Liturgical circles. Daily cycle of church services Daily cycle of Orthodox worship diagram

Orthodox worship is amazing and almost unique. If you try to remember the service on a certain day and come to the temple a year later, the service will be different. After all, it depends on the coincidence of three cycles at once - the daily, weekly and annual cycle of services. The rector of the Church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rovnoye, priest Kirill Baukov, tells the students of our school about the weekly circle, its content and features.

Orthodox worship is cyclical. Thus, every year the Church lives the Sacred History, remembering the Nativity, suffering, death and Resurrection of Christ. Moreover, we not only hear about these events in church, recalling some details in our memory, but we also think about their moral significance for our salvation and transformation of the soul.

And every week the weekly cycle of services is repeated. A weekly, or seven-day, circle of services is the order of services over seven days, or more precisely, the dedication of these days to some important event in the life of the Savior or to a particularly revered saint.

The weekly liturgical cycle begins on Sunday, because this is the most important day of the week, called “Little Easter.” As a matter of fact, the word “week” in the church calendar refers to this very day when Christians rest and do not do everyday affairs (week). In the minds of modern people, Sunday is a day of rest that ends the work week. But in the church consciousness, on the contrary, Sunday opens the week.

Liturgical Lesson

Monday

If we look further at the weekly circle, we will note the consistency and internal logic with which it is built. Throughout the week, the Church remembers the events of the Old and New Testaments, starting from the very creation of the world. The Heavenly Ethereal forces were created before man, which is why the Church remembers them first of all.

The word “Monday” itself means “after the week” - the second day after Sunday. On this day, the Church prayerfully commemorates the Archangels and Angels and all the Heavenly powers, to whom the Lord entrusted to protect man and help him in doing good deeds. The troparion of the day reveals the meaning of the heavenly intercession of the Ethereal forces: “Heavenly armies of the Archangels, we always pray to you that we are unworthy, and with your prayers protect us, with the shelter of your immaterial glory, preserving us who fall diligently and blatantly, deliver us from troubles, like the rulers of the Highest Powers.”

The Service to the Ethereal Forces includes three stichera on “Lord, I cried” and a second canon read at Matins, written by the confessor Theophan the Inscribed.

In some Russian monasteries there is a tradition of fasting on Mondays as well. Monks imitate the Angels, devoting their lives to serving God and praising His Heavenly Glory, which is why they especially celebrate the day of honoring the Ethereal Powers.

Tuesday

On Tuesday, the Church glorifies all the Old Testament righteous men and prophets who, through their fidelity to the True God, made it possible for the Savior of the world to come into the world. The personification of this Old Testament righteousness is the holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, about whom Christ said that from among those born of women there arose no (prophet) greater than John the Baptist (Matthew 11:11). John the Baptist is glorified by the Church as “An angel, and an apostle, and a martyr, and a prophet, and a candle-bearer, and a friend of Christ, and a seal of the prophets, and an intercessor of old and new grace, and the most honorable and bright voice of the Word among those born.”

Services on Monday and Tuesday contain a large number of texts of a penitential nature. The stichera on “Lord, I cried,” which is sung on Monday evening, has a certain similarity with the Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete: “I have spent all my life in shame, O Lord, accursed with harlots, like a prodigal I call with tenderness: Heavenly Father, cleanse those who have sinned and save me "

Wednesday

On Wednesday, the Church’s remembrance of the Old Testament ends and the glorification of New Testament events begins. Wednesday and Friday are days of remembrance of the suffering and death of the Savior on the cross. On these days, fasting is established throughout the year, with the exception of continuous weeks. Many hymns of these days, including the canons at Matins, are dedicated to the Precious and Life-Giving Cross and the Most Holy Theotokos.

On Wednesday, the Church remembers the Last Supper, when the Lord gathered his disciples, told them the secrets of His death on the cross and Resurrection, and also established the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Also on Wednesday we remember how the money-loving Judas betrayed Christ for thirty pieces of silver.

On this day, the familiar troparion to the Cross of the Lord is sung to many Christians: “Save, Lord, Thy people and bless Thy inheritance, granting victories against resistance, and preserving Thy residence through Thy Cross.”

Thursday

After the Resurrection of Christ, the holy apostles went all over the world to preach the Word of God. Therefore, on Thursday the Church prayerfully glorifies the apostles and their successors in the person of one of the most revered saints - St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

The first three stichera on “Lord, I cried” and the stichera on the stichera are dedicated to the apostles at Vespers; at Matins, the sedalny, the first canon and stichera on the stichera. Three stichera on “Lord, I cried” were dedicated to St. Nicholas at Vespers, and the second canon at Matins.

Friday

The tragic events of the Sacrifice of the Cross at Calvary, the scourging, mockery and execution of Jesus Christ are the theme of Friday. Therefore, the entire Church keeps a fast and remembers the Life-giving Cross of the Lord. On Friday, the second canon of Matins is called “The Holy Cross.” In the “Mother of the Cross” hymns, the Church prayerfully sympathizes and glorifies the Mother of God in Her sorrow and crusadership.

Saturday

Saturday is the last day of the week, and on this day the Church remembers all the saints. And the first among these saints is the Most Holy Theotokos. Of course, we glorify the Mother of God on any day of the week, but on Saturday She is especially revered. Also on this day, all our departed are remembered; the commemoration is combined with the remembrance of the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the tomb and His victory over death.

How did the weekly cycle of worship come about?

The origins of the formation of the weekly liturgical circle of the Christian Church should be sought in the Old Testament. The fourth commandment of the Mosaic law is: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy; six days you shall work and do all your work, and the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God (Ex. 20:8-10). Saturday was perceived, first of all, as a day of rest, rest from work, in memory of the fact that in six days the Lord created heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them, and rested on the seventh day. On Saturday a sacred meeting was held (see: Lev. 23:3); On this day, burnt offerings (see: Numbers 28:9) and showbread (see: Lev. 24:8) were sacrificed to the Lord. In the era after the Babylonian captivity, Saturday becomes the main liturgical day of the week: on this day, Jews gather in the synagogue to pray and read the Holy Scriptures.

In Christianity, the Old Testament injunction to keep the Sabbath has undergone a radical revision. Christ did not reject this rule and Himself attended the synagogue on Saturdays (see: Luke 4:16), however, He allowed Himself to violate the order of Saturday rest, proving to the Jews that the Son of Man is the lord of the Sabbath (see: Mark 2:28 ). After His Ascension, Christ's disciples continued to attend church on Saturdays, but the first day of the week becomes the day of the Eucharist. Once the doors of the Church were opened to the Gentiles, Sabbath observance as prescribed in the Old Testament became meaningless.

