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INTRODUCTION

This provisional translation of the Liturgy of the Presanctified is intended to be practical, rather than critical. It is based for the most part on the 3rd volume of the *Hieratikon* published by the Monastery of Simonos Petra in 1992, together with second edition of the Greek text published by Professor Phountoulis in 1986 and the 3rd edition of *Megali Tessarakosti* by the *Apostoliki Diakonia* in 1991. The earlier edition by Rigopoulis 1977 and the Slavonic  *Sluzebnik*, Moscow 1996. There are many variations in the various editions and I hope to provide more detailed annotation shortly, together with translations of St Theodore the Studite’s *Commentary* and St Symeon of Thessalonika‘s *Answers.* The Reader‘s and Singers‘ parts of the service will be found elsewhere on these pages, .