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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.

Small Vespers On Lord, I have cried, four stichera are sung: TONE ONE (to the special melody, O purest Virgin, thou joy of the heavenly hierarchies …) Simeon received in his embrace the Word uncircumscribed and supreme in being, who is borne on high in glory upon heavenly thrones; and he cried aloud: ‘Now lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace according to Thy word,1 O Saviour, salvation and delight of the faithful’ (twice). Beholding
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