TY - BOOK AU - Neelankavil, Joseph P. AU - Neelankavil,Joseph P. TI - The Feast Discipline of St.Thomas Christians of Malabar: A Historico-Juridical Study U1 - GT1968 23 PY - 1968/// CY - Rome PB - Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; The Malabar Church, its brief history. Canonical Sources of the Syro-Malabar Church. Our Aim in the work, the Method we follow,... Notion and Origin of Feasts. Evolution of the Feast Discipline in the Early Churcho Notion and Origin of Feasts, their evolution in the West. The Notion and Origin of feasts. Feasts in the ancient religions. 26 Origin and Evolution of feasts in the West, 34 The Separation between the East and the West. 50 The Evolution of Feasts in the Oriental Churches. The Eastern Churches, 53 The Alexandrian Church 55 The Antiochene Church. 63 The Byzantine Church. 76 The Armenian Church. 85 The Pre-seventeenth Century Feast Discipline of the St.Thomas Christians of Malabar. The Feast Discipline of the Chaldean Church. The Chaldean Church. 94 The feasts of the Chaldean Church. 97 Sunday and Feast day obligation among the Chaldeans. 109 The Feast Discipline of the Malabar Church. The Documents and Evidences. 120 The feasts of the St.Thomas Christians in the pre-seventeenth cenutries. Sunday and feast day obligation. 198 ER -