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Orthros is the longest and most complex of the daily cycle services. | Orthros is the longest and most complex of the daily cycle services. | ||
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- Sunday: the longest of the regular orthros services. If this service is celebrated in its entirety it can last up to three hours. It contains three canons, apart from any additional festal cannons which may be added. As a result, in most practical situations, abbreviations are made. Often, this Orthros is part of a vigil. | - Sunday: the longest of the regular orthros services. If this service is celebrated in its entirety it can last up to three hours. It contains three canons, apart from any additional festal cannons which may be added. As a result, in most practical situations, abbreviations are made. Often, this Orthros is part of a vigil. | ||
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- Feast day Orthros with Gospel. | - Feast day Orthros with Gospel. | ||
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- Lenten Orthros: penitential material added (hymns and prayers). | - Lenten Orthros: penitential material added (hymns and prayers). | ||
Revision as of 23:21, May 18, 2005
Orthros is the longest and most complex of the daily cycle services.
Orthros Services
There are seven types of Orthros:
Basic Forms
- Sunday: the longest of the regular orthros services. If this service is celebrated in its entirety it can last up to three hours. It contains three canons, apart from any additional festal cannons which may be added. As a result, in most practical situations, abbreviations are made. Often, this Orthros is part of a vigil.
- Daily Orthros: there is no Gospel.
- Feast day Orthros with Gospel.
Special Forms
- Lenten Orthros: penitential material added (hymns and prayers).
Orthros services related to the Paschal feast:
- Great and Holy Friday: there are twelve Gospel lessons; Antiphons are used (originating in a different office). The troparion sung at the 15th antiphon: Today is hung upon the cross... (Simeron krematai).
- Great and Holy Saturday Orthros. This contains some elements of the old cathedral office: procession with epitaphios, reading of three pericopes (OT, epistle, Gospel) at the end.
- Paschal Orthros. This is celebrated from Pascha Sunday until Thomas Sunday. The six psalms and the praises are not part of this service.
