The Festal Menaion
Overview
This volume contains the variable portions of the services for nine of the Twelve Great Feasts (excluding Palm Sunday, Ascension, and Pentecost, which can be found in the Triodion and the Pentecostarion). You’ll also find the texts for some other important feasts surrounding these nine, as well as an introduction to the services of the church and their structure.
Key Features
- Presents the variable portions of the services for nine Great Feasts
- Includes texts for other important feasts surrounding them
- Provides introduction to the services of the Church
Top Highlights
“‘To deliver our kind formed from dust, God will go down even unto hell: He will give freedom to all the captives and sight to the blind, and will grant the dumb to cry aloud: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou.’” (Page 424)
“but in the flesh He descends into the streams of Jordan, wishing to give light to those in darkness.” (Page 296)
“He desires in His goodness to call back mortal nature and to set it at the right hand of the Father.” (Page 406)
“He shall be the fall of the disobedient and the rising again of all those who sing with faith:3” (Page 424)
“that He may crush with His divinity the invisible heads of the dragons in thy waters” (Page 295)
- Title: The Festal Menaion
- Author: Orthodox Church
- Series: The Service Books of the Orthodox Church
- Publisher: St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press
- Print Publication Date: 1998
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 564
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Orthodox Eastern Church; Goddelijke liturgie
- ISBNs: 1878997009, 9781878997005
- Resource ID: LLS:FESTALMENAION
- Resource Type: Service Book
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:43:13Z