakers thereof for ever And then the deacon who gave the peace comes and says Let us pray. Peace be with us and (the priest) taking the chalice gives it to him saying The grace of the Holy Ghost be with thee and with us When the antiphon is finished the deacon holding the chalice proclaims

4 Bless, o my Lord and the priest lifts his hand and makes the sign of the cross over the people and says in an audible voice The gift of the grace of our lifegiver our Lord Jesus Christ be fulfilled in mercy to us all

And they answer

5 world without end. Amen

And they say the verses of the antiphon

6 My brethren, receive the body of the Son, saith the church, and drink his cup in faith in the kingdom

Anthem of the Bema [sung by those in the nave

7 {From the exalted heights Christ our Lord, the saviour of all, put on excellency and glory and splendour and gave salvation to the nations and forgiveness of trespasses and of sins for the pardon of all And when the priest gives the body he says The body of our Lord to the discreet priest or to the deacon of God or to the circumspect believer: for the pardon of offences And the deacon says over the chalice The precious blood for the pardon of offences, the spiritual feast for everlasting life to the discreet priest or to the deacon of God and every one according to his degree The precious blood and the body which we have all received, praise we it confessing and saying Halleluiah halleluiah Halleluiah to the tune With thousands ℣ tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from heaven The precious blood etc

8 People Thou hast fed us, o my Lord, with thy body and thy blood. What are our mouths that we should confess thy name? A priest Blessed is Christ who hath fulfilled his compassion and gone up with glory to the heaven of heavens People Thou hast fed us etc A priest The disciples wondered then when the cloud received him from them People Thou hast fed us etc A priest The doors are opened and the multitude are celebrating thee and the Father crieth Come, enter, my beloved People Thou hast fed us etc Praise for festivals of our Lord [sung alternately verse by verse by those in the nave and those in the sanctuary] Strengthen, o our Lord, the hands that have been stretched out: and have received the holy thing for the pardon of offences ∗ Account them worthy every day: to yield fruits to thy godhead ∗

9 The mouths which have praised thee within the holy place: do thou account worthy to sing praise ∗ The ears which have heard the voice of thy praises: let them not, o my Lord, hear the voice of alarm ∗ The eyes that have seen thy great compassion: again, o my Lord, let them see thy blessed hope ∗ The tongues also that have cried Holy: do thou dispose to speak truth ∗ The feet that have walked within the church: make them to walk in the land of light ∗ The bodies that have eaten thy living body: do thou renew with new life ∗ Our congregation which hath worshipped thy godhead: multiply towards it every help ∗ And with us may thy great love abide: and therein may we abundantly render back praise ∗ And open the door to the petition of us all: and may our service also enter thy presence ∗

10 Cause all harms to cease from us: and make thy tranquillity and mercies to dwell in our land ∗ That in the day of thy manifestation we may live before thee: and may go out to meet thee according to thy will ∗ With hosannas we will confess thy name: for thy grace towards our race ∗ For thy mercies are multiplied towards our manhood: and thy love hath shined forth upon our mortality ∗ And thou hast blotted out our offences through thy pardon: praise to thy name for thy gift ∗ blessed be thy glory from out of thy place: who forgivest offences because of thy mercies ∗ And in thy grace account us all worthy: to confess and worship thy godhead ∗ And at every season let us lift up: praise to thy sovereignty. Amen and Amen.

The Thanksgiving after Communion

1 And when the people have received the holy thing the priest takes back the vessels with the mysteries to their place [and the veil is closed] And when the priest enters the deacon proclaims Let us all then who by the gift of the grace of the Holy Ghost have drawn nigh and been accounted worthy and have partaken in the reception of these glorious and holy and lifegiving and divine mysteries give thanks all with one accord and glorify God who gave them

And they answer

2 Glory be to him for his unspeakable gift

And the deacon says

3 Let us pray. Peace be with us And the priest prays with a loud voice It is fitting, o my Lord, every day repeat and it is right at all times and meet every hour, to confess and worship and praise the fearful name of thy majesty: for by thy grace, o my Lord, thou hast accounted worthy the weak nature of mortal man with the spiritual ones to hallow thy name and to partake in the mysteries of thy gift and to take delight in the sweetness of thy words and to raise voices of praise and of thanksgiving to thine high godhead at all times, Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, for ever

