Monday, October 31, 2011

1st November - 1η Νοεμβρίου 2011 - Τῶν Ἁγίων Ἀναργύρων Κοσμᾶ καί Δαμιανοῦ - The Holy Unmercenaries Kosmas and Damian

Ἡ Ἀκολουθία κατά τήν ἐν τῷ Μηναίῳ τάξιν ἐν συνδυασμῷ μετά τῆς ἑορτασίμου Ἀκολουθίας τῆς 1ης Ἰουλίου.

ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΟΡΘΡΟΝ

Καταβασίαι: «Ἀνοίξω τό στόμα μου...».

ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ Θ. ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΝ
Μετά τήν Εἴσοδον.
Ἀπολυτίκια: 1.– Τῶν Ἁγίων·«Ἅγιοι Ἀνάργυροι…» καί 2.–Τοῦ Ναοῦ.

Κοντάκιον: «Προστασία...».

Τρισάγιον.

Ἀπόστολος: Τῶν Ἁγίων· «Ὑμεῖς ἐστε σῶμα Χριστοῦ…» (Α΄ Κορ. ιβ΄ 27-31, ιγ΄ 1-8).

Εὐαγγέλιον: Ὁμοίως· «Προσκαλεσάμενος ὁ Ἰησοῦς τούς δώδεκα μαθητάς αὐτοῦ…». (Ματθ. ι΄ 1, 5-8).
Εἰς τό Ἐξαιρέτως: «Ἄξιόν ἐστιν…».

Κοινωνικόν: «Εἰς μνημόσυνον…».

«Εἴδομεν τό φῶς...», κτλ.

Ἀπόλυσις.

Taken from the Ημερολόγιον του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου 2011

Note that the service for November 1st in memory of St. Cosmas and Damian is abbreviated and needs to be supplanted by the service of the day in the Paraklitiki (Παρακλητική). This is the practice that is followed in the November Menaion (Μηναίον). However it has become common practice that on this day the service of November 1st is combined with the service of July 1st, on which St. Cosmas and Damian are also celebrated and the service is complete and does not need to be added to by the Paraklitiki. See the notes in Diptycha of the Church of Greece (Δίπτυχα της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος) Nov. 1 and the note on the corresponding day in the Menaion.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Goar - Euchologion - Εὐχολόγιον - 1730

The Taxis of the Great Church of Christ (Τάξις της Μεγάλης Εκκλησίας) from the 1730 Edition of Goar's Euchologion. It includes the office of Protopsaltes (Πρωτοψάλτης) among the officers of the Great Church, on page 225 of this edition:

Ο Πρωτοψάλτης ίσταται μέσον των δύο χορών...


Κυριακή: Ε΄ ΛΟΥΚΑ - 5th Sunday of Luke

Κυριακή: Ε΄ ΛΟΥΚΑ. Κλεόπα καί Ἀρτεμᾶ ἐκ τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα Ἀποστόλων. Τῶν Ἁγίων Μαρτύρων Ζηνοβίου καί Ζηνοβίας καί τοῦ ἐν Ἁγίοις Πατρός ἡμῶν Ἰωσήφ, Πατριάρχου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως.

Ἦχος γ΄ – Ἑωθινόν Θ΄

Friday, October 28, 2011

28th October - 28η Ὄκτωβρίου 2011 - Ἑορτή τῆς Ἁγίας Σκέπης τῆς Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου - The Holy Protection of the Most-Holy Theotokos


Παρασκευή: Ἑορτή τῆς Ἁγίας Σκέπης τῆς Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου. Τῶν Ἁγίων Μαρτύρων Τερεντίου καί Εὐνίκης καί τοῦ Ὁσίου Πατρός ἡμῶν Στεφάνου τοῦ Σαββαΐτου. Τῶν ἐν Ἁγίοις Πατέρων ἡμῶν Ἀρσενίου καί Ἀθανασίου, Πατριαρχῶν Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, τοῦ ἐξ Ἀνδρούσης Μεσσηνίας. Ἀγγελῆ, Μανουήλ, Γεωργίου καί Νικολάου τῶν νεομαρτύρων, τῶν ἐν Ρεθύμνῃ μαρτυρησάντων. Τοῦ Ἁγίου Ροστισλάβου, Μεγάλου Φωτιστοῦ Δουκός τῆς Μοραβίας.

