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« on: April 01, 2012, 08:09:15 PM »

Do these vary parish to parish?
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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2012, 09:35:37 PM »

Do these vary parish to parish?

Yes. For most of the week it is just canonical hours that replace the normal Agpeya. There is a 1st, 3rd, 6th, 9th, 11th, and sometimes 12th hour for the morning (day) and for the evening (overnight), so they can be grouped together in different ways. Some pray all of the day-time hours around noon, some split it into two services, in the morning and at noon, or later. There is also variety on total length, depending on how many commentaries & long tunes are used. Great Friday is pretty much all day, but will vary between 7-12 hours in length from church to church. Thursday's Liturgy should finish by 12:30, since the canon's require that on a feast day the fast be broken by noon (so Communion by noon then a little more time to wrap up), but most ignore this rule and go till 2 or 3.
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« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 06:10:26 AM »

my coptic church had the Holy week schedule posted on the door 3 WEEKS in advance!!
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anastasia; this means most chuches won't have them out yet...
and there is always the all night good friday / saturday service where we read loads of old testament readings and psalms and the whole of revelation and finish with a beautiful liturgy towards sunrise. just perfect for if you've been on a night shift thursday and so missed the good friday services!
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« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 09:30:47 AM »

Courtesy of St. Mark's Church in Jersey City, NJ- this is the first thing that came up when I did a Google search, and it's free:

http://www.saint-mary.net/books/Holy_Week_pascha_book.pdf
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