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Cheesefare Saturday: Commemoration of All the Saints Who have Shone Forth in the Ascetic Life Ordinary service

Vespers (Friday evening)

Lord, I Call: 6 fathers; glory: fathers; now: theotokion, the dogmatikon in the tone of the week.

Prokeimena (2) and reading (1): triodion. Vouchsafe. Litany: Let us complete.

Aposticha: triodion: idiomelon (2x) and martyrs; glory: fathers; now: theotokion.

Troparia: fathers (Tone 4); glory and now: resurrectional dismissal theotokion in the same tone: “The mystery…”

Litany: Have mercy on us, O God. Three reverences. And the rest of the order.

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In addition to translations from the Department of Liturgical Music and Translations, liturgical texts for these services represent modified versions of translations provided by Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery, Otego, NY and St. Tikhon’s Monastery, South Canaan, PA. The Department of Liturgical Music and Translations of the Orthodox Church in America expresses its gratitude to Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery and St. Tikhon’s Monastery and to those translators whose work has been consulted at times in the course of reviewing and modifying these texts to their present form: Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash), Bishop Benedict (Churchill), Monk Joseph (Isaac Lambertsen), St. Vladimir’s Seminary, and Holy Transfiguration Monastery, among others.

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