Ἡ Ἀκολουθία κατά τήν ἐν τῷ Μηναίῳ τάξιν ἐκδόσεως Ἀποστολικῆς Διακονίας.

Σημείωσις: Εἰς τάς ἐν τῷ Ἐξωτερικῷ Ἐπαρχίας τοῦ Θρόνου εἴθισται νά τελῆται κατά τήν ἡμέραν ταύτην ἡ καθιερωμένη Δοξολογία, κατά τήν ἐν τῷ «Ἱερατικῷ» τάξιν (βλ. Ἱερατικόν, Ἔκδ. Ἀποστολικῆς Διακονίας, Ἀθῆναι 1977, σ. 277 κ.ἑξ.) καί τήν εἰς τήν 1ην Ἰανουαρίου τοῦ παρόντος τοιαύτην.


Ἐν τῆ Ἐκκλησίᾳ τῆς Ἑλλάδος καθιερώθη, ἀπό τοῦ ἔτους 1952, ὅπως τήν ἡμέραν αὐτήν συνεορτάζεται ἡ Ἑορτή τῆς Ἁγίας Σκέπης, ἥτις ἐορτάζεται καί τήν 1ην τοῦ μηνός.

Taken from the Ημερολόγιον του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου 2011

Note that after 1952 the Church of Greece started celebrating the Protection of the Theotokos on October 28th to coincide with the historic OXI Day, when the Greek Nation said NO to Nazi occupation. In the Orologion to Mega (Ωρολόγιον το Μέγα) published by To Perivoli Tis Panagias (Το Περιβόλι της Παναγίας) we read the following about celebrating these two holidays together, the one national in character and the other religious in nature:

...ὅπως μετὰ τῆς ἐθνικῆς ἑορτῆς τῶν Νικητηρίων τῆς 28ης Ὀκτωβρίου συνεορτάζηται καὶ ἡ ἑορτὴ αὕτη τῆς ὑπεραγίας Δεσποίνης ἡμῶν Θεοτόκου, τῆς πάντοτε καὶ κατ᾽ἐξαίρετον τρόπον σκεπούσης τὸ εὐσεβὲς ἡμῶν ἔθνος.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

voutsinasilias.blogspot.com

This blog is full of liturgical texts mostly from the Menaia, but some of the most interesting posts are the texts of the Typikon of St. Savas (ΤΑΣ) for the celebration of the Vigil, i.e. Small Vespers, Great Vespers, Orthros, Hours, and Liturgy:

Here is the link to the Great Vesper Service, Lity, and Artoclasia http://voutsinasilias.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post_6158.html

Some of the notes seem to be those of Fr. Dositheos, Hegoumenos of the Holy Stauropegial Monastery of Panagias Tatarnis.

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Goar - Euchologion - Εὐχολόγιον - 1647

The service of Xeirothesia (ordination, χειροθεσία) of a Anagnostes (Reader, Ἀναγνώστης) and Psaltes (Chanter, Ψάλτης) as contained in the 1667 (Paris)  edition of J. Goar's, Euchologion.

Note that the service is labeled χειροτονία and is for both a Anagnostes and a Psaltes with a small difference at the end. I would point out that a Psaltes is a member of the lower clergy, with the rank of Anagnostes.

Euchologion - Goar - 1667

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Videos of Metropolitan Methodios of Boston at the Holy Monastery of Simonopetra, Mt. Athos

Metropolitan Methodios presiding at Orthros - Video A



The Entrance with the Gospel Book and Censing after the Entrance by Metropolitan Methodios - Video B



Agios o Theos tou Vymatos (Άγιος ο Θεός του βήματος), Blessing of Metropolitan Methodios with the Dikeron and Trikeron - Video C



Censing by Metropolitan Methodios before the Great Entrance - Video D