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Teleturgics/Byzantine Music (DIAC 5000)
Term: Academic Year 2024-2025 Summer 1
A liturgical practicum designed primarily to help the candidate for ordination develop a liturgical ethos, style, and presence. The course offers an analysis of the structural elements of the divine services and instruction on the use of the liturgical books of the Orthodox Church. The course is especially concerned with helping the student develop skills for the proper conduct and celebration of the divine services. The class allows for role-playing and analysis. Teleturgics deals specifically with Vespers, Orthros, the preparatory rites for the Divine Liturgy, i.e., Kairos, vesting, and proskomide. The development, care, and meaning of vestments are also dealt with. Special attention will be given to how one conducts the liturgy when a hierarch is serving. After this, the class will deal with the administration of Holy Unction and the Eucharist in pastoral settings outside of the Divine Liturgy, and the Deacon’s role in various other services. Three in-person summer sessions in conju