Resurrection Propers (and Office Propers in General)

There is great confusion amongst Maronites as to where do we get our seasonal propers from for the office. As I have mentioned previously, this is an erroneous assumption in itself. We do not have seasonal propers. What we do have is proper offices for particular days.

Ramsho of Saturday

This is the last day of offices.

6th Hour of Friday

With this office, I've concluded 6/7 days of office translation project. There are only 6 offices left before the project is completed.

This particular office is a beautiful look into the Syriac theology of the cross, as was discussed particularly in this post about the qolo.

3rd Hour of Friday

For access to the 3rd Hour of Friday, click here.

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

Safro of Friday

For access to the Safro of Friday, click here.

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

Lilyo of Friday

For access to the Lilyo of Friday, click here.

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

Hymn from 6th Hour of Friday

I realize I haven't posted anything in a while (usual excuse, rather busy). Anyway, I have made progress in terms of translations though. I'm almost done with the last office of Friday, after which I'll post all of Friday. This leaves only Saturday as the last office to be translated.

Aside from the progress update, I'd like to post a hymn from the 6th hour in an extended version, which can be found below.

Happy Feast of St. George!

I wish all my blog readers a happy feast! Mor Gewargis (St. George) is a big feast for many in the world, the people of Middle East included. In honor of Mor Gewargis, I've translated and transliterated the concluding bo'otho for sootoro of his office (from the fenqitho).

Lilyo of Friday

Here is the Lilyo of Friday.

Another [Lilyo] office with the interesting watch for departed priests. Once I get the opportunity, I'll translate the choir version of the optional watches for departed and the optional watch for monks.

Ramsho of Thursday

I've posted the Ramsho of Thursday. Due to being backed up with other things, I will omit a reflection this office.

To access, click here.

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

Tuesday Safro

To access office, click here.

Very short on time as of late, so I'm unable to give a commentary. Pray for me.

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

Active Workspace

Have no fear, blog readers, I have not abandoned my goal!

I do apologize for the lull in offices being posted, my life has become a tad complicated but I will recommit to making regular installations about the offices.

Mshiho Qom!

Mshiho qom men bet mete bteshbohto whaylo rabo (The Messiah is raised from the house of the dead in great glory and power), dear readers!

I apologize for the lack of blog updates since the beginning of this month - I have been very busy, to say the least. Nonetheless, the fourth watch of Lilyo of Sunday has been started and as soon as I get out of this wave of work I will be soon to update the blog.

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

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 of Sunday Uploaded!

So I've uploaded the 3rd Hour of Sunday in a temporary format (discussed here). I hope those who pray it are brought to a deeper understanding of the Triune God and it serve as an efficacious petition to our merciful Lord.

For the 3rd Hour of Sunday, click here.

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

Post-Hootomo

So the editions prior to what Moran Mor Antoun promulgated and what he promulgated are substantially the same. However, one noticeable difference is the one promulgated by Moran or Antoun is that there is a prayer included after the Hootomo (which, in itself, means conclusion).

Last Ninth Hour Posted!

The last Ninth Hour office has been posted (viewable here). I hope to start now on completing the 6 sootore that are yet to be done.


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

Office Structure

So to anyone liturgically interested, I'm sure the question of what a traditional office actually looks like comes to mind. If anyone has seen the structure of the office book "Prayer of the Faithful" published by the Eparchy of Brooklyn, the prayer structure is vaguely correct, although modified to look more like a Latin office. It should also be noted that in keeping with our Semitic heritage, the liturgical cycle begins with evening prayer.