The Syrian Jacobite Liturgy and the Preparation of the GiftsF. E. Brightman, Liturgies Eastern and Western. Volume I: Eastern Liturgies, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896.Archdale A. King: The Rites of Eastern Christendom, vol.1, Rome, Catholic Book Agency, 1947Anaphoras. The book of the divine liturgies according to the rite of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch,(ed.) Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, (tr.) Murad Saliba Barsom, Lod, 1991Mani Rajan: Queen of the Sacraments, Mulanthuruthy, M.S.O.T. Seminary Publications, 1991Panicker Geevarghese: An Historical Introduction to the Syriac liturgy, Kottayam, SeeriPeter D. Day: The Liturgical dictionary of Eastern Christianity, Kent, Burn & Oates, 19931F. E. Brightman, Liturgies Eastern and Western. Volume I: Eastern LiturgiesOxford: Clarendon Press, 1896.[p.73] Over that of the chalice he says:Pure and spotless Lamb who offered to His Father an acceptable offering for the expiation and redemption ofthe whole world: vouchsafe us to offer ourselves to Thee a living sacrifice well pleasing to Thee and like untoThy sacrifice which was for us, Christ our God for ever. Amen.And he [stretches forth his hands in the form of a cross, his right hand over his left and] takes the paten in hisright hand and the chalice in his left crosswise [and lifts them up on high above the part where is the fixedtablitho] and says the general prayer on this wise:The memorial of our Lord and our God and our Saviour Jesus Christ and of all His saving dispensation on ourbehalf: to wit the message of the watcher, and His glorious conception and His birth in the flesh and Hisbaptism in the Jordan and his fast of forty days and His saving passion and His uplifting on the Cross and Hisquickening death and His honourable burial and His glorious resurrection and His ascension into heaven andHis session on the right hand of God the Father; according to His own command unto us we arecommemorating at this time the Eucharist that is set before us. Then particularly f...