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Amendments to the text of the Holy Week book from Isaiah 53:11

a.     The current text “As for the Lord, He desired to heal him from the wound and when you offer yourselves as a sacrifice for sin, then you will see your souls receiving much honour”.

Amendments to the text of the Holy Week book from Isaiah 53:12

b.     The correct text that is required for the prints and publications in the books is, “As for the Lord, He shall strike him with sorrow, in that He made Himself a sacrifice for sin to be seen by h...

Amendments to the text of the Holy Week book from Isaiah 53:13

c.     It is noted that the corrected text is in accordance with the Hebrew text of the Qumran manuscripts that were recently discovered and were written in 2 BC. Likewise, the current Hebrew texts fo...

Amendments to the text of the Synaxarium of the Feast of St. Mary

Correction of some of the errors that are present in the previous editions of the Synaxarium, such as what is said in the Feast of the Assumption of the Body of the Virgin that her body has sat at the...

Prohibition on prayers not present in Euchologian

It is prohibited for the Bishop or Priest to pray liturgical prayers audibly that are not present in the Euchologion during the Liturgy.

Readings if Feast of the Entry of the Lord into Egypt falls in the Holy Fifty Days

If the celebration of the Entry of the Lord Christ into the Land of Egypt falls in the Holy Fifty Days, the readings of the Holy Fifty are to be read, but the hymns of the Resurrection and the hymns o...

Ritual tunes of the Rite of Prostration

In relation to the Prostration Prayer: the First Prostration Prayer is to be prayed with the joyous rituals; the Second Prostration Prayer is to start joyous then becomes annual from the point of the ...

Activation of Religious Books Review Committee

The Holy Synod approved the activation and expansion of the Religious Books Review Committee.

Ban on closed meetings

The Holy Synod approved the following:

  1. Ban closed meetings in churches.
  2. Ban meetings in homes without written permission from the Bishop of the Diocese.

Caution required before ordaining priests

His Holiness requested that the Bishops be warned regarding ordaining Priests without making sure of their sound Orthodox doctrine and not being influenced by attempts to penetrate from the Protestant...