Great Structure

1. Blessed is our God, now and forever and unto the ages of ages! 2. Trisagion Prayers. 3. Six/ seven Psalms: (69 – during the first week of Lent only), 4, 6, 12, 24, 30, 90. 4. Chanted: GOD IS WITH US! – With verses from Isaiah 5. Triplet: Thanks, Glory, Hymns. 6. Glory from Cherubim, Seraphim, Angels. Confess . Theotokos, Prophets, Martyrs intercede for all. Holy, Holy, Holy, Thrice Holy Lord, have mercy on us. 7. The Symbol of Faith (The Creed) 8. Intercessory verses: Theotokos, Angles, Forerunner, Apostles, Martyrs, , God-bearing Fathers, Shepherds, Teachers, Holy Cross. 9. Trisagion Prayers. 10. Triplet: Illumine my eyes, Protect my soul, Theotokos. 11. eleison (x40) … More honorable than the Cherubim… 12. Through the prayers of our holy Fathers…

1. Come, let us worship and bow down before our King and God… (p. 10) 2. Psalms: 50, 101. 3. PRAYER OF MANASSES (p.12) 4. Trisagion Prayers. 5. Triplet: from Kairos, Evening prayers. 6. Kyrie eleison (x40) … More honorable than the Cherubim… 7. Through the prayers of our holy Fathers…

Prayer: O Master God, Father Almighty, …

1. Come, let us worship and bow down before our King and God… (p.14) 2. Psalms: 69, 142 3. DOXOLOGY 4. Chanted; LORD OF THE POWERS, BE WITH US… (the priest censes) 5. Triplet: Saints, Theotokos, Theotokos. 6. Kyrie eleison (x40) … 7. PRAYER: O Christ our God, who at all times and at every hour… 8. Kyrie eleison (x3) … More honorable than the Cherubim… May God have compassion on us… 9. PRAYER OF EPHRAIM 10. END PRAYERS BY ICONOSTASIS: 2 long (Theotokos, Christ), 3 short (Theotokos, Christ, Theotokos). 11. GOSPEL READING (only during the first week of Lent) 12. Dismissal, Final petitions, Troparion 13. Through the prayers of our holy Fathers…

Father Ion January 16, 2017