Early Christian writers spoke of the Sabbath as one of the Jewish customs that died out after the coming of Christ into the world. The “life of the Resurrection” comes to replace the “Sabbath keeping.” This day was often called the “eighth day” - as a prototype of eternity. That is why we spend the eighth day in joy, on which Christ rose from the dead.

In the middle of the 4th century, the contrast between Sunday and Saturday was enshrined in the 29th canon of the Council of Laodicea: “It is not fitting for Christians to practice Judaism and celebrate on Saturday, but to do so on this day; and Sunday is primarily to be celebrated.”

Together with the Church

Worship on the days of the week is less solemn than on Sunday. But this does not mean that they are less deep and touching. The theme of the day is revealed through the material of wonderful stichera, canons, sedals, troparions and kontakia, which you need to learn to listen to.

During the week, most believers work and cannot attend daily worship. And therefore, every Orthodox Christian, in his prayer rule, which is performed at home, should try throughout the week to glorify the saints or events of Sacred history that the Church remembers. For example, on Monday, in addition to morning and evening prayers, we can read the canon to the Guardian Angel, on Tuesday - to St. John the Baptist, on Wednesday - the penitential canon to the Savior, on Thursday - to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, on Friday - the canon dedicated to the Cross of the Lord. On Saturday, in our home rule, we can glorify the Most Holy Theotokos and pray for deceased relatives. In the church shop of each temple, as a rule, there is a huge number of prayer books, which will greatly help in prayer work.

The weekly liturgical cycle ends and begins again. We return again and again to the same events, comprehending the height and depth of the grace-filled spiritual life in Christ.

And also on the eve of the holidays of Christmas and Epiphany. At present, the order of the daily liturgical circle in parish practice is usually not observed - the ninth hour, Compline and Midnight Office are omitted. The services of the daily liturgical circle are contained in the Book of Hours.

Weekly (weekly) circle of services

Weekly liturgical circle- a thematic sequence of services within one week. Each day of the week is specifically dedicated to a specific topic:

• Sunday - Resurrection of Christ.
• Monday - glorification of the ethereal forces of the Angels.
• Tuesday - Glorification of St. John the Baptist and the prophets.
• Wednesday is the remembrance of the betrayal of Judas (and since this essentially began the time of the Passion of the Lord, the service of the Cross is performed, and the day is fast).
• Thursday - Glorification of Sts. Apostles and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
• Friday - the remembrance of the sufferings on the cross and the death of the Savior; Service of the Cross, fast day).
• Saturday is the glorification of the Mother of God and all the saints. The deceased are also remembered.

Eight-week osmotic circle of worship

The divine service of the weekly liturgical circle is subordinated to one of the eight voices, etc. Eight-week vocal cycles are formed, repeated several times throughout the year. The counting of voices begins on Easter Day with the first voice. Services - a set of variable components of the service of the weekly liturgical circle - are contained in the octoech. See also osmoconciliation.

Annual circle of services (fixed)

Annual liturgical circle— a thematic sequence of services throughout the year. There are different types of movable and fixed annual liturgical circles.

Fixed annual liturgical circle- associated with the solar calendar - includes the worship of the fixed twelfths and other holidays and the daily celebrations of saints.

Movable annual liturgical circle- associated with the lunar calendar (see Easter) - includes the services of Great Lent (and the three preceding weeks) and Pentecost.

The services of the fixed annual liturgical circle are contained in the menaia, the moving ones - in the Lenten Triodion (Lent) and the Colored Triodion (Pentecost).

The connection of the moving and fixed annual liturgical circles is carried out using the Markov chapters given in the charter (named after their compiler, monk Mark). The divine service of each day is a combination of an almost unchanging basis from the prayers of the daily liturgical circle with changing prayers related to the liturgical theme of the given day from the Menaion and Octoechos or Triodion (Lenten or Colored), and during Lent and Pentecost, prayers from the Octoechos are almost not used.

Eleven-week circle of Gospel readings and stichera at Sunday Matins

A circle that is usually “forgotten” when listing liturgical circles... For reading at Sunday matins, 11 fragments were selected from all four Gospels, telling about the events after the Resurrection of Christ. These fragments are read one by one (the number is always indicated in the liturgical calendar). Each of these 11 fragments is associated with its own special “gospel stichera,” which should be sung to “glory” after the stichera on praises.

Liturgical circles
Liturgical circles are a certain repeating sequence of services or prayers that compose them.
1. Daily liturgical circle - the sequence of services of one day. The complete daily liturgical circle consists of the ninth hour, Vespers, Compline, Midnight Office, Matins, first, third and sixth hours, pictorial or liturgy. This order changes on days when the All-Night Vigil is celebrated (Compline and Midnight Office are omitted), some days of Great Lent, as well as on the eve of the holidays of the Nativity of Christ and Epiphany.
The liturgical day begins in the evening. (Following the example of the prophet and seer of God Moses, who, describing God’s creation of the world, begins the “day” in the evening, so in the Orthodox Church the day begins in the evening - vespers.)
Vespers is a service performed at the end of the day, in the evening. With this service we thank God for the passing day.
Compline is a service consisting of reading a series of prayers in which we ask the Lord God for forgiveness of sins and that He would give us, as we go to sleep, peace of body and soul and save us from the wiles of the devil during sleep.
Midnight Office - a service intended to be performed at midnight, in remembrance of the Savior's night prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. This service calls on believers to always be prepared for the Day of Judgment, which will come suddenly, like “the bridegroom at midnight,” according to the parable of the ten virgins.
Matins is a service performed in the morning, before sunrise. With this service we thank God for the past night and ask Him for mercy for the coming day.
The first hour, corresponding to our seventh hour of the morning, sanctifies the day that has already come with prayer.
At the third hour, corresponding to our ninth hour in the morning, the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles is mentioned.
At the sixth hour, corresponding to our twelfth hour of the day, the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ is remembered.
At the ninth hour, corresponding to our third in the afternoon, we remember the death on the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Divine Liturgy is the most important divine service. On it, the entire earthly life of the Savior is remembered and the sacrament of Holy Communion, established by the Savior Himself at the Last Supper, is performed. The Liturgy is served in the morning, before lunch.
All these services in ancient times in monasteries and hermits were performed separately, at the appointed time for each of them. But then, for the convenience of believers, they were combined into three services: evening, morning and afternoon.




