Chapter, Paragraph
1 3,1| i.e., “first” or “senior priest”); archpriests have the
2 3,1| elder”) and the chief priest of such a church takes that
3 3,1| divine service he, by the priest’s blessing, recites the
4 3,2| wide sleeves, while the priest’s and bishop’s tunics have
5 3,2| this way of wearing it, the priest’s Orarion or double stole
6 5,1| being fully illumined, the priest, standing before the altar,
7 5,2| petitions being ended, the priest calls out aloud “For to
8 5,2| this exclamation of the priest, the worshippers utter the
9 5,5| Heaven. At this moment, the priest comes out through the north
10 5,5| of God, and seeing in the priest’s entrance a symbol of the
11 5,5| hymn is being sung, the priest enters the sanctuary and
12 5,6| out, “Let us attend!” the priest blesses all present, saying “
13 5,6| and abundant mercies.” The priest concludes these petitions
14 5,6| concluding exclamation the priest again proclaims that we
15 5,6| confirmation of this hope, the priest, after the conclusion of
16 5,7| In reply to this, the priest blesses the people, saying: “
17 5,8| bow their heads and the priest says a prayer in which he
18 5,8| the Vespers office, the priest makes the sign of the Cross
19 6,1| the congregation by the priest. The church is dimly illumined
20 6,1| last Psalms are read, the priest, standing before the Royal
21 6,6| out, “Wisdom! Aright!” The priest then blesses the worshippers
22 6,6| Let us attend!” Then the priest begins the reading, on Sundays
23 6,7| Exclamations uttered by the priest. The first celebrates God
24 6,8| Gates are opened, and the priest calls out “Glory to Thee
25 6,8| Vespers, begin very early, the priest utters these words at sunrise
26 6,8| light. In answer to the priest’s invitation, the faithful
27 7,1| celebrated only by a bishop or a priest; and neither a bishop nor
28 7,1| and neither a bishop nor a priest may celebrate more than
29 7,1| Christians. It is performed by a priest, robed in the full vestments
30 7,1| Taking up the first loaf, the priest makes the sign of the Cross
31 7,1| Lamb was the prototype. The priest lays the Lamb in the middle
32 7,1| second loaf of holy bread the priest takes a small particle in
33 7,1| particles on the paten, the priest covers them with the asterisk,
34 7,1| Infant Jesus dwelt. Then the priest covers the paten and the
35 7,1| elements of the Sacrament, the priest prays, swinging the censer,
36 7,1| that He may keep him, the priest, worthy to celebrate the
37 7,1| candle-bearer and followed by the priest. The lighted candle indicates
38 7,1| before the Royal Gates, the priest gives a blessing towards
39 7,1| Saviour.~ ~The Trisagion.~ The priest concludes the troparion
40 7,1| deacon asks a blessing of the priest: “Bless, Master, the time
41 7,1| stands on the Bema itself; a priest behind the altar next to
42 7,1| attend,” after which the priest blesses the people, wishing
43 7,1| through His Word. Then the priest exclaims, “Wisdom! Aright!
