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!

Sunday Lilyo 3rd watch

The Sunday Lilyo has been taking me a rather long time - so far I've just began the final watch. I thought I would share the sedro of the hoosoyo in the 3rd watch [to the departed].

Brief Overview of Lilyo

I'd like to make a post on Lilyo since I haven't posted anything in a while, as I don't have much time to work on the office itself either. Lilyo the longest office of the day. It should begin being said at midnight and contains four qawme (watches - like sentinel watches), each of which have a different devotion. This office has the most extensive structure, as it essentially is like four composite canonical hours (with the final watch being longest than the other three).

Lilyo Excerpt

The Syriac tradition has a rich poetic-prayer tradition, thanks to Mor Ephrem and Mor Yaqoob of Sarug. Many elements of the office are indicative of this, like the sooghito that the verses are alphabetically arranged by the first word of each verse.  The Syriac theological tradition lacks the precision of words the Greek and Latin traditions consist of, but more than makes up for it in its poetry and astute typologies. The excerpt below is demonstrative of this (take from the Lilyo of Sunday, which I'm currently working on).

Uploaded Ramsho of Sunday

I've just completed and uploaded the Ramsho of Sunday. With that, five offices of Sunday have been completed and only two remain to be translated (albeit Lilyo is substantially longer - numbering around 30 pages - and the 6th Hour numbers around 5).

Brief Overview of Ramsho

I have begun translating the Ramsho of Sunday. I thought it would be a point of interesting to just go over the basic office structure.

Safro of Sunday finally completed and uploaded!!!

So with great joy, I'm happy to announce I've completed a translation of Sunday's Safro. I've been reflecting on individual parts progressively since I've started, so I think I will just use this reflection to analyze one of the lines in the Bo'oto.