A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services Sokolof Dmitry
A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services Sokolof Dmitry This comprehensive work represents a complete but accessible survey of everything related to the Orthodox Church's divine services and…
Specifikacia A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services Sokolof Dmitry
A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services Sokolof Dmitry
This comprehensive work represents a complete but accessible survey of everything related to the Orthodox Church's divine services and is helpfully illustrated throughout. He describes the church building, the clergy who perform divine services and their vestments, and the cycles of public worship. The author begins with a discussion of the nature and origin of Divine worship.
The reader will also find a rare discussion of the rite of the Coronation and Anointing of the Tsar. The services of Great Vespers, Matins, and the Divine Liturgy are reviewed in detail, as are festal services, and different services of need: Baptism and Chrismation, Confession, Ordination, Matrimony, Unction, Prayer Services, Monastic Tonsure and Burial, and the Consecration of a Church. This manual was originally translated and printed before the Russian Revolution.
It is suitable both as an introduction to