APOLYSIS (Ἀπόλοισις). - In the Byzantine rite it indicates the dismissal of the faithful at the end of the sacred liturgy and of the other divine services. In its essential form it is reduced to these words: "Christ, true God, have mercy on us and save us." After an invocation to the glory of God by the priest, the reader recites the little doxology (Glory be to the Father...) and invites the celebrant to bless the people. Inserted into it are invocations to the Mother of God and to more or less numerous groups of saints, hence a twofold form of the apolysis: the short and the prolix.
De, Meester Placido. “Apolisi (ἈΠΌΛΟΙΣ).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1634. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/apolisi-apolois.
MLA
De, Meester Placido. “Apolisi (ἈΠΌΛΟΙΣ).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1634. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/apolisi-apolois.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_apolisi_apolois,
author = {De, Meester Placido},
title = {Apolisi (ἈΠΌΛΟΙΣ)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1634},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/apolisi-apolois}
}
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