Words and concepts

							CONCEPT & WORD LIST
By the end of your course of study, all of these words or concepts should be familiar.


Altar/Holy Table
Ascetic / Asceticism (Askesis)
Baptism
Bishop, priest, deacon - the 3 orders of the hierarchy
Byzantine Liturgy/Western Rite
Byzantine Rite Catholics / “Uniates”
Canons/Canonical
Catholic – according to the whole
Chrism/Myron
Chrismation
Christmas Fast/Advent/Christmas Lent
Church - the mystical Body of Christ+A45
Cycles of Worship - daily, weekly, yearly; fixed and Paschal cycles
Deuterocanonical Books (Apocrypha)
Diakonia = service (deacon - one who serves)
Divine energies/uncreated light
Divine Liturgy / Eucharist / Holy Communion
Divine Liturgy = the Eucharistic service
Dormition (Falling Asleep)
Economy/Economia
Ecumenical Councils
Eucharist
Evangelical = Gospel = Good News
Fasting + Prayer + Almsgiving
Grace - God's free gift of Himself
Great and Holy Week
Great Lent
Hades (sometimes translated Hell)
Heaven – experienced as light by those receptive to God’s love
Hell – experienced as fire by those who reject God’s love
Hierarchy / Hierarch / Primate
Holy Tradition (versus "small-t-traditions" or customs)
IC XC – Greek abbreviation of Jesus Christ, used on icons
Icon=image; Iconostasis
Iconoclasts/Iconodules/Triumph of Orthodoxy
Incarnation
Jesus Prayer (Prayer of the Heart)
Kenosis - self-emptying
Laity/Layman = People of God
Liturgy = work of the people
Liturgical cycles (Paschal, Fixed Feasts, Octoechos, Weekly, Daily)
Litya
Martyr (Witnesss)
Monasticism / Monastics
Mater Theou - Greek for Mother of God - inscription on icons of Theotokos
Mystical (relates to experience of God)
Narthex, Nave, Altar
Nicene Creed (more exactly Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed) = The Symbol of Faith
Octoechos = Eight Tones
own (h)o On - The Existing, The One Who Is, I AM - Greek inscription in halo of Christ
Oriental Churches, Non-Chalcedonian (“Monophysite”) Churches
Panikhida or Parastas - Memorial for the dead (also, Trisagion Service)
Pascha/Easter/Passover
Patriarch/Patriarchate/Pentarchy
Priest -translates 2 words: iereus (one who sacrifices & intercedes), presbyteros (elder)
Prokeimenon
Prophecy - not only to foretell future (Christ) but to call people back to God
Prosphora/Antidoron
Prostration (Metania, Poklon)
Reader
Relics
Repentance/Metanoia (literally, change of mind)
Rubrics, Typikon
Rule of prayer
Sacrament/Mystery
Saints (Holy Ones)
Salvation - accomplished once by Christ, but a process in each person’s life
Schism
Septuagint / “The Seventy” / LXX+A10
Sin (amartia – missing the mark)
Synergy = working together (of God & the human being)
Temple - the church building
Theophany/Epiphany
Theosis/Deification
Theotokos
Time - kairos versus chronos - God not limited by time, nor is our life after death
Transfiguration
Trisagion (Thrice-Holy Hymn)
Trisagion Prayers
Troparion, Kontakion
Type/Antitype (Typology)
Unction
Undivided Church
Unity of the Church – in space, in time, in eternity
Vespers - Matins (Orthros) - Hours - Compline
Worship / Veneration