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Hello Group Members: May the Lord bless you! I have set up an Annotated Menaion Subgroup to which some of the subscribers to the main Vigil Texts Group and the Menaion Texts Subgroup may want to subscribe. This Subgroup to the main Vigil Texts IO Group will replace the Menaion Texts Subgroup that had daily posts from September 2025 through August 2026. That Subgroup will no longer get any new posts. I plan to begin posting Annotated Menaion Texts in the new sub...
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N. B.The Commemoration of the Righteous Prince Peter& the Princess Febronia, Wonderworkers of Murom, is not found in the printed English Menaion. The service to the Saint was composed by Reader Isaac (later Monk Joseph) Lambertsen to help promote the veneration of these Saints.The Commemoration of the Righteous Prince Peter& the Princess Febronia is celebrated onthe Sunday before the 6th Day ofthe Month of September and on the 25th Day of the Month of June. The...

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31 August / 13 September 2026: The Text of the Vigil Service and the Variable Texts for the Hours and Divine Liturgy for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Tone VI - Commemoration of the Deposition of the Cincture of the Theotokos + + + + + + + 

Note: This Compilation is designed to give the worshipper the text of the service that is being sung in church so that he or she may attentively follow the service in church, or read it at home when it is not possibl...

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30 August / 12 September: The Text of the Vigil Service and the Variable Texts for the Hours and Divine Liturgy for the Commemoration of the Translation of the Relics of the Holy& Right-believing Great Prince Alexander Nevsky
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Note: This Compilation is designed to give the worshipper the text of the service that is being sung in church so that he or she may attentively follow the service in church, or read it at home when it is not possible to get t...

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9 August / 11 September: The Text of the Vigil Service and the Variable Texts for the Hours and Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the Beheading of John, the Honoured& Glorious Prophet, Forerunner,& Baptiser of the Lord

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Note: This Compilation is designed to give the worshipper the text of the service that is being sung in church so that he or she may attentively follow the service in church, or read it at home when it is not possible to get to church....

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Note:Twoerrors in the document previously posted by a kind subscriber. The first is in the directions for the reading of the canons given before the actual text of the canons were incorrect  (though the actual texts I posted were correct); and the second is that the Gospel Sticheron following the Glory... of the Praises should be the Third Gospel Sticheron, not the Fifth. These two things have been corrected. Perhaps I've been doing this too long and am getting...
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Note: I discovered some errors in the document previously posted in the Menaion texts for Ode IX of the Canon and the Exapostilaria. These have been corrected. I am sorry for any inconvenience.  24 August / 6 September 2026: The Text of the Vigil Service and the Variable Texts for the Hours and Divine Liturgy for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Tone V - Commemoration of the Holy Hieromartyr Eutyches, the Disciple of Saint John the Theologian
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24 August / 6 September 2026: The Text of the Vigil Service and the Variable Texts for the Hours and Divine Liturgy for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Tone V - Commemoration of the Holy Hieromartyr Eutyches, the Disciple of Saint John the Theologian
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Note: This Compilation is designed to give the worshipper the text of the service that is being sung in church so that he or she may attentively follow the service in church, or read it at home...

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17 / 30 August 2026: The Text of the Vigil Service and the Variable Texts for the Hours and Divine Liturgy for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Tone IV - Afterfeast of the Dormition of the All-Holy Theotokos;Commemoration of the Holy Martyr Myron

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Note: This Compilation is designed to give the worshipper the text of the service that is being sung in church so that he or she may attentively follow the service in church, or read it at home when...

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