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Feast Of The Circumcision Of Our Lord
The Feast of the Circumcision of Christ is a Christianity, Christian celebration of the circumcision of Jesus in accordance with Religious male circumcision, Jewish tradition, eight days (according to the Semitic and southern European calculation of intervals of days) after his birth of Jesus, birth, the occasion on which the child was formally Holy Name of Jesus, given his name. The circumcision of Jesus has traditionally been seen, as in the popular 14th-century work the ''Golden Legend'', as the first time the blood of Christ was shed, and thus the beginning of the process of the Salvation#Redemption, redemption of man, and a demonstration that Christ was fully human, and of his obedience to Biblical law. The feast day appears on 1 January in the liturgical calendar of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox churches, all Lutheran churches, and some churches of the Anglican Communion, though it is observed on 26 December in Byzantine Catholic churches. In the General Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menologion Of Basil 047
Menologium (), also written menology, and menologe, is a service-book used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite. From its derivation from Greek language, Greek , ''menológion'', from wikt:μήν#Ancient Greek, μήν ''mén'' "a month", via Latin ''wikt:Menologium#Latin, menologium'', the literal meaning is "month-set"—in other words, a book arranged according to the months. Like a good many other liturgical terms (e.g., lectionary), the word has been used in several quite distinct senses. Definitions ''Menologion'' has several different meanings: * "Menologion" is not infrequently used as synonymous with "Menaion" (pl. ''Menaia''). The Menaia, usually in twelve volumes—one for each month—but sometimes bound in three, form an Canonical hours#Liturgical books, office-book, which in the Orthodox Church, corresponds roughly to the ''Breviary#The Proprium Sanctorum, Proprium Sanctorum'' of the Latin Breviary. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