At present, the order of the daily liturgical cycle in parish practice is usually not observed - the ninth hour, Compline and Midnight Office are omitted. The services of the daily liturgical circle are contained in the Book of Hours.

Diagram of the daily cycle of worship.
Evening
1. Ninth hour - (3 pm)
2. Vespers
3. Compline

Morning
1. Midnight Office - (12 o'clock at night)
2. Matins
3. First hour - (7 am)

Day
1. Third hour - (9 am)
2. Sixth hour - (12 noon)
3. Liturgy

See also. Byzantine clock.
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2. Weekly liturgical circle - a thematic sequence of services within one week.
On Sunday, the Church remembers and glorifies the Resurrection of Christ.
On Monday (the first day after Sunday), ethereal forces are glorified - Angels, created before man, the closest servants of God.
On Tuesday, Saint John the Baptist is glorified as the greatest of all prophets and righteous people.
On Wednesday, the betrayal of the Lord by Judas is remembered and, in connection with this, a service is performed in memory of the Cross of the Lord (fast day).
On Thursday the Holy Apostles and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker are glorified.
On Friday, the suffering of the cross and the death of the Savior are remembered and a service is performed in honor of the Cross of the Lord (fast day).
On Saturday - the day of rest - the Mother of God, who is blessed every day, is glorified, the forefathers, prophets, apostles, martyrs, saints, the righteous and all the saints who have achieved rest in the Lord. All those who have died in true faith and hope for resurrection and eternal life are also remembered.

The services - a set of variable components of the divine service of the weekly liturgical circle - are contained in the octoech. The divine service of the weekly liturgical circle is subordinated to one of the eight voices, etc. Eight-week vocal cycles are formed, repeated several times throughout the year. The counting of voices begins on Easter Day with the first voice.
The first day of the weekly liturgical cycle is considered to be Sunday.
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3. Annual liturgical circle— a thematic sequence of services throughout the year. There are different types of movable and fixed annual liturgical circles. The fixed annual liturgical circle - associated with the solar calendar - includes the worship of the fixed twelve and other holidays and the daily celebrations of saints. The moving annual liturgical circle - associated with the lunar calendar (see Easter) - includes the services of Lent (and the three preceding weeks) and Pentecost.
Every day of the year is dedicated to the memory of certain saints, as well as special sacred events - holidays and fasts.
Of all the holidays, the largest is the holiday of the Holy Resurrection of Christ (Easter). This is a holiday, a holiday and a triumph of celebrations. Easter occurs no earlier than March 22 (April 4, new style) and no later than April 25 (May 8, new style), on the first Sunday after the spring full moon.
Then there are twelve great holidays in the year established in honor of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Mother of God, which are called the twelve.
There are holidays both in honor of great saints and in honor of the ethereal Heavenly Powers - Angels.
Therefore, all the holidays of the year are divided according to their content into those of the Lord, the Mother of God and the saints.
According to the time of celebration, holidays are divided into fixed holidays, which occur every year on the same days of the month, and moving holidays, which, although they occur on the same days of the week, fall on different days of the month in accordance with the time of celebration of Easter. According to the solemnity of the church service, holidays are divided into great, medium and small.
Great holidays always have an all-night vigil; Average holidays are not always the case.
The liturgical church year begins on September 1, old style, and the entire annual circle of services is built in relation to the Easter holiday.

The services of the fixed annual liturgical circle are contained in the menaia, the moving ones - in the Lenten Triodion (Lent) and the Colored Triodion (Pentecost). The connection of the moving and fixed annual liturgical circles is carried out using the Markov chapters given in the charter (named after their compiler, monk Mark).
The divine service of each day is a combination of an almost unchanging basis from the prayers of the daily liturgical circle with changing prayers related to the liturgical theme of the given day from the Menaion and Octoechos or Triodion (Lenten or Colored), and during Lent and Pentecost, prayers from the Octoechos are almost not used.
Daily liturgical circle in Orthodoxy- a series of services performed throughout the day.
According to the Charter, the daily cycle consists of the following services:
Vespers
Compline
Midnight Office
Matins
Watch:
First hour
Third hour
Sixth hour
Ninth hour
Fine
Between hours
Interhour of the first hour
Interhour of the third hour
Interhour of the sixth hour
Interhour of the ninth hour
Liturgy
Formed in the monasteries of the East by the 4th century; Initially, services in monasteries and hermits were performed separately, at the appointed time for each of them. Subsequently, for the convenience of believers, they were combined into three public services: evening, morning and afternoon.
The evening service consists of the ninth hour, vespers and compline.
Morning - from the midnight office, matins and the first hour.
Daytime - from the third and sixth hours and the Liturgy.
In modern (since the end of the 19th) practice of the Russian Church, Compline and Midnight Office are usually served by monastics in their cells; in monasteries, the midnight office is often combined with a fraternal prayer service at the beginning of the day. Orthodox Christians-Old Believers still have the practice of the laity to perform the Midnight Office in the morning and Vespers in the evening.
On the eve of major holidays and Sundays, an evening service is performed, which combines: Vespers, Matins and the first hour. Such a service is called an all-night vigil (all-night vigil), because among the ancient Christians it lasted all night. The word “vigil” means “to be awake.”
Daily cycle of worship: is change necessary?

Alexandra Sopova
“The Book of Hours is designed to be read every day. There is a perception of the day and the whole year as a sacred time of salvation. The sanctification of time is the key goal of the Book of Hours as a book,” said priest Mikhail Zheltov at the round table “Content and modern practice of performing services of the daily circle,” held in the Danilov Monastery under the auspices of the Church Postgraduate School.

