Abstract

The saints are constantly present in all service of the Orthodox Church. In the most important service – the Divine Liturgy – they are also mentioned many times in different contexts and with different intention. Remembering saints in Divine Liturgy is multifaceted. When we remember them, we give a honor to the saints, we do it for their memory, we pray for them, but also ask them their prayer before God for us, as well as we thank God for them. All these feeling that the Orthodox Church addresses toward the Heavenly Church, in which the saints play an important role, means that they were, still are and will remain so close connected to the Orthodox spirituality, that without them it is impossible now to imagine the Orthodox church services, and in particular the Divine Liturgy. The most important moment in which the saints are mentioned in the Divine Liturgy is intercessory prayer (intercession) – the final part of the anaphora, as well as the proskomidia. Other important places of the saints presence in this service are also: litanies, antiphons, Small Entrance, troparions, kontakions, Apostolic readings, Gospel readings and dismissals.