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→General structure of Sunday Matins
*The [[chanter]] or [[reader]] reads the [[Royal Troparia]] ("Lord, save thy people and bless your inheritance...").
*The [[priest]] offers a brief [[litany]] while censing around the altar.
*The [[Hexapsalmos|hexapsalmos ]] ([[Six Psalms]]: 3, 37, 62, 87, 102, and 142 - [[Septuagint]] numbering) are read.
*The deacon (or in some traditions, priest) intones the Litany of Peace.
*''Theos kyrios'' ("God is the Lord") and the [[apolytikion|apolytikia]] are [[chant]]ed.