The round table was attended by the resident of the Danilov Monastery, Abbot Peter (Meshcherinov), the rector of the Church of St. Tatiana at Moscow State University, Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, the rector of the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in Strogino, Archpriest Georgy Krylov, the executive editor of the “Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate” Sergei Chapnin, the teacher of PSTGU Alexey Cherkasov and others.
The round table participants agreed with the idea that the Book of Hours should be edited.
May be edited based on appeal to tradition or in pursuit of practicality. If we focus on tradition, then it is not clear which century’s practice should we focus on? If it’s for convenience, the factor of personal experience plays a role.
In the early Middle Ages, two types of worship were established: there was the practice of cathedral churches (no more than two prayer meetings per day, a small number of key readings and chants), and for the zealous - ascetic communities with a more complete range of services and a more complete volume of the Psalter. The third type is monastic worship. Later, it was the monastic charter that was taken as the basis for those who want to perform the full liturgical circle in private prayer.
If we make an adjustment, then we need to answer the question of what era and what set of liturgical books is the ideal for the Russian tradition; then see whether this ideal fits into the liturgical space that needs to be revived; further, introduce differentiation into services according to type: parish, episcopal and monastic, and perhaps others will be needed.
Rector of the Church of St. mts. Tatiana Archpriest Maxim Kozlov noted that parish services overlap with the daily cycle only partially. A curious parishioner will see many services only in the Book of Hours. “It is possible to save the large Russian forest by publishing part of the circulation simply for practical use, without those services that are not used,” suggested Father Maxim.
The embarrassment that evening prayers are performed in the morning and vice versa, according to Archpriest Maxim, is usually short-lived. “The problem is different: for a significant part of our flock, Vespers and Matins remain incomprehensible.” Anyone who wants to understands the Liturgy (fortunately, its text has been published with translation and commentary), and those who don’t want to do so should not be forced to do so. And with the all-night vigil there are more difficulties even for those who want to understand it. And the point here is not even the structure of the service or the fatigue from its duration.
There are several ways to make worship understandable. One way is to publish appropriate collections of chants, similar to the collections of texts from the Colored and Lenten Triodion, Octoechos, already published by St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological University. “On the twelfth holidays, we have half the church standing with books and following the text,” Archpriest shared his observation. Maxim Kozlov.
The second way is to sing clearly and read clearly. This has been talked about for a long time, but apparently this should be controlled by the clergy - with punishment for those who read and sing poorly, and encouragement for those who read and sing well.
Also, the rector of the university church noted that it is necessary to correlate the liturgical circle and the personal prayer rule of a Christian. “Do I need to read the three canons and the evening rule before Communion if I was at the all-night vigil? What if I take communion two days in a row?” - such questions are often asked by parishioners. According to Rev. Maxim Kozlov, public worship should not completely replace personal cell rule, as happened among Catholics. But it is possible to work out some kind of compromise so that during long services the reduction of the personal rule is regular and occurs without remorse, and not with the individual blessing of the priest.
With any adjustment to the charter, prot. Maxim Kozlov called for following one rule: “not to shake what stands firmly.”

Rule in the subway

The executive editor of the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, Sergei Chapnin, noted the paradoxical nature of the situation when a personal daily circle is evening and morning prayers, and a person’s weekly circle is all-night vigil and liturgy, i.e. in fact, a real daily cycle.
Referring to Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov), Sergei Chapnin noted that not only for monks, but also for laity, the theological ideas from the morning rule do not correspond to the “Christian tasks of the day”: “We have changed psychologically compared to the authors of these prayers.”
The first thing that is needed, according to Sergei Chapnin, is an understanding of the prayer rhythm in which the Church advises modern man to live. Time intervals have emerged that can be used for prayer: for example, a forty-minute metro ride or an hour by train. “We must not completely adapt to the time structure of modern man, but take it into account,” he believes.
According to priest Mikhail Zheltov, the bad thing about the prayer rule is that it does not include a biblical element, while the Book of Hours consists mainly of psalms.
Archpriest Maxim Kozlov raised the question of the authority of the text of the morning and evening rules itself, and the extent to which it is binding for the laity. “The ideal family of laity of the Domostroy era does not know the evening and morning rules, it reads Vespers and Matins,” recalled the rector of the university church. The prayers of the morning and evening rules do not fit in with either the Book of Hours or the parish service. They do not imply a changeable element, as if their compilers thought that a person does not have psychology, he does not form habits, etc. Dryness in prayer occurs in many who read the same pages every day for 15 years.
According to Father Maxim, we need to look for options: you can read Compline with the canon instead of evening prayers; You can draw up a separate cell rule for the twelve holidays, for Sundays and weekdays. Before Communion, the canon of the holiday can replace the canon of repentance. On the day of Communion, instead of the repentant evening rule according to the theme, a person would like to thank God with the words of mainly thanksgiving prayers. “Of course, now no one will publish a variable prayer book,” concluded Rev. Maxim Kozlov, “but it would be good if the laity did not themselves think about which troparion to insert in honor of the holiday into their rule, but that the Church offered them general, infallible options.”

Prayer from the Heart
Priest Mikhail Zheltov noted that prayers as a genre “are generally the most boring text: a formulaic beginning, a formulaic end, in the middle there is a recollection of prototypes and some kind of petition.” However, the conference participants agreed that prayer should not be boring and alien, printed or written, it should be personal. Sergei Chapnin suggested encouraging people to learn the rule by heart: it is not entirely correct that the skill of a prayerful mood is associated with a book in front of one’s eyes. Then personal prayer will naturally flow out in traditional words. PSTGU teacher Alexey Cherkasov noted the need to popularize the Book of Hours - for example, through classes in Sunday schools. When you imagine the course of the service, it becomes more interesting, and participation in it becomes more conscious.
The conference posed questions rather than provided answers. In order for generally accepted options for solving existing problems to emerge, numerous discussions are needed, and ultimately, decisions by the hierarchy.
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Andrey isographer: MONOCIC RULE The monks have a “thousandth” rule: 3 bows, according to the rules of the day, 6 prayers of Jesus, 50 bows to the Mother of God, and 50 bows to the Angel. The beginning and end of the rule are also read out. Others, by blessing, either the middle rule: 2; 4; 50 + 50, or small: 1; 3; 50+50. Canons with an akathist are read in addition to the rule on Sundays and holidays. In his personal time, everyone, having been blessed by the abbot, can do whatever he wants. Can read, can go fishing or do Ekibana. Idle talk after forgiveness is strictly prohibited. The guilty must be subject to penance. monk Aviv (Tuinov) When I lived in a monastery in Kunichi, the late nun Tekusa told me about the rule like this: 1. If a monk is not in a monastery but lives alone, then he must pray for the daily circle of worship every day, and pointed out the twelve psalms twice on day 2. Then every day he must pray the correct canons together with the akathist (however, in the monastery they prayed like that - every day) 3. he must pray his rule, i.e. ten ladders of which three are earthly. 4. She also said that if a monk lives outside the monastery, he must read three kathismas daily. 5. Well, it is clear that in the morning (at night, depending on who gets up to their rule when, since monks living separately from the monastery, get up to the rule in different ways) the midnight service and before bedtime the evening service. In the monastery, they prayed daily for the daily cycle of worship, and in in this order: - the correct canons at 16:00 - immediately after the correct canons, Vespers and Vespers - at 3:00 in the morning they began the Midnight Office, then Matins and prayed all the way up to the first hour inclusive - at 09:00 in the morning they prayed the hours and liturgy of the Lestovka monks prayed in their cells , schemaniks carried a double rule, that is, 20 ladders
Monastic rule

