The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Byzantine rite · Eastern Orthodox Church · Greek
The ordinary Sunday liturgy of the Byzantine churches. It carries Chrysostom's name and grew for three centuries after him, which is why the work and the rite are two rows here.
leavened bread
A form of The Eucharist — The thing the church does that it has always done, and the one whose FORM divides more sharply than its meaning: East and West agreed on what it is for a thousand years and broke over the bread.
What it rests on
- The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom the composition it carries the name of
How the others do it
- The Roman Mass Rome · unleavened bread
- The Divine Liturgy of St Basil Byzantium · leavened bread
- The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts Byzantium · leavened bread, consecrated beforehand
- The Liturgy of St Mark Copts · leavened bread
- The Liturgy of St James Syriac · leavened bread
- The Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari Seleucia · leavened bread
After The Rudder (Pedalion) · the Rudder, on Trullo canon 32.