Dear brothers and sisters, having encouraged parishioners to take up a devotion to the Mother of God during the approaching Dormition Fast, recommending chanting a supplicatory canon each day/evening, I have been asked about the supplicatory canons to the Mother of God.
Whilst Greek tradition preserves the tradition of alternately chanting the greater and lesser supplicatory canons to the Mother of God during the days of preparation for the Dormition, Russian tradition lacks the use of greater canon and only the lesser canon is to be found in Slavic prayerbooks.
However, the octeochos contains a different canon for EVERY evening, so that allowing for our eight week cycle of services, there are fifty six supplicatory canons, as previously posted on our blog.
You can, of course, simply use the Supplicatory Canon in your prayerbook in your evening prayers, but if anyone would like to use the canons proper to each evening in English during the Fast, the links follow below.
This week is Tone 6 in the octoechos cycle, so we go from Tone 6, through Tone 7, and part way through Tone 8.
As our liturgical days start in the evening, and the canons are for evening use, we start on Tuesday evening – which, liturgically, is already Wednesday!
We have yet to post the Dormition canons by the great hymnographers, Saints Cosmas of Maiuma and John of Damascus, and will do so. Ideally, these can then be prayed on the Eve of the Dormition.
Tuesday – Eve of Wednesday 1/14 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/tuesday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vi
Wednesday – Eve of Thursday 2/15 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/wednesday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vi
Thursday – Eve of Friday 3/16 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/thursday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vi
Friday – Eve of Saturday 4/17 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/friday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vi
Saturday – Eve of Sunday 5/18 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/saturday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vii
Sunday – Eve of Monday 6/19 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/sunday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vii
Monday – Eve of Tuesday 7/20 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/monday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vii
Tuesday – Eve of Wednesday 8/21 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/tuesday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vii
Wednesday – Eve of Thursday 9/22 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/wednesday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vii
Thursday – Eve of Friday 10/23 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/thursday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vii
Friday – Eve of Saturday 11/24 August : https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/friday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-vii
Saturday – Eve of Sunday 12/25 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/saturday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-viii
Sunday – Eve of Monday 13/26 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/sunday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-viii-2
Monday – Eve of Tuesday 14/27 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/monday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-viii
Tuesday – Eve of Wednesday – Dormition: 15/28 August: https://russianorthodoxchurchcardiff.com/tuesday-evening-compline-supplicatory-canon-in-tone-viii