These tables provide information about the variable portions of vespers.
See also the outlines which list in sequence the fixed portions of vespers.
Part 2. Services During the Time of the Lenten Triodion
Part 1. Services Outside the Lenten-Paschal cycle
Part 3. Services during the Pentecostarion (Not completed yet)
| V. Sunday of the Publican and the Phariseeand Sunday of the Prodigal Son Great Vespers at Vigil | ||||
| A. With Feast of the Meeting of the Lord Great Vespers at Vigil | B. With Forefeast or Afterfeast of the Meeting Great Vespers at Vigil | C. With Leavetaking of the Meeting Great Vespers at Vigil | D. With a Vigil Saint or Patron Saint of Temple Great Vespers at Vigil | E. With a Saint Having Polyeleos Great Vespers at Vigil |
Concerning Meatfare Saturday | Concerning the
Leavetaking of the Meeting
| VI. Sunday of Meatfare also called the Sunday of the Last Judgment Great Vespers at Vigil | |||
| A. With Feast of the Meeting of the Lord | B. With Forefeast or Afterfeast of the Meeting | C. With a Vigil Saint or Patron Saint of Temple | D. With a Saint Having Polyeleos |
| Great Vespers at Vigil | Great Vespers at Vigil | Great Vespers at Vigil | Great Vespers at Vigil |
* For vespers on Monday evening, see the “Tuesday” column.
* For vespers on Tuesday evening, see the “Wednesday” column, and so on.
| VII. Cheesefare Week The Sunday of which is also called Sunday of Forgiveness, and The Expulsion of Adam from Paradise | ||||||
| Note: for special instructions about Great Vespers Not at Vigil, see those for Great Vespers at Vigil | Monday | Tuesday | Thursday | Wednesday or Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Ordinary service | Vespers | Vespers | Vespers | Vespers | Great Vespers at Vigil | |
| Forefeast of the Meeting of the Lord | Vespers | Vespers | Vespers | Great Vespers at Vigil | ||
| Feast of the Meeting of the Lord | Great Vespers at Vigil | Great Vespers at Vigil | Great Vespers at Vigil | Great Vespers at Vigil | ||
| Afterfeast of the Meeting | Vespers | Vespers | Vespers | Great Vespers at Vigil | ||
| Leavetaking of the Meeting | Vespers | Vespers | Great Vespers at Vigil | |||
| Temple Saint or Vigil Rank Saint | Great Vespers at Vigil | Great Vespers at Vigil | Great Vespers at Vigil | Great Vespers at Vigil | ||
| Polyeleos Rank Feast of a Saint or the Forerunner | Vespers | Vespers | Vespers | Vespers | Great Vespers at Vigil | |
* Information pertaining to vespers on any given day appears in the column of the next day.
* For vespers with Presanctified served on Wednesday, click under
Thursday; for Friday evening services, click under Saturday; for Saturday evening services, click under Sunday; etc.
| VIII. The Holy Forty Days, and Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday - Ordinary Service | |||||||
| Monday | Tuesday Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | ||
| 1st Week | Vespers | Vespers | Presanctified | Vespers | Presanctified St. Theodore | Great Vespers at Vigil Sunday of Orthodoxy | |
| 2nd Week | Presanctified | Great Vespers at Vigil St. Gregory Palamas | |||||
| 3rd Week | Great Vespers at Vigil Sunday of the Cross | ||||||
| 4th Week | Great Vespers at Vigil St. John of the Ladder | ||||||
| 5th Week | Presanctified Great Canon | Presanctified | Presanctified Akathist | Great Vespers at Vigil St. Mary of Egypt | |||
| 6th Week | Presanctified | Vespers | Presanctified Lazarus Sat. | Great Vespers at Vigil Palm Sunday | |||
* Information pertaining to vespers on any given day appears in the
column of the next day.
* For Sunday evening services, click under Monday; for Tuesday evening
services, click under Wednesday; for vespers with Presanctified served on Friday, click under Saturday; etc.