The Church does not exhaust itself within its physical limits, rather through symbolism it seeks to bring the churchgoer into a living relationship with the sacred metaphysics, that is, with everything that opposes the everyday and the false.
What is the significance of the Holy Table? What do the vestments of the priests signify? What does the Divine Liturgy reveal? Why is the Antidote given? What does the "Our Father" prayer really teach?
These and many more basic questions are answered by the learned cleric of the 15th century and archbishop of Thessaloniki, Simeon, with this book (which is translated into modern Greek for the first time), thus proving that the work of the Church is the call - that is, a call - to the maximum mystery of Christianity which is Holy Communion, achieving a relationship with the divine. As such, the Church does not emerge as a gathering building but a bridging structure between the finite and the eternal in a new state of intimacy. That is why it was called "temple" which means "house of God", the place of presence of the high and the true in the built and the human.
Theodoros Gialamas -
As a student of theology, I came across many times in papers referring to this particular work. I believe it is a publishing fact that it has been released in modern Greek. I had heard from my professor that there had been two other attempts in the past - in one case the translator died without completing the work, while in the other they fell out with the other publisher! Really a great book that explains in a simple way step by step what happens during the Divine Liturgy as well as other aspects of our faith.