- A
prosphoron (Gr****: πρόσφορον, offering) is a
small loaf of
leavened bread used in
Orthodox Christian and Gr****
Catholic (Byzantine) liturgies. The plural...
- Liturgy: The
bread used for the
Liturgy is
referred to as prosphora. A
prosphoron is a
round loaf of
leavened bread baked in two
layers to
represent the...
-
leavened bread and
placed in the
center of the diskos. The loaf,
called a
prosphoron, has had
stamped in the top of its
dough the seal of the Gr**** letters...
- the
Resurrected Christ. The host,
known as prosphorá or a πρόσφορον (
prósphoron, 'offering') may be made out of only four ingredients: fine (white) wheat...
-
through the Holy
Doors to
bless the faithful.
Panagia may also
refer to a
prosphoron (Ἄρτος της Παναγίας, Ártos tēs Panagías, "Bread of the All-Holy") which...
- prosphora,
instead of five as in new-rite
Russian Orthodoxy or a
single large prosphoron, as
sometimes done by the Gr****s and Arabs. Old
Believers chant the alleluia...
-
celebrates the Liturgy, a
smaller diskos is
prepared for him with a
small prosphoron from
which he
takes particles to
commemorate the
living and the departed...
-
Liturgy of
Preparation when the
priest cuts the Lamb (Host) out of the
Prosphoron (loaf of
leavened bread)
which will be
consecrated to
become the Body...
-
particle of
bread from the
prosphoron (loaf of bread)
offered for the Liturgy. In the
Russian usage,
there is a
separate prosphoron for the departed, from...
- for the dead
occurs in the
Divine Liturgy.
Particles are cut from the
prosphoron during the
Proskomedie at the
beginning of the Liturgy.
These particles...
