Divine Liturgy of St. Mark

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Another question.
I learned something new today, about when the different liturgies are celebrated. But, is the Divine Liturgy of St. Mark still celebrated?
Pax
 
The coptic Catholics and Coptic Orthodox both use the Divine Liturgy of St. Mark as their regular liturgy.
 
Is there a guide to this liturgy on the internet somewhere? Does anybody know anything about there liturgical calendar, lit. colors, etc?
Pax
 
St. Nectarios of Aegina did an adaptation of the Liturgy of St. Mark, assimilating it to the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and publicly celebrated it on several occasions.

There is an English translation on the web, but I just can’t remember where now.
 
Thank you for your answers. Does anyone know their liturgical colors? Do they have something different like the Saint Thomas Christians, with only one liturgical color? I also heard that the Copts affix three days to winter Lent because a Coptic Pope moved a mountain through prayer in front of a certain Mohammedan caliph.
Pax
 
Thank you for your answers. Does anyone know of their liturgical colors? I also heard that the Copts affix three days to winter Lent because of the days of prayer before the Coptic Pope moved a mountain through prayer in the witness of a certain Mohammedan caliph. Has anyone else heard of this?
Pax
 
Formosus said:
The coptic Catholics and Coptic Orthodox both use the Divine Liturgy of St. Mark as their regular liturgy.
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I don’t think so. Basel and the St. Cyril are the main ones. I was told we replaced St. Mark by one of the head deacons (in charge of the choir and knowledgeable about liturgy) many centuries ago. (I think it was actually Cyril the Great that revised the old liturgy).
 
Ite_ad_Ioseph said:
Does anyone know of their liturgical colors?
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We use stoles with (mostly) red and yellow Greek crosses on them usually (deacons)but the stoles are reversed and show dark blue and black crosses on the opposite side for holy week. We hang black banners with white Greek crosses on them during Holy week they are put over the windows and iconostasis (the curtain/door area).

Their isn’t much change with priests during the year except they sometimes where a special chausable for a high holy day. During Holy Week they don’t where their regular chausable but just just the black cassok (because for nearly week their isn’t a eucharist only special prayer services 3 or so times a day leading up to the Feast of the Resurrection).
 
Addai said:
We use stoles with (mostly) red and yellow Greek crosses on them usually (deacons)but the stoles are reversed and show dark blue and black crosses on the opposite side for holy week. We hang black banners with white Greek crosses on them during Holy week they are put over the windows and iconostasis (the curtain/door area).

Their isn’t much change with priests during the year except they sometimes where a special chausable for a high holy day. During Holy Week they don’t where their regular chausable but just just the black cassok (because for nearly week their isn’t a eucharist only special prayer services 3 or so times a day leading up to the Feast of the Resurrection).
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So what is the main color? White, Gold,etc.?
 
None of the Eastern Churches have fast and hard prescribed liturgical colors outside of light for Sundays/Feastdays and dark for Fastdays. The Byzantine Churches have the most developed sequence but even these are not absolute: White/Gold/Silver for Sundays/Feastdays, Red/Purple for Fasts, Blue for Feasts of the Theotokos, Green for Pentecost. The other Eastern Churches tend towards White/Gold/Silver and Red.

Fr. Deacon Lance
 
Ite_ad_Ioseph said:
So what is the main color? White, Gold,etc.?
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Typically a white background (especially for “alb” and chausable robes) with red and gold for highlights (decorative crosses, iconic pictures, and other decorative designs,symbols and images done in one of those colors).
 
I have one more question.
What do the Copts call St. Mark? That is, what is the Coptic and Arabic word for “Mark”? Technically, Mark’s name is Latin, a surname of his first name “John”
Pax
 
Ite_ad_Ioseph said:
I have one more question.
What do the Copts call St. Mark? That is, what is the Coptic and Arabic word for “Mark”? Technically, Mark’s name is Latin, a surname of his first name “John”
Pax
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“Markos” the Greek version of Mark is brought into Coptic and Arabic. And since many over here are English fluent they have adopted the Latin derivation of “Mark”
 
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