This decision underlined the Church’s status as a sui iuris, or self-governing, body.Īt Catholic News Agency, our team is committed to reporting the truth with courage, integrity, and fidelity to our faith. This meant that it was now governed by a major archbishop, assisted by a synod of bishops. In 1992, John Paul II elevated the Syro-Malabar Church to a major archiepiscopal Church. Esthappanos Bar Geevarghese via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, Ernakulam, India, on Palm Sunday 2021. Cardinal George Alencherry preaches at St. Srampickal said that this act returned the liturgy to its original form, but it continued to be celebrated both ad populum and ad orientem despite Rome’s desire for uniformity. When Pope John Paul II visited India in 1986, he inaugurated the restored Holy Qurbana of the Syro-Malabar Church. The Eucharistic liturgy of the Syro-Malabar Church is known as the Holy Qurbana. “I would say that this is the background of the liturgical divide,” commented the bishop, who has overseen the pastoral care of Syro-Malabar Catholics in England, Scotland, and Wales since 2016. He said that this change took place “without any proper discussions or deliberations with other eparchies,” while the majority of liturgies continued to be celebrated facing East. Srampickal noted that some of the eparchies began to celebrate the liturgy facing the people, following the example of the Latin Church. Pope Francis calls abortion ‘senseless’ and criticizes gender theory in Budapest speech Read article But there was a Syro Malabar bishops’ conference.” During this period, the Syro-Malabar Church functioned only as a few eparchies practicing the East Syriac Rite without sui iuris status or a bishops’ synod. “After Vatican II, the Western Church adopted the celebration of Eucharistic liturgy ad populum (facing the people). Thomas Christians and later, its continuation as the Syro-Malabar Church in the Catholic communion, celebrated the Eucharistic Liturgy ad orientem (facing the East/altar) as the Western Latin Rite also did,” Srampickal explained. In more recent times, Rome gradually granted Syro-Malabar Catholics a more clearly defined status as a distinct group within the worldwide Catholic Church. What happened next is complex, but to greatly simplify the Church’s history, its members affirmed their communion with the pope after contacts with the Latin Church and experienced a strong Latinization of their devotional life from the 1500s onward.
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