The Hypotyposis of the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis, Constantinople (11th-12th Centuries) by R. H. Jordan Rosemary Morris

Author:R. H. Jordan, Rosemary Morris [R. H. Jordan, Rosemary Morris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Medieval
ISBN: 9781317028246
Google: SUSrCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03T01:26:42+00:00

4. Concerning the psalm singing of the First Hour and concerning the prayers, and that after the worship of Orthros and the First Hour have been completed the brothers should go away to their cells and chant the obligatory procedure.23

So then after the worship of Orthros, the First Hour should be chanted by you following on immediately, as is customary, and at the end of this the following prayer should next be recited: ‘Thou who at all times and all hours’ and what follows.24 After the prayer the customary genuflections should be performed, by the able-bodied on the bare floor, but the weak should have some low supports.25 Three of these should be completed in a more leisurely manner in as much as while you are standing you should say three times to yourselves with hands stretched out ‘God, be merciful to me the sinner’,26 then when you are kneeling down with your heads resting on the ground, you should say three times in the same way ‘I have sinned against Thee, Lord, forgive me.’ But the remaining twelve should be carried out more quickly so as to utter the aforementioned supplicatory phrases once at each genuflection and each time you stand, but yet in unison and with fitting good order, not with some getting ahead and others falling behind, but all following the lead of the ekklesiarches or the priest on duty that day as he stands near the holy screen and indicates the successive movements.27

That should take place when ‘God is the Lord’ is not chanted during Orthros;28 but if it is, the performing of these genuflections in the church should be omitted but three deep bows should be performed while at each of them, as has been mentioned, the aforesaid supplicatory phrases should be said to yourselves three times. Then after these genuflections or bows all should repeat the following prayer aloud with hands raised: ‘Oh eternal God, everlasting Light without beginning, the Maker of all creation.’29 Immediately after the prayer the short katechesis from the words of the Fathers should take place, read by the proestos, just as we received it from our most blessed father, and this should never be omitted unless set aside by the Synaxarion.30 At this point after the reading, the trisagion which is prescribed for us should31 take place and to it the following prayer should be joined: ‘Thou who sendest out the light and it proceeds.’32 That is to take place when the katechesis is read as has been made clear; otherwise the trisagion should be omitted and the prayer recited to follow the other prayer before the katechesis.

All the prayers should be said with hands held up in accordance with the following:33 ‘Lift up your hands in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord’,34 and ‘The lifting of my hands as an evening sacrifice’35 and ‘In every place lifting holy hands without anger or quarrelling.’36 When the aforementioned prayer has been said and the priest has spoken his customary one

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