I’m fascinated by the chart you posted, but I’m also scandalized.
Am I seeing this correctly? Under the Pope there is really a church that uses a Liturgy created by the renounced heretic Nestorius who was himself and his Nestorian heresy condemned by an ecumenical council! If I’m seeing right, how? How does the Catholic Church justify being in union with a church that honors a heretic condemned by the entire Church by using his Liturgy? I’m completely scandalized.
A general question that was triggered by the chart, which Saint created the Latin Church’s Liturgy? The chart didn’t say.
Have no fear, for the Holy See has approved the Anaphorae of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Also note this statement from the Holy See:The Assyrian Church of the East also uses two other Eucharistic Anaphoras, which are some centuries more recent: the
Anaphora of Nestorius, reserved to five liturgical occasions, and the
Anaphora ofTheodore of Mopsuestia, used from the beginning of the liturgical year till Palm Sunday, for approximately sixteen weeks. The Anaphora of Addai and Mari, however, is used during the longest and most important period of the liturgical year, which goes from Palm Sunday till the end of the liturgical year and covers about two hundred days. Moreover, the use of these three Anaphoras is not free, as in the Latin tradition, but prescribed by the liturgical calendar. In conscience of faith, the Assyrian Church of the East was always convinced to celebrate the Eucharist validly and so to perform in its fullness what Jesus Christ asked his disciples to do. She expressed this conscience of faith, whether using the Anaphora of Theodore of Mopsuestia, the Anaphora of Nestorius or the Anaphora of Addai and Mari, independent from the fact that only the first two Anaphoras, of later origin, contain the Institution narrative.It should be added that, for the period of the Catholic Patriarchate under Patriarch Sulaka (1551-1662), no document exists to prove that the Church of Rome insisted on the insertion of an Institution narrative into the Anaphora of Addai and Mari.
vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20011025_chiesa-caldea-assira_en.html
The history of liturgy is quite complex. The earliest recorded liturgy, which may never have been actually used, is of the “Apostolic Constitutions” and is the basis for the rite of Jerusalem, the Liturgy of Saint James, which was the basis for the Chaldean. (The Assyrian Church of the East was the daughter of Edessa, and was never included in the Patriarchate of Antioch.)
For more history see CNEWA:Around the year 300, the bishops were first organized into an ecclesiastical structure under the leadership of a Catholicos, the bishop of the Persian royal capital at Seleucia-Ctesiphon. He later received the additional title of Patriarch.
In the 5th century, the Church of the East gravitated towards the radical Antiochene form of christology that had been articulated by Theodore of Mopsuestia and Nestorius, and fell out of communion with the church in the Roman Empire.
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In the mid-15th century a tradition of hereditary patriarchal succession (passing from uncle to nephew) took effect in the Assyrian church. As a result, one family dominated the church, and untrained minors were being elected to the patriarchal throne.
When such a patriarch was elected in 1552, a group of Assyrian bishops refused to accept him and decided to seek union with Rome.
… for over 200 years, there was much turmoil and changing of sides as the pro- and anti-Catholic parties struggled with one another. The situation finally stabilized only on July 5, 1830, when Pope Pius VIII confirmed Metropolitan John Hormizdas as head of all Chaldean Catholics, with the title of Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, with his see in Mosul.
cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=59&pagetypeID=9&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1
