Saturday of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Weeks of the Great Fast: Memorial Saturday

Vespers with Liturgy of the Presanctified (served on Friday)

The kathisma as appointed, with little litany after each antiphon.

Lord, I Call: on 10: 6 triodion (idiomelon, sung 2x + 4 martyrs, from the octoechos in the tone of the week, found in a special section in the triodion) + 4 menaion; glory: saint, if there is one; if not, glory: of the dead, from the octoechos, by St John of Damascus; now: theotokion, the dogmatikon of the tone of the week.

2 prokeimena and 2 readings (triodion). And the rest of the Liturgy of the Presanctified.

If there will be no Liturgy of the Presanctified on Friday, the following order is observed:

Kathisma as appointed, with little litany at the conclusion.

Lord, I Call: on 6: 3 octoechos (martyrs - see above) + 3 saint; glory: saint, if there is one; if not, glory: of the dead, from the octoechos, by St John of Damascus; now: theotokion, the dogmatikon of the tone of the week.

2 prokeimena and 2 readings (triodion).

Aposticha: idiomelon (from Lord, I call - sung 2x) + martyrs (sticheron from the octoechos not used at Lord, I call - see above); glory: saint (if there is one); now: theotokion in the same tone as the glory. But if there is no glory, then: glory and now: theotokion in the same tone as the martyrs.

Troparia: Apostles, martyrs, and prophets; glory: Remember, O Lord; now: theotokion: O holy mother of the ineffable light:

Litany: Have mercy on us, O God: and three full prostrations, and the prayer: O All-holy Trinity; Blessed be the Name (3) and Psalm 33, and dismissal.