Înmormântarea mirenilor în Molitfelnicele Sinodale – studiu istorico-liturgic
The burial of lay people in the Synodal Euchologion - a historical-liturgical study

Author(s): Dănuț-Bogdan Palcău
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Comparative Studies of Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: funeral rites; funeral of laity; romanian Euchologion;
Summary/Abstract: The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Romanian Church has came up with 17 editions of the Euchologion after received the autocephaly. From the rites presented in this book, without a doubt, the one which is mostly used is the funeral of the laity. Analysing it, indifferent editions of the Euchologion, I observed that we can find some differences. On one hand, we can observe a series of differences in regards to the structure on which this rites is build, and on the other hand, the changes can be observed on the content of particular elements. The proposed study contains an inventory of all the differences, highlighting them in a systematical way. At the same time, a question related to the root-cause of these differences is born. The secondary purpose of this study, having the same value as the one above, is to show the origin of all these differences. With this approach, we propose to present the way in which the desire for correcting and improving the writings has been born, in regards to the funeral of laity, in the synodal Euchologions.

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