Musings of an Old Curmudgeon: West Syriac Rite

13 November 2020

West Syriac Rite

Fr Hardon defines the Syriac Rites (East and West) as: SYRIAN RITE. In the East it is also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite and is used both by Catholics and dissident Oriental Christians. The language is Syriac or Aramaic. Among the Syrian Nestorians there are only five sacraments, with penance and anointing of the sick practically unknown. In the West, the Syriac Rite is also used by both Catholics and Non-Catholic Orientals, notably the Syrian Catholics, Maronites, and Jacobites. Among the last mentioned this rite is interspersed with many Arabic prayers.

The West Syriac Rite, also called the Antiochene Rite, is an Eastern liturgical rite that employs the Divine Liturgy of Saint James in the West Syriac dialect. It is practised in the Maronite Church, the Syriac Catholic Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church . It is one of two main liturgical rites of Syriac Catholicism, the other being the East Syriac Rite.

It originated in the ancient Patriarchate of Antioch. It has more anaphoras than any other rite, at least 64 according to one count.

Some of them are:

Xystus, which is placed first in the Maronite books;
of St Peter;
another of St. Peter;
of St John;
of the Twelve Apostles;
of St Mark;
of St Clement of Rome;
of St Dionysius;
of St Ignatius;
of St Julius of Rome;
of St Eustathius;
of St John Chrysostom;
of St Chrysostom (from Chaldaean sources);
of St Maruta;
of St Cyril;
of Dioscoros;
of Philoxenus of Hierapolis;
a second Liturgy also ascribed to him;
of Serverus of Antioch;
of James Baradaeus;
of Mathew the Shepherd;
of St James of Botnan and Serug;
of James of Edessa, the Interpreter;
of Thomas of Heraclea;
of Moses bar Kephas;
of Philoxenus of Bagdad;
of the Doctors, arranged by John the Great, Patriarch;
of John of Basora;
of Michael of Antioch;
of Dionysius Bar-Salibhi;
of Gregory Bar-Hebraeus;
of St John the Patriarch, called Acoemetus (Akoimetos);
of St Dioscor of Kardu;
John, Patriarch of Antioch;
of Ignatius of Antioch (Joseph Ibn Wahib);
of St Basil (another version, by Masius).

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