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January Menaion
Byzantine Monthly Menaion Volume Five: January Metropolitan Cantor Institute Byzantine Catholic Seminary Pittsburgh, PA Foreword A Menaion is a liturgical book which contains the changeable parts of Byzantine divine services for a given month. The volume in your hands is the fourth of a series of twelve books for use in Byzantine Catholic parishes. Each day is provided with the following material: (1) Synaxarion (brief life of the saints remembered) (2) Troparia and Kontakia (3) Prokeimena and Alleluiaria (4) Communion Hymn. On major feasts, the proper antiphons (when there are any) and the Magnification and Irmos (appointed to take the place of It is truly proper) are also included. Texts which are contained in the Faithful’s Book published by the Byzantine Catholic Church are reproduced with their musical settings from that book. Those texts were translated by the Inter-Eparchial Liturgical Commission, and then set to plainchant by the Inter-Eparchial Music Commission. Many of the Troparia contained in this volume of the Menaion are, in fact, common texts (i.e., they are used on more than one feast). These texts, too, come from the work of the IELC/IEMC, as are all the Prokeimena and Alleluiaria and Communion Hymns. The texts of the Troparia and Kontakia that are not from the above-mentioned source are almost always taken from the Order of Matins published by the Sisters of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, and we acknowledge these texts with gratitude. This volume is intended to be used annually. Because of this, cantors must use the Typikon of the Metropolitan Church to discern how materials from the Menaion are to be combined with the Sunday Ochtoechos. -
A Concise Glossary of the Genres of Eastern Orthodox Hymnography
Journal of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music Vol. 4 (1), Section III: Miscellanea, pp. 198–207 ISSN 2342-1258 https://journal.fi/jisocm A Concise Glossary of the Genres of Eastern Orthodox Hymnography Elena Kolyada [email protected] The Glossary contains concise entries on most genres of Eastern Orthodox hymnography that are mentioned in the article by E. Kolyada “The Genre System of Early Russian Hymnography: the Main Stages and Principles of Its Formation”.1 On the one hand the Glossary is an integral part of the article, therefore revealing and corroborating its principal conceptual propositions. However, on the other hand it can be used as an independent reference resource for hymnographical terminology, useful for the majority of Orthodox Churches worldwide that follow the Eastern Rite: Byzantine, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian et al., as well as those Western Orthodox dioceses and parishes, where worship is conducted in English. The Glossary includes the main corpus of chants that represents the five great branches of the genealogical tree of the genre system of early Christian hymnography, together with their many offshoots. These branches are 1) psalms and derivative genres; 2) sticheron-troparion genres; 3) akathistos; 4) canon; 5) prayer genres (see the relevant tables, p. 298-299).2 Each entry includes information about the etymology of the term, a short definition, typological features and a basic statement about the place of a particular chant in the daily and yearly cycles of services in the Byzantine rite.3 All this may help anyone who is involved in the worship or is simply interested in Orthodox liturgiology to understand more fully specific chanting material, as well as the general hymnographic repertoire of each service. -
Contested Authenticity Anthropological Perspectives of Pilgrimage Tourism on Mount Athos
religions Article Contested Authenticity Anthropological Perspectives of Pilgrimage Tourism on Mount Athos Michelangelo Paganopoulos Global Inquiries and Social Theory Research Group, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; [email protected] Abstract: This paper investigates the evolution of customer service in the pilgrimage tourist industry, focusing on Mount Athos. In doing so, it empirically deconstructs the dialectics of the synthesis of “authentic experience” between “pilgrims” and “tourists” via a set of internal and external reciprocal exchanges that take place between monks and visitors in two rival neighboring monasteries. The paper shows how the traditional value of hospitality is being reinvented and reappropriated according to the personalized needs of the market of faith. In this context, the paper shows how traditional monastic roles, such as those of the guest-master and the sacristan, have been reinvented, along with traditional practices such as that of confession, within the wider turn to relational subjectivity and interest in spirituality. Following this, the material illustrates how counter claims to “authenticity” emerge as an arena of reinvention and contestation out of the competition between rival groups of monks and their followers, arguing that pilgrimage on Athos requires from visitors their full commitment and active involvement in their role as “pilgrims”. The claim to “authenticity” is a matter of identity and the means through which a visitor is transformed from a passive “tourist” to Citation: Paganopoulos, an active “pilgrim”. Michelangelo. 2021. Contested Authenticity Anthropological Keywords: authenticity; spirituality; Mount Athos; hospitality; pilgrimage tourism Perspectives of Pilgrimage Tourism on Mount Athos. -