Monastic penance.
If a monk carelessly goes to bed in his robe, he bows 200 times.
And don’t sleep in a cassock either, because if you desecrate it, you will incur a lot of work to clean it.
If a monk takes off his paramand with a cross on purpose or suddenly, due to some mistake, he should bow 1000 times.
If the monk goes in a doll or robe to a waste place for the necessary needs of the body for defecation, let him bow 300 times.
If he just urinates, bow 150.
If the monk dine without a robe, he will bow 1000 times.
If he drinks without wearing a robe, and in addition to the meal, he will make 50 bows.
If a monk opens a pipe without a robe, or pours water into a washbasin, bows 25 times.
The monk, even in his robe, will pick up a washcloth or a basin with his hand and make 50 bows.
Blessing for penance. Bless R. B. Mr. I pray to God in penance for my mistake.
If a monk takes up something small in a filthy mantle or without a mantle that is clean and dubious, let him bow 17.
Whether a monk gives a haircut to a commoner, or he cuts the hair of a commoner, both of them bow 1000 bows.
If the monk loses his mantle or paramand, or anything else from the monastic image, for which he will receive penance to death, bows according to the reasoning of the confessor. If the rank is burned in a fire, there is no penance for this.
If a monk prays Vespers or Evening Vespers without a mantle, or another prayer, putting on a second mantle, let him sing.
A monk in prayer will lower the cathedral mantle to the floor, or step on a nude, or grab with unclean hands either the doll, or the paramand, or the kamilavka, or drop it on the floor, whichever of the above, or hastily put on a cassock, or a robe, or a doll, or kamilavka without the usual prayers and bows, or without a mantle will be blessed, or bless someone, or forgive someone, for this there is no special penance, but is replaced by the everyday canon.
Helmsman, ch. 58, pr. 18. Nikifor kidar. sheet 97 vol.: It is not appropriate for a monk to perform a service other than a mantle. Ch. 26. Ave. 59. Vas. Vel. l. 622: If anyone does work in any place without a robe, let him be without blessing. Helmsman Ch. 54. Question 15. vol. the hedgehog speaks to you. Vel. in his small prohibitions, as if there will be no blessing as he sins. Answer. I am also deprived of being a certain blessing given in the church of those who said.
Anfora consumption inoch., l. 78 rev. 3rd count. Bol. consumption Joseph. Patr. 10th summer, l. 436: It is not worthy for a monk to have his hair cut by a simple layman, but someone or a monk is sanctified.
Nomocanon, that is, “The Ruler of the Law on Foreign Trades”, tr. monk l. 29, 2nd account, will. You. Vel.: If a monk does not honor the first, 3rd, 6th and 9th hours, he is worthy of eating. And if he does not rule all his rules, God considers him dead and let him be forbidden as it should be.
If someone is a presbyter, or a deacon, or a monk who knows the scriptures, but neglects matins, or the hours, or vespers, even on the way, but is concerned about the affairs of life, he despises his rule, and has been prohibited for two years, let him perform 800 prostrations.
If a monk loses his watch, let him bow 200 times.
Having lost the Midnight Office, let him do the veneration. 100.
Having lost Matins, let him perform 200 prostrations.
The canon of the monk is the essence of the small image of worship. - 300, and the great one - 600.
If a monk laughs or talks without permission except when necessary, according to the rule, it is prohibited to bow 50 times.
If the monk is in the whole church council, and at the end he is not found, let him make a bow 50.
Even if a monk is at a feast with the worldly, listening and helping, and even more so blessing them, he is prohibited from excommunication for 6 weeks, and committing dry eating for every day of 100 bows.
33. Even if a monk sits in his house, it is as if God counts this layman.
34. If a monk leaves his bed and falls asleep on a friend without a blessing, guilt, 50 bows.
35. If a monk gets drunk, or slander, or laughs without fear, he is prohibited for 5 weeks. If he vomits from drinking too much, or from gluttony, he is prohibited, as below in this Nomocanon about priests.
37. A monk, if he lies freely, is prohibited from 100 great bows. If he saves a soul or a neighbor, there is no sin.
If the monk laughs above the instructions, bow 50 times.
100. If a monk walks the same mile with his wife, let him leave for seven days, bowing 100 times.
104. If a simple monk beats anyone, let him first be reconciled to him, and also bow 300 times.
105. The monk, after the evening service of poison and drink, fasts for one week of dry eating and worship. 200. Whenever the need commands food and drink, the second one sings the evening service.
106. If the monk ungirds himself on his bed, let him bow 50 times.
Even if a monk, without the command of his abbot, does what is necessary, not for the benefit, but for his own passion. - the abbot must correct this and bless his brother, so he can start another matter. Do this in order to use your brother, if not by cruelty, but by mercy.
If a monk, without guilt and blessing, reproaches his abbot without guilt, he will be excommunicated from the monastery. Even if the great one is intelligent, we will drive him away from him.
If a monk attacks his abbot and annoys him, let one summer be forbidden, decrees. Let him create 1000 every day.
If a monk takes a tree into his hand, he wounds his abbot, and his hand is cut off. there is a parricide.
If a monk reproaches his abbot in any words spoken for his salvation, then a rival of God has been found. And may he remain chaste from the general prohibition.
If a monk goes on a certain journey without the command of his abbot, let him leave his brotherhood for one week, making 1000 prostrations.
If anyone eats secretly from a monk, except for the brotherhood, he makes 1,500 bows and is absent for 2 weeks.
A monk who ate from the new fruit without the blessing of the abbot, let him be absent for 8 days.
If anyone speaks loudly from a monk and slanders an elder, the wrath of God is far from overcoming. Let Sitsevy go away for 6 months, making 2000 prostrations.
For it is not worthy for a simple person to reproach a priest, or forbid, or slander, or slander, or denounce in person, if there is no truth anywhere. If a commoner, that is, a simple person, should do this, it is anathema. And let him be expelled from the church, excommunicated from the Holy Trinity and sent to the place of Judaism. It is written: Do not speak evil to the prince of your people and dishonor the abbot.

