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*When the feast falls on a fasting day, the fast is relaxed to permit fish, wine, and oil (exception: when '''Annunciation''' falls during [[Holy Week]], wine and oil (but not fish) are permitted; when '''Annunciation''' falls on [[Holy Friday]] or [[Holy Saturday]], wine (but not oil or fish) are permitted).
== Third Class Feasts —Vigil and Polyeleos Commemorations =='''Third Class Feasts''' are commemorations for which the [[Menaion]] includes a complete akolouthia. *These feasts generally do not have a forefeast or a leavetaking (exceptions: the commemorations of St. [[Demetrios]] ([[October 26]]), the [[Nativity of the Forerunner]] ([[June 24]]), Ss. [[Peter and Paul]] ([[June 29]]), and the [[Beheading of the Forerunner]] ([[August 29]]) each has a leavetaking). *An All-Night Vigil may be appointed if there is a text for [[Little Vespers]] in the Menaion, in which case the commemoration is designated '''Vigil'''. Otherwise, an All-Night Vigil is not appointed and the commemoration is designated '''Polyeleos'''.*At Great Vespers**When the feast falls on any day other than Sunday, the kathisma reading appointed for the day is replaced by the first stasis of the first kathisma (Psalms 1-3). **When the feast falls on a Sunday the first kathisma (Psalms 1-8) is read at Great Vespers on Saturday evening as usual.**Old Testament readings follow the prokeimenon.*At Festal Orthros **The polyeleos (Psalms 134 and 135, or Psalm 44 with its poetic refrains) is chanted immediately after the second poetic kathisma (on a Sunday it replaces the amomos (Psalm 118) as the third reading from the Psalter).**Select Psalm verses from the eclogarion can follow the polyeleos, if desired. **There is a gospel pericope for the feast (chanted from the holy doors and without a veneration following).**The praises and the great doxology are chanted.* When the feast falls on a Sunday the services for the feast are combined with those of the Resurrection from the [[Octoechos]].*When the feast falls on a fasting day, the fast is relaxed to permit wine and oil (exception: the '''Beheading of the Forerunner''' (August 29) is always observed as a strict fast day when it falls on a weekday; when it falls on a Saturday or Sunday wine and oil are permitted). If it is the patronal feastday, fish may be permitted, as well.
== Intermediate Classes ==