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Menology vs Menaion - What's the difference?

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Menaion is a synonym of menology.



As nouns the difference between menology and menaion

is that menology is an alternative spelling of Menologium|lang=en while menaion is the annual fixed liturgical cycle of services used in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches, containing a list of the services and large collection of liturgical texts for an entire month. Twelve volumes are usually offered for the year, as a set known as the menaia.

menology

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(menologies)

    • menaion

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    (wikipedia menaion) (menaia)
  • The annual fixed liturgical cycle of services used in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches, containing a list of the services and large collection of liturgical texts for an entire month. Twelve volumes are usually offered for the year, as a set known as the menaia .

    • Derived terms

    * General Menaion - a book which contains services for each type of celebration (apostles, martyrs, etc.) with blank spaces for the name of the saint being celebrated. * Festal Menaion - an anthology which contains the texts for those Great Feasts of the Lord or the Theotokos which fall on the fixed cycle, and optionally feasts of the major saints.

    Synonyms

    * Menologium, menology

    References

    * Menaion , Translations by Archimandrite Ephrem * General Menaion , English translation by St. Sergius of Radonezh Parish * Festal Menaion , Theology Today * Menaion , Catholic Encyclopedia article,