Friday

Eprhem on Eucharist : Qurbana and Living Medicine

“Spirit in the Bread; Fire in the Wine”: The Eucharist as Living Medicine in the Thought of Ephraem the Syrian, by Dr. Sidney H. Griffith, Catholic University of America, Semitics Dept., excerpt:


"fides quaerens intellectum"
vis-a-vis

"fides adorans mysterium":

~ "almost an iconology,
the fruit of meditating upon the Word of God
in song and prayer, in the context of the liturgy":




Teaching Songs re. qurbana
in the assembly's liturgical anaphora and anamnesis,
sacrifice and sacrament,
mandatum and mission ~
the living Medicine of Holy Thursday and Pascha (Pesah, Pesaho):