Akoluthia

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In the Eastern Churches, Akoluthia is a set sequence of liturgical functions, especially in the prayers of the hours . For example, one speaks of the acoluthia of Vespers or the third, which has a special shape on higher church festivals such as Easter or Ascension Day.

See also: acolyte

Akoluthia is also:

• in philosophy the designation of a doctrine of the Stoa of the necessary sequence of things;
• in psychology a period of time in which a previous emotional, not yet subsided, excitement inhibits the next.