Andrew A. Doss

The primary curriculum of education in the life of the Church is and has always been liturgy, including not only personal and communal worship, but also the important element of a cycle of readings established for the believers’ formation according to the life, teaching, and example of the Lord Jesus Christ. Central to the liturgical experience of the Coptic Orthodox Church is the Lectionary, which presents the Holy Scriptures in nine interconnected readings alongside the hagiographical works in the Synaxarium within the context of liturgical worship.

The Coptic Orthodox Lectionary In Diagram depicts the readings of the entire liturgical calendar of the Coptic Church in an analytical format, presenting the Lectionary both according to the days, weeks, months, and seasons of the Church year and in comparison with the entirety of the Holy Scriptures, thereby utilizing advanced data analysis to provide a holistic summary of this deeply formative liturgical curriculum of Coptic Orthodox Christian education.

About the Author:

Andrew A. Doss, co-founder of Doss Press, is an ordained Reader in the Coptic Orthodox Church and a current student of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, having completed the curriculum of study in Theology at the Pope Shenouda III Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics from the Rutgers University School of Business.

Paperback

ISBN: 9781304254696

Pages: 322

Table of Contents:

Preface...........i

Introduction...........1

Chapter 1: The Gospels in the Liturgical Year...........12

Chapter 2: The Acts of the Apostles in the Liturgical Year...........52

Chapter 3: The Pauline Epistles in the Liturgical Year...........63

Chapter 4: The Catholic Epistles in the Liturgical Year...........80

Chapter 5: The Psalms in the Liturgical Year...........91

Chapter 6: The Old Testament in the Liturgical Year...........130

Chapter 7: The Sundays of the Liturgical Year...........176

Chapter 8: The Readings of the Annual Days and the Feast Days...........187

Chapter 9: The Readings of the Great Lent...........211

Chapter 10: The Readings of the Holy Pascha...........223

Chapter 11: The Readings of the Holy Fifty Days...........231

Chapter 12: The Synaxarium...........240

Chapter 13: Alphabetical List of the Saints and Their Commemoration Days...........268

Appendix: The Readings of Various Sacramental, Liturgical, and Celebratory Prayers...........298

Notes, Abbreviations, and Transliterations...........307

Bibliography...........309