The Festal Menaion
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
This volume contains the variable portions of the services for nine of the Twelve Great Feasts (excluding Palm Sunday, Ascension, and Pentecost, which can be found in the Triodion and the Pentecostarion). You’ll also find the texts for some other important feasts surrounding these nine, as well as an introduction to the services of the church and their structure.
Key Features
- Presents the variable portions of the services for nine Great Feasts
- Includes texts for other important feasts surrounding them
- Provides introduction to the services of the Church
Top Highlights
“‘To deliver our kind formed from dust, God will go down even unto hell: He will give freedom to all the captives and sight to the blind, and will grant the dumb to cry aloud: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou.’” (Page 424)
“but in the flesh He descends into the streams of Jordan, wishing to give light to those in darkness.” (Page 296)
“He desires in His goodness to call back mortal nature and to set it at the right hand of the Father.” (Page 406)
“He shall be the fall of the disobedient and the rising again of all those who sing with faith:3” (Page 424)
“that He may crush with His divinity the invisible heads of the dragons in thy waters” (Page 295)
About the Translators
Mother Mary is a nun at the Monastery of the Veil of the Mother of God in Bussy-en-Othe, France. She has been involved in translating a number of divine service texts into English.
Kallistos Ware is a titular metropolitan of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Great Britain. He served as Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at Oxford University from 1966–2001.