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The Order of Daily Vespers
with the weekday Octoechos and the Common Stichera for Classes of Saints
Metropolitan Cantor InstituteByzantine Catholic SeminaryPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
revised and printed June, 2007
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Table of Contents
Foreword vi
The Order of Daily Vespers
BeginningPrayers 1Psalm103 2LitanyofPeace 6Lamp-LightingPsalms 8HymnoftheEvening 10WeekdayProkeimena 11AlleluiaforFasts 13Hymn of Glorification 14Litany of Supplication 14PrayeroverBowedHeads 16Apostichera 17PrayeroftheRighteousSimeon 17Troparia 18Dismissal 20Dismissal for Lesser Fasts 24
O Lord, I Have Cried, in all eight tones 31
The Weekday Octoechos
Tone 1 Sunday 38 Monday 42 Tuesday 47 Wednesday 51 Thursday 55 Friday 59
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Tone 2 Sunday 65 Monday 69 Tuesday 73 Wednesday 78 Thursday 83 Friday 88
Tone 3 Sunday 93 Monday 97 Tuesday 101 Wednesday 105 Thursday 109 Friday 113
Tone 4 Sunday 118 Monday 122 Tuesday 127 Wednesday 131 Thursday 136 Friday 140
Tone 5 Sunday 144 Monday 150 Tuesday 156 Wednesday 162 Thursday 168 Friday 174
Tone 6 Sunday 179 Monday 183 Tuesday 188 Wednesday 193 Thursday 195 Friday 199
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Tone 7 Sunday 204 Monday 209 Tuesday 213 Wednesday 216 Thursday 220 Friday 223
Tone 8 Sunday 228 Monday 232 Tuesday 236 Wednesday 240 Thursday 245 Friday 249
Common of the Classes of Saints
CommonoftheholyProphets 256CommonofoneholyApostle 260CommonoftwoormoreholyApostles 263CommonofoneholyHierarch 267CommonoftwoormoreholyHierarchs 270CommonofaVenerableorFoolforChrist 273CommonoftwoormoreVenerablesorFoolsforChrist 276CommonofoneMartyr 279CommonoftwoormoreMartyrs 282CommonofaPriest-Martyr 285CommonoftwoormorePriest-Martyrs 288CommonofoneVenerableMartyr 291CommonoftwoormoreVenerableMartyrs 293CommonofoneWoman-Martyr 296CommonoftwoormoreWomen-Martyrs 299CommonofaVenerableWoman-Martyr 302CommonofaVenerableWoman 305CommonoftwoormoreVenerableWomen 308CommonofaConfessor 311Common of Unmercenary Healers 314
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Dismissal Theotokia in all eight Tones
Tone 1 Sunday318 Monday318 Tuesday319 Wednesday319 Thursday319 Friday320Tone 2 Sunday321 Monday321 Tuesday322 Wednesday322 Thursday322 Friday323
Tone 3 Sunday 324 Monday 324 Tuesday 325 Wednesday325 Thursday325 Friday326
Tone 4 Sunday327 Monday327 Tuesday328 Wednesday328 Thursday328 Friday329
Tone 5 Sunday330 Monday330 Tuesday331 Wednesday331 Thursday331 Friday332
Tone 6 Sunday 333 Monday 333 Tuesday 334 Wednesday 334 Thursday 334 Friday 335
Tone 7 Sunday336 Monday336 Tuesday336 Wednesday337 Thursday336 Friday337
Tone 8 Sunday 339 Monday 339 Tuesday 340 Wednesday 340 Thursday 340 Friday 341
Appendix: Prayers of Light 343
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The two forms of Vespers most frequently served in the Byzantine churches are Great Vespers and Daily Vespers. The order of Great Vespers has been previously published by the Metropolitan Cantor Institute; with the publica-tion of this volume, the order of Daily Vespers (outside the seasons of the Triodion and Pentecostarion) with music is available to the priests, deacons, monastics, and faithful of the Byzantine Catholic Church.
This book is intended for use from Sunday evening through Friday eve-nings when the rank of the feast is UNDER that of “Polyeleos Saint.” (To determine the ranking of the saint’s day, consult the Calendar in the new Liturgikon or the Metropolitan Typikon.) Daily Vespers differs in three ways from Great Vespers:
•Certain texts are always chanted, rather than sung. Those would be: Psalm 103; HymnofGlorification(“Makeusworthy..”); The Prayer of the Holy Prophet Simeon;
•There is no Entrance at the Hymn of the Evening; and
•The Litany of Fervent Supplication is taken, NOT after the Prokeimenon butattheendoftheservice,anditsfirsttwopetitions(thoserespondedtowith a single “Lord, have mercy”) are omitted.
