Readers Class
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Complete Octoechoes
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General Menaion
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Ranks of Feasts
🕀 Great Feast
🕁 Vigil rank Service
🕂 Polyleos-rank Service
🕃 Doxology-rank Service
🕃 Six Stichera-rank Service
Simple Service
Normal (one prokeimenon/epistle/Alleluia)
Priest: Let us attend! Peace be with you all!
Reader: And with your spirit!
Priest: Wisdom!
Reader: The prokeimenon in the ___ tone:
The Reader reads the first verse of the prokeimenon
Choir: Sings the first verse of the prokeimenon.
The Reader reads the second verse of the prokeimenon.
Choir: Sings the first verse of the prokeimenon.
The Reader reads the first part of the first verse.
Choir: Finishes (sings the second half) of the first verse of the prokeimenon.
Priest: Wisdom!
Reader: The Reading from…
- the Acts of the Holy Apostles, or…
- the (__) Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the _____, or…
- the [catholic] Epistle of Saint______.
Priest: Let us attend!
The Reader then chants the Epistle for the day.
Priest: Peace be unto you, Reader.
Reader: And to your spirit. Alleluia in the ____ Tone. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Readers chants the first alleluia verse.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Readers chants the second alleluia verse.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Multiple Readings (two prokeimenon/2+ epistles/2 Alleluias)
Priest: Let us attend! Peace be with you all!
Reader: And with your spirit!
Priest: Wisdom!
Reader: The prokeimenon in the ___ tone:
The Reader reads the first verse of the prokeimenon
Choir: Sings the first verse of the prokeimenon.
The Reader reads the second verse of the prokeimenon.
Choir: Sings the first verse of the prokeimenon.
Reader: In the ____ tone:
The Reader reads the second prokeimenon.
Choir: Sings/repeats the second prokeimenon, first verse.
Priest: Wisdom!
Reader: The Reading from…
- the Acts of the Holy Apostles, or…
- the (__) Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the _____, or…
- the [catholic] Epistle of Saint______.
(The Reader announces ONLY the First Reading!)
Priest: Let us attend!
The Reader then chants the Epistles for the day.
Priest: Peace be unto you, Reader.
Reader: And to your spirit. Alleluia in the ____ Tone. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Readers chants the first alleluia verse.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Readers chants the second alleluia verse.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the ___ Tone:
The Readers chants the first alleluia verse of the second Alleluia verses.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Readers Class Weekly Lessons
