The Lenten Triodion

Publication Data: South Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press, 2002
Format: hardcover
Number of Pages: 699
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.4 cm × 14.6 cm × 4.0 cm
ISBN: 1‒878997‒51‒3

   
translated from the original Greek by Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware

Volume II of The Service Books of the Orthodox Church

“This volume is the second in the series The Service Books of the Orthodox Church and forms a sequel to The Festal Menaion[...]. Practical considerations render it impossible at this juncture to issue a printed translation of the Lenten Triodion in its entirety. [...W]e have included the full text for the following days: All Sundays in the period of the Triodion (omitting Small Vespers); The Saturday of the Dead; The first week of Lent (in its entirety); Thursday in the fifth week (the service of the Great Canon); Saturday in the fifth week (the service of the Akathistos Hymn); Saturday in the sixth week (the Saturday of Lazarus); Holy Week (in its entirety). Altogether this represents about two-thirds of the total contents of the Triodion.”
—“The Meaning of the Great Fast: The Present Translation”

CONTENTS

THE MEANING OF THE GREAT FAST
   by Archimandrite Kallistos
THE STRUCTURE OF THE LENTEN OFFICES
THE SUNDAY OF THE PUBLICAN AND THE PHARISEE
   Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins   Liturgy
THE SUNDAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON
   Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins   Liturgy
THE SATURDAY OF THE DEAD
   Vespers on Friday Evening   
Mattins
   Liturgy
STICHERA TO THE MARTYRS AND FOR THE DEAD SUNG AT VESPERS ON FRIDAY EVENING
THE SUNDAY OF THE LAST JUDGEMENT
   Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins
   Liturgy
   Vespers on Sunday Evening
THE SUNDAY OF FORGIVENESS
   Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins
   Liturgy
   Vespers on Sunday Evening
STICHERA OF REPENTANCE SUNG AT VESPERS ON SUNDAY EVENING
MONDAY IN THE FIRST WEEK
   Mattins
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers
   Great Compline
TUESDAY IN THE FIRST WEEK
   Mattins
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers
   Great Compline
WEDNESDAY IN THE FIRST WEEK
   Mattins
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified
   Great Compline
THURSDAY IN THE FIRST WEEK
   Mattins
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers
   Great Compline
FRIDAY IN THE FIRST WEEK
   Mattins
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified
   Canon of Intercession to the Holy and Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit
   Compline
SATURDAY IN THE FIRST WEEK
   Mattins
   Liturgy
THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT (THE SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY)
   Great Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins
   Liturgy
   Vespers on Sunday Evening
THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT (ST. GREGORY PALAMAS)
   Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins
   Liturgy
   Vespers on Sunday Evening
THE THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT (THE ADORATION OF THE CROSS)
   Great Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins
   Liturgy
   Vespers on Sunday Evening
THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT (OUR HOLY FATHER JOHN OF THE LADDER)
   Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins
   Liturgy
   Vespers on Sunday Evening
THURSDAY IN THE FIFTH WEEK (THE GREAT CANON)
   Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified on Wednesday Evening
   Mattins
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified on Thursday Evening
SATURDAY IN THE FIFTH WEEK (THE AKATHISTOS HYMN)
   Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified on Friday Evening
   Mattins
   Liturgy
THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT (OUR HOLY MOTHER MARY OF EGYPT)
   Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins
   Liturgy
   Vespers on Sunday Evening
THE SATURDAY BEFORE PALM SUNDAY (THE SATURDAY OF LAZARUS)
   Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified on Friday Evening
   Great Compline
   Midnight Office
   Mattins
   Liturgy
PALM SUNDAY
   Great Vespers on Saturday Evening
   Mattins
   Liturgy
   Vespers on Sunday Evening
   Small Compline
HOLY AND GREAT MONDAY
   Mattins
   The Hours
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified
   Great Compline
HOLY AND GREAT TUESDAY
   Mattins
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified
   Great Compline
HOLY AND GREAT WEDNESDAY
   Mattins
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified
   Great Compline
HOLY AND GREAT THURSDAY
   Mattins
   Sixth Hour
   Vespers with the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
   Small Compline
HOLY AND GREAT FRIDAY
   Mattins (The Office of the Holy and Redeeming Passion)
   The Royal Hours
   The Typika
   Vespers
   Small Compline
HOLY AND GREAT SATURDAY
   Mattins
   Vespers with the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
   Midnight Office
HYMNS TO THE TRINITY AND HYMNS OF LIGHT SUNG AT MATTINS IN THE EIGHT TONES
SESSIONAL HYMNS SUNG AT MATTINS IN THE EIGHT TONES