Therearetwosetsofhymnodycontainedinthisbook.Thefirstsetisthatofthe weekday propers of the Octoechos—the stichera for the “Lamp-lighting Psalms” and for the Apostichera, arranged according to the eight tones. The melodies (samohlasen, poboben, and bolhar) are provided for each text. The secondsetisthatofthe“commons”—i.e.,thosetexts,forclassificationsofsaints [apostle, prophet, martyr, priest-martyr, etc.] provided as a back-up for parishes not possessing a twelve-month Menaion of the “proper” texts for saints’ days.
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Concerning the Singing of the Stichera in Daily Vespers
From Sunday evening through Thursday evening, the proper order of stichera at the Lamp-lighting Psalms is as follows:
•Three stichera from the Octoechos in the tone of the week;•Three stichera for the saint of the day, either from the Menaionor from the Common texts provided in this book•Theotokion or Stavro-theotokion from either the Octoechos or the Menaion
On Friday evening, the proper order of stichera at the Lamp-lighting Psalms is as follows:
•Three stichera from the saint of the day, either from the Menaion or from the Common texts provided in this book; •Three stichera from the Octoechos in the tone of the week;•Dogmatikon from the Octoechos in the tone of the week.
(3) In the case of a “Saint with Six Stichera” or a “Saint with Great Doxology,” the stichera from the Octoechos are omitted.
(4) In this book, the Apostichera are from the Octoechos in the tone of the week.
The Troparia are as follows:
•Troparion of the Saint, either from the Monthly Menaion (MCI) or from the commons of the “Divine Liturgies of our holy Fathers John Chrysostom and Basil the Great”•Theotokion from the tone of the Troparion, from the day of the week;on Friday evening only, the Festal Theotokion in the tone which matchesthe Troparion (these are found in the Order of Saturday Vespers).
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The ordinary of daily Vespers is the translation of the Inter-Eparchial Liturgical Commission of the Byzantine Catholic Church sui juris of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. as are the texts of the Martyrika and the Nekrosima of the services on Wednesdays and Fridays. The other hymn texts are takenfromtheBasilian“OrderofVespers”andmodifiedasnecessaryforuniformitywiththeofficialtexts.Themusicfollowsthepatternsestablishedby the Inter-Eparchial Music Commission in “The Divine Liturgies of Our Holy Fathers John Chrysostom and Basil the Great,” but was done by the Metropolitan Cantor Institute of the Archepharchy of Pittsburgh.
This work was completed for the beginning of the third session of the Diaconate Program held at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary, June 18-30, 2007.
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Dismissal for SundayMayChristourtrueGodhavemercyonusandsaveusthroughtheprayersofhismostpureMother;throughtheprotectionofthehonorableandheavenlyangelicpowers;throughtheprayersoftheholy,glorious,andillustriousapostles;oftheholy(Name/s),thepatron[patroness]ofthischurch;oftheholy(Names/softhesaint/swhosedayitis);andthroughtheprayersofallthesaints;forChristisGodandlovesusall.
Dismissal for MondayMayChristourtrueGodhavemercyonusandsaveusthroughtheprayersofhismostpureMother;andofthehonorableandgloriousprophet,forerunner,andBaptistJohn;throughtheprayersoftheholy,glorious,andillustriousapostles;oftheholy(Name/s),thepatron[patroness]ofthischurch;oftheholy(Names/softhesaint/swhosedayitis);andthroughtheprayersofallthesaints;forChristisGodandlovesusall.
Dismissal for TuesdayMayChristourtrueGodhavemercyonusandsaveusthroughtheprayersofhismostpureMother;bythepowerofthepreciousandlife-creatingcross;throughtheprayersoftheholy,glorious,andillustriousapostles;
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oftheholy(Name/s),thepatron[patroness]ofthischurch;oftheholy(Names/softhesaint/swhosedayitis);andthroughtheprayersofallthesaints;forChristisGodandlovesusall.
