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edits
Changes
→General structure of Sunday Matins
*The choir responds "Amen." and the Priest reads "Glory to Thee..." & the prayer "Heavenly King..."
*The Reader reads the Trisayion Prayers.
*The Priest exclaims "For Thine is"...
*The Reader reads "Lord have mercy" twelve times, "Glory. Both now." and Psalms 19 & 20.
*The Priest censes the whole Temple during the readings of Psalms 19 & 20.
*The Reader reads the Royal Troparia.
*The Priest exclaims the first three petitions of the Fervent Supplication (Have mercy upon us O God..." and then exclaims "For Thou art a Good God..." The choir responds "Amen. In the name of the Lord, Father bless." The Priest exclaims "Glory to the Holy..."
*The Reader with the fear of God exclaims "Glory to God in the highest.." (thrice), "Lord Thou shalt open my lips..." (twice ) and then reads the Six Psalms (Three, Thirty-Seven, Sixty Two, Eighty Seven, Hundred and Two, and Hundred and Fourty Two.)Selected verses from each Psalm is read at the end of each Psalm. "Glory. Both now." "Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Glory to Thee O God" "Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy." "Glory. Both now." is read in the middle of the Six Psalms.
*The Deacon intones the Great Litany, at the end of which the Priest exclaims "For unto Thee..."
*The Choir, in the Tone of the week, chants "God is the Lord" with its appointed verses. The Resurrectional Apolytikion follow (always twice) "Glory" that of the Saint, "Both now" the Theotokion in the Tone of the Saint's Apolyikion.