Dear Josef, an accurate enough presentation of the manifold ways by
which both the living and the dead are commemorated in Orthodox
churches, both monastic and parochial.
Just one point though - you need to adjust your tense from past to
present. These practices are still flourishing in contemporary
Orthodoxy. Nothing changes in the East, dear brother! As any parish
priest will tell you, it can be quite exhausting fulfilling the
faithfuls' requirements for both Pannichidas (non-eucharistic requiem
services) and lengthy lists of names to run through at the Proscomedia
preceding the Liturgy.
Fr Ambrose
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>While the lists of commemorations of the departed and the living were
>important in the life of Orthodox monastics, these were done
>primarily at non-Eucharistic
>services celebrated precisely for this purpose___ the Litiya prayers
>for the departed, the Pannychis ( Parastasis) {lengthier service for
>the departed based on an interpolated matins ordo}, the full Matins
>for the Departed, all of which included the individual naming of all
>on the lists. At the Eucharistic Liturgy there were petitions offered
>for the departed in the Pre-Anaphoral sequece of litanies, in which
>the names of all the departed entrusted to the monastery might be
>read.In all of the examples I cited, the practice of assigning these
>lists to multiple readers/deacons,or priests, often read
>simultaneously, or in sequence was not uncommon. There was however,
>only one Eucharistic Liturgy being celebrated, on one altar, with
>one chief celebrant, and one Eucharistic offering. There did however
>emerge the development of small kiosks ( often, but not always, a
>table or extended shelf, with icons, cross, taper stands, etc
>specifically for the celebration of the memorial services. These
>kiosks were placed just about anywhere within the nave of the church.
>These memorial services could be offered daily, but did not require
>an altar, nor a Eucharistic Liturgy (Mass) for their celebration. It
>was also often given to the individual monks to commemorate these
>official lists of departed, along with any such commemorations asked
>privately of them in their daily private prayers.
>
>I hope I have not gotten too far off track from your original
observation.
>I didn't intend to; it just happened!
>Best wishes for the New Year
>Josef Gulka
>
>
>Josef Gulka
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