What is the name of the cloth held beneath the chalice and t

[The Silent Acolyte]

Can anyone tell me the name of the cloth held beneath the chalice and the chin of the communicant?

Is it one of the kalymmata, perhaps the aer?

Where does it sit during the anaphora? What happens to it afterward? Does it have any other function?

Thanks for your help.

[尼古拉前执事]

Most just call it the communion cloth. I am not sure of the Greek or Slavonic term for it off hand. The aer is something else which is on the deacon's shoulder at the Great Entrance. It is placed on top of the chalice after the people are communed. After the gifts are consumed at the Table of Oblation, the deacon (or priest) will tie a communion cloth around and on top of the empty chalice to prevent anything from falling or crawling in.

[romiosini]

The red cloth that is held by the communant person to whipe his lips on is called Smactron in greek. Which means, the garment that the Lord wore that covered his blood.

[spyridon]

and this cloth must not be washed or disposed of in a normal worldly way like throwing it away..it must be burned,buried,or put in the coffin with a departed human.correct me if Im wrong?

[romiosini]

and this cloth must not be washed or disposed of in a normal worldly way like throwing it away..it must be burned,buried,or put in the coffin with a departed human.correct me if Im wrong?

Yes and no. It shouldn't be washed in a worldly way of course. Let us remember that every Church has a Honeftirion. A Honeftirion is the faucet that leads all types of sacred liquids (either from the baptisms, or the faucet in the Holy Sanctuary/Altar which the priest washes his hands in case he has had Holy Communion touched his hands or anything. He usually licks the Holy Body and Blood of Christ of his hands and then washes it. Since all that passes through the Honeftirion goes to Earth, and not to a sewer. It stays to the earth as if it was burrying a departed Human as you said Spyridon.). But in churches, I know that the barden (Church/keeper/Neokoros) washes it over the faucet of the honeftirion, and if Holy Communion is on the Smactron, it goes straight to the Earth. Now if we would burn every single Smactron, I think we would run out at some point...

[The Silent Acolyte]

Thanks romiosini for giving us the Greek Smactron. Can anyone provide the Slavonic?

The information on cleaning is interesting, but I'm more concerned with the life of this cloth during the liturgy when it is not being used. Where does the cloth sit during the pro-anaphora, does it have a role during the canon, how else is it used before it goes under the chalice, where is it put after the communion of the faithful?

Regarding the Honeftirion, though I suspect this is not both the faucet and the drain as romiosini's post implies, but merely the drain, the faucet being an inessential bonus item.

Thanks for the help.

[尼古拉前执事]

It is folded on the altar table itself before communing on on the table of oblation afterwards.