Concept of Mystery in the Syro - Malabar Mass (Qurbana)
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2011
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
The Eucharistic Liturgy of the Church is often qualified to be "Celebration of Mysteries". In
the Syro - Malabar Church it becomes all the more true. The most solemn form of her
Eucharistic Celebration is known to be the rant, an Aramaic Syrian term which literally
means mystery. Hence it has lot of meanings. For a true understanding of the Eucharistic
Liturgy, it becomes important for us to understand the various meanings of the term
"Mystery".
In the ordinary usage the term "mystery" means something that is hidden, secret and
mysterious etc. All the inner realities of the Eucharistic Liturgy in a way are qualified to be
"mystery". In this context I am trying to answer the questions: what are the implicit meanings
of the term "mystery" in the Syro Malabar Qurbana? What is the concept of mystery in
Sacred Scripture? The answers to these questions are the important point in this study.
The whole study is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, the attention is
focussed on the meaning and implication of the term "mystery". In the second chapter, the
study is focussed on how this concept is used in the Sacred Scriptures, and how it is used
therein. In the third chapter, we see that the concept of Mystery in Qurbana.
The study, at large, would give us the idea that the celebration of the mystery is
something more than what we offer to God as worship; it is something what we receive from
God in the context of worship. It would manifest the saving action of God continued through
Church.
I hope that this study would give some new insight and understandings about the
concept of mystery in the Syro - Malabar Qurbana. So we shall turn our attention to the study
of the concept "Mystery" in detail.
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