And they answer

4 Amen Bless, o my Lord And he prays the second time Christ our God and our Lord and our king and our saviour and our lifegiver and the forgiver of our sins, who in his grace and his mercies hath accounted us worthy to receive his precious allsanctifying body and blood, grant us to be well-pleasing unto him in our thoughts and words and deeds and actions. And, o my Lord, may this earnest which we have received and are receiving be to us for the pardon of offences and the remission of sins and for the great hope of the resurrection from the dead and for new life in the kingdom of heaven, with all those who have been wellpleasing in thy sight, by thy grace and thy mercies for ever. Amen and while the priest is saying this one of the deacons binds up the veil And while the priests are giving the peace one to another in the sanctuary they [that are in the nave] say this psalm

5 O praise the Lord of heaven The Son who gave us his body and blood praise him in the height The Son who gave us his body and blood (and the rest of Ps. cxlvii 1-6 in like manner)

And they proceed

6 O praise the Lord, all ye heathen For his gift to us Praise him, all ye nations For his gift to us (and the rest of Ps. cxvii) Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost To the Son who gave us his body and blood From everlasting to everlasting world without end. Amen To the Son who gave us his body and blood Let all the people say Amen and Amen To the Son who gave us his body and blood Let us confess and worship and glorify The Son who gave us his body and blood

And they proceed

7 Our Father which art in heaven three times (without farcings).

The Dismissal

1 The Seal on sundays and on festivals and on memorials The priest goes forth and stands at the great door of the altar at the right side and blesses the people in an audible voice and says He who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Jesus Christ our Lord and hath bidden us to his kingdom and called us and brought us nigh to his longed-for good things which pass not away neither cease nor are destroyed, even as he promised and assured to us in his lifegiving gospel and said to the blessed company of his disciples verily verily I say unto you, whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him and I will raise him up at the last day and he shall not come into judgement but is passed from death unto life eternal: may he then bless our company and guard our congregation and make our people glorious, which have come and had delight in the power of his glorious and holy and lifegiving and divine mysteries. And with the living sign of the cross of our Lord be ye sealed and guarded from all harm hidden or open now and ever and world without end

And they answer

2 Amen. And the priest and the people give peace one to the other.

Seal on ferias

3 May our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we have ministered to and celebrated and honoured in his glorious and holy and lifegiving and divine mysteries, account us worthy of the resplendent glory of his kingdom and of delight with his holy angels and of openness of face before him and of standing at his right hand in Jerusalem on high by his grace and mercy. To him be glory: and may the right hand of his care overshadow us and all creation now and ever and world without end. Amen.

The Eulogia and the Closing Prayers

1 [The people kiss the cross in the priest's hands and the eulogia, which was baked along with the bāchri, is distributed by one of the priests or deacons standing at the nave entrance of the baptistery During the distribution is said the prayer of Mary May the prayer, o my Lord, of the holy virgin and the request of the blessed mother and the beseeching and entreating of her that is full of grace, mart Maryam the blessed, and the great power of the victorious cross, and the divine help, and the petition of mar John the baptist be with us continually at all seasons and times, Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, for ever. Amen].

Prayers — A prayer to be said when a man receives the holy thing

2 Hallow our bodies with thine holy body, pardon our offences with thy precious blood and make clean our thoughts with the hyssop of thy compassion, o Christ the hope of our nature: Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, for ever. Amen. When they order the mysteries O my Lord, let not thy living body which we have eaten and thy victorious blood which we have drunk be to us, o my Lord, for judgement and vengeance but for pardon of trespasses and forgiveness of sins and for the great hope of the resurrection from the dead and for new life in the kingdom of heaven and boldness before thee with the just and righteous who have been wellpleasing in thy sight, o Christ the hope of our nature : Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, for ever. Amen.

Another

3 For that we have received of thy body openly let thy power dwell in us secretly, and let us go forth to meet thee with gladness and praise thee with a threefold song with the just who fulfilled thy will, o Christ the hope of our nature : Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, for ever. Amen.

Another

4 For that we have received of thy body from the paten and drunk of thy blood from the chalice account us worthy, o my Lord, with the robber to sing praise in paradise with the just who fulfilled thy will, Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, for ever. Amen.

Seal

5 For that thou hast accounted us worthy, o my Lord, to delight in thy body and thy holy blood, account us worthy also to delight in thy kingdom which passeth not away nor is destroyed, with all thy saints now and ever and world without end. Amen. The order of the mysteries is finished, with the kuddāsha of the blessed apostles mar Addai and mar Mari who made disciples of the east Amen.