Dismissal for WednesdayMayChristourtrueGodhavemercyonusandsaveusthroughtheprayersofhismostpureMother;andoftheholy,glorious,andillustriousapostles;ofourholyfatherNicholastheWonder-worker,archbishopofMyra;oftheholy(Name/s),thepatron[patroness]ofthischurch;oftheholy(Names/softhesaint/swhosedayitis);andthroughtheprayersofallthesaints;forChristisGodandlovesusall.
Dismissal for ThursdayMayChristourtrueGodhavemercyonusandsaveusthroughtheprayersofhismostpureMother;bythepowerofthepreciousandlife-creatingcross;throughtheprayersoftheholy,glorious,andillustriousapostles;oftheholy(Name/s),thepatron[patroness]ofthischurch;oftheholy(Names/softhesaint/swhosedayitis);andthroughtheprayersofallthesaints;forChristisGodandlovesusall.
Dismissal for FridayMayChristourtrueGodhavemercyonusandsaveusthroughtheprayersofhismostpureMother;throughtheprotectionofthehonorableandheavenlyangelicpowers;throughtheprayersofthehonorableandgloriousprophet,forerunner,andbaptistJohn;throughtheprayersoftheholy,glorious,andillustriousapostles;ofourholyfatherNicholastheWonder-worker,archbishopofMyra;oftheholy,glorious,andvictoriousmartyrs;ofourvenerableandGod-bearingfathers;oftheholyandjustancestorsofGod,JoachimandAnna;
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oftheholy(Name/s),thepatron[patroness]ofthischurch;oftheholy(Names/softhesaint/swhosedayitis);andthroughtheprayersofallthesaints;forChristisGodandlovesusall.
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BlessedisChristourGod,theOne-Who-Is,always,nowandeverandforever.
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King of heaven, support our civil authorities, confirm the faith, calm the nations, give peace to the world and safeguard this city (or this holymonastery),grantthosewhohavegonebeforeusadwellingplaceamongtherighteous,acceptusinrepentanceandhavemercy,foryouaregoodandloveusall.
GlorytotheFather,andtotheSon,andtotheHolySpïrit, nowandeverandforever.Amen.
MorehonorablethantheCherubim, andbeyondcomparemoregloriousthantheSeraphim,who,avirgin,gavebirthtoGodtheWord, you,trulytheTheotokos,wemagnify.
InthenameoftheLord, Father,givetheblessing.
Throughtheprayersofourholyfathers,OLordJesusChristourGod,havemercyonus.
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LordandMasterofmylife,sparemefromthespiritofindifference,despair,lustforpower,andidlechatter.(Prostration) Instead,bestowonme,yourservant, thespiritofintegrity,humility, patience,andlove.(Prostration)Yes,OLordandKing,letmeseemyownsinsandnotjudgemybrothersandsisters;foryouareblessedforeverandever.Amen. (Prostration)
Then, with a simple bow, the following is repeated four times:OGod,bemercifultome,asinner.OGod,cleansemeofmysinsandhavemercyonme.OLord,forgiveme,forIhavesinnedwithoutnumber.
Once more, the Prayer of St. Ephrem is recited, without the usual prostrations.One prostration is made at the conclusion of the prayer.
HolyGod,HolyandMighty,HolyandImmortal, havemercyonus. (3 times, each with a prostration)
GlorytotheFather,andtotheSon,andtotheHolySpirit, nowandeverandforever.Amen.
MostHolyTrinity,havemercyonus;Lord,cleanseusofoursins;Master,forgiveourtransgressions, Holy One, come to us and heal our infirmities for yourname’ssake.
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GlorytotheFather,andtotheSon,andtotheHolySpirit, nowandeverandforever.Amen.
OurFather,whoartinheaven,hallowedbethyname.Thykingdomcome,thywillbedoneonearthasitisinheaven.Giveusthisdayourdailybread,andforgiveusourtrespassesasweforgivethosewhotrespassagainstus,andleadusnotintotemptation, butdeliverusfromevil.
Forthineisthekingdomandthepowerandglory,Father,Son,andHolySpirit,nowandeverandforever.