HYMNS, HOMILIES and HERMENEUTICS in BYZANTIUM Abstracts
HYMNS, HOMILIES AND HERMENEUTICS IN BYZANTIUM Abstracts John Damascene on the Transfiguration of the Lord: Mystical Homiletic Performance and Eschatological Hermeneutics Dr Vassilis Adrahtas (University of New South Wales) John Damascene’s oeuvre is generally seen as scholastic and rationalistic, and thus devoid of mysticism and eschatological fervour. However, this assertion is rather sweeping and does not do justice to the comprehensiveness, complexity and subtlety of John Damascene's theologising. On the basis of his homily On the Transfiguration of the Lord, the present paper will attempt to show that John Damascene did work through established mystical tropes and was indeed driven by an eschatological consciousness. In particular, it will be shown that this specific homily is articulated as a dramatised performance that mystically presents Jesus’ (historical) past in light of the experiencing of his (meta-historical) future. As a result, the homily in question is thoroughly informed by an eschatological hermeneutics, which apart from utilising traditional modes of biblical interpretation ultimately puts forward a mysticism of action and an iconic eschatology of being truly human. The Eye of the Soul in Plato and pseudo-Macarius: Alexandrian Theology and the Roots of Hesychasm A/Professor Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Macquarie University) Although the mystical tradition of Hesychasm is typically associated with Gregory Palamas and his fourteenth century dispute with Barlaam of Calabria (Meyendorff 1983: 6-8; Ware 1986: 249; Healey 1999: 227-8), its historical evolution in the writings of earlier writers such as Evagrius Ponticus (345-399; Ware 1986: 177), pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite (5th- 6th century; Russell 2004: 258; Perl 2007: 68); Maximus the Confessor (c. -
Book History Menaion3 B
1 The Ellis Library Pre-Nikonian Menaion: A Book History Alla Barabtarlo Julie Christenson CODICES OCCASIONAL PAPERS. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY NUMBER 3. APRIL 2016. 2 The beginning of the Menaion CODICES OCCASIONAL PAPERS. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY NUMBER 3. APRIL 2016. 3 Table of Contents Description Contents Audiences Russia around 1623 Codicology and Paleography Catalog entry External features Binding Paste-downs Material Foliation Collation Script Rubrication Text Contents Marginalia Colophon Mystery Provenance Bibliography CODICES OCCASIONAL PAPERS. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY NUMBER 3. APRIL 2016. 4 Book History Menaion for June. Description. The Menaion for the month of June (Ellis, Vault, uncatalogued). Manuscript on paper 15.3 x 20.7 cm, 4to in 8s, 228 leaves; all quires intact. Written in Church Slavonic in a single hand on a medium weight paper. Original ms. side notes, contemporary ms. record of date, scribe name and place. Light water stains, occasional spots of wax, a few edges a little frayed, tiny ink holes in two leaves, small worm trail at gutter in lower blank margins of one gathering. A very good clean copy with its original wide margins. Bound in high quality Russian morocco over thick wooden boards. Metal bosses and centerpieces lost, remains of original brass clasps. Contents The Menaion (from Greek, µην, “month”, Church Slavonic minea) is the name of several liturgical books in the Orthodox (Greek, Russian, Romanian, Georgian, Serbian, etc.) Church. The Christian calendar comprises two series of offices. There are movable feasts, falling on the days of the ecclesiastical year dependent on Easter (which is determined by the Jewish, i.e. -
Sinai, Zion, and Eden in Byzantine Hymnographic Exegesis1
Bogdan G. Bucur PiĴ sburgh, PA “THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD“: SINAI, ZION, AND EDEN IN BYZANTINE HYMNOGRAPHIC EXEGESIS1 Introduction In the manifesto of the “Theophaneia School,“ Alexander Go litzin ventures the following bold statement: Theophany permeates Orthodox Tradition throughout, informing its dogmatic theology and its liturgy. That Jesus, Mary’s son, is the very One who appeared to Moses and the prophets — this is the consistent witness of the ante-Nicene Fathers, and remains founda- tional throughout the fourth century Trinitarian controversies and the later christological disputes.2 In the pages to follow, I would like to show that, aside from the his- tory of creeds, councils, and condemnations, and accompanying the patristic works of Christology or trinitarian theology, the identifi cation of the Son of Mary with “the Lord of Glory whom Moses saw of old“ is also aĜ rmed by the hymnographic tradition of the Christian East. The witness of Byzantine hymnography is extremely relevant, as no single patristic work has been read so extensively and with such uncondi- tional acceptance throughout the ages. Nevertheless, as I will show, the exegetical dimension of Byzantine hymnography is diĜ cult to de- fi ne using the categories commonly used for early Christian exegesis (“allegory,“ “typology,“ etc); I submit that a more suitable category (1) Except where indicated, the English translation of the hymns is taken from The Festal Menaion (trans. Mother Mary and Kallistos Ware; London— Boston: Faber&Faber, 1969) and The Lenten Triodion (trans. Mother Mary and Kallistos Ware; London—Boston: Faber&Faber, 1977), modifi ed only to con- form to contemporary use of pronouns and verbs. -
