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The Department of Liturgical Music and Translations has corrected and updated the Vespers texts for Meatfare Sunday, the Sunday of the Last Judgment. The updated texts and music can be found at the associated links.
In the Post-Gospel Stichera at Matins, the “Glory… Through the prayers…” etc. is always sung in Tone 2 according to OCA practice. “Have mercy on me, O God…” which follows, is almost always sung in Tone 6. New music posted for the Nativity of the Theotokos reflects this correction, as well as a translational correction in the first two verses: “…blot out the multitude of our transgressions.” Music for Matins for other feasts, when posted, will also reflect both these corrections.
Updated diptychs, sung whenever the Metropolitan presides at the Divine Liturgy, have been posted here, updated to include the Macedonian Orthodox Church after the formal liturgical recognition and concelebration of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, and His Beatitude, Archbishop Stefan of Ohrid and Macedonia, on September 2, 2025. Choir directors and deacons serving with His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, should ensure that they are using up-to-date versions of the diptychs for Primatial Divine Liturgies.