Vestments
Mantle
A long sleeveless cloak: plain black for a monk, coloured and striped for a bishop.
Церковный справочник
Что означают слова, которые звучат в храме: облачения, богослужения, таинства, устройство храма.
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Sacraments
Marriage (crowning)
The sacrament of marriage: crowns are held over bride and groom, they drink from a common cup and circle the analogion three times. It does not replace civil registration.
Ranks of sanctity
Martyr
Literally a witness: a Christian who could have renounced the faith and lived, and did not.
Divine services
Matins
The longest service of the daily cycle. Appointed for the morning, but in parishes it is served in the evening as the second half of the vigil.
Feasts and fasts
Meatfare and Cheesefare
Two thresholds before Great Lent: meat is eaten for the last time on Meatfare Sunday, dairy on Cheesefare Sunday, with Maslenitsa standing between them.
Feasts and fasts
Memorial Saturdays
Days of general commemoration of the departed: two universal ones before Maslenitsa and Pentecost, three in Great Lent and one in early November.
Books and chant
Menaion
The book arranged by calendar date: for each day, the service to its saint or feast. Twelve volumes, one per month.
Clergy and ranks
Metropolitan
The senior title of a bishop, usually heading a major see or a metropolia; recognised by the white klobuk with a cross.
Icons
Miraculous icon
An icon linked with attested answers to prayer. It is the Church's veneration that makes an icon miraculous, not a property of the board itself.
Divine services
Moleben (service of supplication)
A short service of petition or thanksgiving, usually served after the Liturgy and lasting twenty to forty minutes.
Clergy and ranks
Monk
One tonsured with the vows of obedience, poverty and celibacy; monasticism and priesthood are separate things.
Feasts and fasts
Movable feasts
Days with no fixed date: they are counted from Pascha and cover some eighteen consecutive weeks of the year.
Ranks of sanctity
Myrrh-bearers
The women who came at dawn to the tomb to anoint the body and were the first to learn of the Resurrection.