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Church Calendar & Upcoming Events
Matins (Orthros)
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesThe morning service of the Church is called Matins. It opens with the reading of six morning psalms and the intoning of the Great Litany. The Matins service of the […]
Divine Liturgy
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesThe Divine Liturgy is considered the most significant ancient Christian service, not so much for its phrasing and words as for its meaning. In fact, the Divine Liturgy was in […]
Sunday School
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesPan-Orthodox Vespers at Saint Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church
Saint Mary's Romanian Orthodox Church 3801 Glade Road, Colleyville, United StatesAA Meeting
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesGreat Compline
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesLittle Canon with the full Great Canon of Repentance by St. Andrew of Crete and the Life of St. Mary of Egypt
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesPresanctified Divine Liturgy followed by Potluck Dinner
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesAkathist Hymn
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesPan-Orthodox Vespers at St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral
St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral 4208 Wycliff Avenue, Dallas, TX, United StatesGreat Compline
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesPresanctified Divine Liturgy followed by Potluck Dinner
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United States
Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activity reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication or repentance. The Eastern Orthodox church follows the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom which is the most celebrated divine liturgy in the Byzantine rite.
It is named after its core part, the anaphora attributed to Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople in the 5th century. In Constantinople, it was refined and beautified under John’s guidance as Archbishop (398–404).
As a divine liturgy of the Church of Holy Wisdom, Hagia Sophia, it became over time the usual divine liturgy in the churches within the Byzantine Empire. Just two divine liturgies (aside from the presanctified), those of Saints John and Basil the Great, became the norm in the Byzantine Church by the end of the reign of Justinian I.
After the Quinsext Council and the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Theodore Balasamon, the Byzantine Rite became the only rite in the Eastern Orthodox Church, remaining so until the 19th and 20th Century re-introduction by certain jurisdictions of Western Rites.
The Divine Liturgy is the common action of Orthodox Christians officially gathered to constitute the Orthodox Church. It is the action of the Church assembled by God in order to be together in one community to worship, to pray, to sing, to hear God’s Word, to be instructed in God’s commandments, to offer itself with thanksgiving in Christ to God the Father, and to have the living experience of God’s eternal kingdom through communion with the same Christ Who is present in his people by the Holy Spirit.