Patient swab

The weather of the patient swab known as the jellyfish (In Syriac, Written by Pastor Sabri Aydin, quoting the 1983 edition of The Monastery of Mar Avram Holland.

The ritual of the patient’s tinge (in Syriac, A short version)

Patient smear ritual (In Syriac and Arabic, In short,

Order of the ANOINTING of the SICK – Known as -THE SERVICE OF QANDILO

“We’re going to have to do this,” he said. 1932

The Order of Unction

 

The mystery of unction, administered to the sick and the penitent who demand it, has an order consisting of five services concerning forgiveness and repentance, recited by the priest over the oil used for anointing the sick. Another short order, comprising a ḥusoyo (propitiatory prayer), one lesson from the Gospels and a few verses of prayers recited over the sick, is still preserved in the village of Hafar.

 

Source: Barsoum, Ignatius Aphram. The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Translated by Matti Moosa. 2nd revised. Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003, 84.

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