Triodion, Triodion(Old Greek Τριῴδιον, from Old Greek τρία three and ᾠδή, ᾠδά song) is a liturgical book of the Orthodox Church, containing three-song canons (tripoints), from where the name comes from.

Color triode contains chants from Easter Week to All Saints Week, that is, the next Sunday after Pentecost. The name "Colored Triode" comes from the Feast of the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem or the Week of Vai (Colored Week), since in the early liturgical tradition the second part of the Triode began with the service of Vespers on Friday, on the eve of Lazarus Saturday, associated with the feast of the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem. In Russia, this division of the Triodi persisted until the middle of the 17th century and was changed during the reform of Patriarch Nikon.

The modern colored Triodion begins with Easter, it is called Pentikostarion, Pentikostarios (ancient Greek Πεντηκοστάριον - Five decimal places).

In its construction, this Triodion is similar to the Lenten Triodion. The content of the Colored Triodion is mainly devoted to: the Resurrection, the Ascension of the Lord and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. All days from Easter to Pentecost (the period of the singing of the Colored Triodion) can be divided into three periods of time:

I) Easter week;

2) from the Week of the Apostle Thomas to the Passover;

3) from the giving of Easter to the Week of All Saints.

The hymns of the Colored Triodion, like the Lenten one, were composed by the holy fathers, some of whose names remained unknown. Many chants of the Colored Triodion belong to St. John Damascene, including one of his most sublime and inspired creations - the canon for Holy Easter.

This section of our site is dedicated specifically to prayers, canons, akathists and other followings set forth in the Color Triodion. It is fashionable to read, download, listen to the texts corresponding to the Pentecostal period, set out in civil and Church Slavonic scripts in different formats. For you - audio recordings of chants, the charter of private and liturgical reading. Explanation of the holidays and their chronological order.

The Holy Church begins the celebration of Easter with the reading of the Catechumens Word at Matins, like the saints of our Father John Chrysostom:

Announcement word for Easter of St. John Chrysostom

Who is pious and God-loving - enjoy now this wonderful and joyful celebration! Who is a prudent servant - enter, rejoicing, into the joy of your Lord! Whoever has labored fasting - accept now a denarius! Who worked from the first hour - get the now well-deserved pay! Whoever comes after the third hour - celebrate with gratitude! Who has reached only after the sixth hour - do not doubt at all, for you do not lose anything! Whoever has slowed down to the ninth hour - proceed without any doubt and fear! Whoever arrived in time to arrive only at the eleventh hour - and he does not fear his delay! For the Householder is generous: accepts the latter as well as the first; he pleases the one who came at the eleventh hour in the same way as he who labored from the first hour; bestows both on the last, and on the first reward worthy; to him he gives, and to this he bestows; and the deed accepts, and the intention welcomes; he values ​​work and praises his disposition.

So, all - all enter into the joy of your Lord! Both the first and the last, accept the reward; rich and poor, rejoice with one another; temperate and careless, honor this day equally; you that have fasted and have not fasted, rejoice today! The meal is plentiful, enjoy everything! Taurus is well-fed, no one go hungry! All enjoy the feast of faith, all accept the riches of goodness!

No one weep for their misery, for the Kingdom has come for everyone! No one weep for their sins, because forgiveness has shone from the grave! No one is afraid of death, for Spasov's death freed us! Embraced by death, He extinguished death. Descending into hell, He captured hell and grieved the one who touched His flesh.

Anticipating this, Isaiah exclaimed: "Hell was grieved when it met You in its own underworld." Hell is upset, for it is abolished! Grieved, for laughed at! Grieved because he was put to death! Grieved because he was deposed! I was upset because I was bound! He took the body and touched God; took the earth, and found heaven in it; took what he saw, but underwent what he did not expect!

Death! where is your sting ?! Hell! where is your victory ?!

Christ is risen and you are cast out! Christ is risen, and demons have fallen! Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice! Christ is risen, and life triumphs! Christ is risen, and no one is dead in the grave! For Christ, having risen from the grave, is the firstborn from the dead. Glory and power to Him forever and ever! Amen.

