The shared center — held across the tradition
The liturgy crossed intact.
The terms of 1930 were that the community would keep its West Syriac rite, its Malayalam, its married clergy and its discipline, and it did. The Qurbana of Saint James is celebrated in this church substantially as it is in the Malankara Orthodox and Jacobite churches, which is unusual: most reunions of the period cost the incoming church its liturgy.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Reunion, or departure.
Rome and this church call 1930 a reunion — a return to a communion broken in the seventeenth century. The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church calls it the departure of a metropolitan who took part of a diocese with him. The facts are agreed; the word is not.
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