44 7,1| God, glory to Thee.” The priest repeats his invitation, “
45 7,1| poised on his head, the priest holding the chalice in his
46 7,1| by the Royal Gates, the priest places the paten and the
47 7,1| and unity of faith. The priest as he blesses the people,
48 7,1| from the Elements, and the priest fans them with it from above,
49 7,1| sacrifice of praise.” Then the priest blesses their intention,
50 7,1| And with thy spirit.” The priest once more invites the faithful
51 7,1| Sacrament begins with the priest’s exclamation: “Let us give
52 7,1| worshipping the Holy Trinity, the priest lifts the asterisk from
53 7,1| and song of praise, the priest utters the words, in which
54 7,1| respond, “Amen.”~ Then the priest, in fulfillment of Christ’
55 7,1| hymn is being chanted; the priest prays that the Lord may
56 7,1| consecration of the elements, the priest commemorates the members
57 7,1| praying for the dead, the priest prays for the living — that
58 7,1| members of the Church the priest begins while the choir is
59 7,1| meet” is being sung, the priest proceeds with the commemoration
60 7,1| to be commemorated.~ The priest ends the commemoration of
61 7,1| also concludes with the priest’s blessing: “And may the
62 7,1| worshippers wishing the priest the same mercies: “And with
63 7,1| ectenia concludes with the priest’s praying that the Lord
64 7,1| faithful (the choir). Then the priest gives them his blessing
65 7,1| the curtain is drawn; the priest, after the deacon’s exclamation, “
66 7,1| receiving holy communion, the priest breaks the Lamb in four
67 7,1| and Blood of Christ, the priest remembers the resurrection
68 7,1| spoon from the hands of the priest, and very gently kiss the
69 7,1| the communion to each, the priest says: “The servant (or handmaid)
70 7,1| all the communicants, the priest carries the chalice to the
71 7,1| chalice upon the altar, the priest steps out of the sanctuary,
72 7,1| hymn is being sung, the priest censes the chalice, which
73 7,1| paten to the altar, and the priest, taking up the chalice,
74 7,1| thanks have been given the priest blesses the Christians who
75 7,1| name of the Lord.” Then the priest, stepping down from the
76 7,1| singing of the Psalm, the priest distributes pieces of holy
77 7,1| distribution of the Antidoron, the priest blesses the people in the
78 7,1| secret prayers, which the priest recites inaudibly while
79 7,1| a church or because the priest has failed to prepare himself
80 8,1| veneration. For this ceremony the priest dons all the vestments of
81 8,1| exalting the Cross. The priest, having brought out the
82 8,1| exaltation is performed: the priest elevates the Cross, first
83 8,1| of the stairway the high priest met her, and full of the
84 8,1| prayers offered by the priest for the sanctification of
85 8,1| the prayer recited by the priest is shorter,* and at the
86 8,2| initiatory exclamation of the priest is followed by the introductory
87 8,2| Gates are opened and the priest enters with the censer,
88 8,2| paremia is sung. Then the priest takes in his hands a censer
89 8,2| singing is suspended; the priest enters through the northern
90 8,2| the Sacrament. After the priest has entered the Sanctuary,
91 8,2| s Prayer is chanted, the priest offers “Peace be unto all,”
92 8,2| alleluia.”; and when the priest descends from the ambo,
93 8,2| after the prayer which the priest descends from the ambo to
94 8,2| thrice from his hand on each priest’s foot, wipes it with the
95 8,2| the towel and kisses the priest’s hand; and he whose foot
96 8,2| the bishop approaches the priest who sits first on the right
97 8,2| the right hand side; the priest rises from his seat and
98 8,2| shalt know hereafter.” The priest continues to speak in the
99 8,2| part with me.” Then the priest says “Lord, not my feet
100 8,2| not all” — and washes the priest’s foot, after which he returns
101 8,3| moment are closed. Here the priest blesses the beginning of
102 9,1| in a Christian family, a priest is called and prays, in
103 9,1| to His holy temple.” The priest recites this prayer wearing
104 9,1| Christian. Here it is met by the priest, who blesses it (signs it)
105 9,1| fortieth day after birth. The priest meets them in the vestibule,
106 9,1| illumination from Christ. The priest breathes thrice in his face,
107 9,1| hand upon his head. The priest’s breath recalls the breath
108 9,1| the catechumen’s head, the priest recites the preliminary
109 9,1| Trinity.~ In the Exorcisms the priest, in the name of the Almighty,
110 9,1| lair in his heart,” the priest blows on the mouth, brow
111 9,1| question, uttered by the priest: “Dost thou renounce satan
112 9,1| uplifted, “I do.” Then the priest asks thrice “Hast thou renounced
113 9,1| answers, “I have,” and, at the priest’s command, signifies, by
114 9,1| his hands down, and to the priest’s thrice repeated question “
115 9,1| he answers, “I do.” The priest again asks, “Hast thou united
116 9,1| He answers, “I have.” The priest then asks, “Dost thou believe
117 9,1| The last two questions the priest utters thrice, and each
118 9,1| profession of faith, the priest commands him, as a new member
119 9,1| with a prayer in which the priest asks the Lord to count the
120 9,1| Sacrament of Baptism, the priest puts on light-colored or
121 9,1| of Christ our God...” The priest then offers a prayer, “Wherefore,
122 9,1| water being consecrated, the priest proceeds to consecrate the
123 9,1| material for the Sacrament, the priest now proceeds to prepare
124 9,1| the neophyte’s soul the priest invests him with a white
125 9,1| immediately after the robing. The priest makes the sign of the Cross
126 9,1| to live in Christ.~ The priest now walks three times around
127 9,1| in an emergency, when no priest is to be had, and the Candidate
128 9,1| entirely valid. Later on, the priest does not repeat the rite,
129 9,1| to church, and there the priest loosed the girdle of their
130 9,1| reading of the Gospel. The priest first prays, “O Thou Who,
131 9,1| After the ablution, the priest performs the tonsure in
132 9,1| community of Christians.”) The priest meets the neophyte at the
133 9,2| confesses his sins before a priest, but does not receive absolution.
