Byzantine Liturgical Books is the interlocking service books that order the daily, weekly, movable, and fixed cycles of Byzantine worship.[1]
Cycles and books
No single volume contains the whole Byzantine liturgical cycle. The Horologion supplies the ordinary structure of the daily offices; the Octoechos orders an eight-tone weekly cycle; the Menaion contains fixed-date services for each month.
The Lenten Triodion supplies the pre-Lenten and Great Fast cycle, while the Pentecostarion serves Pascha through Pentecost and All Saints. The Psalter, Gospel book, Apostolos, and Prophetologion provide scriptural texts in forms shaped for worship.
Books for ministers
The Euchologion contains priestly prayers for the mysteries and other rites; a Hieratikon or Liturgikon contains texts used by priests and deacons at the Divine Liturgy and offices. The Archieratikon provides texts and rubrics for a bishop's celebration, while the Typikon coordinates the books and calendars.[2]
Names, contents, translations, and local supplements vary among Byzantine Catholic churches. These differences belong to living recensions and particular traditions, not to arbitrary selection by an individual celebrant.
References
- 1.Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the CCEO — Holy See guidance on Eastern books, worship, and organic tradition
- 2.Orientalium Ecclesiarum — Vatican II mandate to preserve and foster Eastern rites