Ewangelia w służbie liturgicznej (przygoda liturgiczna tekstu Ewangelii św. Jana 20, 6-7)

The contemporary structure of prayers said by the priest after placing the Holy Gifts on the altar differs from the one observed in the XVII century. At the beginning of the XVII century at that liturgical moment two prayers were said – the troparion of the Holy Thursday and the final phrase of psalm 50, as one can observe in the Leitourgarions edited in Moscow (1627, 1633, 1640, 1650), Kiev (1620), Lvov (1637) and Vilnius (1641) which followed the Venice and Gorazdh editions. In the 1629 and 1632 Kiev editions of the same book two paschal troparions appeared. In the Kiev edition of 1639 and 1653 the text of the gospel (Jn 20, 6-7) was introduced and the same change was repeated in Lvov editions (1646, 1666, 1681, 1691, 1702, 1712). The third change – two supplementary paschal troparions – was introduced by the Moscow editions (1655, 1656, 1658, 1670, 1688, 1705) and repeated in the XVIII century Kievan editions of the Leitourgarion. The contemporary Moscow, Warsaw and Serbian editions of the Leitourgarion remain the same whereas in the Bulgarian version order of the prayers is different. Still a different tradition is observed in the Romanian Leitourgarion.