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The Liturgy of Preparation, also Prothesis (Ancient Greek: Πρόθεσις, lit. 'a setting forth') [ 1 ] or Proskomedia ( Προσκομιδή Proskomidē 'an offering, an oblation'), is the name given in the Eastern Orthodox Church [ note 1 ] to the act of preparing the bread and wine for the Eucharist .
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the Lamb placed on the diskos during the Proskomedie.To the left are other prosphora which will be used during the service.. The Lamb (Greek: άμνος, romanized: amnos; Church Slavonic: Агнецъ, romanized: agnets) is the square portion of bread cut from the prosphora in the Liturgy of Preparation at the Divine Liturgy in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches.
Karen B. Westerfield Tucker (born 1954) [1] is an American historian and United Methodist minister. She has authored several histories of Christian liturgy, some of which were published in The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer and The Oxford History of Christian Worship; she also edited the latter volume with Geoffrey Wainwright.
Greek-style prosphora seal, for one large loaf: in the center is the Lamb (symbol: IC XC NI KA Christogram), to the viewer's right is the Panagia (symbol: ΜΘ (Μήτηρ Θεοῦ)), to the left are the Nine Angelic Ranks (symbol: nine triangles), and on the top and bottom are extra Lambs for Presanctified (symbol: said Christogram).
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