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Obligation to Recite
On the eves of [[First Class Feasts]], [[Second Class Feasts]], and certain [[Third Class Feasts]], a special aggregate, known as the [[All-Night Vigil]], may be served. In such case, the other aggregations may be altered slightly (e.g., including Little Vespers in the Evening Aggregate). Although there is some variance in practice, the All-Night Vigil generally includes at least Great Vespers, Orthros, and First Hour.
== Obligation to Recite ==
According to ''The Holy Catechism of Nicolas Bulgaris,'' pages 26 and 27, priests are obliged to read the divine office. In answer to the first question, "What is this preparation the priests undergo, that they may be worthy celebrants and ministers?" Nicolas Bulgaris says confess frequently, "read all his office," have ready the sacred vessels, and lastly, keep his mind orthodox and faithful. In answer to the third question, Nicolas Bulgaris says, "We said that he ought also to read all his service, although all priests, from the time that they receive the stamp of divine Ordination, whether then celebrate or do not, promise and are bound to read each day the whole of the service to the end of their life, and if they neglect it, fall into deadly sin." In answer to the forth question, "What is this Service?" Nicolas Bulgaris says, "Vespers, After Supper [Compline], Midnight Office, Mattins, Prime, Terce, Sext, and None, - altogether seven times a day."
== Online texts ==
* ''The Great Horologion'', Holy Transfiguration Monastery (ISBN 0943405084)
* ''Abridged Typikon'', St. Tikhon’s Seminary
* ''The Holy Catechism of Nicolas Bulgaris'', Constantinople, Patriarchal Press, 1861, reprinted 1961
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