(2) The Forty Days of the Great Fast, beginning on Monday in the

first four days of Lent, the Great Canon of St. Andrew o f Crete is read, divided into four sections; on Thursday in the fifth week it will be 58 Council of Laodicea, Canon 49. When the Feast of the Annunciation became lixed on 24- March, it was decided that the full Liturgy should also be celebrated on this day (Council in Trullo, Canon £2).

read again, this time in continuous form. With its constant refrain, ‘ Have mercy upon me, O God, have mercy upon m e’ , the Great