Cheesefare Saturday: Commemoration of All the Saints Who have Shone Forth in the Ascetic Life With polyeleos rank feast of a saint, or the forerunner

Vespers

On Cheesfare Friday at the dismissal of the hours, after “More honorable” and the bows, with no break vespers begins immediately.

Blessed is the Man, 1st antiphon.

Lord, I Call: 3 saint + 3 fathers; glory: saint; now: theotokion, the dogmatikon of the current tone.

Entrance. Prokeimenon and reading (triodion); then prokeimenon, Let Israel hope in the Lord…
Then the 3 readings of the saint. Vouchsafe. Litany: Let us complete…

Aposticha: triodion: idiomelon (2x) and martyrs; then refrain (stoichos) for the Forerunner: The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord… and the sticheron of the Forerunner, Tone 6: The precious head of your Baptizer, which lately lay on a platter; glory: fathers: Let us, the multitudes of monastics (Tone 8); now: aposticha resurrectional theotokion in the same tone.

(Note: if the polyleyos is not for the Forerunner, then at the aposticha after the 2 idiomela and the martyrs, we use a verse and a sticheron taken from the aposticha of the saint, or, if there are none, from the general menaion.)

Troparia: saint; glory: fathers; now: resurrectional theotokion in the same tone, “The mystery hidden from eternity”

Litany: Have mercy on us… 3 full bows and the prayer “O All-holy Trinity…” Blessed be the Name (3x); Psalm 33, It is truly…; and dismissal.