06 — Scripture in the Liturgy

For Orthodoxy, the primary place the faithful encounter Scripture is not the study but the worship of the Church: the Bible is chanted, prayed, and enacted. This section treats how thoroughly the services are woven from Scripture — with the Psalter as the Church’s own prayerbook — and the ordered systems by which the Church reads through the Gospels, the Epistles, and the Old Testament.

Tradition: Pan-Orthodox

The doctrine that Scripture is the Church’s book, read within Tradition (Section 01), is realized concretely in worship. This section shows the Bible as the liturgical book: the raw material of the services and the appointed cycles of reading.

Files

File	Description
the-bible-as-the-liturgical-book.md	Scripture chanted, prayed, and enacted; how much of the services is direct Scripture; the Psalter as the Church’s prayerbook (the twenty kathismata); the biblical canticles; Scripture as the very language of worship. Links The Divine Liturgy.
the-lectionary-and-the-cycles.md	The Gospel and Epistle (Apostolos) lectionary cycles; the annual course of readings; the Old Testament paremias at Vespers; the Prophetologion; the place of the Apocalypse.

See Also

• The Bible as the Church’s Book — the doctrine realized in worship
• Typology, the Exodus, and Pascha — the readings chosen for their typology
• The Divine Liturgy — the central service in which Scripture is proclaimed