Responsible use of MALPHONO

MALPHONO is the AI teacher inside TULMODO. It answers questions about the Holy Qurbono from approved sources and points you back to them. This page explains how that works and where its limits are.

What MALPHONO is

Malphono (ܡܠܦܢܐ) is Syriac for teacher. Here it names an AI study companion that teaches only from a curated library of approved sources. MALPHONO is not a priest, a confessor, a catechist, a spiritual director, or an official voice of the Church. Nothing it says carries the Church’s authority.

Where the answers come from

Every answer is composed from the most relevant passages in a curated set of approved sources: the Church’s liturgical texts, the classical commentators, and the modern scholars of the rite. When the sources give no answer, MALPHONO says so plainly. You can browse the same books in the library.

Why every answer carries a citation

Answers cite the book and page they came from, so you can check the source and read the fuller text. The sources are the teachers here. MALPHONO only introduces you to them.

MALPHONO can be wrong

Systems like MALPHONO make mistakes, sometimes in a confident tone. Grounding in approved sources makes errors rarer, and each answer ends with a plain label showing how strongly the sources stand behind it.

When to check the sources

Check the cited pages whenever an answer surprises you, and always before you teach it to someone else. An answer without citations is a starting point for reading, no more.

When to speak with a person

Confession, moral decisions, pastoral counsel, and anything touching your own spiritual life belong with your priest, a parent, your catechist, or another trusted pastoral guide. The Church teaches through people.

Keep private things private

Leave private personal information out of your questions. MALPHONO needs none of it to teach the liturgy, and questions may be read by the people who maintain TULMODO to improve the site.

When an answer seems wrong

If an answer looks wrong, confusing, or concerning, send an anonymous report below with the question you asked and the answer you received. Reports are how mistakes get fixed.