COMPARATIVE PARADIGM FOR VESPERS

 

CATHEDRAL RITE                                                  

HOROLOGION OF ST. SABBAS

CURRENT PRACTICE

 

[GREAT LITANY]                                    

 [LITANY?]                                                      

PSALM 103

3 PSALMS--85; 91, 14 OR VARIABLE;

PSALMS 103, 12, 112

GREAT LITANY

  UNKNOWN

 

KATHISMATA DIVIDED INTO 3

3 PSALMS—140, 141, 129

PROKEIMENON

PSALM 118 DIVIDED INTO 3 PARTS

PSALMS 120, 129, 140, 116 [& 141?]

 PARTS [LECTIO CONTINUA—FIRST

 ON SAT EVENING; OFTEN

 OMITTED IN PAROCHIAL USE

AUGMENTED LITANY

GLADSOME LIGHT

PSALMS 140, 141, 129, 116 [SELECTED

  VERSES] WITH STIKHERA

THREE LITTLE ANTIPHONS—

 PSALMS 114, 115, 116

PROKEIMENON

VOUCHSAFE O LORD

GLADSOME LIGHT

PROKEIMENON

LITANY OF SUPPLICATION [LITE]

ST. SIMEON’S PRAYER

SCRIPTURE READINGS [WHEN PRE-

 

TRISAGION PRAYERS

 SCRIBED]

PROCESSION WITH READING OF

 PRAYERS IN SKEUOPHYLAKION

 AND BAPTISTRY

[LITE]

AUGMENTED LTANY

VOUCHSAFE O LORD

LITANY OF SUPPLICATION [OR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY EVENING VESPERS

 

GLADSOME LIGHT

PSALM 103

FIRST ANTIPHON OF FIRST

 KATHISMA

PSALMS 140, 141, 129, 116 [IN EN-

 TIRETY] WITH STIKHERA

PROKEIMENON

READINGS

VOUCHSAFE O LORD

PSALM 92 WITH APOSTIKHA

STIKHERA[PROCESSION TO CROSS]

ST. SIMEON’S PRAYER

TRISAGION PRAYERS

CONCLUDING TROPARIA

[FOLLOWED BY THE OFFICE OF

 THE MYRRH-BEARING WOMEN]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         ORDO OF NEW SKETE

 

VESPERS FOR FEAST DAYS

 

GLADSOME LIGHT

PSALM 103

FIRST ANTIPHON OF FIRST

 KATHISMA [WHEN PRESCRIBED]

PSALMS 140, 141, 129, 116 [IN EN-

 TIRETY] WITH STIKHERA

PROKEIMENON

READINGS

VOUCHSAFE O LORD

PSALM 92 WITH APOSTIKHA

 STIKHERA

         CATHEDRAL VIGIL

PSALMS 134, 135 [POLYELEOS]

LET EVERYTHING…

GOSPEL READING

MAGNIFICATION

STIKHERA OF THE LITE

[IN PROCESSION]

ROGATION LITANY

JERUSALEM TROPARION

BLESSING OF BREAD, WINE, OIL

BLESSED BE THE NAME &

 PSALM 33

FINAL BLESSING

NOTE: ON SUNDAY EVENINGS & E-

VENINGS OF FEASTS, THERE ARE

NO READINGS & AFTER THE APOS-

TIKHA: ST. SIMEON’S PRAYER, THE

TRISAGION PRAYERS, CONCLU-

DING TROPARIA, THE LITANY OF

SUPPLICATION AND BLESSING

 LITE, WITH SPECIAL STIKHERA

 ON FEAST DAYS]

STIKHERA OF THE APOSTIKHA

ST. SIMEON’S PRAYER

TRISAGION PRAYERS

CONCLUDING TROPARIA

DISMISSAL [IN LENT, SPECIAL

 STIKHERA]

 

 

 

 

 

DAILY VESPERS

 

TRISAGION PRAYERS

THREE ANTIPHONS OF THE

 KATHISMATA

GLADSOME LIGHT

PSALM 103

PSALMS 140, 141, 129, 116 [IN EN-

 TIRETY] WITH STIKHERA

PROKEIMENON

READING

VOUCHSAFE O LORD

PSALM 123 WITH APOSTIKHA

 STIKHERA

ST. SIMEON’S PRAYER

TRISAGION PRAYERS

CONCLUDING TROPARIA

LITANY OF SUPPLICATION

FINAL BLESSING