Liturgy
Basics
Basics
What is the main liturgy prayed on Sundays?
This word means “thanksgiving” and is another name for Holy Communion.
What is the Eucharist?
This is the holy table where the sacrifice of the Eucharist is offered.
What is the altar?
In the Trisagion we say “Agios o Theos,” which means this in English.
What is “Holy God”?
This is the feast where we celebrate Christ rising from the dead.
What is the Feast of the Resurrection (Easter)?
What language was the liturgy originally prayed in?
Coptic
In Holy Communion, we receive not just symbols, but the true Body and Blood of whom?
Who is our Lord Jesus Christ?
This is the plate on which the Lamb (the chosen piece of bread) is placed.
What is the paten?
The Greek phrase “Kyrie Eleison” that we repeat many times in the liturgy means this.
What is “Lord, have mercy”?
This is the long fast of repentance and prayer that lasts 40 days before the Feast of the Resurrection.
What is Great Lent?
This incense service is prayed in the evening before the Divine Liturgy.
What is Vespers?
To prepare for Communion, we should repent and regularly do this sacrament with our father of confession.
What is the Sacrament of Confession (Repentance and Confession)?
This is the cup that holds the wine which becomes the Blood of Christ.
What is the chalice?
This Creed begins, “We believe in one God, God the Father, the Pantocrator…”
What is the Nicene Creed?
These joyful 50 days come right after the Resurrection and end with the Feast of Pentecost.
What are the Holy Fifty Days?
This is the part of the liturgy when the priest chooses the “Lamb” and offers the bread and wine.
What is the Offertory?
To receive Communion in the Coptic Orthodox Church, a person must be baptized and belong to which faith/tradition?
What is the Orthodox (Coptic Orthodox) faith?
This star-shaped or dome-shaped metal piece sits over the paten and represents the Star of Bethlehem.
What is the star (or Vastarion)?
In this prayer, the priest remembers St. Mary, the angels, the saints, and the departed.
What is the Commemoration of the Saints?
On this day in January (on the calendar we follow), we celebrate the birth of Christ.
What is January 7, the Feast of the Nativity?
These are the three main parts of the Divine Liturgy in the correct order.
What are the Offertory, the Liturgy of the Word, and the Liturgy of the Faithful?
When we walk up for Communion with our arms crossed over our chest, this shows our attitude toward Christ.
What is humility and reverence (respect, fear of God, and love)?
This large veil covers the Body and Blood on the altar and is lifted at certain times during the liturgy.
Prospharine
These long prayers in the liturgy ask God for things like peace, the fathers, the place, the waters, and the offerings.
What are the litanies?
Name three of the Seven Major Feasts of the Lord celebrated in our Church.
What are any three of: the Annunciation, Nativity, Theophany, Palm Sunday, Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost?