Lenten Triodion

Translated by Mother Mary and Kallistos Ware

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Vespers on Saturday Evening
Friday in the same week, because of the vigil for the Akathistos
Tuesday in the first week.
Saturday. There was, however, no uniformity of practice, and some
the Saturday of Lazarus, ‘Today Bethany proclaims beforehand the
Mattins
Wednesday and Friday, to the Cross; on Thursday to the apostles;
Sunday of Orthodoxy make clear, it is possible and, indeed, essential
Sunday to be added, that of the Publican and the Pharisee.
Monday to Saturday (inclusive) in the week before Lent;
Liturgy
on Saturday, to the martyrs and the dead.
Thursday we recall how at the Last Supper Christ blessed material
Wednesday and Friday.
Sixth Hour
(1) The Pre-Lenten Period. (a) The Sunday o f Zacchaeus. One week
(2) The Forty Days of the Great Fast, beginning on Monday in the
(4) On weekdays (Monday to Friday inclusive) during the seven
Great Compline
(i) At Mattins on Thursday, the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
(3) Holy and Great Week, preceded by the Saturday of Lazarus and
Holy Week, and above all on Great Friday. On the Cross we see a
Canon of Intercession to the Holy and Great Martyr
(ii) On Tuesday the liturgical texts refer chiefly to the parable o f
The meaning of Holy Thursday is summed up in a text of singular
Thursday Evening
The Hours
First Hour
The Typika
HOLY AND GREAT SATURDAY
week first
The third of these three periods, the Paschal fast of Holy Week, is
ninth hour (3 p.m.) on the four days from Monday until Thursday,
the fifth week, because of the vigil for the Great Canon. Wine is
hour, in hardening our hearts towards others and in failing to re
(i) The Sixth Week. During the services of this week, and to a still
the vigil service of Palm Sunday, in order to celebrate Holy Week
Divine Liturgy o f the Presanctified o f St Gregory the Dialogist (London,
THIRD HOUR
at the Aposticha); then three stichera from the Menaion to the saint
praises unto Thy Name, O Most High (P salm p i : 2 ) .

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