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Vesperal Stichera at "O Lord, I have cried"
This is the first set of stichera sung for December 8th, for the Forefeast of the Conception of the Theotokos and St. Patapios of Thebes, Prosomoion "Thou art the joy." "Come, O ye people, and let us now form a spiritual choir . . . ."