The General Menaion or the Book of Services

Book Id: WPLBN0000700591
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Reproduction Date: 2004

Title:	The General Menaion or the Book of Services
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Language:	English
Subject:	Religion, Christian literature, Christian theology
Collections:	Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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Excerpt
Excerpt: PREFACE; THE Orthodox Eastern Church undoubtedly possesses the most abundant hymnology for her services. Special entire services date their origin as far back as the fourth if not the third century. But the greatest impetus to their production was given by the sweet melodies of St. John of Damascus (a substantial part of the Octoechos). The rich harvest of about two centuries' work appears in the shape of 12 books, one Menaion for each month, with at least one service for every day. At the time when everything had to be copied by hand, such a wealth could of course be found in large monasteries only; almost from the beginning therefore a want was felt and supplied later on by a book, of which the translation is now offered and which had and has to be used, even where the Menaia are found, in cases e.g. of the newly canonized saints until special services are composed in their honour.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The General Menai0n. -- Chapter. -- I. The Festivals of Our Lord Jesus Christ -- Ii. The Festivals of The Holy Virgin -- Iii. The Festivals of The Cross -- Iv. The General Service To The Holy Angels and Other -- Bodiless Ones -- V. The General Service To John The Baptist -- Vi. The General Service of The Holy Fathers -- Vii. The General Service To A Prophet -- Viii. The General Service To One Apostle -- Ix. The General Service To Apostles -- X. The General Service To One Hierarch -- Xi. The General Service To Hierarchs -- Xii. The General Service To A Monk -- Xiii. The General Service To Two Or More Monks -- Xiv. The General Service To One Martyr -- Xv. The General Service To Two Or More Martyrs -- Xvi. The General Service To One Hiero martyr -- Xvii. The General Service To Two Or More Hiero martyrs -- Xviii. The General Service To A Monk martyr -- Xix. The General Service To Two Or More Monk martyrs -- Xx. The General Service To A Female Martyr -- Xxi. The General Service To Two Or More Female Martyrs -- Xxii. The General Service To A Nun -- Xxiii. The General Service To Two Or More Nuns -- Xxiv. The General Service To A Nun martyr -- Xxv. The General Service To A Hiero confessor Or Monk -- Confessor -- Xxvi. The General Service To The Unmercenaries and -- Wonderworkers -- Xxvii. The General Service To The Foolish For Christ's -- Sake . 272 -- 282