"UNDERSTANDING THE DIVINE LITURGY"

     (A Guide For Participating In The Divine Liturgy Of St. John Chrysostom)

"Lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
-- Matthew 6:20-21

ENDORSEMENT BY METROPOLITAN PHILIP

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1.  The Meaning of the Liturgy

2.  Vespers and Other Preparations for the Divine Liturgy
3.  Sunday Morning Preparation
4.  Kairos: The Entrance Prayers Prior to the Divine Liturgy
5.  The Vesting
6.  The Washing of the Hands
7.  The Proskomide (or “Prothesis”)

II. THE DIVINE LITURGY

1.  The Structure of the Liturgy
2.  The Opening Prayer

III. THE LITURGY OF THE CATECHUMENS

1.  The Great Ektenia (or “The Litany of Peace”)
2.  The Antiphons and the Monogenes

3.  The Little Entrance
4.  The Prayer of the Entrance
5.  The Trisagion Hymn
6.  The Readings
7.  The Epistle
8.  The Holy Gospel
9.  The Homily
10.The Prayers for the Catechumens

IV. THE LITURGY OF THE FAITHFUL

1.  The Prayers of the Faithful
2.  The Great Entrance
3.  The Prayer of the Cherubic Hymn
4.  The Procession

5.  The Litany of the Prothesis
6.  The Prayer Before the Offering (Proskomide)
7.  The Holy Kiss
8.  The Creed
9.  The Anaphora (The Eucharistic Prayer)
10.The Anamnesis
11.The Lord’s Prayer
12.The Elevation
13.Holy Communion
14.Post-Communion and Thanksgiving

15.The Dismissal

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