A question about Akathists

  • Thread starter Thread starter futureKC123
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
F

futureKC123

Guest
I was wondering, if when the Akathist to the Theotokos is prayed alone, does one say the Akathist Canon that goes before, or just say all 4 stases?
Thanks for your time
ICXC+NIKA
 
futureKC123 said:
I was wondering, if when the Akathist to the Theotokos is prayed alone, does one say the Akathist Canon that goes before, or just say all 4 stases?
Thanks for your time
ICXC+NIKA
Click to expand...
It is traditional to begin with the Canon to the Most Holy Theotokos and then begin her Akathist after the third Ode of the Canon.

In practice, I often pray Akathists without their Canons . . .

Alex
 
Vico, is that prayer to be done only at mass? or can one do it at home? it is just I noticed where it says ‘‘priest’’ and so on.

Pax
Stephen
 
Stephentlig said:
Vico, is that prayer to be done only at mass? or can one do it at home? it is just I noticed where it says ‘‘priest’’ and so on.

Pax
Stephen
Click to expand...
Traditionally (at least for Eastern Orthodox and at least some Eastern Catholics) the Akathist (Theotokos) is part of the Matins (usually said in the evening rather than morning during Great Lent) of the fifth Saturday of the Great Fast, so it is not during the Divine Liturgy.

A family can chant it at home also, and any of these (cycle begins in the evening, approximate hours from sunrise):
  1. Vespers, 2) Compline, 3) Midnight Office, 4) Matins, 5) First Hour, 6) Third Hour, 7) Sixth Hour, 8) Ninth Hour, and 9) Typica.
metropolitancantorinstitute.org/liturgy/DailyCycle.html

There is also another Akathist for Jesus, and there is the Office of the Paraclesis.

These three are included in the Eastern Catholic Byzantine Book of Prayer (1995).
 
Stephentlig said:
Vico, is that prayer to be done only at mass? or can one do it at home? it is just I noticed where it says ‘‘priest’’ and so on.
Click to expand...
Most of the daily services CAN be celebrated without a priest, though the service books usually assume that a priest is present.

See this article on “reader services”; for an akathist, use the dismissal given in the article for Matins.

Yours in Christ,
Jeff Mierzejewski
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top