typikon
Orthodox liturgical instructions
A typikon is a liturgical rule book in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, prescribing the order of services, fasting regulations, and the calendar of feasts for a monastery or church.
The term comes from Greek meaning "conforming to a rule." Different monasteries and national churches may follow different typika, each with local variations in how services are conducted: The monastery follows the Athonite typikon. (Capitalized Typikon may refer to a specific named text.)
Evaluation criteria set
- ordoLiturgical scheduling booklet
- vespersEvening devotional service
- matinsLiturgical dawn devotions
- complineDay's final liturgy
antiphon · kontakion · canon · doxology · dismissal · liturgy · vigil · hours
Governing principle or standard
- observanceKeeping of customs
- monasteryReligious seclusion dwelling
- abbotMonastery's chief cleric
- fastSpeedy, or skip eating
feast · rank · commemoration · calendar · cycle · asceticism · obedience · discipline
rubric
Evaluation criteria set
compline · antiphon · kontakion · canon · doxology · dismissal · liturgy · vigil · hours · alleluia
rule
Governing principle or standard
- observanceKeeping of customs
- monasteryReligious seclusion dwelling
- abbotMonastery's chief cleric
fast · feast · rank · commemoration · calendar · cycle · asceticism · obedience · discipline
procession
Formal moving line
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- censerVessel for burning aromatics
- vestmentsCeremonial religious attire
altar · curtain · entrance · litany · bowing · prostration · blessing
- Eastern OrthodoxyEastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodox
- Orthodox Theologydeification, Church Fathers, ecclesiology, sacred tradition, dogmatics
- Byzantine textshagiographies, hagiography, homilies, histories, historiography
- Eastern ChristianityEastern Orthodox, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christianity, Greek Orthodoxy
- liturgical booksbreviary, missal, lectionary, missals, breviaries
- liturgyDivine Office, missal, lectionary, rite, Tridentine Mass
typikonprayer book
Text for religious devotions
psalter · lectionary · hymnal · breviary · missal
typikoncharismatic worship
Spirit-led, demonstrative religious practice
type, typical, typing, typed, prototype, stereotype, archetype, types, atypical