SERVICE _ Gone are the days when a woman handed a pharmacist a prescription and got back a cardboard box with a prothesis that might or might not fit.
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The church does not include a separate sanctuary in front of the altar, though semicirular niches to the sides of the apse serve as its prothesis and diaconicon.
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The Spear is one of the Sacred Vessels usually kept on the Table of Oblation ( Prothesis ), where the bread and wine are prepared for the Eucharist.
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Also noteworthy are the wall paintings from the sanctuary and prothesis apses of a chapel of the Monastery of Saint Anastasia, and several other examples of religious art.
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In Eastern Christianity, the functions of the sacristy are fulfilled by the Diaconicon and the Prothesis, two rooms or areas adjacent to the Holy Table ( Altar ).
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After drying his hands, the bishop goes to the prothesis to make his personal commemorations for the living and the dead, as he removes particles from the prosphora.
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At its northern end, a door from the esonarthex leads into a broad west-east corridor that runs along the northern side of the naos and into the prothesis.
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Originally, the Prothesis was located in the same room as the Holy Table, being simply a smaller table placed against the eastern wall to the north of the Holy Table.
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Since the Spoon is one of the Sacred Vessels it is usually kept on the Table of Oblation ( Prothesis ), where the bread and wine are prepared for the Eucharist.
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Prothesis generally did not apply to short * a ( which developed into * o or nasal * ? ), although some East Slavic dialects seem to have developed it regardless.
