Excerpt from The People's Prayers: Being Some Considerations on the Use of the Litany in Public Worship If we turn to the extant liturgies of the East, we find in almost everyone this diaconal litany, between the mass of the Catechumens and that of the Faithful; that is, in the same position which is occupied by the People's Prayers in Justin Martyr's outlines of the liturgy of the second century. Its length varies, and the petitions are not always identical but they are all in the form of dialogue prayers between the ...
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Excerpt from The People's Prayers: Being Some Considerations on the Use of the Litany in Public Worship If we turn to the extant liturgies of the East, we find in almost everyone this diaconal litany, between the mass of the Catechumens and that of the Faithful; that is, in the same position which is occupied by the People's Prayers in Justin Martyr's outlines of the liturgy of the second century. Its length varies, and the petitions are not always identical but they are all in the form of dialogue prayers between the deacon and the congregation. In Greek this kind of litany prayers is called an Ectene. At the end (or simultaneously in the later use) the bishop sums up the petitions in a collect. We can clearly see in this an origin of our present Litany or General Supplication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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