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The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is a Catholic Church within the Greek variant within the Byzantine Rite within the Byzantine Great Tradition. The Divine Liturgy, customs, etc. were set about 500-600 AD.
The usual Divine Liturgy is the Divine Liturgy of Our Father among the Saints John Chrysostom. (He was born, baptized, and ordained in Antioch.)
The Divine Liturgy of Our Father among the Saints Basil the Great is celebrated on some special days.
The Divine Liturgy of Saint James is celebrated on his feast day, October 23.
The Liturgy of the Presanctified Species is used on those days of Great Lent when the The Liturgy of Our Father among the Saints Basil the Great is not used. The Liturgy of the Presanctified Species is really a Divine Liturgy, but a penitential service.

Readings

CyberTypicon http://www.typicon.com/, by Reverend Father / Abouna Peter Boutros. Download his computer program.

Monthly printed Typicon Saint John of the Desert Melkite Greek Catholic ChurchPhoenix, AZ, http://www.stjohnofthedesert.com/home.typicon.html, Click on "Typicon"

Global Melklite Assoication Select a day to obtain its Readings of the Day or subscribe to Readings of the Day, http://www.melkites.org/
Arabic Melkite Readings of the Day, http://www.melkites.org/en/readingsAr.php, or Melkite Readings of the Day, http://www.melkites.org/ar/readings
English Melkite Readings of the Day, http://www.melkites.org/en/readings.php or Melkite Readings of the Day, http://www.melkites.org/en/readings.php or http://www.melkites.org/en/readings
Subscribe to the Readings of the Day Readings of the Day Melkite Readings of the Day, http://www.melkites.org/en/readingsXML.htm

A Byzantine Typicon created by the Abouna Father Fadi Rahi, C.Ss.R. in Holland

Gospel Readings for any year

Kontakion, Troparion, Exapostilarion, and Vespers Sticheron or Doxastikon -- For Nativity Cycle -- For Pascha Cycle -- For Other days

The Horologion, The Menaia, The Great Octoechos (Paraclitiki), The Lenten Triodion, and The Pentecostarion by the Eparchy of Newton (Our Lady of the Annunciation (Al Bisharah) in Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States) in the Sophia Press Catalog

Divine Liturgy - Elements within the Divine Liturgy

Multiple Elements within the Divine Liturgy

CyberTypicon Definitions -- Elements in the Divine Liturgy -- Glossary -- Primer for Melkite Worship and Ritual

Specific Elements within the Divine Liturgy

A  --  Anaphora  --  Antidoron (Blessed Bread)
B  --  Beginning  --  Blessing the people with Candles
C  --  Customs
E  --  Entrances  --   Epiclesis
G  --  Gospel  --  Great Doxology
H  --  Holy Eucharist --  Holy Eucharist Consecration  --  Holy Eucharist Recieve Prayers  --   Holy Eucharist after Prayers
K  --  Kissing the cross and receiving the Antidoron
L  --  Litanies
P  --  Parameya --  Pray for People  --  Prayer of the Ambon  --  Prokimenon
Q  --  Qurban (Holy Bread)

Readings within the Divine Liturgy

Gospels

Changable Prayers within the Divine Liturgy

Individual Prayers

A  --  Antiphon Response  --  Antiphons for Weekdays
B  --  Baptismal Hymn
C  --  Cross Hymn
F  --  Feasts of Feasts Holy and Glorious Pascha - Fesakh - Hajmeh Prayers
G  --  Great Feast of Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross Prayers   --  Great Feast of Nativity According to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ Prayers  --   Great Feast of Holy and Glorious Palm Sunday - Shaneeneh Prayers   --  Great Feast of Pentecost Prayers  --  Great Feast of Theophany of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ Prayers
H  --  Holy Cross Prayers  --   Hymn of the Cross
N  --  Nativity According to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ Prayers
P  --  Pascha - Fesakh - Hajmeh Prayers  --   Palm Sunday - Shaneeneh  --   Pentecost Prayers
R  --  Response to Antiphons
S  --   Shaneeneh
T  --  Theophany of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ Prayers  --   Thrice Holy Hymn  --   Trisagion Hymn

Additional Prayers on Specific Great Feast Days

Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ

Great Feast of Holy Theophany - Great Blessing of Water
Great Feast of Holy and Glorious Palm Sunday - Shaneeneh - Blessing of Palm and Olive Branches
Great Feast of Transfiguration - Blessing of Grapes

Theotokos

Great Feast of the Dormition - Blessing of Flowers

Items connected with the Divine Liturgy

Vestments -- Patterns For Clergy Vestments

Our Job

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Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center is dedicated to my cousins: Bucky (Richard C. Liles), Shirley (Shirley Jean Liles Buck), and Donna (Donna Bertha Liles Campbell). Bucky fell asleep in the Lord on Dec. 12, 2000, Shirley fell asleep in the Lord on Nov. 8, 2001, and Donna fell asleep in the Lord on March 9, 2020.
O God of all spirits and of all flesh, who have destroyed death, overcome the devil, and given life to the world: grant, O Lord, to the souls of your servants Bucky and Shirley, who has departed from this life, that it may rest in a place of light, in a place of happiness, in a place of peace, where there is no pain, no grief, no sighing. And since You are a gracious God and the Lover of Mankind, forgive him/her every sin he/she has committed by thought, or word, or deed, for there is not a man who lives and does not sin : You alone are without sin, your righteousness is everlasting, and your word is true. You are the Resurrection and the Life, and the repose of your departed servants Bucky and Shirley. O Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, together with your eternal Father and your all-holy, good and life-giving Spirit, now and always and for ages upon ages. Amen.

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