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INFORMATION TO USERS While the most advanced technology has been used to photograph and reproduce this manuscript, the quality of the reproduction is heavily dependent upon the quality of the material submitted. For example: • Manuscript pages may have indistinct print. In such cases, the best available copy has been filmed. • Manuscripts may not always be complete. In such cases, a note will indicate that it is not possible to obtain missing pages. • Copyrighted material may have been removed from the manuscript. In such cases, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, and charts) are photographed by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand corner and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. Each oversize page is also filmed as one exposure and is available, for an additional charge, as a standard 35mm slide or as a 17”x 23” black and white photographic print. Most photographs reproduce acceptably on positive microfilm or microfiche but lack the clarity on xerographic copies made from the microfilm. For an additional charge, 35mm slides of 6”x 9” black and white photographic prints are available for any photographs or illustrations that cannot be reproduced satisfactorily by xerography. Order Number 8717684 Manuscript attribution through paper analysis: Hilandar Monastery in the fourteenth century. [A case study] Matejic, Predrag, Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1987 Copyright ©1987 by Matejic, Predrag. All rights reserved. U MI 300 N. Zeeb Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48106 PLEASE NOTE: In all cases this material has been filmed in the best possible way from the available copy. -
Philosophical, Anthropological and Axiological Aspects of Constantine's Definition of Philosophy Ján Zozuľak1 Introduction
Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe), 2021, 11 (1–2), 14–22 DOI:10.2478/ebce-2021-0002 Philosophical, anthropological and axiological aspects of Constantine’s definition of philosophy Ján Zozuľak1 Abstract This paper Focuses on the philosophical-ethical Foundations of Constantine’s definition of philosophy, as well as its anthropological and axiological aspects. The focus is placed on the relationship between definitions of philosophy postulated by Constantine the Philosopher and John of Damascus, the latter of which traces the six classical definitions systematized by Platonic commentators. Byzantine thinkers proposed a method of uniFying both the theoretical and practical aspects of ancient philosophy with a Christian way oF liFe by interpreting the classical definitions of philosophy and dividing it into theoretical and practical parts, the latter including ethics. Constantine understood philosophy in the sense oF the second (knowledge oF things Divine and human) and the fourth (becoming like God) meanings of earlier definitions, with the addition of the Christian sense oF acting in accordance with the image of God. In addition to these gnosiological and anthropological aspects, the paper also observes the axiological aspect of Constantine’s definition of philosophy, which appears to be a Foundation For exploring human behaviour as in compliance with Christian laws encouraging changes in ethical principles so as to follow a new code of ethics, through which new values were presented to the Slavs. Keywords: Constantine (Cyril), deFinition oF philosophy, image, likeness, Byzantine anthropology Introduction This paper analyses the philosophical, anthropological and axiological aspects of Constantine’s definition of philosophy and focuses on the selected ethical cornerstones of the Cyrillo- Methodian mission to the Slavic cultural space, to which Byzantine values cultivating human personality were being transferred through the works of the eponymous Constantine the Philosopher (Cyril) and Methodius. -
J a N U a R Y Sunday Before Theophany of Our Lord
2 0 1 7 J A N U A R Y Sunday before Theophany of Our Lord. Epis. Colossians 2:8-12; Hebrews 13:17-21; 2 Timothy 4:5-8. Gos. Luke 2:20-21, 40-52; Mark 1:1-8. Tone 3. Mat. Gos. 6. 1 S (+) Circumcision of Our Lord; +) St. Basil the Great and his mother, St. Emilia (New Year. Thanksgiving Service) 2 M Holy Hierarch Sylvester, bishop of Rome; Ven. Seraphim of Sarov (Forefeast of Theophany) 3 T Holy Prophet Malachi; Martyr Gordius 4 W Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles; Ven. Teoctist; Ven. Apolinaria (Fast free) 5 T Holy Martyrs Theopemptus, Theonas; Ven. Syncletica (Eve of Theophany) (Strict Fast) 6 F (+) Holy Theophany of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Fast free) 7 S + Synaxis of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptizer John (Saturday after Theophany) Sunday after Theophany. Epis. Ephesians 4:7-13. Gos. Matthew 4:12-17 (Beginning of the Lord’s ministry). Tone 4. Mat. Gos. 7. 8 S Ven. George the Chozebite and Domnica 9 M Martyr Polyeuctus; Ven. Eustratius; Holy Hierarch Peter, bishop of Sebastea 10 T St. Gregory of Nyssa; + Ven. Antypas of Calapodest; Holy Hierarch Dometian, bishop of Melitene 11 W + Ven. Theodosius, founder of cenobite life in Palestine; Ven. Vitaly 12 T Martyr Tatiana the deaconess and Eustasia 13 F + Martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus; Holy Hierarch James (Jacob), bishop of Nisibis 14 S Ven. Martyrs slain at Sinai and Raithu; St. Sava of Serbia; St. Nina (Leave-taking of Theophany) 29th Sunday after Pentecost. Epis. (of the 28th Sunday): Colossians 1:12-18. -
