First off, when you go to get your blessing before reading Matins or the Hours, go ahead and step up into the altar area and do three prostrations. this is because you will enter the altar later.
During the trisagion hymn, when the choir gets to Glory..., you take the Epistle book and hold it up in front of your face and process into the altar up to Fr. Justin, who will bless the book and you kiss his hand. then process out to the place to read. There will be a sheet in the epistle book with the following dialogue on it already. You read the bold parts. There should be two readings tomorrow, marked by the gold and black page markers. Gold first, then black. Don't worry about the red or green. Each epistle has a few words or one word intro which will be on a sticky note. Look at the calendar tonight and read over the two readings for the day and for St. John in a King James Bible. The Epistle book is KJV.
Epistle-Feb. 24th
Peace be unto all.
And to thy spirit
Wisdom
The Prokeimenon in the Seventh Tone: The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord, and he shall hope in him.
Choir
Hearken, O God, to my voice, when I pray unto Thee.
Choir
The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord.
Choir
Wisdom
The Reading from the Second Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians.
Let us attend
Reading No.74 (Gold marker)
Reading No. 176 (Black marker)
Reading No. 176 (Black marker)
Peace be to thee that readest
And to thy spirit
Wisdom
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia in the Fourth Tone.
Choir
The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree; like the cedars of Lebanon shall he increase.
Choir
Truth hath sprung out of the earth; and righteousness hath shone down from heaven.
Choir
Boy oh boy. This should be memorable... almost certainly blog worthy.
Yeesh, Matins is at 6:00 am, so I'll have to get up at 5:00. Lets see, off work at 10:00, I'll be lucky to be asleep by 11:00... 6 hours if I'm extremely lucky, more likely about 4.
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