The beginning of the Colored Triodion - Easter of Christ

The Feast of the Bright Resurrection of Christ, Easter, is the main event of the year for Orthodox Christians and the largest Orthodox holiday. The word "Passover" came to us from the Greek language and means "passage", "deliverance". On this day, we celebrate the deliverance through Christ the Savior of all mankind from slavery to the devil and the gift of life and eternal bliss to us. As Christ's death on the cross accomplished our redemption, so His Resurrection granted us eternal life.

The Resurrection of Christ is the foundation and crown of our faith, this is the first and greatest truth that the apostles began to preach.

Easter - Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ

This greatest holiday stands out among the Orthodox holidays. It has a very accurate popular name - "Holidays".

On the third day after Christ's burial, early Sunday morning, several women (Mary, Salome, John ...) went to the tomb to bring incense for the body of Jesus. Approaching, they saw that the large stone blocking the entrance to the tomb was rolled away, the tomb was empty, and the Angel of the Lord was sitting on the stone. His appearance was like lightning, and His garment was white as snow. Fearing the Angel, the women were in awe. The angel said: “Do not be afraid, for I know what you are looking for: Jesus crucified. He's not here. He was resurrected as he said. " With fear and joy, the women hastened to announce what they had seen to the Apostles. “And behold, Jesus met them and said: Rejoice! And they, coming near, seized His feet and worshiped Him. Then Jesus says to them: Do not be afraid; go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me. " And as once, the Risen One was seen by His disciples.

On the bright holiday of Easter, the Church calls on believers to "purify their feelings and see Christ shining with the impenetrable light of resurrection, and, singing a victory song, hear clearly from Him:" Rejoice! "

“Let no one grieve for sins, for forgiveness has shone from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the death of the Savior liberated us: it was extinguished by the One Whom she held in her power. Triumphant over Hell Descended into Hell. Hell had a bitter experience when he tasted His flesh. ... He took the body and suddenly fell on God; took the earth, and met the sky. He accepted what he saw and fell for what he did not see.

Death, where is your sting? Hell, where is your victory? ... Christ is Risen - and not a single dead person is in the grave. For Christ, having risen from the dead, initiated the resurrection of the dead ”(from the words of St. John Chrysostom).

Explaining the mystery of the death of Christ, the Church teaches that according to His position in the grave and before the Bright Resurrection, Christ the Son of God, God and man, “was in the grave with flesh and in hell in soul, in paradise with a robber and on the throne with the Father and the Holy Spirit, all filling as Omnipresent ”. “Today, Vladyka has captured hell, having freed the prisoners who have been there from eternity,” proclaims the Church, being present in the spirit of the Resurrection of Christ.

And just as the blood of the slain lambs once served as a sign of God's promise to the Jews, so that they, avoiding the punishment that befell the Egyptians, would leave Egypt and enter the Promised Land (the word “passover” means transition), so Christ is “a new Passover, a living Sacrifice, the Lamb God, who took the sin of the world upon Himself ”- concluded the New Testament with His own blood, laying the foundation for the transition of the People of God to the Resurrection and eternal life.

Easter, Lord's Easter! From death to life and from earth to heaven Christ God will bring us, victorious singing!

Christ rose from the dead, trampling death on death, and giving life to those in the grave! (Troparion, voice 5).

Christ is Risen! Truly Risen!

To call this day a holiday, even the biggest holiday, is too little. It is more important than any holiday and more significant than any event in world history. On this day, all of humanity, and therefore each of us, received the hope of salvation, because Christ was resurrected. This day is called Easter, which means “transition,” and is celebrated in the Orthodox Church as the most important day of the year. Easter is the whole essence of Christianity, the whole meaning of our faith.

"The word" Easter ",- writes Saint Ambrose of Mediolansky, - means "passing". This is the name of this holiday, the most solemn of the holidays, in the Old Testament Church - in remembrance of the exodus of the sons of Israel from Egypt and at the same time their deliverance from slavery, and in the New Testament Church - to commemorate the fact that the Son of God Himself, through the Resurrection from the dead, passed from this world to the Heavenly Father, from earth to Heaven, freeing us from eternal death and slavery to the enemy, giving us "the power to be children of God" (John 1.12).