The Liturgical Books
The Liturgical Books In order to be able properly to perform one’s ministry as a chorister or reader (whether set apart or not) it is important to understand the structure of the services. To be an aid to the worship of God by his people, it is helpful to know what is to be read or sung, where it is to be found, in which tone it is to be sung, and where it comes within the service. In order to do this, a familiarity with the liturgical books of the church is necessary. The liturgical books which deal with the daily cycle of services (Vespers, Matins, the Hours, the Divine Liturgy and so forth), may be divided into two main groups: Those which contain the services in their basic structure, with all of the unchanging hymns and prayers in order. Those which contain the variable hymns and prayers, which are inserted into the relevant points of the services and are selected according to the feast or season. (In addition, there is the Book of Needs, commonly called by its Russian name of the “Trebnik”, which contains occasional services – baptisms, weddings, funerals, molebens, &c. – that do not form part of the daily cycle of services.) The first group contains two main books: The Euchologion – containing the various forms of Divine Liturgy as used by the priest and deacon, and usually used by the priest on a stand near the Holy Table. The Horologion – containing Vespers, Matins, and the lesser services of the daily cycle, such as the Hours and Compline. -
Manuel De Liturgie Byzantine
International Journal of Orthodox Theology 4:4 (2013) 185 urn:nbn:de:0276-2013-4107 Job Getcha Review Le Typikon Décrypté. Manuel de liturgie byzantine Les Éditions du CERF, Paris, 2009, 348 p. Reviewed by Viorel Sava In 2009 appeared at the prestigious Parisian publi- shing company, Les Édition du CERF, the work of the Prof. Dr. Viorel Sava is theologian Archimandrite Job Professor of Liturgical Getcha (recently elected as Theology at the Orthodox Archbishop of Telmessos for Theological Faculty of the Russian Orthodox Church “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” in Western Europe, under the University of Iassi, Romania 186 Viorel Sava Ecumenical Patriarchy jurisdiction), professor of liturgy and church history, with the title Le Typikon Décrypté. A Byzantine Eucharistic Liturgy handbook, consisting of one introduction, five chapters, a glossary and general references, summing up 348 pages, the work was published for the first time in French. In 2012 the same paper was published by St Vladimir’s Seminary Press Yonkers (New York), with the title The Typikon Decoded. The handbook is in fact an explanation of the Byzantine Liturgical Practice, the English translation being completed by Professor Paul Meyendorff. The English version of the book follows the same structure as the French translation and counts for 313 pages. In addition to, this edition contains an abbreviations list. The book introduction is signed by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petras from Mount Athos, a brilliant connoisseur and interpret of the Orthodox divine order himself, the author of an exceptional book with the title La Mystagogie du temps liturgique dans les Triodion, published in Paris, 1978. -
The Murderers of God, the Lawless Nation of the Jews
WOMEN FROM WESTERN PROVINCES ON “THE MURDERERS OF GOD, RETREAT IN ALBERTA THE LAWLESS NATION OF THE JEWS …”: Coming to Grips with Some of Our Holy Week Hymns Fr. Bogdan G. Bucur Tis article draws on a larger Sixty-fve Orthodox ror darkly.” We are to humble ourselves and say, “I really am study, “Anti-Jewish Rhetoric women from the three blind. I don’t know what God is doing in my life, or my in Byzantine Hymnography: western provinces of church.” Exegetical and Teo logical Canada (British Colum- Father Michael brought out the icon of the Teotokos Contextualization,” in bia, Alberta, and Sas- holding the Christ-Child. He asked us to notice a range of St. Vladimir’s Teo logical katchewan) enjoyed an- things, and ask ourselves some questions. Te Teotokos Quarterly 62 (2017). other beautiful weekend looks like gentleness, meekness, self-control. She represents in the foothills of the every mother, our mother. Te Word of God comes to us Maryann Kowalsky St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Rocky Mountains September 16–18, 2016, at the Entheos in Jesus Christ. Te Scripture is the Word of God. Te hu- Orthodox Church Calgary, Alberta Retreat Centre, Alberta. Of these, there were ten mother/ man heart can perceive spiritual reality. What does gentleness daughter pairs, two matushkas, one presbytera and one do- smell like? What does peace look like? How is it that an icon brodiyka. Women from twenty diferent Orthodox parishes can be to us a symbol, to which our hearts can say, “Tat is attended, and two from Roman Catholic churches.