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Lenten Triodion

Alleluia in Lent

This Alleluia replaces "God is the Lord" during Orthros/Matins on weekdays during the Lenten season.

Saturday of Souls, Communion Hymn

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Saturday of Souls

This Communion Hymn is sung on the Saturday of Souls, Meat Fare Saturday, for the departed, "Blessed are they whom Thou hast chosen, O Lord..."

Saturday of Souls, Evlogitaria

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Saturday of Souls

These Evlogitaria are from the Funeral Service, and are sung at Orthros (Matins) on Saturday of Souls and Meat Fare Saturday.  "Blessed art thou, O Lord, teach me thy statutes.  The Choir of the Saints have found the Fountain of Life and the Door of Paradise . . . ."

Saturday of Souls, Doxastikon (Glory) at "O Lord, I have cried"

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Saturday of Souls

This Glory at "O Lord, I have cried" is sung on Saturday of Souls, Meat Fare Saturday, and the Saturday after Ascension.  "I weep and I wail."  (Simpler version.)

Saturday of Souls, Stichera at "O Lord I have cried"

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Saturday of Souls

These stichera are sung at Vespers on the Saturday of Souls, Meat Fare Saturday, Prosomoion "Paradise of Eden."  "As we the faithful now commemorate all dead from the ages past . . . ."

Prodigal Son, Doxastikon & Theotokion (Glory-Both now) at the Praises

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Prodigal Son Sunday

This is the Glory & Both now sung at the Praises of Orthros/Matins on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, during the Triodion.  "O Good Father, I have withdrawn from thee . . . Most blessed art thou . . . ."  Updated 2/18/2021.

Prodigal Son, Stichera at the Praises

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Prodigal Son Sunday

These are the Stichera at the Praises sung on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son during the Triodion.

Prodigal Son, Katabasiae

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Prodigal Son Sunday

These Katabasiae are sung on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son during the Triodion. Updated 2/24/2021.

Prodigal Son, Doxastikon (Glory) at the Aposticha

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Prodigal Son Sunday

This is the hymn sung as the Glory at the Aposticha on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.  "Having squandered the riches of the fatherly gift . . . ."

Prodigal Son, Doxastikon (Glory) at "O Lord I have cried"

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Prodigal Son Sunday

This is the hymn sung at the Glory of "Lord I have cried" on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.  "O what goodly things have I, wretched one, denied myself . . . ."

Prodigal Son, Stichera at "O Lord I have cried"

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Prodigal Son Sunday

These are sung on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son during the Season of the Triodion.  "I have been entrusted with a verdant and faultless region . . . ."

Pharisee & Publican, Doxastikon & Theotokion (Glory-Both now) at the Praises

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Pharisee & Publican Sunday

This is the Glory and Both now sung at the Praises of Orthros/Matins on the Sunday of the Pharisee & Publican, during the Triodion.  "O Lord, thou didst reproach the Pharisee . . . Most blessed art thou . . . ."

Pharisee & Publican, Stichera at the Praises

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Praises

These are the Stichera at the Praises sung on the Sunday of the Pharisee & Publican during the Triodion.

Pharisee & Publican - Forgiveness Sunday, Katabasiae

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Katavasiae

These Katabasiae are sung on the Sunday of the Pharisee & Publican as well as on the Forgiveness Sunday during the Triodion.

Pharisee & Publican, Doxastikon (Glory) at the Aposticha

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Pharisee & Publican Sunday

This is the hymn sung as the Glory at the Aposticha on the Sunday of the Pharisse & Publican.  "Mine eyes being weighed down because of mine iniquities . . . ."

Pharisee & Publican, Doxastikon (Glory) at "O Lord I have cried"

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Pharisee & Publican Sunday

This is the hymn sung at the Glory of "Lord I have cried" on the Sunday of the Pharisee & Publican.  "Almighty Lord, I have known how effective are tears . . . ."

Pharisee & Publican, Stichera at "O Lord I have cried"

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Vesperal Stichera at "O Lord, I have cried"

These are sung on the Sunday of the Pharisee & Publican during the Season of the Triodion.

Open To Me The Doors of Repentance

These three hymns are sung during the Season of the Triodion, in Orthros as the Post-Gospel hymns after Psalm 50, from the Sunday of the Pharisee and Publican to the 5th Sunday of Lent.  They are in Western & Byzantine notation.  Tone 8/Plagal Fourth Mode & Tone 6/Plagal Second Mode.  Updated 2/25/2021.

Prokeimenon, Great - Second of Lent

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Prokeimena, Orthros-Lent-Saints

This Great Prokeimenon is sung on the 1st (Sunday of Orthodoxy), the 3rd and the 5th Sunday of Lent, in Tone 8/Plagal Fourth Mode. "Thou hast given an inheritance, O Lord . . . ."  Updated 1/5/17.

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Thou hast given an inheritance; Vespers; Lenten Vespers; Second Great Prokeimenon of Lenten Vespers

Elevation (Exaltation) of the Cross, Apolytikion (chant)

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Elevation (Exaltation) of the Cross (Sept 14)

This Apolytikion (Troparion) is sung on the Feast of the Elevation of the Cross (September 14th), the 3rd Sunday of Lent, and on the Feast of the Procession of the Holy Cross (August 1st), Tone/Mode 1.  It is written in Western and Byzantine notation.  "O Lord, save thy people . . . ."  Updated 3/1/17.

Open To Me The Doors of Repentance

These reverential troparia are sung during Matins (Orthros) from the Sunday of the Pharisee and Publican to the 5th Sunday of Lent.

O Taste and See

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Presanctified Gifts, Liturgy of

Used at Presanctified Liturgies

Alleluias during Lent

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These are the Alleluias sung during Lenten Orthros (Matins) in all 8 tones. (Updated 3-10-16)

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Alleluia; Orthros; Lent

The Great Moses

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Sung on Holy Friday night as the Glory of the Praises for Orthros of Holy Saturday, in the traditional melody of "Inna Mousa." Updated 4/6/2022.

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The Great Moses foreshadowed this day; Matins; Matins for Holy Saturday; Doxastikon of the Praises for Holy Saturday Matins

Annunciation (choral), Kontakion

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Kontakia of Feasts & Forefeasts

Sung on March 25th, the initial Sundays in Lent, and at the Akathist Hymn (Service). In English & Greek. "I, thy servant, O Theotokos . . . ."

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