About foreign workshop.
If a monk denounces and challenges his abbot before the laity, even if the truth is spoken from him, both he and those who believe him will inherit destruction with him. Repent, let one summer be forbidden, and bow down 1800. Before the council, the brethren, if they have anything, must eat and say.
If a monk strikes any animal with rage or breaks it, he will be excommunicated for 3 months and counting. 300.
If a monk accuses another monk of any kind of superiority or slander, he will utter ridicule and be prohibited for 8 days and incl. 100 per day.
If you have hatred against anyone in the house of prayer, let him not enter until he creates reconciliation, and let both bow down 50 times.
If a monk plays the harp and often communicates with the laity, and not with others like himself, let him leave for 2 months, bowing 150 times.
And he treasures, and gives in interest, or let him cease, or excommunicate. Repentance and let the summer be prohibited, 150 bows.
If a novice has a thing other than the will of his abbot, let him leave for one summer and worship. 2000.
If a monk has pieces of silver and does not confess it, at the time of my death I must have the abbot squander it on him, saying to his wife: “Let your silver go with you to destruction.” And so they will bury him without singing, and let the abbot pray for him with the brethren for 40 days, making 40 bows every day. And on the last forty days, the funeral and burial arranged over him will begin to sing. And what is hidden from him, let all those who demand and those who are poor be divided.
Even if a monk loves to have things, he will reject them from himself, for they spoil his soul.
Even if a brother receives reproach from his brother, and prays from his squad, he will not forgive the sinner, but he will be excommunicated for one week.
If a brother speaks loudly and dishonors the brethren and the laity, he disrespects them. 100. He must also eat slander and slander before him, give glory and good honor, saying that he told this slander and lie, but that brother is honest, righteous and holy according to St. Chrysostom and Fatherland.
If a monk says that he will give birth, let him go away for 8 days or so. 40. From now on, he cut his hair and promised to God that he would have no family.
If the monk is a sodomite, he will be 16 years old, always making 600 bows.
If a monk drinks wine through force, he should rather eat meat, and not get drunk with wine, for there is fornication in him.
Whoever steals from the service entrusted to him, let him return it and give it back under anathema. If he steals or appropriates it, or gives it to someone, he is subject to greater prohibition.
Honor the canon of the 10th Second First Council and the Apostle. 25 ave.: If a monk kisses a Jacob’s wife or a sleeping child, let him do the veneration. 500. Or say that on Holy Week a monk deserves to kiss his mother, and those who have done this deserve to be honored. 300.
If the monk falls asleep without the abbot’s prayer, let him bow 500 times.
A monk does not communicate his actions and thoughts to his spirit. to the father every week, let him be forbidden for 15 days.
The monk goes to the bathhouse and is anointed with unction, or washes himself every day, except for weakness, if there is a priest, so that he does not celebrate the liturgy of one summer, cl. 500, if there is a novice - half of these.
Let the monks keep Monday throughout the summer, just as they keep Wednesday and Friday, since the father has received it, which is forgiveness for the monk, if his fast does not exceed the worldly ones. Most of all, they always keep this in reverence from the laity. The verb of St. Simeon the Wonderworker: “In all his life, let the monk fast every day, except for general fasts, no less than the ninth hour.”
A monk who secretly eats meat, except for illness and the blessing of his father, should not eat fish, eggs and cheese for 40 days. For it is written: Do not please the flesh through lust. Manuscript. Zonar: It is not appropriate for a monk to go to the bathhouse in any way, except for weakness, for the sake of a certain great ide. Ancient monks Charter, page 116. Baths, he says, are more often for the sick, and less often for the healthy.

How should a monk dress?
Scroll i.e. shirt. - Take it, unturned, in front of you and say the Jesus Prayer and kiss the button and loop. And then put it on with prayers. this: I thank you, Lord my God, for you have vouchsafed me to be clothed in this robe to cover my body. And grant me, Lord my God, on this day to be preserved without sin, and to do Thy will, for blessed art thou forever, amen. And pokl. in the belt
For the cassock: Take it with the right side towards you and say the Jesus Prayer once and then take the button in your right hand, and the loop in your left and kiss the button, then the loop, put it on the right side and say the prayer as for the scroll: I thank you, Lord ...
To the mantle: All my hope...
To the kamilavka: Take the top to yourself and mark yourself with the Jesus Prayer. And kiss the edge of the front evangelist on the fluff of his right and left hands. And put it on with prayer: God is marvelous in His saints, the God of Israel.
To the doll: Take the top of it by the porch, with the top towards you. And mark yourself with the Jesus Prayer and kiss the porch at the right and left hand and put it on with the prayer: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, fill heaven and earth with Your glory.
To the paramant: Change the paramant only when the gaitan wears out. Then you need to take the new paramant with the corners facing upward and say the Jesus Prayer, and then kiss the corners to which the gaitan is sewn. Then put the old gaitan with the new one in one place on the right shoulder and turn both over the head onto the left shoulder.
The paramant is never removed.
If due to some mistake it comes off, then take it with the corners to which the gaitan is sewn, with the right side towards you and sign with the Jesus Prayer once, and kiss the corners to which the gaitan is sewn, then put it on yourself.
And to take off the monastic rank, no matter what happens: kokol, mantle, cassock and kamilavka - signify with the Jesus Prayer, and after taking it off, kiss it, just like putting it on.
And take off the rest: Do not kiss the Apostle, the half cassock, the scroll and the belt, but simply take off with the Jesus Prayer.

It is appropriate for vedati to remove the doll during prayer.
At Vespers: Do not remove the doll during prayer. If he himself prays, then take it off.
Take it off - when you cense yourself, take it off to the “Quiet Light”, and when the prokeimenon ends - then put it on. And be sure to take pictures on all holidays.
At Vespers and Midnight Office: - take off for “I Believe”, and after “Holy God” - put on.
Note: The three hymns are always sung on the feast of Christ and the Epiphany, and during Passion Week on the 9th hymn, and on holiday at Vespers, and all days during “It is Worthy to Eat.”
At Matins: - Take off for the “exa-psalms”, and when they sing “God is the Lord”, then put it on. Before the Gospel, take it off for the prokinna, and after the Gospel, when they sing “Glory to Thee, Lord,” put it on. Take it off during the chaos of the 8th song and put it on at the end of the 9th song after “Worthy”. Take it off during the doxology, and put it on at the end of the doxology.
On the clock: - Take off for the Gospel, and then put on “I Believe”. Do not go to the apostle; If the apostle himself honors it, then remove it. And shoot with “Worthy” marks.
At the prayer service: - Take off “God is the Lord” and sing, then put it on. Take off the prokene for the Gospel, and when they sing “Glory to Thee, Lord,” put it on. Take it off for the 9th song, and put it on after the honor.
On the rule: - In the rank of the correct canons during the reading of kontakia and ikos, and on “It is worthy” and when it happens “He rejoices in you.”

