A Practical Handbook for Divine Services

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By Gregory WoolfendenPrayer & Devotion, Priestly Ministry

Description

One way in which we can increase the talents given to
us by God is “to celebrate a service in splendor” and thereby “communicate the
word to those untaught.” (From the Aposticha of the Matins of Great and Holy
Tuesday.) A Practical Handbook for Divine Services will serve as an invaluable
guide to all — priests, deacons, servers, readers and singers –who seek to
increase their God given talent in fulfilment of these words.

It will also encourage all the laity who desire to enter more fully
into an understanding of the Church’s Typicon, the “rule” which governs how
Divine worship is offered in the church, and to internalize the principles that
underpin it. Whilst drawn from Russian sources, the texts also touch upon
differences found in Greek usage. This is also a valuable resource for any
student of Christian liturgy.

Additional information

Imprint	Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
Publisher	Holy Trinity Publications
Author Name	Gregory Woolfenden
Language	English
Book Dimensions	216 × 140 mm × 13 mm
Format Detail	Paperback
Publication Date	20110401
Pages	168
Format	BC

Author Biography

Igumen Gregory (Woolfenden) was born in 1946 in
Liverpool, United Kingdom. Brought up in the Roman Catholic Church, he obtained
degrees in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in
Rome and was ordained as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1977. He has a
masters in philosophy from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and a
Ph.D. from Heythrop College, University of London. He lectured in liturgy and
worship at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford, and was a member of the University
of Oxford Faculty of Theology. In 1996 he was received into the Orthodox Church
by Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom). He served as a priest in the Russian Orthodox
Diocese of Sourozh (Moscow Patriarchate) and was tonsured as a monk at the
Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Monastery in Turin, Italy in 2000. In the United
States, he served as a priest in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Ecumenical
Patriarchate) and was elevated to the rank of Igumen in 2007. He served the
parish of the Nativity of the Mother of God in New Britain, Connecticut, and
lectured at Yale Theological Seminary, New Haven, Connecticut.

His other works include: Daily Prayer in Christian Spain: A Study of
the Mozarabic Office (London: SPCK, 2000), Joyful Light (Oxford: St Stephen’s
Press, 2001) and Daily Liturgical Prayer: Origins and Theology (Aldershot, U.K.:
Ashgate Publishing, 2004)

Contents

Introduction vii
1. Little Vespers and the All-Night Vigil 1
2. The Third and Sixth Hours 40
3. The Divine Liturgy According to the Order of St John Chrysostom 43
4. The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts 88
Appendix 1 Vestment Colors 99
Appendix 2 A Complete Collection of Canon Responses 103
Appendix 3 Notes for Concelebration by Priests in the Absence of a Bishop
107
Notes 114
Index 142