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1 2,2 | Christians are guided to this day; nine crests remind us of
2 2,4 | for the priests. In our day, the episcopal Cathedræ
3 2,8 | monasteries the vestibule to this day serves as dining-room or
4 2,9 | night services, but during day services as well. They signify
5 2,11| are rung in this way all day.~3) Every bell is struck
6 3,2 | of bishops at the present day.~They wear a Cross on their
7 4,1 | twenty four hours of the day. They express our remembrance
8 4,2 | from 3 to 6 a.m.). The day began at 6 a.m. by our reckoning,
9 4,2 | began each portion of the day by common prayer. This resulted
10 4,2 | and Ninth Hours for the day. Besides these, in fulfillment
11 4,2 | Christians celebrate every day the Liturgy, or, if not
12 4,3 | The Weekly Cycle.~Every day of the week is consecrated
13 4,3 | of Christ, as being the day of Judas’ treason; Thursday,
14 4,3 | the Cross, as being the day of the Crucifixion; Saturday,
15 4,3 | hymns, different for each day of the week, which enter
16 4,3 | two weeks after Christmas day, the week of the Publican
17 4,3 | peculiar features of every day of the week, and thus is
18 4,4 | The Yearly Cycle.~Every day of every month, every day
19 4,4 | day of every month, every day of the year is consecrated
20 4,4 | hymns and prayers for the day of the week, introducing
21 4,4 | which change with every day of the year. This forms
22 4,6 | Paschal Feast.~— as being the day of the Resurrection of Our
23 4,6 | on Thursday, the fortieth day after Pascha; Pentecost,
24 4,6 | on Sunday, the fiftieth day after Pascha; and the day
25 4,6 | day after Pascha; and the day of the Exaltation of the
26 4,6 | Over and above this, the day following upon many of the
27 4,6 | feast commemorates. Thus the day after that of the Nativity
28 4,6 | to the Mother of God; the day after the Epiphany there
29 4,6 | St. John the Baptist; the day after the Pentecost, in
30 4,6 | of the Holy Spirit; the day after the Nativity of the
31 4,6 | Joachim and St. Anna; the day after the Annunciation is
32 4,6 | Archangel Gabriel”; the day after the Presentation of
33 4,6 | troparion — or verse — for the day. Troparion for the Nativity
34 4,8 | give thanks to God for the day, and express the hope that
35 4,8 | the angels, who, night and day, glorify the Lord, and as
36 4,8 | ready to give answer on the Day of Judgment to Christ, who
37 4,9 | memory of whom or which the day is consecrated. The second
38 4,9 | glorification of the Saint of the day or of the event commemorated
39 4,9 | event commemorated on that day. It consists of hymns from
40 4,9 | the four watches of the day, and which, to Christians,
41 4,9 | follow: the troparion for the day, the Theotokion (a hymn
42 4,9 | the kontakion* for the day, the prayer “Thou Who at
43 4,9 | consecrated to the memories of the day.~ ~ ~
44 5,6 | lessons from Scripture for the day.* From its importance, the
45 5,6 | which the services of the day are dedicated. These hymns
46 6,3 | person commemorated on the day, is performed with especial
47 6,6 | commemorated on each given day. On Sundays, the lessons
48 6,6 | the Gospel lesson, if the day is a feast-day, veneration
49 6,7 | from the dead on the third day, now as a symbol of the
50 6,7 | special features of the day.~ ~Note. — These ecteniæ
51 6,8 | the Father. Amen.~“Every day will I bless Thee, and I
52 6,8 | O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. Blessed art
53 7,1 | than one Liturgy in one day. The celebrant must necessarily
54 7,1 | with one Antimins, in one day.~ The time appointed for
55 7,1 | and the kontakion for the day or feast, in which are pictured
56 7,1 | Paschal week and on the day of Pentecost, the following
57 7,1 | pledges we then gave. On the day of the Exaltation of the
58 7,1 | reading of the lesson for the day.~ The reading of the Apostle
59 7,1 | i.e., of the lesson for the day out of one of the four evangelists.
