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This volume contains the variable portions of the services for nine of the Twelve Great Feasts (excluding Palm Sunday, Ascension, and Pentecost, which can be found in the Triodion and the Pentecostarion). You’ll also find the texts for some other important feasts surrounding these nine, as well as an introduction to the services of the church and their structure.

Vespers On Lord, I have cried, six stichera are sung: three of the martyrs, St. Theopemptos and St. Theonas, and three of St. Synkletika.1 Glory be to the Father … Both now … TONE SIX Make ready, O river Jordan: for behold, Christ our God draws near to be baptized by John, that He may crush with His divinity the invisible heads of the dragons in thy waters.2 Rejoice, O wilderness of Jordan; dance with gladness, O ye mountains. For the eternal Life has come
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