RTOC-AdNA: Orthodox Service - THE ORDER OF MATINS

THE OFFICE OF MATINS

THE ORDER OF MATINS

FROM THE OCHTOECHOS AND THE TRIODION

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP

The arrangement of Matins for the Repose of those o have fallen asleep is as prescribed for Daily Matins and or Matins in the Holy and Great 40-day Fast. After the Six Psalms Alleluia is said three times with verses:

    Verse A: Blessed are they whom thou hast chosen and taken, O Lord.
    Verse B: Their memory is from generation to generation.
    Verse C: Their souls shall dwell amid good things.

Then the 16th Kathisma and Blessed are the undefiled . . . in two portions with refrains: Blessed art thou, O Lord... and O Savior, save me.

At Blessed are the undefiled, the priest, where it is the custom, opens the holy doors, and, having come out by the holy doors, stands before a table prepared for a service for the repose of the departed. During the reading of the 17th Kathisma, there is a censing according to the rule. After the 1 st and 2nd portions, the priest says the Iitany for the departed, censing as he does.

Again and again in peace let us pray to the Lord.
Choir: Lord, have mercy.

Again we pray for the repose of the souls of the servants of God, NN., who have fallen asleep, and that thou pardon them all their offenses both voluntary and involuntary.
Choir: Lord, have mercy.

That the Lord God may make their souls to dwell where the righteous repose.
Choir: Lord, have mercy.

The mercies of God, the kingdom of heaven, and the forgiveness of their sins, let us ask of Christ, our immortal King and our God.
Choir: Grant this, O Lord.

Priest or deacon:

Let us pray to the Lord.

Choir: Lord, have mercy. 40 times, softly

The priest says this prayer:

O God of spirits and of all flesh, who hast trampled down death and overthrown the Devil, and given life to thy world, do thou, the same Lord, give rest to the souls of thy servants, names, who have fallen asleep, in a place of light, in a place of verdure, in a place of repose, whence all sickness, sorrow, and sighing have fled away. Pardon every sin committed by them in word or deed or thought, for thou art a good and man-loving God; for there is no man that liveth and sinneth not; for thou only art without sin and thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and thy word is truth.

Exclamation:

For thou art the Resurrection, and the Life, and the Repose of thy servants, names, who have fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and unto thee do we send up glory together with thy Father, who is without beginning, and thine all-holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Choir: Amen.

After the 3rd Ode of the Canon, the usual litany. Before the singing of the kontakion, With the saints give rest . . . . again the litany of the departed, and the usual censing at the time of the singing of the kontakion. After this the priest goes back to the sanctuary and closes the holy doors.

Then, It is a good thing . . . , the Trisagion, the troparia, and the litany as prescribed for Daily Matins.

Matins for the departed customarily is celebrated on Saturday, and therefore, there are no prostrations.

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