2022 eTypikon
A practical guide to the ustav for parishes, describing the Offices of the Byzantine liturgical year. By Father Bohdan Hladio.
Forgiveness Vespers (UA•EN)
The service of Vespers on the Sunday of Forgiveness (Sunday of Cheese Fare) which inaugurates the Great Fast — the penitential period leading to Holy Pascha, the Bright Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. At the end of the service, the Rite of Mutual Forgiveness — at which all the assembled ask one another in turn for reconciliation, so that all may enter the period of preparation that is the Lenten Spring in harmony. In Ukrainian and English.
Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. Pan-Orthodox service (in English).
Text for the pan-Orthodox service of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. The first Sunday of Great Lent commemorates the final defeat of iconoclasm (843). The text is that approved by the Orthodox Clergy Association of the Greater Toronto Area; and was prepared for the joint celebration of the Sunday of Triumph of Orthodoxy at St. Volodymyr Cathedral of Toronto.
Holy and Great Friday Vespers: the Crucifixion of our Lord, God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. (UA•EN)
Text for Holy and Great Friday Vespers: the Crucifixion of our Lord, God and Saviour, Jesus Christ [Abridged]. In Ukrainian and English.
Great Vespers [with and without Litia] and the 9th Hour. (UA•EN)
The text of the Office of Great Vespers [with and without the Litia] and the Office of the 9th Hour that precedes it. In Ukrainian and English.
Vesperal Stichera from the Small Octoechos. (UA•EN)
Vesperal Stichera at “Lord, I have cried” and of the Aposticha for the Octoechos Tones (Tones 1-8). From the “Small Octoechos” for Resurrectional (Sunday) services — the most ancient part of the weekly cycle of 8 Tones. In Ukrainian and English.