Menaion
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The Menaion (
Slavonic: Минїѧ,[1] Miniya, "of the month") is the liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox Church[note 1] containing the propers for fixed dates of the calendar year, i.e. entities not dependent on the date of Easter
.
The Menaion is the largest volume of the propers for the Byzantine Rite and is used at nearly all the
daily services
.
Editions
Novgorod
The complete Menaion is published in twelve volumes, one for each month; the first volume is for September which commences the Byzantine liturgical year.
The Festal Menaion is an abridged version containing texts for those
great feasts
falling on the fixed cycle, some editions also containing feasts of the major saints.
The General Menaion contains services for each type of celebration (
missions
and parishes unable to afford a complete Menaion.
Supplementary volumes to the Menaion exist for local saints, e.g., one for all the Saints of the
Kiev Caves Monastery, or for newly canonized saints or icons
which have their own locally observed feasts.
Calendar
Since 1921, there have been two calendars in use within the Orthodox Church: the
Bright Wednesday
where the Julian Calendar is used but only as late as the Thursday before Palm Sunday where the revised calendar is used.
Icons
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The term "Menaion" is also applied to icons of all the saints whose
feast days
fall within a particular month. A particular church may have 12 such icons, one for each month of the year, or it may have one large icon depicting all 12 months on one panel.
See also
- Calendar of Saints
- Pentecostarion
- Menologium
- Synaxarion
- Triodion
Notes
- ^ and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite
- Gregorian Calendar
References
- ^ "Минея, сентябрь ~ Menaion, September". Богослужебные тексты ~ Liturgical Texts. Библиотека святоотеческой литературы ~ Library of Patristic Literature. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
Bibliography
- Review of Festal Menaion translated by Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware[permanent dead link], "Theology Today" 35 (1978) July, 241-243.
- Wikisource has the article of the Catholic Encyclopedia, edition of 1913, which is now in the public domain: look at Menaion
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Menaion.
- Complete text in the Church Slavonic language, Retrieved 2013-08-29
- Text of the General Menaion in the Church Slavonic language, Retrieved 2013-08-29
- Text of the Festal Menaion in the Church Slavonic language, Retrieved 2013-08-29
- Snippets of the text in the English language, Retrieved 2013-08-29
- Text of the General Menaion in the English language, Retrieved 2013-08-29
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