What's the difference between liturgical and menaion?

Liturgical


Definition:

  • () Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship.

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  • (1) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
  • (2) Shielded from Europe, Copts developed distinctive customs such as fasting, monasticism and the usage of liturgical Coptic, derived from the Pharaonic language of ancient Egypt.
  • (3) So she is teaching them not just a new song but a repeatable liturgical practice, as we shall see.
  • (4) He greeted people warmly - not in a liturgical manner - and asked the people to bless him before he gave a blessing.
  • (5) The work of liturgical reform has been a service to the people as a re-reading of the Gospel from a concrete historical situation.
  • (6) · We will develop and distribute liturgical materials on Care for Creation for use in parishes and other places of worship.
  • (7) All of those composers wrote liturgical music – Francis especially likes Bach's Saint Matthew Passion and Mozart's Mass in C Minor – but the pope also admires a thornier composer: Richard Wagner, the megalomaniacal German genius whose views on Christianity were, to put it mildly, idiosyncratic.
  • (8) There is a liturgical quality to May’s Brexit creed.
  • (9) The holy father’s favourite liturgical music – or even his own newly released single – can play through the car’s six speakers via Bluetooth.
  • (10) To make it go away and relax, I closed my eyes and made every thought disappear – even the thought of refusing to accept the position, as the liturgical procedure allows.

Menaion


Definition:

  • (n.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same.

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