At Matins

Glory..., Now and ever..., and the above is repeated.

After the first chanting of the Psalter, this Sessional hymn, in Tone I: Spec. Mel: “When the stone had been sealed...”—

Praise ye, O virgins! Keep festival, ye mothers! Give glory, ye people! Ye priests, bless ye the all-pure Mother of God! For she, who before was a little child in the flesh, is brought to the Temple as the most holy temple of God. Wherefore, celebrating a spiritual feast, we hymn her as an intercessor for the human race.

At “God is the Lord...,” the troparion of the feast, once; then that of the great martyr Catherine, once; Glory..., that of the greatmartyr Mercurius; Now and ever..., that of the feast.

Glory..., Now and ever..., and the above is repeated.

After the second chanting of the Psalter, this Sessional hymn, in Tone I: Spec. Mel: “When the stone had been sealed...”—

Being thyself the Holy of holies, O Theotokos, thou wast brought to live in the Holy of Holies, as is meet, as an animate ark of the Lord and a truly divine habitation of the Holy Spirit, O Virgin Mary. Wherefore, thy Son, Who is the only-begotten of the Father, and is consubstantial with the Holy Spirit, made His abode within thee without the aid of man, deifying all mankind.

Canon I of the feast of the Entry of the all-holy Theotokos, in Tone IV, with 6 troparia, including the irmos; and two canons of the greatmartyrs, with 8 troparia—