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) - 4,566
All Saints of North America - 3,960
Apostle and Evangelist John (hymns) 1 min 5,736
Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy (hymn) - 5,305
Blessed Basil of Moscow the Fool-For-Christ (hymn) - 4,471
Conception of the Honorable Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John (hymns) 1 min 4,235
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 3,592
Juvenal of Alaska (hymns) 1 min 5,830
Leavetaking of the Elevation of the Cross (hymns) - 4,462
Lenten Triodion (hymns) 7 mins 13,424
Martyr Callistratus (hymns) - 4,586
Pascha (hymns) 2 mins 8,470
Pentecostarion (hymns) 6 mins 6,862
Peter the Aleut (hymns) 1 min 5,837
Prophet Baruch (hymn) - 3,830
Protomartyr and Equal of the Apostles Thekla (hymns) 1 min 3,748
Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (hymns) - 3,870
Repose of the Venerable Sergius, Abbot and Wonderworker of Radonezh (hymns) 1 min 3,177
St. Herman of Alaska (hymns) 1 min 7,484
St. Innocent, Enlightener of Alaska and All America (hymns) 1 min 5,551
St. John of Kronstadt, Wonderworker (hymns) 1 min 6,433