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The Church Fathers · c. 615
Commentary on the Liturgical Offices
Gabriel of Qatar
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What it is
A working explanation of the daily office as celebrated in the Gulf: why the psalms fall in that order, what each procession and each veil means, and what a monk should be thinking during the parts where nothing is said.
Why it lasted
The earliest liturgical commentary of the Church of the East and the fullest evidence of Christian worship in eastern Arabia in the decades on either side of the rise of Islam.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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