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2 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
One of the most powerful services of the extremely rich Byzantine Holy Week is Matins of Great and Holy Friday, known as the Matins of the Twelve Gospels. This consists of the (mostly) regular order of Matins as it is celebrated in Lent, into which Twelve Gospel readings of the Lord’s Passion are added at various points. I am very grateful to my friend Fr. Herman Majkrzak for agreeing to share with NLM this beautiful reflection which he wrote about it a few days ago.
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2 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
If you are planning on being in Rome for Holy Week during this Jubilee year, you should certainly make an effort to attend services in the Byzantine Rite at the church of St Anthony the Abbot on the Esquiline Hill, the Russian Greek-Catholic church in urbe.
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2 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
The feast of St Mary of Egypt has never been on the General Calendar, but it is often found in the supplements of the Missal and Breviary “for certain places.” April 2 is the most common date, but in several places it was kept on April 9, and in the Byzantine Rite it is on April 1.
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3 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
In the Byzantine liturgy, each of the Sundays of Lent has a special commemoration attached to it. The first Sunday is known as the Sunday of Orthodoxy, because it commemorates the defeat of iconoclasm and the restoration of the orthodox belief in the use of icons; many churches have a procession in which the clergy and faithful carry the icons, as seen in this video from the Sacred Patriarchal Monastery of St Irene Chrysovalantou, in Astoria, New York.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
Now the powers of heaven invisibly worship with us, for behold, the King of Glory entereth! Behold, the mystical sacrifice, being perfected, is carried forth in triumph. With faith and love, let us come forth, that we may become partakers of eternal life, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia! (Recording by the Lviv Archeparchial Clergy Choir.) Нині сили небесні з нами невидимо служать: ось бо входить Цар слави, ось жертва тайна совершенна супроводиться у славі.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Church Slavonic |Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
In the Byzantine Rite, the Divine Liturgy is not celebrated on the weekdays of Lent, but only on Saturdays and Sundays; an exception is made for the feast of the Annunciation. Therefore, at the Divine Liturgy on Sundays, extra loaves of bread are consecrated, and reserved for the rest of the week. On Wednesdays and Fridays, a service known as the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is held, in which Vespers is mixed with a Communion Rite.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
The original day for the feast of the Forty Martyrs, who were killed at Sebaste in Armenia under the Roman Emperor Licinius, around 320 AD, is March 9th. They were a group of soldiers of the Twelfth Legion who refused to renounce the Faith, and after various tortures, were condemned to die a particularly horrible death, stripped naked and left to freeze on the ice of a frozen lake.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
In the Byzantine Rite, today is the first day of Great Lent, traditionally known as Clean Monday. As I have described before in various articles, it is the long-standing custom of the rite that the Divine Liturgy is not celebrated on the weekdays of Lent, except on the feast of the Annunciation.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
The Byzantine Forelent consists of five Sundays, of which the first four are traditionally named for their Gospels, but the season builds up much more gradually than the Roman one does. The first Sunday, that of Zacchaeus (Luke 19, 1-10), consists only of an Epistle and Gospel at the Divine Liturgy, and has no presence in the Office.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
Our thanks to reader Gian Marco Talluto for sharing with us these pictures of the ordination of a bishop in the Byzantine Rite, which took place in Sicily on this day in 1938. Giuseppe Perniciaro was born in Mezzojuso, in the province of Palermo, Sicily, on January 11, 1907.
