القداس اليومي من كابيلا البطريركية الكلدانية Holy Mass, Baghdad 20 October 2020

Translation of the Homely of His Beatitude Cardinal Sako, 20^th of October, 2020

Today I was very upset, because the Eastern congregation (Rome) sent me a letter, that I said to the apostolic nuncio, I will never open or read. They said that: ” you are renovating too much, and the sister church {they mean the Assyrians} should be taken into consideration ” I said OK but there is a gap of 500 years between us and them, if we go back to the mass of Nestorious and Theodorous, maybe the mass of St. Addai is much more accepted or otherwise the mass would last for 2 and a half hours to be celebrated.
All of it is just fantasy, chariots, wings in heaven, angels with 6 wings Covering their face, covering their butts (Isaiah 6 :2) and so ……..!!! why?!!!! Are we in a zoo or something!! Or else we want to pray!? We’re living a society with around an estimated 96% Muslims of the population, aren’t we supposed to talk to them and let them understand our prayers?! The Eastern Congregation have no right and custody upon us and I’ve already said all of this to the Apostolic Nuncio. We are called to pray with a language that we know and understand. The Eastern Congregation don’t know or understand our liturgy, and neither Arabic or Chaldean. How do they know?!! I wish if we can pray for this matter too.