BYZANTINE DAILY WORSHIP with Byzantine Beviary, the Three Liturgies, Propers of the Day and various Offices

Most Reverend Joseph Raya, Archbishop of Aka, Haifa, Nazareth and All Galilee Baron José de Vinck, Docteur en Droit of Louvain University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROLOGUE...... 5 DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. BASIL Liturgy of Preparation...... 305 GENERAL INTRODUCTION Liturgy of Offering...... 319 I. Byzantine Spirituality...... 7 Liturgy of Holly Communion...... 339 II. Byzantine Prayer...... 14 Liturgy of Thanksgiving...... 342 III. The Icon...... 17 IV. The Holy Table...... 19 LITURGY OF THE PRESANCTIFIED SPECIES V. Sacred Gestures...... 20 Particularities...... 350 Celebration of the Liturgy...... 351 THE DIVINE OFFICE COMMUNION PRAYERS...... 395 Introduction I. Obligation...... 25 BENEDICTION OF THE MOST II. Proper disposition...... 25 BLESSED SACRAMENT...... 402 III. Singing...... 26 IV. Liturgical books...... 27 PROPER OF ORDINARY WEEKDAYS...... 405

HOROLOGION THEOTOKIA OF THE WEEK...... 410 Office of Vespers...... 37 The Prayer at the Super Table...... 76 THE LITURGICAL YEAR The Order of the Compline...... 77 Office of Great Compline...... 89 MENAION...... 429 Cycle of the Octo-Echos...... 123 The Order of Matins...... 152 TRIODION Office of Lauds...... 189 The Time before Lent...... 773 The Great and Holy Time of Lent...... 787 The Canonical Hours Great and Holy Week...... 821 Office of Prime...... 207 Office of Tierce...... 217 PENTECOSTARION Office of Sext...... 226 Easter Sunday...... 843 Office of None...... 237 Office of the Resurrection...... 865 New Week...... 867 The weeks after Easter...... 873 THE DIVINE LITURGY DIVINE LITURGY OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM FROM PENTECOST TO HOLY CROSS...... 897 Liturgy of Preparation...... 249 THE ORDER OF PENANCE...... 925 Liturgy of Offering...... 275 OFFICE OF CONSOLATION or PARACLISIS...935 Liturgy of Holly Communion...... 291 Liturgy of Thanksgiving...... 295 ACATHIST HYMN...... 957 THE FUNERAL OF THE DEAD...... 981 INDEX ...... 1013

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