Thursday, April 30, 2020

Reader Services Through Ascension



The Eves

For Saturday Night and the Eves of the various Feasts, you could ideally do the Vigil. The fixed portions can be downloaded here:

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/reader_vigil.doc

or viewed in HTML, here:

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/vigil.htm

The variable portions of the service can be downloaded here (all of these would be served on the eve of their respective days):

For the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers (May 3rd):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/pascha2.doc

For the Sunday of the Paralytic (May 10th):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/pascha3.doc

For Mid-Pentecost (May 13):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/midpentecost_variables.doc

For the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman (May 17th):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/pascha4.doc

For the Sunday of the Blind Man (May 24th) & Ss. Cyril and Methodius :

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/pascha5_sscyril&methodius.doc

For the Apodosis of Pascha (May 26th):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/pascha_apodosis.doc

For the Feast of the Ascension:

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/vigil_ascension.doc

However, if doing Vigil is too much for you at present, you could do Small Compline, and take t he canon of each of the above days, and read it immediately after the Creed, and then repeat the Kontakion that is appointed after Ode 6th of  the canon after the following Trisagion.

Typika

In place of the Liturgies, you would do Typika:

For the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers (May 3rd):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/typika_pascha2.doc

For the Sunday of the Paralytic (May 10th):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/typika_pascha3.doc

For Mid-Pentecost (May 13):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/typika_midpentecost.doc

For the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman (May 17th):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/typika_pascha4.doc

For the Sunday of the Blind Man & Ss. Cyril and Methodius (May 24th):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/typika_pascha5_sscyril&methodius.doc

For the Apodosis of Pascha (May 26th):

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/typika_apodosisofpascha.doc

For the Feast of the Ascension:

http://www.saintjonah.org/services/typika_ascension.doc