Holy Qurobo

West Syriac Rite includes various descendants of the Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.

The major Anaphora of both the traditions is the Divine Liturgy of Saint James in Syriac language.

The Holy Qurobo is referred to as "complete" worship, since it is performed for the benefit of all members of the Church.

A similar term Holy Qurbana is used to denote the eucharistic celebration in the East Syriac Rite also.

[8][10][11][12] According to historians, distinct West Syriac liturgies started developing after the Council of Chalcedon, which largely divided the Christian community in Antioch into three major factions.

[8] For the Chalcedonian faction, the 10th and 11th centuries witnessed the notable transition from an Antiochene Melkite tradition to the liturgical rite of Constantinople.

Numerous liturgical and theological texts from Greek were massively translated into West Syriac and subsequently into Arabic, the emerging dominant language of the Levant.

[8] The Saint Thomas Christian community of India, who originally belonged to the Province of India of the Church of the East and they were following the East Syriac Rite till the sixteenth century, when the interventions of the Portuguese Padroado missionaries led to a schism among them.

Following the schism in 1665, one of the two factions that emerged (the Puthenkoor) made contact with the Syriac Orthodox Church through Archbishop Gregorios Abdal Jaleel.

The recitation of the Liturgy is performed according to with specific parts chanted by the presider, the lectors, the choir, and the congregated faithful, at certain times in unison.

Hundreds of melodies remain preserved in the book known as Beth Gazo, the key reference to Syriac Orthodox church music.