Liturgy of Saint James

The Liturgy of Saint James is a form of

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The liturgy is attributed with the name of

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The historic Antiochene liturgies are divided between Alexandrian and Cappadocian usages. Among these, the Liturgy of Saint James is one of the liturgies that evolved from the Alexandrian usage; others include Coptic Anaphora of Saint Basil, the Byzantine

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Manuscript tradition

Its date of composition is still disputed, but most authorities propose a fourth-century date for the known form, because the

The earliest manuscript is the ninth-century codex, Vaticanus graecus 2282, which had been in liturgical use at Damascus, in the diocese of Antioch. The only critical edition is the one published by Dom B.-Charles Mercier in the Patrologia Orientalis, vol. 26 (1950).

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Order of liturgy

paterissa (crozier), presiding over a celebration of the Liturgy of St. James in Düsseldorf, Germany

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The Liturgy of Saint James the Just is the skeleton of the whole Qurbono Qadisho with all the prayers before the anaphora being exactly the same, no matter which anaphora is chosen. The Liturgy of St James the Just comprises:^{[citation needed]}

1. The First Service
   1. Prothesis
2. The Second Service
   1. Reading from the Holy Books
      1. The Trisagion
      2. Antiphon before the Pauline Epistle (Galatians 1:8-9)
      3. The Epistle of Saint Paul
3. The Third Service
   1. The Husoyo (Liturgy of Absolution)
      1. The Proemion
      2. The Sedro (Main Prayer)
      3. The Etro (Fragrance/incense prayer)
4. The Anaphora
   1. The Kiss of peace
   2. Veiling and placing of the hands prayer
   3. The Dialogue
   4. Preface
   5. Sanctus (Qadish)
   6. Words of Institution
   7. Anamnesis
   8. Epiclesis
   9. Petitions
   10. Fracturing
   11. Liturgy of Repentance
       1. Lord's Prayer (Abun dbashmayo)
   12. Invitation to Holy Communion
   13. The Procession of the Holy Mysteries
   14. Prayer of Thanksgiving
   15. The Dismissal of the Faithful

In the books of the Patriarchal Sharfet seminary, this order is clearly strict, with the deacon and congregation prayer being the same no matter which anaphora is used. The only prayer that changes when a different anaphora is used is that of the priest.^{[citation needed]}

Rubrics

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The Liturgy of St. James is commonly celebrated on the Feast of Saint James (July 25) and the first Sunday after Christmas, and then almost exclusively^{[clarification needed]} celebrated on a daily basis in Jerusalem, in the Eastern Orthodox Church.^{[citation needed]} The Liturgy of Saint James is long, taking some hours to complete in full. The recitation of the Divine Liturgy is performed according to the worship rubrics of a particular Rite, with specific parts chanted by the presider, the lectors, the choir, and the congregated faithful, at certain times in unison. Like other compositions in the Byzantine tradition, the Divine Liturgy of St. James as celebrated in Greek forms the basis of the English transcription.^{[clarification needed]} In its Syriac form, the Liturgy is still used in the Syriac and Indian Churches - Catholic and Orthodox - both in a Syriac translation and in Malayalam and English.

During the

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Musical annotation

The hymnographers of the early Church composed both the words of the sung prayers and the tones of the musical scale to be sung in a single codex for a particular community. The annotation was recorded in close correspondence to the text (for sample codices, see those^[4] collated by the North American Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Anthony in Arizona) with neumes indicating the melodic tones and their duration used before the adoption of the Western system of staff and scales became established in medieval times. In those communities that worship in Syriac the neumes are mirror images of those used by the authocthonous Greek and Slavic Orthodox Churches and written and read right to left in accordance with the Syriac script of the prayer texts.

The English Hymnal features the 1906

is also popular in the Roman Catholic Latin rite as an alternative to the spoken communion antiphon.

See also

• Anaphora (liturgy)

References

Further reading

• L. H. Dalmais, Eastern Liturgies (1960)
• Eric Segelberg,Έὺχῂ τοῦ Θυμιάματος. Towards the history of a prayer in the Liturgy of St. James." In: Έὑχαριστῄριον, Τιμητικὸς τὁμος ἐπί τή 45ετηρίδι έπιστημόικης δράσεως καἰ τῇ 35ετηρίδι τακτικῆς καθηγεσἱας Α. Σ. Άλιβιζάτου. Athens 1958, reprinted in Segelberg, Gnostica - Mandaica Liturgica."" (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Historia Religionum 11.) Uppsala 1990.
• Thomas F. Coffey and Maryjane Dunn, The Sermons & Liturgy of Saint James: Book I of the Liber Sancti Jacobi (2021)

External links

• The Divine Liturgies Music Project Byzantine music in English for the Liturgy of St. James
• Catholic Encyclopedia: "Liturgy of Jerusalem"
• Liturgy of St. James in Ante-Nicene Fathers
• Anaphora of St James, online Syriac Orthodox Resources at The Catholic University of America