The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church

Denomination·Founded 1889 CE·est. ~1.2 million, in Kerala, north India, the Gulf and North America; the church's own estimate.

Judaism → Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy → The Syriac Orthodox Church → The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church

Branch

How to Live

the ethic — what it asks of a life
The house prays twice a day. Family prayer morning and evening, with a Bible reading and set prayers, is the church's basic discipline, and the parish clergy visit to see that it is kept. It is the mechanism by which a reformed church with no monasticism transmits itself. Diaspora congregations in the Gulf, the United States and Britain report it as the first thing to go and the hardest thing to restart. Go deeper — context →
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