Ancient liturgy, Bollywood rhythms and stadium-filling enthusiasm: Syro-Malabar Catholics are reinvigorating the Church in the North West
This summer the weather in Liverpool has been more Madras than Merseyside. So it was an appropriate time to visit Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church, the new home for the city’s Syro-Malabar Catholics.
The Syro-Malabar Church is one of the 23 Eastern Churches that are in full communion with Rome while preserving their distinctive liturgy and identity. Its name refers both to its origins in the southern Indian state of Kerala, historically known as the Malabar Coast, and use of the ancient Syriac rite.
