Pontifical Gregorian University
Pontifical Oriental Institute
25-26 October 2011
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
On 17 January 2001 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recognized the validity of the Eucharist celebrated with the Anaphora of Addai and Mari, which the Assyrian Church of the East had used “ab immemorabili” without an institutional narrative.
On 26 October 2001 “L’Osservatore Romano” made public this decision approved in advance by His Holiness John Paul II in a document entitled Guidelines for Admission to the Eucharist between the Chaldean Church and Assyrian Church of the East.
To celebrate this first significant decade, the Pontifical Oriental Institute announces an International Congress to be held on 25 and 26 October 2011. Tuesday 25 October will be devoted to a reflection through historical and canonical lectures on the Syro-Chaldean Church, the Syro-Malabar Church and the Assyrian Church of the East. The commemorative day, Wednesday 26 October, on the other hand, will be entirely devoted to lectures bringing to light the origins of the institutional narrative of the anaphora, with specific reference to the Anaphora of Addai and Mari, and analogous instances especially of the Syriac and Ethiopian anaphoric traditions. Prof. Cesare Giraudo, S.J. will organize the program of the Congress.
Rome, 17 January 2011
prof. James McCann sj
Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute
More News: http://liturgia.it/addaicongress/
The Website (with the entries: Documents, Bibliography, Subsidia quædam, Church of the East, Quæstiones disputatæ) offers – in PDF download format – material for reflection, which is regularly brought up to date.