??a?????a ??ast?s?a ?????? (_vid._ Suicer Thes. Eccles. 1. 1229), eleven Gospels, used in turn, one every Sunday at Matins, beginning with All Saints' Day (B-C. III. 42). In some Evst. these are found at the end of the book.

(1) Matt. xxviii. 16-20. (2) Mark xvi. 1-8. (3) _ib._ 9-20. (4) Luke xxiv.

1-12. (5) _ib._ 12-35. (6) _ib._ 36-53. (7) John xx. 1-10. (8) _ib._ 11-18. (9) _ib._ 19-31. (10) John xxi. 1-14. (11) _ib._ 15-25.

We have now traced the daily service of the Greek Church, as derived from the Gospels, throughout the whole year, from Easter Day to Easter Even, only that in Lent the lessons from the 2nd to the 6th days inclusive in each week are taken from the book of Genesis. The reader will observe that from Easter to Pentecost St. John and the Acts are read for seven weeks, or eight Sundays. The first Sunday after Pentecost is the Greek All Saints' Day, their Trinity Sunday being virtually kept a fortnight earlier; but from the Monday next after the day of Pentecost (Whit-Monday) St. Matthew is used continuously every day for eleven weeks and as many Sundays. For six weeks more, St. Matthew is appointed for the Saturday and Sunday lessons, St. Mark for the other days of the week. But inasmuch as St. Luke was to be taken up with the new year, the year of the indiction [Arund. 547], which in this case must be September 24(105), if all the lessons in Matthew and Mark were not read out by this time (which, unless Easter was very early, would not be the case), they were at once broken off, and (after proper lessons had been employed for the Sunday before and the Saturday and Sunday which followed(106) the feast of the Elevation of the Cross, Sept. 14) the lessons from St. Luke (seventeen weeks and sixteen Sundays in all) were taken up and read on as far as was necessary: only that the 17th Sunday of St. Matthew (called from the subject of its Gospel _the Canaanitess_) was always resumed on the Sunday preceding that before the Carnival (p?? t?? ?p?????), which is also named from its Gospel that of _the Prodigal_, and answers to the Latin _Septuagesima_. Then follow the Sunday of the Carnival (?p?????) or _Sexagesima_, that of the _Cheese-eater_ (t???f????) or _Quinquagesima_, and the six Sundays in Lent. The whole number of Sunday Gospels in the year (even reckoning the two interpolated about September 14) is thus only fifty-three, the _Canaanitess_ coming twice over: but in the Menology or Catalogue of immoveable feasts will be found proper lessons for three Saturdays and Sundays about Christmas and Epiphany, which could either be substituted for, or added to the ordinary Gospels for the year, according as the distance from Easter in one year to Easter in the next exceeded or fell short of fifty-two weeks. The system of lessons from the Acts and Epistles is much simpler than that of the Gospels: it exhibits fifty-two Sundays in the year, without any of the complicated arrangements of the other scheme.

Since the Epistles from the Saturday of the 16th week after Pentecost to the Sunday of the Prodigal could not be set (like the rest) by the side of their corresponding Gospels, they are given separately in the following table(107).

????a?? ??? 2 Cor. vi. 1-10.

sa?t? ??? 1 Cor. xiv. 20-25.

????a?? ??? 2 Cor. vi. 16-viii. 1 sa?t? ?e? 1 Cor. xv. 39-45.

????a?? ?e? 2 Cor. ix. 6-11.

sa?t? ??? 1 Cor. xv. 58-xvi. 3.

????a?? ??? 2 Cor. xi. 31-xii. 9.

sa?t? ?? 2 Cor. i. 8-11.

????a?? ?? Gal. i. 11-19.

sa?t? ?a? 2 Cor. iii. 12-18.

????a?? ?a? Gal. ii. 16-20.

sa?t? ?? 2 Cor. v. 1-10 (1-4 in B-C. III. 24).

????a?? ?? Gal. vi. 11-18.

sa?t? ??? 2 Cor. viii. 1-5.

????a?? ??? Eph. ii. 4-10.

sa?t? ?d? 2 Cor. xi. 1-6.

????a?? ?d? Eph. ii. 14-22.

sa?t? ?e? Gal. i. 3-10.

