Ensure that the name of Mar Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, the Antiochian Patriarch, is mentioned in all liturgical prayers and the liturgies. This has been decided in previous eras by agreement of the two C...

The Synod agreed to the explanation set out in the report by Ritual Committee regarding the Feast of the Entry of the Lord Christ into the Temple. The rituals are as follows:

1. After the reading of the l...

Based on the directives of His Holiness, the Holy Synod decided the following:

1. A priest who travels abroad for treatment, if he does not have a letter from His Holiness the Pope personally to pray in t...

The Holy Synod agreed to the request and recommendations of the Diocesans Affairs Committee as follows:

The importance of adhering to reading the Synaxarium on the days that the Church rituals state [r...

The Holy Synod has agreed to the following recommendations and alterations [cont.]:

Second: The Liturgies of the Feasts of the Nativity, Epiphany and Resurrection

It is necessary that the timing of comm...

In the reading of the Feast of the Entry of the Lord Christ into the Temple (8 Amshir), which is the same as the Gospel reading in the Feast of the Circumcision (6 Toba), the current editions of the L...

In the readings of 6 Hator, the Gospel of the Good Shepherd (John 10:10), the Committee recommends that the text state, “that they may have life, and that they have it more abundantly” according to th...

The Committee discussed what was mentioned in the Synaxarium regarding the apparition of the Commander of the army of the Lord to Joshua Son of Nun (Joshua 5:13-15) and what corrections are required i...

The Committee discussed what was mentioned in the Synaxarium regarding the apparition of the Commander of the army of the Lord to Joshua Son of Nun (Joshua 5:13-15) and what corrections are required i...

In the Fast of Jonah, the refrain of Psalm 150 during the Distribution is: “Jonah in the belly of the whale, likewise Christ in the tomb for three days”.