Reply To: Week 5 homework question

[Peter George]

Hi Sarah,

So this confusion primarily arises from the fact that we generally don’t chant the canon in Matins.

Every saint in the Menaion, celebrated or not, has the following:

Three troparia at Lord, I have cried
A full canon of eight odes (Odes 1-9, minus Ode 2)
A mid-ode kathisma between Odes 3 and 4.

Therefore, a mid-ode kathisma is not a sign that a saint is celebrated. In current, Greek practice, the mid-ode kathismata are not chanted, since the canon is not chanted and these mid-ode kathismata are never used in the place for the kathismata before the Evlogetaria.

Does this make sense?