????a?? ?e? Eph. iv. 1-7.

sa?t? ??? Gal. iii. 8-12.

????a?? ??? Eph. v. 8-19.

sa?t? ??? Gal. v. 22-vi. 2.

????a?? ??? Eph. vi. 10-17.

sa?t? ??? Col. i. 9-18.

????a?? ??? 2 Cor. ii. 14-iii. 3.

sa?t? ??? Eph. ii. 11-13.

????a?? ??? Col. iii. 4-11.

sa?t? ?? Eph. v. 1-8.

????a?? ?? Col. iii. 12-16.

sa?t? ?a? Col. i. 2-6.

????a?? ?a? 2 Tim. i. 3-9.

sa?t? ?? Col. ii. 8-12.

????a?? ?? 1 Tim. vi. 11-16.

sa?t? ??? 1 Tim. ii. 1-7.

????a?? ??? as ???. ?a?. (2 Tim. i. 3-9 in B-C. III. 24).

sa?t? ?d? 1 Tim. iii. 13-iv. 5.

????a?? ?d? 2 Tim. iii. 10-15.

sa?t? ?e? 1 Tim. iv. 9-15.

????a?? ?e? 2 Tim. ii. 1-10.

sa?t? ??? 2 Tim. ii. 11-19.

ON THE MENOLOGY, OR CALENDAR OF IMMOVEABLE FESTIVALS AND SAINTS' DAYS.

We cannot in this place enter very fully into this portion of the contents of Lectionaries, inasmuch as, for reasons we have assigned above, the investigation would be both tedious and difficult. All the great feast-days, however, as well as the commemorations of the Apostles and of a few other Saints, occur alike in all the books, and ought not to be omitted here. We commence with the month of September (the opening of the year at Constantinople), as do all the Lectionaries and Synaxaria we have seen(108).

Sept. 1. Simeon Stylites, Luke iv. 16-22; Col. iii. 12-16 (1 Tim. ii. 1-7, B-C. III. 53).

2. John the Faster, Matt. v. 14-19 (Wake 12). (John xv. 1-11, Parham 18.)

8. Birthday of the Virgin, Te?t????, Matins, Luke i. 39-49, 56 (B-C. III.

24 and 42). Liturgy, Luke x. 38-42; xi. 27, 28; Phil. ii. 5-11. ????a??

p?? t?? ???se??, John iii. 13-17; Gal. vi. 11-18.

14. Elevation of the Cross, Matins, John xii. 28-36. Liturgy, John xix.

6-35 (diff. in K and some others); 1 Cor. i. 18-24.

sa?t? et? t?? ???s??, John viii. 21-30; 1 Cor. i. 26-29. ????a?? et?

t?? ???s?? Mark viii. 34-ix. 1; Gal. ii. 16-20.

18. Theodora(109), John viii. 3-11 (Parham).

24. Thecla, Matt. xxv. 1-13; 2 Tim. i. 3-9.

Oct. 3. Dionysius the Areopagite, Matt. xiii. 45-54; Acts xvii. 16 (19, Cod. Bezae)-34 (16-23, 30, B-C, III. 24) (diff. in K).

6. Thomas the Apostle, John xx. 19-31; 1 Cor. iv. 9-16.

8. Pelagia, John viii. 3-11(110).

9. James son of Alphaeus, Matt. x. 1-7, 14, 15.

18. Luke the Evangelist, Luke x. 16-21; Col. iv. 5-9, 14, 18.

23. James, ? ?de?f??e??, Mark vi. 1-7; James i. 1-12.

Nov. 8. Michael and Archangels, Matins, Matt, xviii. 10-20. Liturgy, Luke x. 16-21; Heb. ii. 2-10.

13. Chrysostom, Matins, John x. 1-9. Liturgy, John x. 9-16; Heb. vii.

26-viii. 2.

Nov. 14. Philip the Apostle, John i. 44-55; Acts viii. 26-39.

16. Matthew the Apostle, Matt. ix. 9-13; 1 Cor. iv. 9-16.

17. Gregory Thaumaturgus, Matt. x. 1-10 (Wake 12); 1 Cor. xii. 7, 8, 10, 11.

25. Clement of Rome, John xv. 17-xvi. 1; Phil. iii. 20-iv. 3.