60 7,1 | and is maintained to this day, as a protection against
61 7,1 | relates to the memories of the day and the lessons from the
62 7,1 | Thy righteousness all the day long. Alleluia” (i.e., help
63 7,1 | we may through this whole day study to live righteously,
64 7,1 | January, that being the day dedicated to the memory
65 8,1 | September 8th. The following day is dedicated to the memory
66 8,1 | Empire, the hymns for the day contain principally prayers
67 8,1 | in the troparion for the day: “Save, O Lord, Thy people
68 8,1 | Fast” because it begins the day after that consecrated to
69 8,1 | November). Already from the day of the Virgin’s Entry into
70 8,1 | prescribes that on this day boiled wheat be the only
71 8,1 | Kutyá), irrespective of the day of the week. As to the services
72 8,1 | differ according to the day of the week. If it falls
73 8,1 | the Great;* on Christmas Day itself the Liturgy of John
74 8,1 | Vespers entry; 4) on Christmas Day, the Liturgy of Basil the
75 8,1 | Compline and Matins. — On the day of the feast itself, after
76 8,1 | Emperor Alexander I.~ On the day following the Nativity,
77 8,1 | and Fridays between the day of the Nativity and the
78 8,1 | Lord, celebrated on the 6th day of January, is also called
79 8,1 | Baptism on the vigil of this day, hence it also received
80 8,1 | The services on this day are the same as on the day
81 8,1 | day are the same as on the day of the Nativity of Christ.
82 8,1 | of Christ. The vigil is a day of fast as strict as that
83 8,1 | the Nativity; and on the day following the faithful congregate
84 8,1 | feature of the service on the day of the Epiphany is “the
85 8,1 | churches, it is repeated on the day of the feast after the Liturgy,
86 8,1 | used to receive on this day, and of the vows which we
87 8,1 | of Moses, on the fortieth day after the birth of the first-born
88 8,1 | shekels. On the fortieth day after the birth of Jesus,
89 8,1 | February 2nd, and the following day is dedicated to the memory
90 8,1 | the 25th of March; on the day following, the faithful
91 8,1 | Annunciation are determined by the day on which it falls. If on
92 8,1 | Vespers; if on any other day of the week — with Compline,
93 8,1 | Hours. At Matins on the day of this feast the Polyeleos
94 8,1 | Annunciation falls on the first day of Easter. In that case,
95 8,1 | Annunciation as for the day on which the feast falls:
96 8,1 | of June. On the following day the faithful congregate
97 8,1 | the vigil of St. Peter’s day. This fast the Church designates
98 8,1 | to the churches on this day, for consecration, the first-fruits
99 8,1 | in the troparion for the day: “Thou wast transfigured
100 8,1 | August and lasting until the day of the feast — the 15th
101 8,1 | in the troparion for the day: “In giving birth thou didst
102 8,1 | August. As men, on this day, once forgot righteousness
103 8,1 | ordered that it should be a day of fasting, as a reminder
104 8,1 | Procession of the Cross.~ On this day — the 1st of August — two
105 8,1 | victories gained on this day: one by the Greek Emperor
106 8,1 | This is done as on the day of the Exaltation. Only
107 8,1 | the great blessing on the day of the Epiphany, in that
108 8,2 | Christian feast, Easter, “the Day of the Pascha.” Some of
109 8,2 | Resurrection are sung up to the day of the Ascension; then for
110 8,2 | I tremble at the fearful day of judgment; but trusting
111 8,2 | essence of the hymns of the day is expressed in the Psalm: “
112 8,2 | the Gospel is that on the Day of Judgment, that we, in
113 8,2 | the eating of meat. On the day before — Saturday — the
114 8,2 | Lenten service. The last day of the week, Sunday, is
115 8,2 | lesson, at the Liturgy of the day, commands us to forgive
116 8,2 | is why Christians on this day ask one another’s forgiveness
117 8,2 | mutually reconciled. Hence the day is called “Forgiveness Sunday.”~ ~
118 8,2 | Amen.” At Matins, every day except Saturday and Sunday, “
119 8,2 | of the troparia for the day, special troparia are read,
120 8,2 | O Thou Who on the sixth day and in the sixth hour didst
121 8,2 | yet the memories of the day demand the comfort of the
122 8,2 | censer, or — if it be a day on which a reading from
123 8,2 | and two paremiæ for the day are read; on feast-days
124 8,2 | The special feature of the day’s service consists in this,
125 8,2 | of the church as on the day of the Exaltation, for veneration,
126 8,2 | Mary of Egypt. On this day the Liturgy of the Presanctified
127 8,2 | the deliverance, on this day, of Constantinople from
128 8,2 | From this ceremony the day has the name of Palm Sunday.~
129 8,2 | essence of the hymns of this day and the meaning of the ceremony
130 8,2 | special features of the day are the following: A paremia
131 8,2 | sings: “Receive me this day, O Son of God, as a partaker
132 8,2 | begin at the tenth hour of day, (three p.m). At this service,
133 8,2 | Annunciation happens on this day, Vespers take place earlier,
