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On this Eastern
Orthodox Website, you will not only find Orthodox Church Supplies , but will find several pages devoted to Orthodox Prayers, Orthodox Services, Devotions, and
Offices.
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Troparion: A brief hymn commemorating
a Saint or an significant event, which is read or chanted daily in the services of the Orthodox Church.
Troparia and Kontakia are short anthems in rhythmical
prose, set to music, which express a succinct form of the significance of a given Feast.... The service
books of the Eastern Church....which contain them give the varaible portions of the services for the days
indicated:
Triodion: from the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican ( the last Sunday after
Epiphany ) to Easter Eve, inclusive;
Pentecostarian: from Easter Sunday to the Sunday of All Saints ( which has the same
place in the Calendar as the Trinity Sunday of the West ), inclusive;
Parakletike
or Oktoechoes: for the rest of
the year. It contains eight groups
of offices, each one covering one complete week and set in
order to one of eight tones of the ...... ecclesiastical music; each group, therefore occurs at eight-weekly
intervals;
Menaion:
in twelve volumes, one for each calendar month -- the services for the fixed feasts and saints' days, including
also Christmas and Epiphany**
** The highlighted
explanations above are taken from A Manual for Eastern Orthodox Prayers,
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood, New York, 10707, 1999, first published in 1945 in Great Britain
by the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius
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