Chapter, Paragraph
1 1,1 | the Orthodox Christian Church means a series of prayers,
2 1,1 | in the name of the whole Church, or of a community of Christians,
3 1,2 | the Head of the Christian Church, while himself complying
4 1,2 | laid the foundation of His Church’s public worship. Thus it
5 2 | The Christian Church Building~ ~
6 2,1 | Names of the Various Church Buildings.~We give the name
7 2,1 | taken together forms the Church, therefore the buildings
8 2,1 | likewise called churches.~Every church is consecrated to God and
9 2,1 | therefore entitled “a temple or church of God.” But apart from
10 2,1 | general designation, each church has its own particular appellation,
11 2,1 | particular appellation, such as: “Church of the Holy Trinity,” “of
12 2,1 | the chief founder of the church.*~When one town or city
13 2,1 | feast days, not only the church’s own parishioners, but
14 2,1 | separated from the body of the church only by a curtain, or even
15 2,2 | peaceful harbor, so the Church, governed by Christ, saves
16 2,2 | all things. Sometimes a church is given the shape of a
17 2,2 | circle in token that the Church of Christ (i.e., the community
18 2,2 | on a dark night, so the Church helps him to walk along
19 2,2 | inner arrangement of the church.~The entrance into a church
20 2,2 | church.~The entrance into a church is almost always from the
21 2,2 | always from the west, the church itself being turned with
22 2,2 | purpose is changed into a church, or if a church is arranged
23 2,2 | changed into a church, or if a church is arranged in a private
24 2,3 | Arrangement.~The interior of a church is divided into several
25 2,3 | vestments; 4) the Body of the Church, for the worshippers; 5)
26 2,4 | the eastern part of the Church is set aside. It is somewhat
27 2,4 | consecrated to the service of the church are not permitted to enter
28 2,4 | demands that a Christian church shall be consecrated by
29 2,4 | with their prayers. If the church is consecrated by a bishop,
30 2,4 | the eastern side of the church above the Bema, is a representation
31 2,5 | after the Liturgy. In our church two sponges are used. With
32 2,6 | Here are preserved the church vessels, the books which
33 2,7 | The Nave of the Church.~The Sanctuary, together
34 2,7 | Saviour, and next to it the “church icon,” i.e., a representation
35 2,7 | honor of whom or which the church has been named and dedicated.
36 2,7 | presentation of the different church feasts, i.e., of the principal
37 2,7 | the history of Christ’s church and her doctrine.~The Ikonostas
38 2,7 | divine services outside the church. They are fastened to long
39 2,7 | represent the banners of the church, under which Christians,
40 2,7 | the history of Christ’s church.~Over against the Royal
41 2,7 | the western side of the church, is an entrance door leading
42 2,7 | decorated — also simply the “church door,” because it leads
43 2,7 | because it leads into the church. In large churches there
44 2,7 | and southern sides of the church; through these the worshippers
45 2,8 | the vestibules that the church orders the penitential services
46 2,8 | were forbidden to enter the church, and here implored the prayers
47 2,9 | the illumination of the church is increased during solemn
48 2,9 | For the illumination of a church, two things are needed:
49 2,9 | and candelabra used in the church, some are portable and some
50 2,11| Bell Ringing.~Every church has bells. They are placed
51 2,11| bell-chamber,” or else next to the church in specially erected structures
52 2,11| express the triumph of the Church, and to announce the principal
53 3,1 | divided into celebrants and church servitors. Only those persons
54 3,1 | service and government of the Church; with regard to public divine
55 3,1 | all the sacraments of the church with the exception of ordination,
56 3,1 | the chief priest of such a church takes that of protopresbyter.
57 3,1 | he is called hierodeacon.~Church Servitors (clerics and acolytes)
58 3,1 | to certain services in a church used as a place of worship.
59 3,1 | latter’s duty is to keep the church neat and clean and to ring
60 3,1 | reading and singing. All the church servitors together make
61 3,1 | servitors together make up the “church staff,” because they are
62 3,1 | they are attached to the church. They are also called “clerics”
63 3,1 | the lower includes the church servitors.~ ~
64 3,2 | persons officiating in a church used to wear, while performing
65 3,2 | was white, in token that church service demands holiness
66 3,2 | services. Such is the origin of church vestments or holy garments.
