Prayers of the Church - Troparia and Kontakia

Short hymns sung after the small entrance at Divine Liturgy. For Sundays the subject is the Holy Resurrection; a different hymn for each of the Eight Tones. Every feast has its particular hymn describing the event or the virtues of the saint. Also there are hymns giving in an abbreviated form the substance of the day’s feast. Originally, this was a hymn composed of many stanza (18-24) whose lengthy text required the use of a scroll. What remains today are short preliminary stanzas that give a concise meaning to the feast being celebrated. These hymns are also sung following the Sixth Ode in Matins, and during the Hours.

Prayer Read Time Hit Count
49 Martyrs with Callistratus (hymns) - 4,567
All Saints of North America - 3,961
Apostle and Evangelist John (hymns) 1 min 5,737
Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy (hymn) - 5,306
Blessed Basil of Moscow the Fool-For-Christ (hymn) - 4,472
Conception of the Honorable Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John (hymns) 1 min 4,236
Daily Troparia and Kontakia (hymns) 3 mins 14,765
Feasts of the Lord and the Theotokos (hymns) 5 mins 8,230
Hieromartyr Phocas the Bishop of Sinope (hymns) 1 min 4,565
Joy of all the Sorrowful 1 min 3,593
Juvenal of Alaska (hymns) 1 min 5,830
Leavetaking of the Elevation of the Cross (hymns) - 4,463
Lenten Triodion (hymns) 7 mins 13,425
Martyr Callistratus (hymns) - 4,587
Pascha (hymns) 2 mins 8,471
Pentecostarion (hymns) 6 mins 6,863
Peter the Aleut (hymns) 1 min 5,838
Prophet Baruch (hymn) - 3,830
Protomartyr and Equal of the Apostles Thekla (hymns) 1 min 3,749
Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (hymns) - 3,871
Repose of the Venerable Sergius, Abbot and Wonderworker of Radonezh (hymns) 1 min 3,177
St. Herman of Alaska (hymns) 1 min 7,485
St. Innocent, Enlightener of Alaska and All America (hymns) 1 min 5,552
St. John of Kronstadt, Wonderworker (hymns) 1 min 6,434