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Outlines for Liturgical Services

Outlines


Kathisma Readings at Matins (Orthros)

Kathisma Readings at Vespers

Vespers, Outline

Vespers, Tables of Variable Parts, Lent-Pascha

Vespers, Tables of Variable Parts, Outside Lent-Pascha

Vespers Articles


Aposticha

Censing at the start of Vespers

Entrance with the censer

Evening Hymn: O Gladsome Light

Lenten Vespers as served on Sunday evenings - Outline

Lenten Vespers on weekdays without Liturgy of the Presanctified - Outline

Lenten Vespers, Types - Index

Little Vespers

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, Vespers with

Lord, I Call

Opening prayers of Vespers

Prokeimenon of the day

Psalter reading at Vespers

Troparia, Order of, at Vespers

Vespers with Divine Liturgy

Additional Articles


Augmented Litany

Blessing of bread, wheat, wine, and oil

Christ our God, the Existing . . . He Who Is

Classes (Ranks) of Feasts

Concluding Dialogue

Definitions and Sources

Dismissal by Priest

Fasting & Fast-Free Seasons of the Church

For further reading

General Note Regarding the Typicon and These Tables

Kathismas at the Hours in Great Lent and Holy Week

Leave-taking of Patronal Feast

Lessons or readings, also called parameyas

Litany of Fervent Supplication

Liturgical-theological themes

Litya

New Liturgical Day

Opening blessing at the all-night vigil

Prayer for Orthodox Christians

Psalm 33

Septuagint (LXX) numbering of the Psalms

The Division of the Psalter into Kathismas

Liturgical Music & Texts

  • Rubrics and Horologion for Liturgical Services
  • Texts for Liturgical Services
  • Music Downloads
  • Tutorial for Learning the Tones
  • Webinars for Church Musicians: Lent and Pascha
  • Liturgical Music Chatroom Transcripts

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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Contact information

A listing of department members and their contact information.

Recommended Readings

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Common Prayers

A selection of Orthodox prayers. Available also in downloadable PDF format.


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