67 3,2 | fashions; only the cut of church vestments, used while officiating
68 3,2 | of the ministers of the Church. All these garments were,
69 3,2 | themselves wholly to the Church. Of the church servitors
70 3,2 | wholly to the Church. Of the church servitors only the sub-deacons
71 3,2 | indication that a minister of the Church must hope, not in his own
72 3,2 | Omophorion was added to the church vestments, as one distinctively
73 3,2 | thus they were added to the church vestments as signs of distinction.
74 4,1 | collections of prayers, or church services. All these services
75 4,6 | Anna the Prophetess.” The Church prepares for some of the
76 5,1 | the Royal Gates open, the Church being fully illumined, the
77 5,2 | unite them all into one Church); “for this holy temple (
78 5,2 | for various members of the Church and the State: “For the
79 5,2 | Orthodox episcopate of the Church of Russia (or another national
80 5,2 | Russia (or another national Church under which the service
81 5,2 | Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad; for our Lord the
82 5,2 | or priests who govern the Church), “the diaconate in Christ,” (
83 5,2 | persons attached to the Church, including readers, choristers,
84 5,2 | holy monastery, wherein the Church is), “for every city and
85 5,2 | petitions for the members of the Church and the State, we pray to
86 5,6 | parable” or “allegory.” In church services the name is given
87 5,6 | here (buried around the church) (and in all other places);
88 5,6 | the Parishioners of the church), those that bring forth
89 5,6 | for the adorning of the church, or do other works for the
90 5,6 | holy and most venerable church, that labor (for the good
91 5,6 | labor (for the good of the church), that sing, and for the
92 5,8 | into the vestibule of the church, there to perform the Litiá.
93 5,8 | is performed inside the church, by the western entrance.~
94 5,8 | from the vestibule into the church, and stand in the middle
95 6,1 | congregation by the priest. The church is dimly illumined and the
96 6,2 | the illumination of the church is increased, to signify
97 6,3 | censing goes on in the whole church.~ ~
98 6,4 | lectern in the middle of the church, the clergy sing a short
99 6,6 | feast-days in the middle of the church before the icon of the feast.
100 6,6 | lectern in the middle of the church; if it is a Sunday, the
101 6,6 | brought into the middle of the church. The worshippers reverently
102 6,7 | out into the middle of the church. From this manner of singing,
103 6,9 | Mother of God, save the Church authorities, and render
104 7,1 | to give the name to that church service during which the
105 7,1 | be celebrated only in a church, at an altar on which there
106 7,1 | of living members of the Church and are laid below the Lamb;
107 7,1 | preferably on those days. The Church has preserved the custom
108 7,1 | out into the middle of the Church bearing the Apostle and
109 7,1 | for all the members of the Church, living or dead, in the
110 7,1 | Righteousness, — unite them to His Church; that He may save them,
111 7,1 | catechumens remained in the church. At the present time, when
112 7,1 | are any catechumens in a church, consequently the “departure
113 7,1 | catechumens have left the church, the deacon calls out, “
114 7,1 | commemoration of the members of the Church; (c) the preparation for
115 7,1 | pray first for the Russian Church (or other national Church),
116 7,1 | Church (or other national Church), the local bishop and all
117 7,1 | mentioning the members of the Church, the celebrants also mention
118 7,1 | no need of guarding the church doors, these words are uttered
119 7,1 | those of the faithful in the church, the bells are set tolling (
120 7,1 | All who are present in the Church express their veneration
121 7,1 | commemorates the members of the Church, in whose behalf they have
122 7,1 | commemoration of the members of the Church the priest begins while
123 7,1 | commemoration of the members of the church and when it is ended he
124 7,1 | governors and pastors of the Church: “Among the first, remember,
125 7,1 | Orthodox episcopate of the Church of Russia”; (or another
126 7,1 | Russia”; (or another national Church), “and our lord the Very
127 7,1 | Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad; and our lord, the
