The Festal Menaion

ed. Kallistos Ware

  • Year 1969
  • Type Other
  • Genre liturgy
  • Tradition Eastern Orthodox
  • Original language English

For For Orthodox worshippers, choir directors and students of Byzantine liturgy who want the feast-day services in English. Not a book about prayer for the general reader.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
4 of 5 important
Difficulty
3 of 5 demanding

The texts of the fixed great feasts of the Orthodox year in a standard English translation. A liturgical book, used in church and study rather than read through.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 1 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 2 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

An English translation of the services for the great feasts of the Orthodox Church that fall on fixed dates, taken from the Menaion, the liturgical books arranged by the days of the year. It was made by Mother Mary of the Orthodox Monastery of the Veil of the Mother of God at Bussy-en-Othe and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware and published by Faber and Faber in 1969 (about 564 pages). With its companion The Lenten Triodion (1978) it gave English-speaking Orthodox a full text of these services for use in church and private reading, and it remains a standard translation.

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