Месячная Минея

The monthly Menaion contains sequences (services) with variable prayers for the fixed days of worship of the annual circle, for all numbers of the year. With every day of the month and year, St. The Church unites a special remembrance: either it celebrates an event from the history of the faith and the Church, or it commemorates some saint, and often two or three, and for each day of all twelve months it has appointed special successions (services), which are found in the Monthly Menaion. Hence the Menaea, divided into 12 parts, according to the number of months, having one, and often two, three successions under each number, and received the name Monthly Menaion. All sequences of the Monthly Menaion contain prayers for Vespers and Matins, but some also contain special ones for the hours, liturgy, Compline, and Midnight Office. Not all successions of the Menaion contain the same number of prayers, but in some there is more, in others there is less. At the end of each book of the Monthly Menaion, the Theotokos are printed, sung during the prayers of the Menaion. The prayers of the Menaion are designated in liturgical books for the most part by the words: “saint”, “holiday”, for example: “stichera of the saint”, “stichera of the holiday”; so in the monthly text of the Typikon, such expressions indicate holidays that have prayers for themselves in the Menaion, and not in other liturgical books. The chants of the feast of the resurrection, contained in the Octoechos, are called in the Typikon monthbook by other words, for example, “daytime” (“day”), “Sunday”, “voices”, etc. and when singing the Colored Triodion, the word “holiday” does not indicate Menaion.