Interpretation of the monastic image.
Great indeed is the rite of monasticism, and blessed is the monk who lives according to the image, accepts it, and keeps his vow blameless. Everything that is a monastic image is mysterious and sacred.
To be tonsured is to remove all the thoughts and sorrows of life. Just as he puts off his hair, so it is fitting to put off the old man with his passions and lusts.
If you have put off all your worldly clothing and put on a sackcloth, which is the tunic of joy and joy, instead of your nakedness and cold and following through obedience into the imperishable life of monks, the image of the saint appears, transforming it from the middle life to the perfect.
Paramant is the following of the godfather to the Lord Christ; it signifies the shield of salvation.
The belt is worn (leather) - a sign of the mortification of wordless lust, since there is a belt from a dead body, and let us kill lust in us.
The sandal signifies that you have put on your shoes in preparation for the gospel of the world, so that not because of the mental serpents your thoughts will gnaw at the heel, but above these, let the lion and the serpent, the secret malice and envy of the beasts, come and trample, and let the unchangeable path of the Gospel flow.
The mantle is a garment of incorruptibility and purity: it forms the shroud of burial and the signs of death, there are from some mophoris, and in another image and likeness angelic krills. For this reason, we put 18 folds on it on the right and left sides (because the angel on the ancient icon has a bit of feathers in his right and left wings). Without a sleeve, for the sake of it, if he wants to do something like the old man, he will remember that he doesn’t have a sleeve, that is, he doesn’t have hands to do an inappropriate thing.
Kamilavka shows the image of the helmet of salvation, the sign of the Divine cover, and the hedgehog of the spiritual veil.
Kukol is a sign of kindness and infancy, and again the image is of the grace of our Savior God, covering us with the Master of Mind, and warming the hedgehog about Christ of infancy, against being constantly killed by a novice demon.

Inoku should not work without a robe.
Whoever does any work without a robe or a cape must undergo penance as a contempt. Helmsman Ch. 62, pr. 59; Solovetsk. petition, l. 83 rev.

A story about the purity and danger in which one should wear a robe.
A monk must put on every thing, first in vain diligently on St. icons and sign of the cross. banner with diligence and kiss in two places, with great love, like an angelic and royal robe, and put it on with reverence, lifting the sun onto your right shoulder, and wearing it with joy, as if the Lord clothed you in a robe of salvation, and took it away from you all your sins, for this reason show off in it, more than the royal scarlet.
If a monk happens to take off his robe or cape, or cassock, he must take it off with the fear of God before the Holy One. icon, but turns it towards the sun on the left shoulder, and kisses twice according to custom with the sign of the cross, in vain on St. icons with pier Jesus. no bows. And fold it skillfully on a clove or in another place. It is honorable to honor the saint, for when she takes off and puts down her mantle, she gives it to an angel in the hand; and when she puts it on, then she receives it from the hands of angels, and kissing the evangelists and other places - the buttons and loops of all things - shows love for the angelic image.
If you happen to take off your mantle on the way, when you go to a necessary need, where there is no icon, then turn your face to the east and signify yourself, take it off and put it in a clean place, as it should be. And when he has finished, having washed his hands, then take it and dress it according to custom.
It is fitting for a monk to wear a robe while working and in his cell and on the way.
It is appropriate for a newly tonsured monk to cover himself with a doll on the way and at meals. Taco St. The angel of the Lord commanded Pachomius to cover their heads with poison, so that brother does not see brother eating poison.
Rev. First of all, the great image of the angels, who is the schemamonk, was revealed to Pachomius, and before that time there were monks in a small image.
Whenever there is a thunderstorm or thunder and lightning, then it is appropriate for a monk to stand in prayer at all times.
It is never appropriate for a monk to take off his kamilavka. If, during the night’s rest, it falls off his head, when he awakens, he will put it back on with the usual prayer: “Wonderful is God...”.
Whenever you need to wash your hair for some reason, lower the scroll to your waist, and keep the paramant dangerously, so as not to take it off, but to wash in it. Even though the paramant with the cross is not removed from the monk Nikiya for the sake of needs.
If a monk happens to wash his robe, he must wash it without soap, in a special clean vessel or running water, and also wash his cassock in a vessel with soap separate from the mantle, and do not pour water from the vessels into a dirty place.
Hair after being tonsured and renewed, or a mantle or cassock, or anything else from a monastic image, should be burned on fire, then the ashes should be thrown into the water.

About external purity.
It is fitting for you, brother, to maintain external purity with all fear, so that you do not handle with unclean hands and have not washed yourself for any shrine, not for the cross, not for the book, not for anything else that is sanctified by God. Shrouds, censers, incense and candles, and service vessels, and vestments as well, and for all kinds of vessels and clothing. And for everything you need to have care and storage. Place the boots or onuchi on a bench or other clean place, and wash that place. But do not wash your face and body and feet with any water. Thus, the holy elders command the life of a monk. Angels never sleep, nor doze, nor wash themselves with water, but continually, day and night, they always serve God and glorify Him. Those who have taken on the image of an angelic likeness must live like angels. I tell you that by doing this devoutly you yourself have left us the image of salvation, so that all who want to live according to Christ may know the path of salvation.
Chet-Minea, Maya 3, l. 120, life of Rev. Feodosia Pechersk:
You never saw him pouring water on his body, for the sake of pleasure: but only washing your hand and face.

About tonsure and renewal of the gum.
Be aware of this, as after a monk is tonsured, the Evangelical Father, that is, tonsures the newly tonsured man, renews the tonsure within forty days. The newly tonsured squat, removes the kukol and kamilavka from the head and secretly says Psalm 50. The father takes up the scissors and prays. Isusova, tonsures the man standing, only as soon as he has been tonsured into monastic vows, but this happens alone in his cell, but no one exists, for which his head cannot be seen. Therefore, he reads forgiveness before his father and goes to his cell. Sitsa always performs every fast every year, even until his death. If his father passes away, he chooses a certain old man, and he does this without fail. And when a woman renews her tonsure, she also renews her life.
The nuns live their lives in the same way. The evangelical mother performs renewal 4 times a year, that is, every fast.
A simple monk does not cut his hair, but a monk does.

wrote gr. R. b. You. 7515

The Church Charter prescribes nine different services to be performed during the day. Each has its own history, symbolism and duration, but spiritually they form a single whole, called the daily circle. In Orthodox worship, much is borrowed from Old Testament prayer customs. In particular, the beginning of a new day is considered not midnight, but 6 pm. Hence the first service of the daily cycle is Vespers. At Vespers, the Church reminds worshipers of the main events of the Sacred History of the Old Testament: the creation of the world by God, the Fall

ancestors, Mosaic legislation, ministry of the prophets. Christians thank God for their day. After Vespers, Compline is supposed to be served. These are a kind of public prayers for the coming sleep, in which we remember the descent of Christ into hell and the liberation of the righteous from the power of the devil.

