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THE ANAPHORAL GENESIS OF THE INSTITUTION NARRATIVE IN LIGHT OF THE ANAPHORA OF ADDAI AND MARI. Acts of the International Liturgy Congress, Rome 25-26 October 2011. (O.C.A. 295)

di Cesare Giraudo SJ

On 17 January 2001 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recognized the validity of the Eucharist celebrated with the Anaphora of Addai and Mari, which the Assyrian Church of the East had used “ab immemorabili” without an Institution Narrative. On 26 October 2001 “L’Osservatore Romano” made public this decision approved in advance by His Holiness John Paul II in a document entitled Guidelines for Admission to the Eucharist between the Chaldean Church and Assyrian Church of the East. To celebrate this first significant decade, the Pontifical Oriental Institute, in collaboration with the Pontifical Gregorian University, organized an International Congress on 25 and 26 October 2011. The first day was devoted to a reflection through historical and canonical lectures on the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Church and the Syro-Malabar Church. The commemorative day, 26 October, was entirely devoted to lectures bringing to light the origins of the Institution Narrative of the anaphora, with specific reference to the Anaphora of Addai and Mari, and analogous instances, especially of the Syriac, Maronite and Ethiopian anaphoric traditions. With the Proceedings of the Congress presented in this book the Pontifical Oriental Institute intends to promote wide-ranging and reasoned studies on the genesis and function of the Institution Narrative in that prayer with which the Church has always celebrated the Eucharist. Cesare Giraudo sj is Professor Emeritus of Liturgy and Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. He also teaches as a guest professor at the Gregorian University. After his doctoral thesis La struttura letteraria della preghiera eucaristica (1981), he published Eucaristia per la Chiesa (1989), Preghiere eucaristiche per la Chiesa di oggi (1993), “In unum corpus”. Trattato mistagogico sull’Eucaristia (2002), Stupore eucaristico. Per una mistagogia della Messa attraverso i riti e le preghiere (2012),