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Saint apostle and evangelist Mark’s Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts is one of the ancient tradicional service of Eastern rite, which was very popular in Egypt during the Eastern fasting. Unfortunately a complete liturgical text has not been published or made known. Such text appears in 3 folios from the 13th-century codes of Sinai ar. 237 in its Melkite recension, which has mentioned professor Aziz Atiya in his work published in Alexandria, 1970 and contains the Prayers, Troparias, Psalters, Theotokias and Anaforas. According his description, this manuscript has the dimensions 16 x 11.5 cm. its 13 x 10 cm is writing part, among them the titles and headers are in red ink.

Another information about Mark’s liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is in the Coptic liturgy of st. Basil the Great, especially one of the prayers of inclination, where is fixed the name of the evangelist.

This fasting service consists of these parts: Epiclesis, Prayer of Incense, the First Prayer of the Morning, Prayer of the Entrance, Old testament Reading, Synapte, Three Prayers for Peace, Hierarchs and Assemblies, the Great Entrance, Prayer of the Cherubic Hymn, Prayer of the Lord’s Prayer and Our Father, Prayer after the Lord’s Prayer, Prayer of Inclination, Elevation, Communion, Thanksgiving after Communion, Prayer in the Prothesis and Dismissal.

St. Mark’s liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is very important service, which helps to realize first Christian fasting worship in Egypt.