Optina “Kellia” Lectionary

Jon Cooper
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

Does anyone have any information on the Optina “Kellia” Lectionary reading plan? What its origins are or any other details? I think it’s an Eastern Orthodox lectionary but not sure and would love any information anyone has on it. Thanks 😊

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,764

    MJ. Smith said:

    http://www.orthodox.net/ustav/lectionary-for-the-kellia.html

    Please include the kellia lectionary as an option under reading plans. This is a traditional Orthodox plan that is best implemented as a reading plan so it can be accomplished sooner than the more complex lectionaries.

    Optina is a monastery in Russia. Kellia is an ancient Egyptian monastery.

    The Logos implementation is a lay version as shown in the link above. Like most of the traditional churches, scripture reading emphasizes the psalms and gospels - the rest of the scripture is read but on a yearly or two year cycle in the office of readings.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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