Tag: Syro-Malabar rite

  • Another approach to translation

    While we’re all on the subject of translation, I thought I’d offer a perspective from the Syro-Malabar rite Catholic Church. Perhaps this will broaden the perspective we have about what translation (especially liturgical translation) is for.

  • A wedding custom of the Indian Thomas Christians

    The Syro-Malabar Rite Catholics I met have a saying, adapted from Fr. Placid Podipara: they are “Indian in culture, Catholic in religion, and Syriac in worship.” Just this morning I discovered a new instance of the truth of this saying…