Pentecostarion
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Content
- Holy Week, Pascha and its after-feast
- Bright Week
- Thomas Sunday
- Radonitza
- Sunday of the Myrrhbearers
- Sunday of the Paralytic
- Mid-Pentecost
- Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
- Sunday of the Blind Man
- Apodosis of Pascha
- Ascension
- Sunday of the Holy Fathers
- Saturday of the Dead
- Pentecost
- Day of the Holy Spirit
- All Saints Sunday
- All Saints of Local Church
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
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The Pentecostarion (, ; , , literally "Flowery Triodon"; ) is the liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches that includes the texts for the Paschal Season, but varies in exact span between different traditions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pentecostarion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.