Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.
Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Almsgiving is bound closely to the fasting seasons, what is not spent on food being given away.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Holy Unction is one of the seven mysteries and is administered to the living faithful in general, most publicly on Holy Wednesday, and not to the dying alone.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Baptism, chrismation and first communion are given together in one rite, so the baptismal life begins in infancy and is not deferred to an age of discretion.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Orthodoxy ordains married men to the priesthood but requires that bishops be monks, so celibacy shapes the episcopate rather than the parish; Mount Athos remains the tradition's monastic centre.
Kept on December 25 under the revised calendar the Ecumenical Patriarchate adopted for the fixed feasts in 1924, while Pascha stays on the older reckoning.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The churching of a mother and the presentation of a child on the fortieth day is kept as a living rite here, not as a survival.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Orthodox confess standing beside the priest before an icon rather than through a grille, the priest understood as a witness rather than a judge, and confession is ordinarily expected before receiving communion.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Prayers of exorcism are read over every candidate as a fixed part of the baptismal service, before the renunciation and the anointing.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Orthodox fasting means abstinence rather than hunger: no meat, dairy, eggs, fish with backbones, wine or oil on the strictest days, kept through Great Lent and three further fasting seasons and on most Wednesdays and Fridays, which is roughly half the year.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The washing of feet is performed on Holy Thursday by a bishop, the Niptir, in the cathedral and in the great monasteries.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Jesus Prayer belongs to Orthodoxy, defended by Gregory Palamas against the charge that its practitioners claimed to see God's essence; monks and increasingly laypeople repeat it alone on a knotted woollen cord, and teachers warn against the breathing technique without direction.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Infants are baptised, chrismated and communicated in one rite, so initiation is complete before the child can speak.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Communion is given in both kinds together, the consecrated bread having been placed in the chalice and administered to each communicant from a spoon. The result is the same as intinction and the manner is not, and the practice here is ancient rather than adopted for convenience.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The marriage service is the Crowning, and the priest is the minister of the sacrament rather than a witness to a contract the couple make, which is the opposite of the Roman analysis.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Tonsure is the rite of monastic profession itself, performed in degrees, and is not a preliminary to it.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Ninth Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and precedes Vespers, so that the liturgical day turns on it.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Byzantine rite as kept across the Eastern Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Kept across the Eastern Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Why this is disputed. The Ecumenical Patriarchate holds a primacy of honor as first among equals, first among the Orthodox sees since the councils of 381 and 451; the practical extent of that primacy, including the right to grant autocephaly unilaterally, is disputed.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The First Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion, appended to Matins, and was never suppressed here as Prime was in the Roman rite.
Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Orthodox perform the same rites but have never treated seven as a fixed count, calling them mysteries; chrismation follows infant baptism at once and communion is given to infants from then on, where the West defers both.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Sixth Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and is joined to the Third in ordinary parish use.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Third Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and carries the commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The anaphoras of St John Chrysostom and St Basil the Great are used according to a fixed calendar, the longer Basil on ten days of the year.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The epiclesis follows the institution narrative and is held to be the moment of consecration, which is the central Eastern difference from Western eucharistic theology.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Lamb is broken into four particles marked IC XC NI KA, one placed in the chalice, one for the clergy and two for the communion of the people.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Orthodox call it the Divine Liturgy, most often that of John Chrysostom, sung throughout behind an icon screen, with leavened bread and communion given in both kinds from a spoon after preparation by fasting and confession.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The institution narrative is recited within the anaphora, but the consecration is not located in it.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Orthodoxy defended images at the seventh council and keeps them central: an icon is kissed on entering, censed, carried in procession, laid on a stand for the feast of the day, and kept in a corner of the home. It is written to a received pattern rather than invented, and generally unsigned.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Orthodox honour Mary as Theotokos, God-bearer, and glorify saints by decision of a synod rather than through a Roman-style process; they reject the Immaculate Conception as answering a doctrine of original sin they do not hold, while keeping the Dormition.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Byzantine churches reserve the Lamb through the year for it.