134 8,2 | Liturgy is celebrated on this day after the rite of Basil
135 8,2 | has reference to the next day — Sunday, the hymns commemorating
136 8,2 | evening entry, which on this day takes place with the Gospel,
137 8,2 | should spend this entire day and the night following
138 8,3 | radiant, the Church names this day “the Feast of Feasts” and “
139 8,3 | It is customary on this day to read the Gospel in several
140 8,3 | Heaven. On the first Pascha day the Church consecrates eggs,
141 8,4 | first name is given to this day because it is dedicated
142 8,4 | to the fact that on that day, for the first time after
143 8,4 | week, which is the fortieth day from Pascha Sunday, is commemorated
144 8,4 | substance of the hymns for this day is expressed in the troparion: — “
145 8,4 | world.”~ ~On the fiftieth day after Pascha Sunday and
146 8,4 | for two days. The first day of this feast is sacred
147 8,4 | and is called “Trinity Day.” The second day is celebrated
148 8,4 | Trinity Day.” The second day is celebrated in honor of
149 8,4 | commemorating all the dead the day before. On Trinity Day,
150 8,4 | the day before. On Trinity Day, Vespers follow immediately
151 8,4 | churches and houses on this day with trees and flowers,
152 8,4 | following it.~ Troparion for the day. — “Blessed art Thou, O
153 8,4 | being unknown. With this day ends the series of movable
154 9,1 | the babe, on the eighth day after birth, is brought
155 9,1 | in a person’s life, the day which is sacred to the memory
156 9,1 | called a person’s “name’s day,” and, to that person, is
157 9,1 | hence a person’s “name’s day” is also called his or her “
158 9,1 | called his or her “angel’s day.”~ ~Prayer on the Fortieth
159 9,1 | Prayer on the Fortieth Day After Birth. In imitation
160 9,1 | Virgin who, on the fortieth day after the birth of the Infant
161 9,1 | to church on the fortieth day after birth. The priest
162 9,1 | bandages. On the eighth day they came to church, and
163 9,1 | infants, at the present day, are, usually baptized before
164 9,1 | baptized before the fortieth day after birth, the rite of
165 9,1 | takes place the fortieth day, when the mother brings
166 9,1 | receive communion on that day and the child also receives
167 9,1 | custom prevails to this day.~ The Sacrament of Baptism
168 9,3 | asterisk and aër.~ On the day of consecration, the sacred
169 9,5 | Greek Church, and to this day preserves intact the bond
170 9,5 | that he may on the same day take part in the celebration
171 9,5 | that of marriage. In our day the latter is performed
172 9,5 | union inviolate. In our day this prayer is said immediately
173 9,5 | It is customary in our day to limit these curtailed
174 10 | the Imperial House, on the day of the accession to the
175 10 | the reigning Emperor, the day of the coronation of their
176 10 | Imperial Majesties; 2) on the day of a temple-feast, i.e.,
177 10 | temple-feast, i.e., the day sacred to the commemoration
178 10 | kind are sung on New Year’s Day, on the anniversary of the
179 10,2 | ephemeral creatures of a day? Where are the gold and
180 10,2 | third, ninth and fortieth day after their decease, then
181 10,2 | death, which is called the “day of remembrance” or “commemoration.”
182 10,2 | commemoration.” On the third day, we pray that Christ, Who
183 10,2 | from the dead on the third day after His death, may resurrect
184 10,2 | blessedness; on the ninth day we pray the Lord that He
185 10,2 | Saints; on the fortieth day we beseech Christ that He
186 10,2 | the Devil on the fortieth day of His fast may help the
187 10,2 | to Heaven on the fortieth day, may receive the departed
188 10,2 | to prayer the anniversary day of our brother’s demise
189 10,2 | express the belief that the day of a man’s death is not
190 10,2 | a man’s death is not the day of his annihilation, but
191 10,2 | week after Pascha); and the day of the Beheading of John
192 10,3 | prayers appointed for each day of the 12 months; it is
193 10,3 | of the service for each day of the year is given in
194 10,3 | indication of the lesson for each day. The Psalter is divided
195 10,3 | troparia and kontakia for each day, and the “Euchologion” (
196 11 | was born on that Saint’s day.~ *We call “Gospel,”
197 11 | Every service and every day has its own troparion.~ *
198 11 | deed of the Saint of the day, or some one feature of
199 11 | some one feature of the day’s feast.~ *If the service
200 11 | on the vigil of Christmas day, twelve on the vigil of
201 11 | the vigil happens on any day from Monday to Friday inclusive,
202 11 | combined with Vespers. On the day of the feast, the Liturgy
203 11 | then Vespers, and, on the day of the feast, the Liturgy
204 11 | around the church every day during the week of Pascha,
205 11 | Communion until the fortieth day after giving birth to a
206 11 | glorifying God night and day and striving to do His will.~ †
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