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    the prosphora in the Liturgy of Preparation at the Divine Liturgy in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches. The Lamb is cut from a specially...
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    Agnus Dei is the Latin name under which the "Lamb of God" is honoured within Christian liturgies descending from the historic Latin liturgical tradition...
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  • Look up Lamb or lamb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lamb or The Lamb may refer to: A young sheep Lamb and mutton, the meat of sheep The Lamb (1915...
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    application of the term "Lamb of God" to Jesus. In fact, the Host used in the Orthodox Divine Liturgy is referred to as the Lamb (Greek: άμνος, romanized: amnos;...
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    Divine Liturgy (Ancient Greek: Θεία Λειτουργία, romanized: Theia Leitourgia) or Holy Liturgy is the usual name used in most Eastern Christian rites for...
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    Alexandrian rites are a collection of ritual families and uses of Christian liturgy employed by three Oriental Orthodox churches (the Coptic Orthodox Church...
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    loaf for the Liturgy of Preparation, with a large round seal on it inscribed not only with the square seal mentioned above (from which the Lamb is taken)...
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  • The Liturgy of Saint Basil or, more formally, the Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great (Coptic: Ϯⲁ̀ⲛⲁⲫⲟⲣⲁ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲡⲓⲁ̀ⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲓⲟⲥ, Ti-anaphora ente pi-agios...
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    Roman Rite (redirect from Roman Liturgy)
    Catholic Church. The Roman Rite governs rites such as the Roman Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours as well as the manner in which sacraments and blessings are...
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    The Liturgy of Saint James is a form of Christian liturgy used by some Eastern Christians of the Byzantine rite and West Syriac Rite. It is developed...
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    Christianity, including Eastern Catholic Churches, other terms such as Divine Liturgy, Holy Qurbana, Holy Qurobo and Badarak (or Patarag) are typically used...
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    The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts (Greek: λειτουργία τών Προηγιασμένων Δώρων) is a Byzantine Rite liturgical service which is performed on the weekdays...
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    leavened bread used in Orthodox Christian and Greek Catholic (Byzantine) liturgies. The classical plural form is prosphorai (προσφοραί). The term originally...
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  • The Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is the most celebrated divine liturgy in the Byzantine Rite. It is named after its core part, the anaphora attributed...
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    Holy Communion to the faithful), and a spear (used to cut the Lamb during the Liturgy of Preparation). For Christians of historically Eastern church...
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  • The ordinary, in Catholic liturgies, refers to the part of the Mass or of the canonical hours that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on...
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    suggested by the groupings of the figures, appears to follow the liturgy of All Saints' Day. The lamb stands on an altar, and is surrounded by 14 angels arranged...
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  • "Lamb", is cut out before the Divine Liturgy during the preparatory rite and is the only part consecrated during the Epiclesis. As part of the Liturgy...
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    David Flusser links the text of the verse in Luke with ancient Jewish liturgy. Gloria in excelsis Deo is an example of the psalmi idiotici ("private...
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  • may refer to: Lamb (liturgy) (Old Church Slavonic: Агнецъ, agnets), the square portion of bread cut from the prosphora in the Liturgy of Preparation...
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    also known as the Traditional Latin Mass or the Traditional Rite, is the liturgy in the Roman Missal of the Catholic Church codified in 1570 and published...
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  • at the Sunday Liturgies during Great Lent, and the Reserved Mysteries on Great Thursday of Holy Week. The priest will take up the Lamb in his left hand...
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    the Latin Church, while the various Eastern Catholic liturgies use terms such as Divine Liturgy, Holy Qurbana, and Badarak, in accordance with each one's...
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  • end of the handle. The Spear is used during the Liturgy of Preparation when the priest cuts the Lamb (Host) out of the Prosphoron (loaf of leavened bread)...
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    current official version of the hours in the Roman Rite is called the Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: liturgia horarum) or divine office. In Lutheranism...
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    in the Divine Liturgy. Often several prosphora will be baked and offered by the faithful, and the priest chooses the best one for the Lamb (Host) that will...
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    Thy righteousness. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!" In the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the Lamb is also elevated just before the closing of the curtains...
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  • redemptive death of himself as Jesus Christ." The Catechism states that in the liturgy of the Church "it is principally his own Paschal mystery that Christ signifies...
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    the divine liturgy is not celebrated at its usual time, i.e., when there is a vesperal liturgy or no liturgy at all. On days when the liturgy may be celebrated...
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    in The Paschal Liturgy and the Apocalypse (new edition, 2004) by Massey H. Shepherd, an Episcopal scholar, and in Scott Hahn's The Lamb's Supper: The Mass...
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