Liturgy and Charitable Ministration in Late Antiquity

Diakonia Prayers in the Earliest Euchologion Manuscripts

Abstract

This article analyzes the “diakonia” prayers within the two oldest Greek euchologion manuscripts. The author reviews how later liturgical usage and scholarship has connected these prayers to monastic practice, and traces the ways in which these early liturgical prayers originally developed within non-monastic contexts of late antique lay charitable organizations.