The crucifixion of Christ took place on Friday, which we now call Passionate, on Mount Calvary, near the city walls of Jerusalem. One of the disciples of the Savior, Joseph of Arimathea, with the permission of the procurator of Judea Pontius Pilate, removed the body of the Savior from the Cross and buried Him. The high priests set up guards at the Holy Sepulcher.

According to Jewish tradition, the coffin was a cave carved into the rock. The body of the deceased was smeared with oils and incense, wrapped in a cloth and laid on a stone slab. And the entrance to the cave was closed with a large stone. The same was done with the body of Jesus - with one exception. His burial was done in a hurry - Friday ended, and on Saturday (which begins on Friday evening), according to Jewish customs, no work can be done. And therefore, they did not have time to anoint the body of Jesus with incense.

Pious women, disciples of Christ, were very worried about this. They loved Christ, and they wanted Him to go on His last earthly journey "as it should be." Therefore, early on Sunday morning, taking the fragrant oils, they hurried to the Sepulcher to fulfill everything that was needed. The fragrant oils are also called the world, which is why we call those women myrrh-bearing wives.

“After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And then there was a great earthquake, for the Angel of the Lord, coming down from heaven, came and rolled the stone from the door of the tomb and sat on it; his appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow; fearing him, the guards were in awe and became like the dead; And the angel, speaking to the women, said: do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus crucified; He is not here - He is resurrected, as He said. Come, look at the place where the Lord lay, and go quickly, tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead ... "(Matt. 28: 1-7) - this is how the Gospel tells.

The women, amazed by the very fact of the Angel's appearance to them, really approached and looked. And they were even more surprised to see that the tomb was empty. In the cave there was only a cloth in which the body was wrapped, and a scarf that was on the head of Christ. Having come to their senses a little, they remembered the words once said by the Savior: "As Jonah was in the belly of a whale for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights" (Matt. 12:40). They remembered other words of Christ about the Resurrection three days after death, which seemed vague and incomprehensible to them. Christ's disciples thought that the words about the Resurrection were a metaphor, that Christ spoke of His Resurrection not in the literal sense, but in a figurative sense, that it was about something else! But it turned out that Christ was resurrected - in the truest sense of the word! The grief of the women was replaced by joy, and they ran to inform the apostles about the Resurrection ... And the guards who were on duty near the Tomb and saw everything, recovering a little from surprise and fright, went to tell the high priests about it.

Now we know for sure that after the torment of Christ there will be His eternal glory, and after the crucifixion on the Cross - His bright Resurrection. But imagine the state of His disciples: humiliated, hated by the authorities and not accepted by the majority of people, their Master died. And nothing gave the apostles hope. After all, even Jesus Himself was dying with terrible words: “My God! why have you forsaken me? " (Luke 15.34). And suddenly the disciples of Christ tell them such good news ...

On the evening of the same day, the apostles gathered in a Jerusalem house to discuss what had happened: at first they refused to believe that Christ was resurrected - it was too much beyond human comprehension. The doors of the house were tightly locked - the apostles feared persecution by the authorities. And all of a sudden, the Lord Himself entered and, standing in the midst of them, said: "Peace be with you!"

By the way, the Apostle Thomas was not in that Jerusalem house on Sunday. And when the other apostles told him about the miracle, Thomas did not believe - for which, in fact, he was called to an unbeliever. Thomas did not believe in the stories of Jesus' resurrection until he saw Him with his own eyes. And on His body there are wounds from nails with which Christ was nailed to the Cross, and the ribs of the Savior pierced with a spear ... After that Thomas, like other apostles, went to preach - to convey the Good News to everyone. And he died as a martyr for Christ: he knew for sure that Christ had risen, and even the threat of the death penalty did not make the apostle stop telling people about it.

After that, the Lord appeared to the apostles, and not only to them, more than once - until, on the fortieth day after His Resurrection, He ascended into Heaven. Knowing perfectly human nature: we do not believe in anything until we are convinced of this ourselves, Jesus, in fact, took pity on his disciples. So that they would not be tormented by doubts, He was often among them, talking to them, thereby confirming what at first glance was impossible to believe - that Christ was risen!

