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) - 4552
All Saints of North America - 3946
Apostle and Evangelist John (hymns) 1 min 5719
Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy (hymn) - 5288
Blessed Basil of Moscow the Fool-For-Christ (hymn) - 4456
Conception of the Honorable Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John (hymns) 1 min 4223
Daily Troparia and Kontakia (hymns) 3 mins 14747
Feasts of the Lord and the Theotokos (hymns) 5 mins 8203
Hieromartyr Phocas the Bishop of Sinope (hymns) 1 min 4551
Joy of all the Sorrowful 1 min 3577
Juvenal of Alaska (hymns) 1 min 5813
Leavetaking of the Elevation of the Cross (hymns) - 4451
Lenten Triodion (hymns) 7 mins 13404
Martyr Callistratus (hymns) - 4574
Pascha (hymns) 2 mins 8451
Pentecostarion (hymns) 6 mins 6844
Peter the Aleut (hymns) 1 min 5823
Prophet Baruch (hymn) - 3815
Protomartyr and Equal of the Apostles Thekla (hymns) 1 min 3733
Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (hymns) - 3856
Repose of the Venerable Sergius, Abbot and Wonderworker of Radonezh (hymns) 1 min 3163
St. Herman of Alaska (hymns) 1 min 7466
St. Innocent, Enlightener of Alaska and All America (hymns) 1 min 5534
St. John of Kronstadt, Wonderworker (hymns) 1 min 6417