07 — The Angels in Worship

The Church’s worship is a joining of the angelic worship of heaven. This section sets out the angelic liturgy — the “Holy, holy, holy” of the Sanctus (Isaiah 6; Revelation 4), the Trisagion, and the Cherubic Hymn in which the faithful “mystically represent the Cherubim” — and the tradition of the angels concelebrating at the altar; then it locates the Bodiless Powers in the Church’s time: Monday as the angels’ day in the weekly cycle, and the feasts of the calendar.

Tradition: Pan-Orthodox

Files

• the-angelic-liturgy.md — The Sanctus, the Trisagion, and the Cherubic Hymn; the concelebration of the angels at the altar (Chrysostom).
• the-bodiless-powers-in-the-calendar.md — Monday as the angels’ day; the Synaxis of 8 November and the other feasts; the dedication of churches.

See Also

• The Divine Liturgy: The Cherubic Hymn and the Great Entrance — the Cherubikon in its liturgical place
• The Dionysian Hierarchy — the earthly liturgy as image of the heavenly hierarchy
• The Church Calendar — the cycles of Orthodox liturgical time