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The Lenten Triodion contains sequences (services) with modified prayers for the worship of those moving days of the annual circle that make up the preparation for Great Lent and Great Lent itself. The preparatory days for Lent mean: the week (Sunday) of the tax collector and the Pharisee, the week (Resurrection) of the Prodigal Son, Saturday and the week (Sunday) of the meat fast, the entire week (seven days) of cheese week. By Great Lent we mean Holy Lent and Holy Week. The Lenten Triodion on some days replaces the similar hymns of the Octoechos with its well-known hymns, and on those days the Octoechos is not sung; sometimes the chants of the Octoechos are combined with the chants of the triodion 8. The Lenten Triodion and the Octoechos are not united when sung on all days in the same way; on the weekdays of Lent, they are sung from the Octoechos at Matins: sedalny according to the first verse and luminary according to the canon. They are printed in the Triodion itself (at the end), therefore the Octoechos is not needed when singing the Lenten Triodion on these days. On the Sundays of Lent, the Church assigns more prayers from the Octoechos; then, with each type of prayer of the Lenten Triodion, there are hymns glorifying the resurrection of Christ. But in the successions of the Triodion themselves, the hymns of the Octoechos are not printed, but are only indicated on them, because the voices of the Octoechos are sung not the same, but different in different years. Sunday chants are not canceled during Lent on all Sundays except the week of Vai, the twelfth holiday; on the week of Vai they are replaced by the chants of the holiday (Lenten Triodion). The Menaion during the singing of the Lenten Triodion is not sung on some days 9. Instead of her prayers, hymns from the Lenten Triodion are sung at divine services. But there are days on which some hymns of the Menaion are sung. The days on which the Menaion of the Month is not sung during the singing of the Lenten Triodion are the following: firstly, all weeks (Sundays) of the Lenten Triodion, starting from the week of the publican and the Pharisee to the week of Vai, inclusive; secondly, Wednesday and Friday of the 3rd week, Thursday of the 5th week of the 10th week - the great canon; thirdly, Saturdays: meat and cheese 11, cheese, 1 and 3 weeks of Great Lent, Lazarus Saturday; fourthly, the days of Holy Week 12. The prayers of the Lenten Triodion are designated in liturgical books by the word “day,” for example: “self-agreed to the day,” etc. The name “day” is most often given to the stichera on the evening and morning stichera. Above them there is often an inscription: “self-agreed to the day.” Therefore, in the Typikon, in the instructions for the days of singing of the Lenten Triodion in Chapter 49, the words “self-agreed to the day” should mean the prayers not of the Octoechos (day), but of the Triodion. The prayers of Octoechos for these days are designated in the Typikon either by the name of the book of Octoechos, or by the content of the chants, or by the word “voice.” Thus, in the Typikon we read: “sedalny Octoechos”, “sedalny apostolic”, “trinity voices”, etc. Since in the Lenten Triodion almost every day there are some kind of chants of two creators, then in the Typikon the chants are designated by the names of the creators and thus differ from each other 13 .