09 — The Sunday of Orthodoxy
The Synodikon lives in a feast: the First Sunday of the Great Fast, with its procession of icons, its proclamation, and its pan-Orthodox Vespers. This section describes the day as it is actually kept and then closes the collection with a sober assessment of what the Synodikon shows about how the Orthodox Church defines herself.
Tradition: Pan-Orthodox
Contents
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| the-feast-as-it-is-kept.md | The day’s place in the Lenten cycle and its pairing with the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas; the procession with icons and the variation in the order of service; the abridged proclamation and the two elements almost always kept; the Kontakion, the Canon attributed to St. Theodore the Studite, and the readings from Hebrews 11 and John 1; the popular observance — icons from home, children in the procession, pan-Orthodox Vespers |
| how-orthodoxy-defines-itself.md | The closing assessment: six features of the Orthodox way of drawing doctrinal lines — conciliar, cumulative, about teachings, liturgical, anamnetic, restrained; what the document costs, stated honestly; what it gives; the confession and the closing prayer set side by side; and three cautions to the reader |
Reading Order
The descriptive file first, the assessment second. The assessment presupposes the whole collection and is intended to be read last.
See Also
- Master README — collection overview and navigation
- 08 — The Theology of Anathema — the section on which the assessment most depends, preceding
- 01 — What the Synodikon Is — the genre question, to which the assessment returns
- Great Lent — the Lenten cycle in which the feast stands