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The habit of reading the so-called "prayers of the Kathismata" is, according to Cyril Korolevsky, one of the most ancient and monastic tradition (which was first encountered at the anchorites) of our Church. Named prayers of the Kathismata (or "prayers of the antiphons", as in the Constantinopolitan tradition), these prayers had different structures depending on the two deterministic liturgical traditions, from Jerusalem and from Constantinople, which is why we will try to render some of their characteristic features.

The exapostilarion "Now I am at rest…" -historical and liturgical connotations. Even though it is no longer included in The Office for the Burial of a Layman, the exapostilarion "Now I am at rest…", was a part of this service for a long time; it is currently present only in The Office for the Burial of an Infant and in The Funeral Office for a Departet Priest or Deacon. However, in practice, this exapostilarion is sung in some places in Transylvania also at the burial of a layman, leaving aside or ignoring the idiomela traditionally attributed to St. John of Damascus ( † 749). About the history of this exapostilarion and about its "disappearance" from The Office of the Burial of a Layman, we will try to write in this article.

The Little Lity for the Dead", as we know it today, seems to be a "structure" of Sabait origin (Palestinian), its order being recorded, not by chance, in the Great Typikon of Saint Sabbas. Unfortunately, the specialists did not deal with this topic enough, perhaps because of the lack of clear clues, which is why the present study proposes to analyze some of the peculiarities of this ordinance.

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