Showing posts with label Liturgical Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liturgical Books. Show all posts

Saturday, October 25, 2014

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...


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