The Apostle Paul, who never saw Christ in His earthly life at all, but to whom He appeared after His Resurrection, outlined the essence of our faith: "If Christ has not been raised, then your faith is in vain ... then we are more miserable than all men" (1 Cor. .15,17-19).

“By His Resurrection, Christ gave people to comprehend the truth of His Divinity, the truth of His high teaching, the salvation of His death. The Resurrection of Christ is the completion of His life's exploit. There could be no other end, for this is a direct consequence of the moral meaning of Christ's life, ”- these are the words from the Paschal sermon of Archimandrite John (Krestyankin).

Christ was resurrected and ascended into Heaven, but He is always present in His Church. And any of us can touch Him - at the main Christian service, the liturgy, when the priest comes out to people with the Body and Blood of the risen Christ ...

Lenten Triod and Colored Triod

These two books contain prayers for the moving days of the liturgical year, depending on which day of the year Easter falls. These books are called so because their characteristic content is incomplete canons, consisting mostly of three (1st, 8th and 9th) songs (in Greek ???????? = "triodion" " trippy"), Or out of four ( four-hymn), or two ( two-song).

The Lenten Triode contains the prayers of the preparatory weeks for Great Lent, the prayers of Great Lent itself, and the prayers of Holy Week. The first service, placed in the Lenten Triodion, is the service of the Week of the Publican and the Pharisee, and the last service is Great Saturday. The prayers of the Lenten Triodion on weekdays replace the prayers of the Octoechos. Only a few sedals and lamps are taken from the Octoichus, but they are printed in the Triodion itself, so that one can do without using the Octoichus book itself. Only on Sundays of the Lenten Triodion period are Sunday chants taken for each given voice from the Octoichus. During the singing of the Lenten Triodion, the singing of the Menaion is not canceled, but there are some days when the Menaion is also postponed, and the entire service is performed only according to the Triodion.

The colored triode contains prayers from the first day of Easter to the week of All Saints after Pentecost. The Colored Triode, like the Lenten Triode, sometimes replaces the Minea, sometimes it is sung with it. The Sunday chants of the Octoechos are printed in their places in the Triodion in color, as a result of which Octoechos can be dispensed with.

Some of the successions from the Lenten and Colored Triodi were published in separate books. These are: the Follow-up of the First Week of Great Lent, the Follow-up of Passion Week, the Follow-up to the Holy and Great Week of Easter and the whole of Bright Week, etc.

Triod. To the creator of the high and low, the Trisagion ubo song from the angels: Threesome, and receive from men. These verses begin the synaxarum for the triode. Triodion, or triodion, in Greek means triune ,. This is the name of the book containing the rite of worship in the continuation of 18

4. THE TRIODE Great Lent has its own special liturgical book: the Lenten Triodion. This book includes all the hymns (stichera and canons), biblical readings for every day of fasting, from the Resurrection of the Publican and the Pharisee to the evening Holy and Great Saturday. Chants of the Triodion

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Lenten Triodion Let us turn to the Lenten Triodion (Greek Triodion), which contains liturgical texts from the period from the Week of the Publican and the Pharisee to Holy Saturday inclusive. Thematically, the Lenten Triode splits into two unequal parts: the first contains Lenten services, the leitmotif

Colored Triodion With the Paschal Midnight Office, performed right before the beginning of Easter Matins, the Colored Triodion (Greek Pentikostarion) begins, embracing the period from Easter to the 1st week after Pentecost. There is much less original material in the Triodi than in the Octoicha and

Lenten Spring The true nature of repentance will become clearer if we consider three characteristic expressions of repentance in the life of the Church: first, very briefly, the liturgical expression of repentance during Great Lent; then, in more detail, his sacramental expression in

The Lenten Triode Weeks and Weeks Preparatory for Great Lent 1. The week (without the week preceding it) of the publican and the Pharisee. 2. The week of the prodigal son and the week preceding it. 3. Saturday meat, parental (i.e. Saturday before Week (Sunday)

Color triode 1. Bright Resurrection of Christ - Easter. 2. Bright week. 3. Week 2 after Easter (Ayatipaskha). Remembrance of the assurance of the Apostle Thomas. 4. Radonitsa, the day of special commemoration of the dead (Tuesday of the 2nd week after Easter). 5. Week 3 after Easter, holy myrrh-bearing women. 6. A week

