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51Royal Doors — The Royal Doors, Holy Doors, or Beautiful Gates are the central doors of the Iconostasis in an Eastern Orthodox or Greek Catholic Church. In Orthodox Churches, the sanctuary (the entire space of which is referred to as the altar among Eastern… …
52Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Martyrology for February — The following are names, dates, and some prominent facts from the lives of Saints especially honored in the Byzantine Catholic Church. (Source: Annual Parish Calendar, [http://www.byzantines.net/byzantinepress| Byzantine Seminary Press] )February …
53Missa Sicca — The Missa Sicca (Latin: dry Mass ) was a common form of devotion used in the medieval Roman Catholic Church for funerals or marriages which were served in the afternoon, when a real Mass (liturgy) could not be said. It consisted of all the Mass… …
54Spoon (liturgy) — Gold communion spoon, Ukraine, late 17th early 18th c. (State Historical Museum, Moscow). The Spoon (Greek: Κοχλιάριον, Kochliárion; Slavonic: Лжица, Lzhítza) is a liturgical implement used to distribute Holy Communion to the laity during the… …
55Irmologion — (Greek: polytonic|εἱρμολόγιον (heirmologion)) is a liturgical book of the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite, and it contains texts for liturgical singing in Church. [… …
56Good Friday Prayer — can refer to any of the prayers prayed by Christians on Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, or to all such prayers collectively. Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine rite Catholic prayer on Good FridayEastern Orthodox Christians and many Byzantine… …
57Gregory (Afonsky) of Sitka — Archbishop Gregory (Afonsky) (Russian: Архиепископ Григорий (Афонский)) (April 17, 1925 April 14, 2008) was the Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska from 1973 to 1995, and author of books on Theology and Orthodoxy in America in both Russian and English …
58Dismissal (liturgy) — The Dismissal (Greek: απόλυσις; Slavonic: otpust) is the final blessing said by a Christian priest or minister at the end of a religious service. In liturgical churches the dismissal will often take the form of ritualized words and gestures, such …
59Göttliche Liturgie — Orthodoxe Bischofs Liturgie Als Göttliche Liturgie oder Heilige Liturgie, vollständig Heilige und Göttliche Liturgie wird in den orthodoxen Kirchen die Feier der Eucharistie bezeichnet. Ihr Gegenstück in westlichen, lateinisch geprägten Kirchen… …
60Kommunion außerhalb der Messe — Als Kommunionfeier bezeichnet man in der katholischen Kirche einen gemeinschaftlichen Gottesdienst, in dem den Mitfeiernden die Heilige Kommunion aus dem Tabernakel gereicht wird. In der Kommunionfeier selbst gibt es also keine Gabendarbringung,… …
