The Qurbana of Saint James, in Malayalam.
The West Syriac liturgy, sung, with the Shhimo hours kept daily in the ashrams and by many households. The church has resisted Latinisation more successfully than most Eastern Catholic churches, in part because it arrived with its books in 1930 and in part because two large churches next door are celebrating the same rite and would notice any drift.
The Shhimo, the weekday office of seven hours, is kept in full in the Bethany houses and in abbreviated form by many families, which is unusual for a church of this size. The liturgical books were revised after the Second Vatican Council in consultation with the wider Malankara tradition rather than in the direction of the Roman rite. The church has dioceses in Kerala and outside it, and eparchies in the United States and in Europe; the Malayalam liturgy travels with the diaspora and the English translations are recent. Being flanked by two churches celebrating the same rite has proved an effective brake on liturgical drift.
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