Shabah - Safro Qolo of Glorification

If one hasn't noticed already by the previous posts I've made about Safro (here's a general overview), the qole are very oriented towards the glorification of God - the opening Gloria (not a qolo) the Glory of the Mother of God, the Glory of St. Ephrem. This post is about the Shabah (plural imperative of glorify/praise), a qolo that rotates its verses with Psalms 148-150 and 117. Instead of giving a lengthy analysis of the Shabah I decided to just post my translation for Sunday's Safro below.

Verse of Safro's Qolo

One of the main travesties of the Prayer of the Faithful is that it destroys the brilliant formula of prayer that the writers of the Sh'himto created. Everything is complimentary - hymns in the morning, for example, speak about the Second Coming as the dawning of the sun and the apostles being bright lights that illuminated the four quarters of the earth. Tangentially, it also alludes in the night office to death and lying down in the hope of resurrection. In an even more complex complimentarity, the rotating verses of scripture are related to the following verse of each qolo.

In this post, I will take a look at one of the eschatological verses of one of the qole in Sunday's Safro. 

Brief Overview of Safro

Each large office has a distinctive set of prayers. Safro is no different. I haven't had much time to work on translating the actual texts (although I've been working on Sunday's!) but I'll give a brief overview of the setup.

Syriac Gloria

So while I'm working on Safro and the longer offices I will obviously not be able to post full offices as often. Instead, for longer offices I'll share interesting bits and reflections while the office is still being translated. For this post, I'd like to share the Syriac Gloria.

Short Term Goal

While I think how I have been approaching things thus far (i.e. doing the smaller offices) is good, I'd like to have Sunday finished in its completion. It makes the most sense to me, personally, to have the entirety of the most holy day of the week available for use and then I'll resume working on the various offices of the week.

The [tentative] order I intend to complete Sunday in is Safro, Shet Sho'een, Ramsho and then Lilyo. This prompts me to say it should not be surprising if I do not upload another office for more than a week since all of these (save Shet Sho'een) are substantially longer offices than what I have thus uploaded.

Our Lord, accept our service, our prayers, come to our aid and have mercy on us!

3rd Hour Tuesday uploaded

So the 3rd Hour of Tuesday has been uploaded, appropriately in time for Tuesday morning. Anyway, I think a reflection on Marian typology is in order.

3rd Hour of Monday Uploaded!

Apologizes to the recent lull in uploads. There are a few reasons for both being unable to translate and upload as of late. But anyway, Monday's 3rd Hour has been uploaded! Although the mercy of God is not nearly a mundane or tired topic to discuss, I cannot eloquently reflect on another office that grasps at the infiniteness of divine love. Another office centered around divine mercy, however, should be indicative of the focus of the Syriac tradition. However, I'd like to give a little "liturgical" (I guess) reflection.