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IN THE HOLY AND GREAT WEEK OF EASTER

LIGHT EASTER MORNING

About the hour of the morning, the paraekklisiarch will take a blessing from the abbot, come out and strike great, and rivet enough. And he entered the temple, burns all candles, and a kandila: he builds two vessels with burning coal, and puts a lot of incense in them, and supplies one vessel among the church, the other in the holy altar, as if the church would be filled with all the incense. The same abbot entered the holy altar with the priests and deacons, and they will dress in the full dignity. And he distributes the lights to the brethren, and the Honorable Cross will take off; the deacon will take up the censer. The priest is the holy Gospel, in the priest is the image of the Resurrection of Christ: and they are placed with their faces to the west. And shut the gates of the church, even to the west. The abbot goes with the priest into the narthex, by the northern doors, the deacon preceding him with two candlesticks, and both faces are singing

stichera, voice 6:

Thy Resurrection, Christ Spase, / Angels sing in heaven, / and grant us on earth / pure heart / glorify you.

They also hit all the Campans and the heavy one, and they rivet enough. And who entered the vestibule, they will become with the Gospel, and with the image, facing the west, as it was indicated before. The same abbot will take the censer from the deacon in his right hand, the Cross in his left, and censes images, and kliros, and brethren according to custom. To the deacon I present before him a burning light. All the brethren stand holding their lights, praying with attention in themselves, and giving thanks to us for the sake of the suffering and risen Christ of our God. After the end of the censing, the abbot comes before the great gates of the church, and will leave the deacon, who was coming to him with a candle. Then we take the censer of the deacon from the abbot's hand, and he will kick the abbot himself. And the paki will be perceived by the abbot of the censer, standing in front of the church doors, in vain to the east, and he will designate the great gates of the church, [the closed entity], with the censer crosswise, three times, holding the Honorable Cross in his left hand, and with a lamp standing with both countries.

And he will loudly proclaim:

Glory to the Saints, and the One of the Same, and the Life-giving, and the Indivisible Trinity, always, now and forever, and forever and ever.

And to us answering: Amin.

The abbot begins, with the other ministers, the real troparion, in voice 5:

Christ is resurrected from the dead, / death has been repaired / and to those who are in the graves are living gifts.

And we also sing like that, with sweet humor. This troparion is sung three times from the abbot, and three times from us.

The abbot also speaks verses:

Verse 1: May God rise, and enemies be scattered, / and may flee from His face that hates Him.

And for every verse we sing the troparion: Christ is risen : all once.

Verse 2: As smoke disappears, let it disappear, / as wax melts from the face of fire. Christ is Risen : once.

Third verse: So let sinners perish from the face of God, / and let the righteous be glad. Christ is Risen : once.

Fourth verse: This is the day that the Lord has made it, / let us rejoice and be glad in it. Christ is Risen : once.

Glory:

And now: Christ is risen: once.

The abbot also sings in a high voice: Christ is risen from the dead, / death has repaired death. And opens the gates.

The abbot enters with the Honorable Cross, preceding him with two lamps, and singing to the brethren: They also hit all the Campans and make a pretty sound, three rings.

The abbot entered the holy altar from the priest. And the deacon says the great litany: Let us pray with peace to the Lord. The cry: As all glory befits Thee:

And the primate begins the canon, the creation of Mr. John Damascene. Voice 1. Irmos: Resurrection day: Irmos on 4: and troparia on 12, with refrains: Christ is risen from the dead. And paki last kiyzhdo the face of irmos. Watch Katavasia at the meeting, the same irmos: Resurrection day: And according to him Christ is risen: all three times. The beginning of the canon for each song is always created by the primate, the right hand or the left of the country of the beginning that happened. And at the beginning of the canon he censes holy icons and both faces, and to the brethren by rank. And for every song there is a small litany outside the altar, as well as a rekh, on this holy day. An exclamation inside the altar from the priest. The first song is sung by the land of the right hand. On the third, the left sings. We also sing to Sice after other songs.