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Slavonic: Минея месячная. The liturgical texts for celebrations on the Menaion are contained in twelve volumes called ''menaia''. Each menaion will contain the services for an entire month. The liturgical year for Eastern Orthodox Christians begins in September, so the Menaion for September is the first volume of the set.
The menaion contains the largest collection of liturgical texts that are used in the Eastern Church, and is a very imporatant important component of the liturgical book books owned by a parish. Outside of the Sundays of [[Great Lent]], [[Holy Week]], [[Bright Week]], and the Sundays of the [[Pentecostarion]], texts from the menaion are used in every one of the Divine Services —with the exception of the [[Midnight Office]].
There are currently two editions of the full Menaion available in English:
== General Menaion==
There is another volume called the '''General Menaion''' (Slavonic: Минея общая) which contains services for each type of celebration ([[Apostles]], [[Martyrs]], etc.) with blank spaces for the name of the [[saint]] being celebrated. When a parish is not able to afford a complet set of menaia (as often happens in mision mission situations), or if they do not have the texts for a particular saint they wish to commemorate, it is normal to use the General Menaion to fill in for those services which are missing.
There are currently no editions of the General Menaion in print in English. However, there are several version versions available online [[Menaion#External_links|(linked below)]].
== Festal Menaion ==
There is also what is called the '''Festal Menaion''' (Slavonic: Минея праздничная) which contains the texts for those [[Great Feasts]] of the Lord or the [[Theotokos]] which fall on the fixed cycle.
The Festal Menaion was tranlated into English by Bishop Kallistos (Ware) and Mother Mary, and originally published by Faber & Faber (subsequently [http://www.stspress.com/detail.aspx?ID=506 reprinted by St. Tikhon Orthodox Seminary Press)]. This edition is based on the Greek Menaion, but attempts to not note major differences with the Slavonic texts, and often provides alternative texts and rubrics accordingly.
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