The words of institution are still said in Aramaic.
The Maronite Qurbono is West Syriac and largely in Arabic today, but at the consecration the priest says the words of Christ in Syriac Aramaic. It is the one moment where a congregation in Beirut or Sao Paulo hears the language the church started in.
The Maronite Qurbono descends from the West Syriac Antiochene family and shares the Anaphora of Saint James with the Syriac Orthodox tradition, with its own additional anaphoras. Centuries of Latin influence shortened and reshaped it, and the reforms after 1975 restored a good deal. The consecration in Syriac is the tradition's most recognisable survival, kept even where the rest of the service is Arabic, English, Spanish or Portuguese. Syriac itself is no longer spoken by Maronites as a mother tongue; the Aramaic dialects of Maronite villages died out over the last few centuries, with the survival of Aramaic in Lebanon and Syria now confined to a handful of villages that are not Maronite.
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