Author Topic: Byzantine Lent: The Triodion (Read 2663 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** February 04, 2012, 01:50:19 AM »

As Septuagesimatide is now upon us, it would be salutary to consider the wondrous and beautiful manner in which the Byzantine Catholics prepare for the sacred Paschal solemnities, as seen in these pages taken from the Byzantine Missal for Sundays and Feast Days with Rites of Sacraments, and Various Offices and Prayers published at Birmingham, Alabama, by St. George's R. C. Byzantine Church in 1958, (having been printed at Tournai, Belgium, by Société Saint Jean l' Evangéliste, Desclée & Cie).

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** February 04, 2012, 01:51:33 AM »

For more information regarding the Byzantine Rite, please consult the following thread:

http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/The-Riches-of-the-Byzantine-Liturgy

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2012, 02:01:52 AM »

The Sunday of the Prodigal Son corresponds to our Septuagesima Sunday.

How exceedingly marvelous and praiseworthy is the design of Divine Providence whereby the Greek Church offers the children of the Latin Occident such a beautiful example of the earnest penitence which Our Lord seeks of us, and how wondrously merciful and loving He is when sinners turn to Him with earnest and contrite hearts, as the faithful of the Roman Church bid farewell to the superlunary Alleluia and begin to prepare for the venerable Lenten fast.

Pyrrhos · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2012, 09:12:58 AM »

Thank you so much!

Sigismund · « **Reply #4 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:21:24 PM »

Indeed!

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2012, 12:58:42 AM »

Here are the proper texts of the Divine Liturgy for Meat-Fare Saturday taken from the above-cited Byzantine Missal.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2012, 01:02:48 AM »

Here are the proper texts of the Divine Liturgy for Meat-Fare Sunday taken from the above-cited Byzantine Missal.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2012, 11:04:08 PM »

Here are the proper texts of the Divine Liturgy for Cheese-Fare Sunday taken from the above-cited Byzantine Missal.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2012, 12:12:09 PM »

Here are the proper texts of the Divine Liturgy for the Sunday of Orthodoxy, wherein the Byzantines solemnly commemorate the Second Council of Nicea and the triumph of the veneration of holy images against the iconoclastic heretics, taken from the Byzantine Missal.

Dissolved Girl · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2012, 09:24:53 PM »

Thank you kindly for sharing this, it was so beautiful and edifying to read.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #10 on:** March 03, 2012, 01:31:56 AM »

Here are the proper texts of the Divine Liturgy for the Sunday of the Relics, taken from the Byzantine Missal.

Note how appropriate and decorous it is to recall the veneration owed to the relics of the Saints: for, by penance and self-abnegation, they died to self so that they lived only for God: the flesh that was macerated and chastised by penance and mortification out of divine charity is indeed worthy of honor and glory, especially that honor and glory that Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself shall bestow upon His elect in the Resurrection at the Doomsday.

It behooves us to behold in the Saints the glory and grace that constitute the end of our interior life, for it encourages and comforts us as we proceed with the Lenten penances and fasts.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #11 on:** March 10, 2012, 09:57:43 AM »

Here are the proper texts of the Divine Liturgy for the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross, taken from the Byzantine Missal.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2012, 10:06:57 AM »

Here are the proper texts of the Divine Liturgy for the Commemoration of Our Venerable Father John, Author of "The Ladder of Virtues," taken from the Byzantine Missal.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #13 on:** March 23, 2012, 11:43:16 PM »

Here are the proper texts of the Divine Liturgy for the Commemoration of Our Venerable Mother Mary the Egyptian, taken from the Byzantine Missal.

Oh what great Patroness and exemplar of penitence does the Greek Church present before the children of the Roman Church as they enter into the solemn Season of Passiontide! May the patronage of St. Mary of Egypt avail everyone of us unto the increase of the theological virtues and the gifts of the Holy Ghost by the intensified practice of works of penance and self-abnegation, as we near the solemn commemoration of the sacred Paschal Mysteries.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2012, 08:49:37 AM »

Here are the proper texts of the Divine Liturgy for Palm Sunday, taken from the Byzantine Missal.

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