Translated from the Greek by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery
“Our first edition of the Pentecostarion, which was the first of the Church’s principal service books that we have published, was printed in 1990. In 1997 we printed our Great Horologion and, in 2005, the twelve volumes of the Menaion. In preparing this second edition of the Pentecostarion, we have incorporated many hymns that were printed in a revised version in the Horologion, and we have made the physical format and the conventions used in rubrics and indications of typicon to conform to those established for the Menaion. For the first edition, we used as the basis of our translation the Greek edition of the Pentecostarion published at Venice in 1836 by Bartholomew of the Monastery of Koutloumousiou on the Holy Mountain of Athos. For this revised edition, we have also consulted Bartholomew’s third edition, printed in Venice in 1856, and an edition printed in Rome in 1884, besides a modern edition based on Bartholomew’s, the Ἀποστολικὴ Διακονία edition of 1959. For the great feasts, especially the Iambic Canon of Pentecost, we have consulted Saint Nicodemus’s Ἑορτοδρόμιον, his commentary on the Canons of the Great Feasts that was printed in Venice in 1836. In comparing different Greek editions, one occasionally encounters variant readings. Some can be dismissed as obvious typographical errors. When the choice between variant readings is not straightforward, we usually consult the Slavonic text also.” —“Introduction”
CONTENTS
Preface On the Text of the Pentecostarion and on the word Pentecost Introduction The Holy and Great Sunday of Pascha The Paschal Hours The Sunday of Antipascha—Thomas Sunday The Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women The Sunday of the Paralytic The Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost The Sunday of the Samaritan Woman The Apodosis of Mid-Pentecost The Sunday of the Blind Man The Apodosis of Pascha with the Feast of the Blind Man The Apodosis of Pascha—Alternative Usage The Ascension of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ The Sunday of the Holy and God-bearing Fathers at Nicaea The Apodosis of the Feast of the Ascension The Saturday of Souls The Sunday of Holy Pentecost Pentecost Sunday Vespers with the Kneeling Prayers The Apodosis of the Feast of Pentecost The Sunday of All Saints Glossary Index of Prosomia On the Meter and the Metrical Conventions
Item Number: BKHT221C Publication Data: Boston MA: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 2014 Format: hardcover Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions (l × w × h): 36.2 cm × 26.8 cm × 2.5 cm Additional Information: two-color printing, black-and-white and full-color illustrations ISBN-13: 978‒0‒943405‒02‒5 ISBN-10: 0‒943405‒02‒5