128 7,1 | commemoration of the members of the Church with the prayer: “And grant
129 7,1 | commemoration of the members of the Church. This part of the Liturgy
130 7,1 | of all the members of the Church, begins the preparation
131 7,1 | are to go forth out of the church, reminding, them that they
132 7,1 | inheritance, the fullness of His Church (i.e., the entire Christian
133 7,1 | When, on days on which the church statutes prescribe that
134 7,1 | either from the lack of a church or because the priest has
135 8,1 | that those absent from the church may, mentally at least,
136 8,1 | veneration of the Cross, the church bells ring a carillon during
137 8,1 | keeping a strict fast. The Church prescribes that on this
138 8,1 | procession to the principal church of the city.~ The Liturgy
139 8,1 | placed in the middle of the church, symbolizing the light of
140 8,1 | feast in the middle of the church, standing before the lighted
141 8,1 | Peter’s day. This fast the Church designates as “the Apostles’,”
142 8,1 | the 15th of August. The Church calls it “Dormition Fast,”
143 8,1 | palace and carried to the church of St. Sophia, and the ceremony
144 8,2 | for two more Sundays, the Church speaks of the fruits which
145 8,2 | before — Saturday — the Church commemorates, i.e., prays
146 8,2 | latter departing from the church. The faithful remain, and
147 8,2 | of food forbidden by the Church, secretly ordered that every
148 8,2 | come into the middle of the church, bearing icons of the Saviour
149 8,2 | i.e., separation from the Church or exclusion from the community
150 8,2 | of the Orthodox Faith and Church and those who rebel against
151 8,2 | out into the middle of the church as on the day of the Exaltation,
152 8,2 | The Cross remains in the church all through the week, but
153 8,2 | entire life of Christ, the Church prescribes to read all the
154 8,2 | placed in the middle of the church (the robing platform); there
155 8,2 | with the Liturgy. At the Church of the Dormition in Moscow
156 8,2 | last year’s myrrh to the church, and place them on and around
157 8,2 | connection of the Russian Church with the Greek, from which
158 8,2 | placed in the middle of the church. This is a painting, generally
159 8,2 | either outside around the church, or inside around the Sanctuary
160 8,2 | around the Sanctuary and church, in memory of the entombing
161 8,2 | place in the middle of the church the ecteniæ are recited
162 8,2 | and the decorations of the church are changed. The Gospel
163 8,2 | the night following in the church. After the service begins
164 8,2 | Epitaphion from the middle of the church, through the Royal Gates
165 8,3 | joyful and radiant, the Church names this day “the Feast
166 8,3 | procession and walk around the church on the outside, singing: “
167 8,3 | the procession enters the church. The Matins service begins
168 8,3 | each ode every part of the church is censed. After the canon,
169 8,3 | who were not present in church.* This rite refers to the
170 8,3 | the first Pascha day the Church consecrates eggs, cheese
171 8,4 | called “Spirit-Day.” The Church prepares for this feast
172 8,4 | of this great feast, the Church dispenses from fasting on
173 9,1 | performed together, and form one church rite.~ In view of the great
174 9,1 | tonsuring, and joining the Church.~ ~Prayer For a Woman Who
175 9,1 | Therefore the Orthodox Church cares for the babes of Christian
176 9,1 | in the name of the entire Church, “that the Lord may preserve
177 9,1 | obedience to the statutes of the Church, the babe, on the eighth
178 9,1 | not before the door of a church, but at home, because the
179 9,1 | should bring her babe to church on the fortieth day after
180 9,1 | under the shelter of the Church. Laying his hand on the
181 9,1 | him a member of His holy Church. At the words “Expel from
182 9,1 | performed for adult persons in a church, in the presence of the
183 9,1 | not allow of taking it to church.~ ~The Order of Baptism
184 9,1 | to express the joy of the Church at receiving a new member.
185 9,1 | the triumph and joy of the Church, because a Christian has
186 9,1 | then enters it into the church register.~ ~Note 2nd. The
187 9,1 | towards their godchildren, the Church rules that they shall have
188 9,1 | doctrines of the Orthodox Church, and themselves Orthodox.
189 9,1 | eighth day they came to church, and there the priest loosed
190 9,1 | passed into the Christian Church. Christians shear the hair
191 9,1 | The Rite of Joining the Church.~ The neophyte has now the
192 9,1 | now the right to enter the church, to take part in all the
193 9,1 | The first time he comes to church, he does so with some solemnity
194 9,1 | is called, “joining the Church,” (i.e., “being admitted
195 9,1 | neophyte at the entrance of the church, takes him or her on his
196 9,1 | is admitted to join the Church in the name of the Father,
197 9,1 | carries the neophyte into the church with the words, “He (or
198 9,1 | Pausing in the middle of the church, he repeats the words of
199 9,1 | adds: “In the midst of the church shall he hymn Thee.” Once
200 9,1 | their admission into the church usually takes place the
201 9,2 | receive non-Orthodox into the Church following one of the three
202 9,2 | chrismation was performed in their church, — by means of repentance
203 9,2 | doctrine of the Orthodox Church. The priest then conducts
204 9,2 | then conducts him into the church, saying: “Enter into the
205 9,2 | saying: “Enter into the Church of God and cast away all
206 9,2 | kneels in the middle of the church before a lectern, upon which
207 9,2 | joined unto the Holy Catholic Church. After this prayer he rises
208 9,3 | The Consecration of a Church.~ The material church is
209 9,3 | a Church.~ The material church is the visible image of
210 9,3 | spiritual body called, “the Church of Christ,” the Head of
211 9,3 | human being enters into the Church through the Sacraments of
212 9,3 | Confirmation, so every new church becomes a House of God,
213 9,3 | Laying of the Foundation of a Church.~ This rite is performed
214 9,3 | person in whose name the church is to be built, the bishop
215 9,3 | Most High hath founded this church; God is in the midst of
216 9,3 | forth in whose honor the church is founded, and giving the
217 9,3 | persons at whose expense the church is to be built, and also
218 9,3 | of the Consecration of a Church.~ On the eve of the consecration
219 9,3 | consecration of a newly-built church an All-night Vigil is celebrated
220 9,3 | transferred to the nearest church and there placed upon the
221 9,3 | the altar. If there is no church near enough, they remain
222 9,3 | carry the table with the church belongings into the Sanctuary;
223 9,3 | Antimins prepared for the new church. The priests take sponges
224 9,3 | the consecration of the church. Preceded by candle-bearers,
225 9,3 | he walks around the whole church, censing it as he goes;
226 9,3 | martyrs, to the nearest church, to bring thence the holy
227 9,3 | procession to the newly built church and walks around it on the
228 9,3 | and establishing of the Church of the Saviour, at the same
229 9,3 | Thereupon the choir enters the church and the doors are closed
230 9,3 | circumambulation of the church signifies that the building
231 9,3 | were in the newly built church itself, the bishop takes
232 9,3 | in procession around the church. If this is not possible,
233 9,3 | the western door of the church, or before a curtain hung
234 9,3 | before the closed door of the church, the bishop calls out, “
235 9,3 | The choir, from within the church, sing in reply, “Who is
236 9,3 | choir reply from within the church, “Who is this King of Glory?”
237 9,3 | by the choir within the church. At this moment, the doors
238 9,3 | for the builders of the church and dismissal of the consecration
239 9,3 | of the Consecration of a Church by a Priest.~ The special
240 9,3 | of the consecration of a church when performed by a priest
241 9,3 | in procession around the church; 7) no holy relics are placed
242 9,4 | separates himself from the Church, and forfeits the right
243 9,4 | again joining them to His Church. This power the Apostles
244 9,4 | his sins before the entire Church or her representative, and
245 9,4 | and join him to His holy Church, covers his head with the
246 9,5 | i.e., to govern a Christian church. As the grace of the Holy
247 9,5 | deacon-elect from the middle of the church before the bishop, who is
248 9,5 | forever to the service of the church. During this act he kisses
249 9,5 | indicate that our Russian Church received the cheirotony
250 9,5 | priesthood from the Greek Church, and to this day preserves
251 9,5 | deacons into the middle of the church, before the bishop, after
252 9,5 | Service Book (manual of church services). The newly ordained
253 9,5 | placed in the middle of the church, where the bishops are seated.
