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Presanctified Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite A Comparative Analysis of its Origins, Evolution, and Structural Components
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The Presanctified Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite A Comparative Analysis of its Origins, Evolution, and Structural Components

Alexopoulos, S.
ISBN-10: 9042921099
ISBN-13: 9789042921092

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The Presanctified Liturgy, a communion service attached to vespers, is an office peculiar to the period of Great Lent in the Byzantine liturgical tradition. It is the ambition of this study to trace the origins, the evolution and history of the Presanctified Liturgy in the Byzantine liturgical tradition.
The method of comparative liturgy and structural analysis of liturgical units is followed. The book presents a thorough investigation of sources from the early Church that could point to the origins of Presanctified Liturgy, and examines the occurrence of the Presanctified Liturgy in the other Christian traditions. Heavily drawing upon the manuscript tradition it examines in depth the text of the Presanctified Liturgy itself, tracing the evolution of its structural components throughout history. The author argues that three dynamics have been behind the evolution and growth of the Presanctified Liturgy: imitation, conservatism, and differentiation.
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Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Search for the Origins of the Presanctified
Introduction
Private Reservation and Communion in the Early Church
Heretical Eucharists and the Presanctified
Days of Fasting, the Liturgy of the Word, and the Eucharist
Conclusions
The Presanctified in Context
Introduction
The Earliest Witnesses to the Presanctified
Chronikon Paschale
The Miracles of the Holy Virgin Mary in Choziba
Canon 52 of the Synod in Trullo (692)
Barberini gr. 336
The Authorship of the Presanctified
The Tide of the Presanctified in the Manuscript Tradition
The Frequency of the Presanctified
Wednesday and Friday of the Year
Wednesday and Friday of Cheesefare Week
First Week of Lent
Weekdays of Lent
Holy Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday
Holy Friday
September 14
February 2
February 24
March 9
March 20
March 25
The Presanctified in the Context of Other Services
At Coronations
At Appointments of Civil Servants
At Weddings
The Offices of Typika and Trithekti
The Office of the Typika
The Office of Trithekti
Conclusions
The Presanctified in the Non-Byzantine East and the West
Introduction
The West-Syrian Tradition
The East-Syrian Tradition
The Maronite Tradition
The Hagiopolite Tradition
The Georgian Tradition
The Coptic and Ethiopian Traditions
The Armenian Tradition
The Roman Tradition
Conclusions
The Vesperal Part of the Presanctified
Introduction
Structures
Vespers
Enarxis
Ps 103
Eirenika
The Antiphon / Vesperal Prayers
Kathisma 18
Entrance Rites and the Phos Hilaron
Prothesis
Preparation from the Previous Sunday
Prothesis
Readings – Phos Christou – Ps 140.2
Readings
Phos Christou
Ps 140.2
Epistle and Gospel/Gospel only
The Litanies
Ektenes
Petitions, Prayer and Dismissal of the Catechumens
Petitions, Prayer and Dismissal of the Photizomenoi
The Two Prayers of the Faithful
Conclusions
The Communion Part of the Presanctified
Introduction
Structures
The Great Entrance
The Great Entrance Hymn
The Great Entrance Rites
The Prayer of the Cherubic Hymn
Liturgical Posture during Great Entrance
Precommunion
The Litany
The Prayer
The Lord's Prayer
The Inclination Prayer
The Elevation Prayer and the Elevation
The Sancta Sanctis and its Response
The Koinonikon
The Manual Acts (Fraction, Commixture, Zeon)
Communion
Communion of the Clergy
Communion of the Faithful
Post-communion
Thanksgiving Litany and Prayer
Dismissal and Final Rites
The Original Dismissal
The Opisthambonos Prayer
Prayer of the Skeuophylakion
Psalms
33. and 144 and the Second Dismissal
Conclusions
Conclusion
The Text of the Presanctified
Cathedral and Monastic Psalter
The Prothesis Ritual of the Presanctified in the Manuscript Tradition
Readings for Trithekti and vespers
Manuscript Table
Bibliography

List price: $75.00
Edition: 2010
Publisher: Peeters Publishers & Booksellers
Binding: Trade Paper
Pages: 355
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.23 lbs.
Language: English

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