The Syro-Malabar Church's Synod of Bishops has begun in Kerala, India, focusing on a long-standing dispute over liturgical practices. The bishops will discuss crucial issues affecting the Church and society, but details of the agenda remain undisclosed. The Synod is significant because a majority of priests and laity oppose the official liturgy, preferring their traditional Mass where the celebrant faces the congregation.
Some members of the Synod of Bishops of the India-based Syro-Malabar Church when they met Pope Francis in May 2024 to discuss the vexed issues related to an ongoing liturgy dispute . (Photo:syromalabarchurch)-based Eastern rite Syro Malabar Church’s Synod of Bishops began amid a simmering decades-old liturgy dispute over the rubrics of Mass. Some 54 serving and retired bishops are attending the Jan.
6-11 meeting at Mount St Thomas, the headquarters of the crisis-ridden Church in southern Kerala state. “The bishops will discuss all important issues that affect the Church and the society at large,” Father Antony Vadakkekara, spokesperson of the Church, told UCA News on Jan. 6. The Vincentian priest, however, refused to divulge specific details of the agenda saying, “We don’t generally disclose the agenda of the meeting in advance.” The Synod, the highest decision-making body of the Church, assumes significance as a majority of priests and laity in the Church's have rejected the official liturgy, in which the celebrant faces the altar during the Eucharistic prayer. They want to continue with their traditional Mass, during which the celebrant faces the congregation throughout. Ernakulam-Angamaly is the biggest archdiocese, with more than half a million Catholics. It is also the seat of the Church's head,The warring priests and laity also continue to boycott Bishop Bosco Puthur, the apostolic administrator, and members of his curia following the breakdown of a truce reached in July 2024. Vadakkekara evaded a question on whether the bishops would hold fresh talks with the priests and laity in the troubled archdiocese. A Church official, however, confirmed that the priests and lay leaders informed a couple of bishops that “there will not be any compromise on our stand.” “We have informed that the apostolic administrator and his curia should honor the July 2024 agreement,” an archdiocesan official who did not want to be named told UCA News on Jan.
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