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VESPERAL LITURGY PDF Print E-mail
VESPERAL LITURGY - Vespers with Divine Liturgy This service? is prescribed only a few times each year.? It opens with the blessing used at Divine Liturgy: "Blessed is the Kingdom . . ."? The service continues similar to great vespers.?There is no psalter reading, and there is an entrance with the gospel book. After the 3 Old Testament lessons, there is a small litany.?The Divine Liturgy then follows, beginning from the Trisagion, followed by the prokeimenon, epistle, etc.

The days calling for its celebration in some or all years include: Dec.?24,?Jan.?5,?March 25,?Holy and Great Thursday, Holy and Great Saturday.
 

 

  

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