Types of Trebniks and their content

In church practice, there are the following types of Trebnik: Large, Small, Additional, Small in two parts.

The Great Trebnik consists of two parts. The first part contains the sequences of the Sacraments: Baptism, Chrismation, Marriage (Marriage), Anointing of the Sick, Repentance - and other Divine services: burial of the dead, blessing of water, tonsure into monasticism. With these prayers, the Orthodox Church meets a person at his birth, sanctifies his life and guides him when he transmigrates into eternity. The prayers are set forth in the sequence in which they are usually needed by a Christian. In case of a serious illness that prevents a person from going to church to receive Holy Communion, the Orthodox Church allows him to commune the Holy Mysteries of Christ at home. That is why there is a rite in the Trebnik, "when it happens soon that the sick person will receive communion."

The second part of the Great Trebnik contains mainly prayers of various liturgical and religious-everyday rites, in particular: prayers for the consecration of things, buildings, structures; prayers for the blessing of vegetables (fruits) and grapes (grapes); prayers of absolution from the oath; prayers at the beginning of any work and in general asking God's blessing; the prayer of the Holy Seven Youths of Ephesus (Comm. 4 Aug. and Oct. 22) for the infirm and sleepless (who is exhausted, not having a long time of sleep); prayer over salt; going to the position of son (that is, when adopting someone); prayers during the blessing of viands and artos on Holy Pascha; the service for youths who are incomprehensible; prayers for the expulsion of evil spirits. In the second part of the Trebnik there are also some rites relating to public worship: the rite of washing the feet on Great Thursday, the words of John Chrysostom on Great Thursday and on Holy Pascha, and the prayers kneeling at Vespers on the day of the feast of Pentecost; prayer services for various occasions; prayers for those who seek peace; an exposition of the rites and prayers that occur when the Orthodox Church receives into its bosom those who are outside of it; rites for the consecration of the church; as well as the Nomocanon - a collection of canonical rules.

In addition, the Great Trebnik has two additional chapters, constituting, as it were, its third part. The first contains the menologion, the second is the estate (index) of names (saints) in alphabetical order.

The Small Trebnik is an abbreviated version of the Great Trebnik. It contains the sequences of sacred actions and prayers, which most often have to be performed by the parish priest. The content of the first part of the Bolshoi

The Trebnik, with a few exceptions, was also included in the Small Trebnik. From the second part of the Large Trebnik, the Lesser Blessing of Water and the Blessing of the Water of the Holy Theophany were introduced; prayers for the blessing of various foods, for the consecration of buildings and wells; prayers at the consecration of the defiled; prayers read during the blessing over salt, sowing, and the like. From the Nomocanon is taken the "expression of the most necessary rules", which is shorter in volume than in the Great Trebnik.

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The Additional Trebnik contains the rites of consecration of the church and things belonging mainly to the church: the cross on the church, liturgical vessels, sacred vestments, icons, iconostasis, bell, cross worn on the chest, etc. Such are the prayers for the consecration of the well (well), bees, fragrant potions and every other thing.

The Trebnik in 2 parts (Small) contains everything that is found in the Small and Additional Trebniks, as well as some prayers from the Large Trebnik, for example: "Prayer for every infirmity", "Prayer to build a ship", as well as "The rite for the separation of the soul from the body, when a person suffers for a long time".

The Trebnik of Metropolitan Petro Mogila of Kiev was compiled and published by him in 1646 with the aim of providing the southwestern clergy not only with a newly edited official liturgical book, cleansed of errors and errors that had crept into the church rites of the Little Russian churches under the influence of Catholicism, but also an integral and comprehensive practical guide to all cases of private worship.7 Peter Mogila compiled his Trebnik on the basis of Greek and Old Slavonic euchologies written sources. However, in his Trebnik he included some rites and prayers with explanatory remarks from the Roman Trebnik of 1615, edited for the first time under Pope Paul V in 1603. Such a direct borrowing from the Roman ritual is, for example, the "Ustav of the Mystery of Holy Repentance" in the Trebnik of Peter Mogila.8

In the Trebnik of Peter Mogila there are also articles that are divided into ritual, casuistic and pastoral according to their content. The articles of the first type reveal the basic idea of the rite and the meaning of all its accessories, the articles of the second type contain instructions to the priest on various difficult cases, the third group indicates the requirements for the pastor as a celebrant of the Sacraments and rites and speaks of how the pastor should relate to his flock.

In terms of content, the Trebnik of Peter Mohyla is divided into three parts. The first part contains the rites of the Sacraments and the most important prayers relating to the life of a Christian from his birth to death. In the second part of the Trebnik there are rites for the consecration and blessing of various church accessories and household items of Christians (for example, the consecration of liturgical vessels and vestments, icons). These rites are found in the Trebniks of the Eastern Church and were compiled by Peter Mogila on the basis of the ancient practice of the Eastern Church. The third part contains prayers for events that have the character of social disasters, for example, during the plague of cattle, as well as events concerning the life of individual Christians or social groups: a prayer service for the possessed, on the day of the New Year, thanksgiving for the receipt of help.

Peter Mogila, who died soon after the publication of his Trebnik, did not have time to submit it for consideration by the All-Russian Patriarch and the Council. The Trebnik did not receive widespread distribution and recognition, although some articles from it were included in those published in Moscow