Chapter 19. Rituals

Amendments to texts and rearrangement of structure of General Funeral and Covenant Thursday distrubutions

Original Arabic Text
  1. Covenant Thursday:

    2. a.     Distribution [of the Sacraments] of Covenant Thursday [Liturgy] is to be [prayed] with the annual [tune] and the prayers of the 11th hour are to be joined to the evening Pascha.

    b.     The word, “these” is to be deleted from the phrase, “bless these offerings”; and the phrase “repose the souls of the departed” [is to be deleted] from the fraction of Covenant Thursday.

  2. Prayer of General Funeral (litanies): replacement of the phrase, “as you opened for the right hand thief” with the phrase, “as you opened for the souls of the righteous”.