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==General structure of Sunday Matins==
While some sections of Matins follow the eight-[[tone ]] cycle, others follow the eleven-part cycle of the Resurrectional Gospels(the [[eothinon|eothina]]).
*Sunday Matins, when served apart from a [[All-Night Vigil|vigil]] opens with the [[priest]]'s exclamation ''"Blessed is our God ...''", ''"Heavenly King ...''", and the [[Trisagion Prayers]]. (Note: ''"Heavenly King ...'' " is omitted between Pascha and [[Pentecost]].)*The [[chanter]] or [[reader]] reads the [[Royal Troparia]] (''"Lord, save your thy people and bless your inheritance ...''").*The [[priest]] (or in some traditions, [[deacon]]) offers a brief [[litany]]while censing around the altar.*The six hexapsalmos ([[psalmsSix Psalms]] (: 3, 37, 62, 87, 102, and 142 - [[Septuagint]] numbering) are read. *The priest deacon (or in some traditions, deaconpriest) intones the Litany of Peace.*''Theos kyrios'' ("God is the Lord") and the [[apolytikion|apolytikia]] are [[chant]]ed.
*The [[kathismata]] are chanted.
*The small litany
*The [[sessional hymn]]s
*The reader chants the [[evlogetaria]] (''Blessed are you, O Lord, teach me your statutes'').
*The small [[litany]] is offered again by the priest deacon (or in some traditions, deaconpriest).*The [[Hypakoehypakoe]] is read by the chanter to prepare for the message of the Gospel reading.*The [[Anavathmoianavathmoi]] (hymns of ascent) are chanted.*The [[Prokeimenonprokeimenon]] are is chanted.*The order of the Gospel is followed: the deacon intones ''"Let us pray to the Lord ...''", the priest responds with a prayer, and the chanter sings three times, ''"Let everything that breathes praise the Lord''". One of eleven eothina Gospels is read by the priest; these Gospels each address a different part of the [[Resurrection]] narrative, because it is Sunday, the feast of the Resurrection. ''Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ ...'' is read by the chanter.
*The 50th Psalm is chanted.
*Then the following hymns are usually sung:
:"Glory..." “Through "Through the prayers of the Apostles...” " "Both now.." “Through "Through the prayers of the Theotokos...” " “Have "Have mercy on me, O God...” " “Jesus "Jesus having risen…” risen..."
:However, on Sundays of the Triodion (excluding Palm Sunday, or a Sunday on which Annunciation might fall), the following hymns are sung:
:"Glory..." “The "The doors of repentance...” " "Both now..." “Guide "Guide me in the paths of salvation...” " “Have "Have mercy on me, O God...” " “When "When I think of the multitude of evil things I have done...”"
*The deacon prays, ''"O God, save your thy people and bless your thine inheritance ...''"
*The [[Canon (hymn)|canons]] are chanted: first and third odes (each ode beginning with an [[irmos]] and ending with a [[katavasia]],; small litany; kontakion of the secondary and/or tertiary commemoration(s) of the day; [[sessional Hymn]]s; small litany; fourth, fifth and sixth odes; small litany; kontakion, oikos, synaxarion (commemorating the [[saint]]s of the [[Church Calendar|day]]); the seventh and eighth odes. (According to the contemporary Greek parish practice, the [[katavasia]]e are not sung at the end of each ode, but rather those for odes 1 through 8 are all sung together at the end of the eighth ode, then the Matins Gospel is read (rather than before the canon as above)).
*The chanter sings the [[Magnificat]] while the deacon [[censer|censes]] the [[church]].
*The ninth ode, ending with its katavasia is chanted.
*The deacon again prays the small litany.
*''"Holy is the Lord our God'' " *The [[Exaposteilarionexaposteilarion|Exaposteilariaexaposteilaria]] (hymns related to the day's Gospel, or the day's feast) are chanted.*The Lauds praises (also called lauds or ''[[Ainoiainoi]]'' ) are chanted, slowly (''"Let everything that breathes praise the Lord.''"), followed by the appointed stichera.
*The Great [[Doxology]] is chanted.
*The Litanies litanies "Have mercy on us, O God..." and "Let us complete our morning prayer..." (although according to contemporary Greek Parish parish practice, these litanies and all that follows are said secretly, quietly by the priest and deacon, during the praisesif the Divine Liturgy is immediately to follow).*The [[Dismissal]]. (According to contemporary Greek Parish practice, the Great Doxology leads straight into the beginning of the [[Liturgy]]).
==Matins services==
