Цветная триодь

The colored triodion contains sequences (services) with variable prayers for the worship of those moving days of the yearly circle, which begin with Easter and end with the week (resurrection) of All Saints. The Colored Triodion is sung together with the Octoechos, but differently from the Lenten Triodion. Firstly, in the Colored Triodion, in the sequence of weekdays, for the most part there are prayers of the Octoechos not only from the sequences of weekdays, as in the Lenten Triodion, but also on Sundays. Secondly, the prayers of the Octoechos are included in the Colored Triodion or are assigned in it to be sung in order of voices, with a direct indication of which voices of the prayers of the Octoechos are sung in each week and week, whereas in the Lenten Triodion, when indicating the prayers of the Octoechos, it is not indicated from which voice they should be sung; for in the weeks and weeks in which the Lenten Triodion is sung, the voices in different years are not the same, but different. During the singing of the Colored Triodion and the weeks and days of the weeks, the same voices are indicated for all years. The voices for singing, as well as the prayers of the Octoechos, are assigned in the Colored Triodion as follows: in Easter week a special voice is assigned for each day, and the hymns of the Octoechos are included in the sequence of the Triodion for each day from a special voice. So, after Easter, on which on Holy Saturday at Vespers (before the liturgy) the Sunday hymns of the Octoechos (stichera on “I cried unto the Lord”) in the first tone are sung, on Monday the hymns of the Octoechos are sung in the Triodion of the second tone, on Tuesday in the third tone, on Wednesday in the fourth, on Thursday in the fifth, on Friday in the sixth, on Saturday in the eighth tone. After the week (resurrection) St. Thomas in the successions of the Colored Triodion contains the prayers of the Octoechos for all days of each week from one voice, but special ones for each day. The voices of weeks and weeks follow in this order: in the week of up. Thomas songs of the Colored Triodion (Octoechos is not sung on this day) are sung in the first tone, and on the weekdays following this week in the successions of the Colored Triodion there are songs of Octoechos 1st tone, on the week of the Myrrh-Bearers and on the following weekdays the songs of Octoechos 2 tone are sung, on the week and week of the paralytic - 3 voices, on the week and week of the Samaritan - 4 voice, in the week and week of the blind - 5 voices, in the week of St. father - 6th tone, on the week of Pentecost the songs of the Colored Triodion are sung (Octoechos is not sung on this day) in tone 1, on the week of All Saints the songs of Octoechos in 8th tone are sung. The prayers of the Colored Triodion are designated in liturgical books in the following way: 1) If the Typikon indicates those hymns that were sung on the day of Easter, then they are called the word “Easter”, for example: “kontakion of Easter”, “Easter stichera”. 2) The expression “the stichera are resurrected” is an indication not of the Easter stichera (Triodion), but of the Sunday stichera of the Octoechos. Equally, the expressions “stichera of the holiday”, “chorus of the holiday”, which are found in the monthly text of the Typikon when indicating the service of the Annunciation (March 23), St. Great Martyr George (April 23) on Easter week, indicate the hymns not of Easter, but of Menaion. 3) When on the other days of the singing of the Colored Triodion we read: “kontakion of the holiday”, “canon of the holiday”, then by holiday we should mean not the holiday of Easter, and not the Menaion, but the holiday of the week (resurrection) of the Triodion, for example, the week of the Apostle Thomas, the myrrh-bearers, the paralytic, or the holiday of Midnight, the Ascension, in general a holiday that happened seven, eight, and most often two, three days before the day on which we read the indicated expressions. Likewise, the expressions “canon of the feast of the week”, “canon of Triodion” are indications of the canon of the feast of St. Myrrh-Bearers, Midsummer, etc. The hymns to the saint, found in the Menaion, are designated as follows: “stichera of the saint,” “canon of the saint,” etc. 4) Finally, the expressions “day” that are sometimes encountered, for example: on the “verse of the Triodion”, the prokeimenon day (Typ. April 23 in the week of Easter), indicate songs belonging to a certain day, the songs of the Colored Triodion (and not the Octoechos). The songs of Octoechos when singing the Tsvetnaya Triodion are designated not by the word “day,” but by an indication of their content, for example: “sedalen touching, to the cross,” etc.