Web Site Home - Theology Home - Hierarchy Home - Locations Home - Education Home - Stewardship Home - Links Home - Vendors Home - Alphabetical Index Home - Thesaurus Home - Sitemap Home - Arabic fonts Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information CenterThursday after First Sunday after Pentecost: The Feast of the Divine Body of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ
The Office and the Divine Liturgy of the Feast of the Divine Body of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ commemorates the passion and death of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Most Reverend Joseph Raya, Archbishop of Aka, Haifa, Nazareth, and All Galilee explains this feast in Byzantine Daily Worship "The Holy Table is the continuation of Calvary and the Liturgy announces the death of Christ, present as a Victim, under the appearances of bread and wine. His Body nailed to the cross and his Blood drained out of Him, are offered to the Father, by Him, by the priest and by the attendance. If we wish to share in the sacrifice, we should also consume the Victim the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist." HistoryPope Urban IV insitutited this Feast in 1264. The Feast of the Divine Body of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ became popular among Melkites, particularly in the eighteenth century, during the time of His Beatitude, Maximos II, Patriarch / Batriyark of the cities of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, of Cilicia, Syria, Iberia, Arabia Mesopotamia, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, of all of Egypt and the entire East, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Bishop of Bishops, the Thirteenth of The Holy Apostles. In the eighteenth century, the Feast of the Divine Body of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ was added to the Pentecostarion. The office of this Feast was composed by a monk of the Basilian Order. The Latin Catholic Church calls this Feast "Corpus Christi", which is Latin for "Body of Christ". HistoryPope Urban IV insitutited this Feast in 1264. The Feast of the Divine Body of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ became popular among Melkites, particularly in the eighteenth century, during the time of His Beatitude, Maximos II, Patriarch / Batriyark of the cities of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, of Cilicia, Syria, Iberia, Arabia Mesopotamia, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, of all of Egypt and the entire East, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Bishop of Bishops, the Thirteenth of The Holy Apostles. In the eighteenth century (1737), the Feast of the Divine Body of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ was added to the Pentecostarion. The office of this Feast was composed by a monk of the Basilian Order. The Latin Catholic Church calls this Feast "Corpus Christi", which is Latin for "Body of Christ". Kontakion, Troparion, Exapostilarion, and Vespers Sticheron or DoxastikonTROPARION (TONE 1) Epistle1 Corinthians 11:23-32 The Epistle contained in the text was chosen when the feast was created in 1737. The original Epistle was that of the regular cycle, i.e., Romans 5:10-16. GospelJohn 6:48-54 The original Gospel was that of the regular cycle, i.e., Matthew 8:23-27.
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