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The Liturgikon (Gk., "liturgy book"; Slav. Služebnik, "service book") is the priest's book for the Divine Liturgies, and also contains the other prayers used by the priest at the altar, such as the prayers of Vespers and Matins. It is also used by the deacon. The corrresponding book used by a bishop is the Archieratikon.
At one time, the Liturgikon formed part of the Great Euchologion (Gk. Euchológion to méga; Slav. Bolshói Ieréiskiy Molitvoslóv , "Large priestly prayer-book") - a single book that contained all the priest's prayers for the Divine Liturgies, the hours of prayer, and the sacraments and other services. Eventually this book was split in two, to form the Liturgikon, containing the Divine Liturgies and the daily prayer services, and the Small Euchologion, or simply Euchologion, containing the other Mysteries and blessings.
The contents of the Liturgikon, like that of all liturgical books, change slightly depending on the needs and traditions of each local church. The Roman Služebnik, which is the normative Liturgikon for the Byzantine Catholic Church, contains:
Before the publication of the Roman books in the 1940's, the L'vov Služebnik of 1905 was widely used among Greek Catholics in Europe and America. This large volume, organized in some respects like the "altar missal" used in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, contained the "model liturgy" requested by the Synod of L'vov in 1891; this liturgy was intended to clearly distinguish Greek Catholics from Orthodox, and contained rubrics which resembled those of the Mass of the Roman Rite in certain places.
As part of the Ruthenian reform of the 1940's, a new Liturgikon for the Ruthenian Recension of the liturgy was published in Rome in 1942. This Liturgikon is reprinted occasionally by the Vatican Polyglot Press, and can sometimes be found in used book stores. It is available online, courtesy of Patronage of the Mother of God Catholic Church, Baltimore, Maryland.
Excerpts from the Roman Liturgikon (for the individual Divine Liturgies) can be obtained from the Vatican Polyglot Press.
The 1965 translation of the Divine Liturgies into English, currently used in the Byzantine Catholic Church, was made from the 1942 Roman Liturgikon. It is available as individual service books from the Byzantine Seminary Press, and is also available online, courtesy of Patronage of the Mother of God Catholic Church, Baltimore, Maryland.
The 1965 translation also forms the basis for the texts of the Divine Liturgy used in such anthologies as Monsignor Levkulic's The Divine Liturgy, and the Byzantine Book of Prayer.