The Annunciation of the Mother of God

(March 25th)

PREFESTIVE VESPERS

On the evening of March 23rd:

At «Κύριε ἐκέκραξα..», we sing the following prefestive Stichera

Mode IV

Κεκρυμμένον μυστήριον...

Φωτοφόρον Παλάτιον...

Γαβριὴλ ὁ Ἀρχάγγελος...

Chanted by Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas and Charilaos Taliadoros.
[ 3΄ 14΄΄]

Doxastikon. Mode II

Εὐαγγελίζεται ὁ Γαβριήλ...

Chanted by Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas.
[ 4΄ 06΄΄]

Note: In 1991, when the Feast fell on the Monday of the fifth week of Lent, on Saturday 23rd March, the Stichera from the Triodion and the prefestive Doxastikon were sung as follows:

Mode pl. II

Σὲ μὲν διεκώλυε...

Τόπους προσκυνήσασα...

Δόξα... Mode IV

Γλώσσαν ἣν οὐκ ἔγνω...

Chanted by both choirs; the Doxastikon is chanted by John Chariatides, then Archon Domestikos.
Phanar - 23 March 1991.
[ 3΄ 59΄΄]

AT VESPERS OF THE FEAST

Doxastikon. Mode pl. II

Ἀπεστάλη ἐξ οὐρανοῦ...

Chanted by Demosthenes Paikopoulos
[ 5΄ 34΄΄]

At the Verse (Aposticha)

We sing the Idiomels of the Feast:

Mode IV

Τῷ ἕκτῳ μηνί...

Chanted by Demosthenes Paikopoulos
[ 1΄ 08΄΄]

Mode IV

Ἰδοὺ ἡ ἀνάκλησις...

Chanted by Demosthenes Paikopoulos
[ 1΄ 34΄΄]

AT MATINS

Doxastikon of the Lauds

Δόξα... Mode II

Τὸ ἀπ᾽ αἰῶνος μυστήριον...

Chanted by Demosthenes Paikopoulos
[ 5΄ 08΄΄]

AT DIVINE LITURGY

Instead of «Ἄξιόν ἐστι...», we sing the following Heirmos of the IXth Ode at a slow tempo.

Heirmos of Ode IX

Mode IV

Ὡς ἐμψύχῳ Θεοῦ κιβωτῷ...

Chanted by Demosthenes Paikopoulos
[ 2΄ 26΄΄]