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The Catholic Historical Review, 2014

Medioevo Greco 22 (2022), 399-427

The article critically examines the proposal made by Stig R. Frøyshov to backdate from the 9th to the 7th century the adoption in Constantinople of the Jerusalem liturgical rite and offers some methodological reflections on the study and use of liturgical sources in the broader field of Byzantine history.

The Catholic Historical Review, 2009

2012

In ed. Constantin C. Akentiev, Liturgy, Architecture and Art of the Byzantine World: Papers of the XVIII International Byzantine Congress (Moscow, 8–15 August 1991) and Other Essays Dedicated to the Memory of Fr. John Meyendorff, Byzantinorossica 1 (St. Petersburg: 1995), 50–57., 1995

Since the time of Cardinal J.B. Pitra, it has generally been assumed that the kontakia of Romanos and other early hymnographers were once the dominant form of hymnography in Byzantine matins, but were curtailed to their first two stanzas after the advent of the kanon 2 • This traditional view of the kontakion's liturgical place was rejected by Jose Grosdidier de Matons, who, arguing from a careful examination of the style and content of the kontakia themselves, asserted that kontakia had never occupied tl~e present place of the kanon in monastic orthros 3 • He believed that the kontakia of Romanos, in keeping with their origins as poetic sermons, were originally written for the instruction of the laity at cathedral vigils4, and only after at least two centuries were they adapted to the monastic office 5 • While Grosdidier de Matons' identification of the cathedral vigil as the original home of the kontakion is generally consistent with his literary evidence, he unfortunately has very little to say about the nature and structure of these nocturnal rites. Curiously, he also seems unaware of even the existence of a distinctly Constantinopolitan cathedral rite (the asmatike akolouthia or "sung office") that differed from the Palestinian monastic rite 6 • In an attempt to remedy this situation, the present study will briefly examine the question of the kontakion's relationship to the asmatike akolouthia.

Journal of Ecumenical Studies in Liturgy 2, 2023

This article examines the origins, textual history, and meaning of the initial forms of blessing used in Eucharistic formulae in the Constantinopolitan liturgical tradition. In particular, it assesses the validity of the "eschatological" interpretation that some twentieth-century theologians have attributed to the blessing of God's "basileia".

Ecclesia orans, 2019

The works of Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida, the leader of the Latin legation to Constantinople in 1054, have been widely regarded as untrustworthy when describing elements of the liturgical rite of Constantinople in the mid-eleventh century. This article examines several of Humbert’s descriptions and compares them with other available evidence. It concludes that Humbert’s works are broadly accurate when it comes to their descriptions, if not their interpretations, of the Byzantine liturgy.

Personal Paper, 2015

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that liturgical actions, when they have ceased to serve the function for which they were originally intended, become like “dead appendages” that either encumber true worship or worse, mislead people away from the true understanding of liturgy. This necrosis exists in quite a few areas of the Church’s liturgical life and, if left unchecked, will continue to mislead both clergy and lay people alike. Liturgical actions, like human appendages, need to serve a purpose. When necrosis sets in appendages either fall off or continue to infect the surrounding tissue. In the same way, if we continue to ignore such necrotic practices, relegating them to a “ship the bottle” status of nostalgic anamnesis, then the Church risks eventually becoming an heirloom herself.

Journal of Medieval History, 2017

The present paper examines liturgical rites practised in the crusader states from the perspective of its agents, introducing the monastic and institutional framework in which the liturgy was commissioned and performed, that is, the history of canons regular in the Latin East. The first part identifies the normative basis of the Augustinian canons' vita communis and looks into the relationship between the clerics' monastic customs and their liturgical observances. The second part investigates how the canons' spiritual ideals influenced particular components and features of their liturgy, focusing on the mimetic highlights of the church year and their importance for the way in which the canons strove to impersonate the Apostles and the primitive Christian community of Jerusalem.

Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology

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This doctoral thesis on Orthodox church music, The 'Latin' within the 'Greek': The Feast of the Holy Eucharist in the Context of Ruthenian Eastern Rite Liturgical Evolution in the 16 th -18 th Centuries, delves into the evolution of the Byzantine liturgical rite in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania in the early modern era. It focuses, in particular, on one phenomenon emerging from this evolution, the Eastern Rite feast of the Holy Eucharist. The feast was based on the Latin feast of Corpus Christi (The Body of Christ) and had no equivalent in the Byzantine Orthodox tradition. It was introduced in the Ruthenian Uniate Church, an Eastern Rite community that had entered into a union with the Roman Catholic Church in the late 16 th century. The earliest evidence of the feast dates to the mid-17 th century. It was officially included in the Uniate calendar at the Council of Zamość in 1720, after which it became fully established in the liturgical rite by the provision of its own Church Slavonic liturgical texts (hymnography).

This thesis discusses the mingling of changes and continuities in the layout of mediaeval Constantinople through the lens of monastic buildings (both imperial and otherwise) and the urban worship of saints and the Theotokos; its chronological focus extends from the late ninth through the middle of the twelfth centuries. It further addresses the important changes that the Evergetis monasticism elicited in imperial religiosity and the care of the dead in court contexts.

Orientalia Christiana Periodica, 2019