254 9,5 | Councils, the traditions of the Church, and to obey the Holy Synod
255 9,5 | ambo in the middle of the church.~ ~Note 1.— The Consecration
256 9,5 | enter the service of the Church, do not receive holy orders,
257 9,5 | ambo in the middle of the church, where the bishop is at
258 9,5 | union of Christ with the Church, the conjugal union between
259 9,5 | which unites Christ and his Church is invoked on them for the
260 9,5 | receive the blessing of the Church on their conjugal life,
261 9,5 | engagement before God and the Church; the rings are the pledge
262 9,5 | rites must be performed in a church, in the presence of witnesses,
263 9,5 | place of the betrothal in church, which must all the same
264 9,5 | relatives and intimates. In the church betrothal this promise is
265 9,5 | affirmed before the entire church.~ ~The Rite of Betrothal.~
266 9,5 | table in the middle of the church. Then he approaches the
267 9,5 | the main entrance of the church, where the bride and groom
268 9,5 | conducts them into the church, walking before them and
269 9,5 | prescribed by the canons of the Church that the sponsor, or, as
270 9,5 | the eighth removed them in church in the presence of the priest,
271 9,5 | published in the couple’s parish church for three consecutive Sundays.
272 9,5 | Marriage.~ The Orthodox Church allows widowers and widows,
273 9,6 | according to the canons of the Church, performed by seven priests;
274 9,6 | Publicly Administered:— In the Church of the Dormition, at Moscow,
275 10 | and honor a given parish church has been named and dedicated;
276 10,1 | all together only in the church, for services, in the refectory
277 10,1 | generally takes place in church, before the Liturgy or after
278 10,1 | monastery) come forth from the church to fetch him, with lighted
279 10,1 | and conduct him into the church. The novice performs three
280 10,2 | Departing Soul. — The Orthodox Church bestows on the dying a blessing
281 10,2 | under the shelter of the Church of Christ.~ ~The Reading
282 10,2 | forth of the Body to the Church. — The body is taken to
283 10,2 | The body is taken to a church before burial. Just before
284 10,2 | brother is carried to the church to the chanting of the Trisagion,
285 10,2 | placed in the middle of the church, facing the Sanctuary, and
286 10,2 | absolution,” in which the Church remits all the departed’
287 10,2 | that the prayers of the Church have weight with God and
288 10,2 | either in a cemetery by a church, or within the church building,
289 10,2 | a church, or within the church building, to signify that
290 10,2 | who have been true to the Church in life, are sheltered by
291 10,2 | After the Burial. — The Church cares for Christians in
292 10,2 | certain days set apart by the Church for the commemoration of
293 10,2 | Christians generally. The church services for these days
294 10,2 | The body is borne to the church in procession, the church
295 10,2 | church in procession, the church bells ringing a carillon.
296 10,2 | a carillon. Before every church which the procession passes,
297 10,2 | after a special rite, the Church praying not that the departed’
298 10,3 | grades and dignities of the church. The Horológion (Chasoslóv)
299 10,3 | for the Reception into the Church of Members of Alien Creeds,”
300 11 | performed in Moscow, in the Church of the Dormition.~ The order
301 11 | regalia are brought into the church, — the purple mantle, the
302 11 | Emperor and Empress enter the church, one of the Metropolitans
303 11 | Majesties then proceed into the church, preceded by the bishops,
304 11 | them in the middle of the church, while the bishops station
305 11 | protector of the Christian Church, after the rite for the
306 11 | form the dead was built the church of the Resurrection; in
307 11 | Petersburg we have the church named for Venerable Isaac
308 11 | belongs to the history of the Church.~ *A troparion is a brief
309 11 | of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. In Imperial
310 11 | or priests who govern the Church), “for our Bishop N.,...
311 11 | followed by petitions for the Church authorities, etc.~ †
312 11 | at the Great Entry, the Church regulations forbid prostrations
313 11 | Artos is carried around the church every day during the week
314 11 | nowadays, Sunday.~ *The Church rules that a woman shall
315 11 | was the foundation of the Church and of the Priesthood.~ *
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