At midnight, the third service of the daily cycle, the Midnight Office, should be performed. This service was established to remind believers of the second coming of the Lord and the Last Judgment.

Before sunrise, Matins begins. It is dedicated to the events of the earthly life of the Savior and contains many prayers of both repentance and gratitude. Matins is one of the longest services.
Around 7 o'clock in the morning it is supposed to perform the first hour. This is the name of the short service at which the Church remembers the presence of Jesus Christ at the trial of the high priest Caiaphas.

The third hour (10 o'clock in the morning) takes us with sacred memories to the Upper Room of Zion, where the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles, and to Pilate's Praetorium, where Christ was sentenced to death.
The sixth hour (noon) is the time of the Lord’s crucifixion, and the ninth hour (three o’clock in the afternoon) is the time of His death on the cross. The corresponding services are dedicated to these mournful events.

Finally, the main Christian service, a kind of center of the daily circle, is the Divine Liturgy. Unlike other services, the liturgy not only reminds us of God, but provides an opportunity to truly unite with Him in the sacrament of Communion. According to the time, the liturgy should be celebrated between the sixth and ninth hours.
Modern liturgical practice has made its own changes to the regulations of the Charter. Thus, in parish churches, Compline is celebrated only during Great Lent, and the Midnight Office is celebrated once a year, on the eve of Easter. The ninth hour is extremely rarely served. The remaining six services of the daily circle are combined into two groups of three.
In the evening, Vespers, Matins and the first hour are performed one after another. On the eve of Sundays and holidays, this chain of worship is called an all-night vigil, that is, staying awake throughout the whole night. Ancient Christians, indeed, often prayed until dawn. Modern all-night vigils last 2-4 hours in parishes and 3-6 hours in monasteries.

In the morning, the third hour, the sixth hour and the Divine Liturgy are served successively. In churches with many parishioners, on Sundays and holidays there are two liturgies - early and late. Both are preceded by reading the hours.
On those days when there is no liturgy (for example, on Friday of Holy Week), a short sequence of pictorial ones is performed. This service contains some chants of the liturgy and, as it were, “depicts” it. But visual arts do not have the status of an independent service.

Based on the book “The Basics of Orthodoxy”

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Liturgical circles- a certain repeating sequence of services or prayers that compose them.

Daily cycle of worship

Daily liturgical circle- sequence of services for one day. The liturgical “days”, according to the Old Testament tradition (“And there was evening, and there was morning - one day,” etc.) begin in the evening (and not from midnight, as is customary in the civil calendar) and consist of the following rites (in parentheses the conditional time of their occurrence according to modern time calculation is indicated; in practice it can be significantly different):

Currently, the order of the daily liturgical circle in parish practice is usually not observed - the ninth hour, Compline and Midnight Office are omitted. The services of the daily liturgical circle are contained in the Book of Hours.

Weekly (weekly) circle of services

Weekly liturgical circle- a thematic sequence of services within one week.

Each day of the week is specifically dedicated to a specific topic:

• Sunday - Resurrection of Christ.
• Monday - glorification of the ethereal forces of the Angels.
• Tuesday - Glorification of St. John the Baptist and the prophets.
• Wednesday is the remembrance of the betrayal of Judas (and since this essentially began the time of the Passion of the Lord, the service of the Cross is performed, and the day is fast).
• Thursday - Glorification of Sts. Apostles and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
• Friday - remembrance of the sufferings on the cross and the death of the Savior; Service of the Cross, fast day).
• Saturday is the glorification of the Mother of God and all the saints. The deceased are also remembered.

Eight-week osmotic circle of worship

The divine service of the weekly liturgical circle is subordinated to one of the eight voices, etc. Eight-week vocal cycles are formed, repeated several times throughout the year. The counting of voices begins on Easter Day with the first voice. The services - a set of variable components of the service of the weekly liturgical circle - are contained in the octoech. See also osmoconciliation.

Annual circle of services (fixed and moving)

Annual liturgical circle- thematic sequence of services throughout the year. There are different types of movable and fixed annual liturgical circles.

Fixed annual liturgical circle- associated with the solar calendar - includes the worship of the fixed twelfths and other holidays and the daily celebrations of saints.

Movable annual liturgical circle- associated with the lunar calendar (see Easter) - includes the services of Great Lent (and the three preceding weeks), Pentecost and Octoechos.

The services of the fixed annual liturgical circle are contained in the menaions, the moving ones - in the Lenten Triodion (Lent), the Colored Triodion (Pentecost) and the Octoechos.

The connection of the moving and fixed annual liturgical circles is carried out using the Markov chapters given in the charter (named after their compiler, monk Mark). The divine service of each day is a combination of an almost unchanging basis from the prayers of the daily liturgical circle with changing prayers related to the liturgical theme of the given day from the Menaion and Octoechos or Triodion (Lenten or Colored), and during Lent and Pentecost, prayers from the Octoechos are almost not used.

WEEKLY CIRCLE OF SERVICES
order of services for seven days of the week. Each day of the week is dedicated to some important event or a particularly revered saint.
On Sunday, the Church remembers and glorifies the Resurrection of Christ.
On Monday, ethereal forces are glorified - angels, created before man, the closest servants of God.
On Tuesday St. John the Baptist, as the greatest of all prophets and righteous ones.
On Wednesday, the betrayal of the Lord by Judas is remembered and, in connection with this, a service is performed in memory of the Cross of the Lord (fast day).
On Thursday St. apostles and saints Nicholas the Wonderworker.
On Friday, the suffering on the cross and the death of the Savior are remembered and a service is performed in honor of the Cross of the Lord (fast day).
On Saturday - the day of rest - the Mother of God, who is blessed every day, is glorified, the forefathers, prophets, apostles, martyrs, saints, the righteous and all the saints who have achieved rest in the Lord. All those who have died in true faith and hope for resurrection and eternal life are also remembered.

Source: Encyclopedia "Russian Civilization"

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