Reply To: Week 1 Discussion Topic: Do You Chant Daily Services?
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After viewing this week’s lessons, I think that the difference between Daily services and Festal Services is the order of the service in the Horologion (i.e., the placement of certain litanies, the singing of the polyeleos), the performance of ritual actions (i.e., the entrance at vespers) and the book used for the hymns sung at the services (Menaion vs Octoechos). I have some experience performing daily services at home and church. My parish does a weekly Wednesday night service, which is a daily service if there is no celebrated saint. During the fasting seasons, we usually add services to the weekly schedule, which may be daily if it does not coincide with a feast. Usually, the menaion or typikon is the first book I look at to determine service “rank”; from there, I can look to the other service books to locate the appropriate hymns. My parish usually serves presanctified on Monday and Wednesday, Lenten Vespers on Tuesday, Great Compline on Thursday, Akathist & Small Compline on Friday, Divine Liturgy on Saturday Morning, Vespers on Saturday night, and Orthros & Divine Liturgy on Sunday. This regular weekly taxis gets shifted for feast days like 40 martyrs and Thursday of Repentance.