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Examples Of Adam Typology Of Liturgy From The Liturgy

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an elaborate Adam typology in very many prayers. An extract of Adam typology from the liturgy is given below.
“Friday you created Adam, the first man of our race and placed him in paradise, making him equal to the angels and committing to him dominion over the earth. But he approached the forbidden fruit, led by selfish desires and ambitions...He freed us by his redeeming passion and on this same Friday offered himself on the cross to save the guilty Adam. On Friday, Adam was created, and on Friday Christ Jesus, our Lord, suffered in our place and redeemed us... On Friday, the Royal crown is put on the head of Adam and on Friday they put a crown of thorns on the head of Adam’s Lord... On Friday, Eve, the mother of all the earth was created …show more content…

In the Shimo (divine office) of the Malankara Catholic Church there is typological presentation of Mary almost every day. In Malankara Catholic Liturgy we find three important typologies of Mary namely Mary as Mother of God, Mary as the Holy Virgin and Mary as our intercessor. The Mother of God typology are ‘Chariot of Ezekiel’, ‘the ark of the covenant’, ‘the pot containing Manna’, ‘the rod of Aaron’, ‘the new jar of Elisha’ and ‘the rock that produced water’. An example from Shimo illustrates this below.
“In the law and in prophecy Moses, the head of the prophets: represented the figure of the blessed mother, by ark of the law and the pot of manna, and by the staff of Aaron which budded within the holy of holies, and by the dew and the flee of Gideon and by the new jar of Eliseus and by the light cloud of the glorious Isaiah.” (Shimo; Subaho; Ramsho on Wednesday; 3rd qolo; 2nd Para)
The Virginity typology of Mary are ‘the burning bush that Moses saw’, ‘closed door of the chariot of Ezekiel’, ‘flee of Gideon’, ‘the closed garden’ and ‘the sealed fountain of Solomon’. The following extract from Shimo illustrates Virginity typology of Mary.
“Moses represented you by the bush,

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