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- The antimins (from the Gr**** Ἀντιμήνσιον, Antimension: "instead of the table"), is one of the most important furnishings of the altar in many Eastern...
- by a bishop of the same rite was required. In the Byzantine Rite, the antimension, blessed and signed by the bishop, serves a similar function. In contrast...
- Liturgy must be served on an antimension even if the altar has been consecrated and contains relics. When not in use, the antimension is left in place in the...
- and the sacred vessels. In the orthodox churches it is covered by the antimension, which also contains the relics of saints. Since the 2nd century the...
- called the antimension signed by the bishop, which is the permission to the community to gather and to act as the Church. Without the antimension, the priest...
- Divine Liturgy only with the blessing of a bishop. In Byzantine usage, an antimension signed by the bishop is kept on the altar partly as a reminder of whose...
- saints (traditionally, always those of a martyr) are also sewn into the antimension which is given to a priest by his bishop as a means of bestowing faculties...
- Christ at the Divine Liturgy. The Chrism used at Chrismation and the Antimension placed on the Holy Table are also said to be consecrated. Eastern Christians...
- Table, and the priest takes the diskos from him and places it on the Antimension. During the Anaphora, only the Lamb is consecrated.[citation needed]...
- LaBoiteaux Drake (1962), Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania) Antimension Epitaphios (liturgical) Life of Jesus in the New Testament Seven Sorrows...