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→General Structure of Sunday Matins: Corrected and expanded the structure given here
While some sections of Orthros follow the eight-tone cycle, others follow the eleven-part cycle of the Resurrectional Gospels.
*Sunday Matins , when served appart 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 people and bless your inheritance ...'').
*The [[deacon]] offers a brief [[litany]].
*The six [[psalms]] (3, 37, 62, 87, 102, and 142 - [[Septuagint]] numbering) are read.
*The deacon 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 Hymns[[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 deacon.
*The [[Hypakoe ]] is read by the chanter to prepare for the message of the Gospel reading.*The [[Anavathmoi ]] (hymns of ascent) are chanted.
*The Prokeimenon are 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 Gospels is read; 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 the prayers of the Apostles...” "Both now.." “Through the prayers of the Theotokos...” “Have mercy on me, O God...” “Jesus having risen…” :However, on Sundays of the Triodion (exluding Palm Sunday, or a Sunday on which Annunciation might fall), the following hymns are sung: :"Glory..." “The doors of repentance...” "Both now..." “Guide me in the paths of salvation...” “Have mercy on me, O God...” “When I think of the multitude of evil things I have done...”
*The deacon prays, ''O God, save your people and bless your inheritance ...''
*The [[Canon (hymn)|canons]] are chanted: first and third odes(each ode beginning with an [[irmos]] and ending with a [[katavasia]],; small litany; mid-ode kathismakontakion 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 [[katavasieskatavasia]] (e are not sung at the end of each ode, but rather those for odes 1-through 8are 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 [[censor|censes]] the [[church]].
*The ninth ode of the katavasiai , ending with its katavasia is chanted.
*The deacon again prays the small litany.
*The chanter sings ''Holy is the Lord our God'' three times.*The Exapostilaria [[Exaposteilarion|Exaposteilaria]] (hymns related to the day's Gospel, or the day's feast) are chanted.*The Lauds or ''[[Ainoi]]'' are chanted, slowly (''Let everything that breathes praise the Lord.''), followed by the doxastikaappointed stichera.*The Great [[Doxology]] is chanted. *The Litanies "Have mercy on us, O God..." and "Let us complete our morning prayer..." (Many consider although according to contemporary Greek Parish practice, these litanies are said secretly, by the priest and deacon, during the doxology praises).*The Dismissal. (According to be contemporary Greek Parish practice, the Great Doxology leads straight into the first part beginning of the Divine [[Liturgy]], as this often follows the Sunday Matins).)
==Orthros Services==
