The Temple Chapters of the Typikon - St. Jonah Orthodox Church

[Chapter 34]. If the Patronal Feast of a Saint should fall on Monday of the 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th , 5 th or 6 th
Week of Great Lent.
On Sunday evening, at Small Vespers:
At Lord, I have cried, stichera of the Temple on 4; G: Temple; N: Theotokion.
At the Aposticha: Idiomelon of the day in the Triodion, twice; and Martyricon; G: Temple; N:
Theotokion in the same Tone [as the Doxasticon].
After Now lettest Thou, Troparion of the Temple; G/N: Theotokion; Small Litany; Dismissal.
At Great Vespers: after the usual Psalm, we sing Blessed is the man, the first antiphon.
At Lord, I have cried, stichera prosomia of the Triodion on 3; Temple on 5; G: Temple; N:
Dogmatic Theotokion in the same Tone [as the Doxasticon].
Entrance. Great Prokimenon of the day with its verses; Three Old Testament Readings for the
Temple.
At the Litia: Temple; G: Temple; N: Resurrectional Theotokion [from “the lesser ones”].
At the Aposticha: Temple; G: Temple; N: Resurrectional Theotokion [from “the lesser ones”].
At the Blessing of the Breads: Troparion of the Temple, twice; O Theotokos and Virgin, once.
Reading of the Temple.
[Vid.] If Vigil is not served: at Great Vespers, Blessed is the man, First Antiphon. At Lord, I have
cried, stichera of the Triodion: Idiomelon of the day in the Triodion, twice (without the Martyricon);
Prosomia of the Triodion on 3; Temple on 5. The rest is sung as at Great Vespers, above. After Now
lettest Thou and the Trisagion: Troparion of the Temple; G/N: Resurrectional Theotokion and
Dismissal.
[Vid.] Small Compline is sung with canon. After the Trisagion, Kontakion of the Temple. After More
honorable, 3 great prostrations. [The final] Trisagion is not said.
[Vid.] Midnight Office is said as usual, without bows and with [the 17 th ] Kathisma. After the first
Trisagion, instead of Behold, the Bridegroom: Troparion of the Temple; G/N: Theotokion. After More
honorable, 3 great prostrations. After the second Trisagion, instead of Remember, O Lord: Kontakion of
the Temple, then, Lord, have mercy, x12 and Dismissal. The prayer Remember, O Lord is not said.
At Matins:
At God is the Lord, Troparion of the Temple, twice; G/N: Theotokion, same tone.
After the first and second Kathisma readings: no Small Litanies; Sessional Hymns of the
Triodion and Reading from Ephraim.
After the third Kathisma reading: the Priest saith the Small Litany; both Sessional Hymns of the
Temple; G/N: Theotokion; Reading of the Temple.
Polyeleos and Sessional Hymn of the Temple, twice; G/N: Theotokion; Reading of the Temple.
Hymns of Ascents, Tone 4, First Antiphon; Prokimenon and Gospel Reading of the Temple. Psalm 50.
Sticheron of the Temple.
Canons:
At Ode 1: Temple, with Irmos on 6 and Triodion, on 8. Katavasia: Irmos of the Triodion.
At the Odes that have no Three-Canticled Canon: Canon of the Temple, with Irmos on 6;
Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.
After Ode 3: Sessional Hymn of the Temple and Reading.
After Ode 6: Kontakion and Ikos of the Temple and Prologue.
We sing the 8 th and 9 th Ode with the Three-Canticled Canon, just as the First Ode.