134 9,2| the Orthodox Church. The priest then conducts him into the
135 9,2| hears a prayer in which the priest beseeches the Lord to grant
136 9,2| kneels once more, and the priest pronounces over him the
137 9,3| stone. The bishop, or a priest deputed by him, comes with
138 9,3| be built, the bishop or priest censes around the spot and
139 9,3| ceremony, the bishop or priest plants a wooden Cross on
140 9,3| consecrator is — a bishop, or a priest deputed by a bishop.~ ~Consecration
141 9,3| after which the bishop and priest put away the aprons, and
142 9,3| cero-mastix, and which a priest, having taken it from him,
143 9,3| Consecration of a Church by a Priest.~ The special features of
144 9,3| church when performed by a priest are the following: 1) It
145 9,4| receives absolution from the priest, and at the same moment
146 9,4| confession of sins before the priest; and absolution from sins
147 9,4| confesses his sins to the priest, concealing nothing, adducing
148 9,4| kneels and bows his head. The priest then prays that the Lord
149 9,4| stole) in token that he, the priest, through the grace of God,
150 9,4| transgressions; and I, an unworthy priest, by His power which is given
151 9,4| from the presence of the priest a pure and holy man.~ As
152 9,4| worldly obligations.~ The priest who receives a penitent’
153 9,4| while the penitent is the priest’s “spiritual child.” The
154 9,5| Liturgy.~ ~The Ordination of a Priest.~ The deacon who is to be
155 9,5| deacon who is to be ordained priest is led out by deacons into
156 9,5| altar is conducted by a priest. The candidate bends both
157 9,5| gives to the newly ordained priest the vestments of his office:
158 9,5| services). The newly ordained priest then takes part in the further
159 9,5| ceremony indicates that the priest is the performer of the
160 9,5| bishop. The newly ordained priest then receives holy communion
161 9,5| Rite of Betrothal.~ The priest, preceded by a candle bearer,
162 9,5| ceremony of betrothal. The priest takes from the altar the
163 9,5| betrothal ends with the priest praying “that the Lord may
164 9,5| preceded by the censing priest. This serves to remind them
165 9,5| commandments of the Lord, which the priest proclaims, that their good
166 9,5| their stand on a rug. The priest now asks them, each separately,
167 9,5| negative to the second, the priest proceeds to the actual rite
168 9,5| blameless life. Then the priest says three prayers, in which
169 9,5| After these prayers the priest places a crown on the head
170 9,5| with wine is brought. The priest blesses the cup, and presents
171 9,5| other joy and sorrow. The priest takes them by the hand and
172 9,5| the conjugal union.~ The priest now takes the crowns from
173 9,5| bow their heads at the priest’s invitation, listen to
174 9,5| church in the presence of the priest, who prayed to God to preserve
175 9,6| but in case of need, one priest suffices.~ A dish with wheat
176 9,6| Holy Spirit. After this the priest prays “that the Lord may
177 9,6| his bed. Then the senior priest takes the Gospel, opens
178 10 | preliminary exclamation by the priest, “O Heavenly King...” is
179 10 | Ectenia, after which the priest recites the special prayer
180 10,2| Litia are chanted; then the priest casts earth crosswise upon
181 10,2| and Babes. — The body of a priest is not washed; but sponged
182 10,3| Liturgy, performed by the priest and the deacon. The Bishop’
183 11 | asking the blessing of the priest to perform his deacon’s
184 11 | s duties) is done by the priest.~ * The present formulation
185 11 | In this prayer the priest asks of the Lord that “He
186 11 | the fruit of the vine, the priest asks “that the Lord may
187 11 | In this prayer, the priest asks that, through partaking
|