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Dismissals for the day of the week are found on pages 21 and 22
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“O Lord, I have cried” in the Eight Tones
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Octoechos
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Tone 1 - Sunday
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Tone 1 - Sunday
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Tone 1 - Monday
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Tone 2 - Sunday
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Tone 3 - Sunday
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Commons For Classes of Saints
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Prophets
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Apostle
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Venerable
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Venerable Martyr
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Woman-Martyr
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Women-Martyrs
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Venerable Woman-Martyr
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Venerable Woman-Martyr
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Venerable Woman-Martyr
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Venerable Woman
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Venerable Woman
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Venerable Woman
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Venerable Women
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Venerable Women
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Venerable Women
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Confessor
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Confessor
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Confessor
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Unmercenary Healers
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Dismissal Theotokia
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Theotokia - Tone 1
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Theotokia - Tone 1
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Theotokia - Tone 1
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Appendix:
The Prayers of Light
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PRAYERS OF LIGHT
1. Lord, compassionate and merciful, long-suffering and rich in mercy, give ear to my prayer and attend to the sound of my plea. Show us a sign of your favor; guide us in your way so that we may walk in your truth. Gladden our hearts that we may fear your holy name, for you are great and do marvelous deeds. You alone are God, and among the gods there is none like you, O Lord. Powerful in mercy and gracious in strength, you help, comfort, and save all those who hope in your holy name.
For to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is due all glory, honor, and wor-ship, now and ever and forever. Amen.
2. Lord, do not rebuke us in your anger, nor punish us in your wrath. Deal with us according to your kindness, O Physician and Healer of our souls. Guide us to the harbor of your will; enlighten the eyes of our minds that we may know your truth. Grant that we may spend what remains of this day and the rest of our life peacefully and sinlessly through the interces-sion of the holy Theotokos and of all the saints.
For yours is the might; and yours are the kingdom and the power and the glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever. Amen.
3. Lord our God, remember us your sinful and useless servants as we call upon your holy and sublime name, and do not put us to shame for hoping in your mercy. Grant us instead, O Lord, all our petitions which lead to salvation, and make us worthy to love and to fear you with all our hearts and to do your will in everything.
For you are a good and loving God, and we give glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever. Amen.
4. You are praised by the holy powers with hymns that are never silent and in doxologies that never cease. Fill our mouth with your praise that we may ascribe majesty to your holy name. Through the intercession of
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the holy Theotokos and of all the saints, give us a share and an inheritance with those who fear you in truth and who keep your commandments.
For to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is due all glory, honor, and wor-ship, now and ever and forever. Amen.
5. Blessed are you, Lord God almighty. You know the human mind, you know our needs long before we ask or recognize them. Therefore, O lov-ing King, good in every way, allow us in your great mercy to call upon your holy name with a clear conscience, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one, and in your providence, arrange every-thing for our good.
For to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is due all glory, honor and wor-ship, now and ever and forever. Amen.
6. Lord, O Lord, you hold all things in your spotless hand; you are long-suffering toward all of us, and you repent over our evil deeds. Remember your mercy and your compassion. Visit us in your goodness and for the rest of this day enable us to flee from the many wiles of the evil one, and keep our life secure by the grace of your all-holy Spirit.
Through the mercy and the loving-kindness of your only-begotten Son with whom you are blessed, together with your all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever and forever. Amen.
7. Great and wonderful God, you govern all things with indescribable goodness and rich providence. You have granted us the good things of this earth, and through the good things already bestowed on us, have given us a pledge of the promised kingdom. You have kept us away from every evil during the part of this day which has passed, even until the present mo-ment; now allow us to complete the rest of the day without blame in the presence of your holy glory singing hymns to you, O God, who alone are good and love us all.
For you are our God, and we give glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy
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Spirit, now and ever and forever. Amen.
8. Great and most high God, you alone possess immortality and dwell in unapproachable light. You made all creation with wisdom, dividing light from darkness, establishing the sun to rule the day and the moon and stars to rule the night. You have allowed us sinners to approach your presence with thanksgiving in this present hour and to offer you evening praise. O loving Lord, make our prayer ascend to you like incense and accept it as a sweet fragrance. Grant that we may spend the present evening and the coming night in peace; clothe us with the armor of light; deliver us from the fears of the night and from everything that lurks about in dark-ness. Grant that the sleep you have given us to refresh our fatigue may be free from all illusions of the devil. Yes, O Master of All, Giver of good things, let us feel contrition as we lie on our beds remembering your name throughout the night. Enlightened by meditation on your commands, may we rise with gladdened soul to give glory to your goodness, offering prayers and supplications to your compassion for our sins and those of all your people. Visit us with mercy through the intercession of the holy Theotokos.
For you are a good and loving God, and we give glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever. Amen.
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The End, and thanks be to God!
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