Orthros

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Orthros (griech. ὄρθρος, "Morgendämmerung"), der Morgengottesdienst, ist der letzte, der vier Nachtgottesdienste, zu denen außerdem noch die Vesper, Komplet und das Mitternachtsgebet gehört. Im Westen wird der Orthros häufig Matutin oder Matins genannt. Traditionell wird der Gottesdienst derart gefeiert, dass er mit Sonnenaufgang endet. Gemeinden feiern den Orthros häufig an Sonntagen und Festtagen.

Gottesdienste der Orthodoxen Kirche
Göttliche Liturgie | Lit. d. vorgeweihten Gaben | Typika (ohne Eucharistie)
Stundengebet
Vesper | Komplet | Mitternachtsgebet | Orthros
Kleine Stunden (Prim,Terz,Sext,None) | Königliche Stunden | Mesorion
Andere Gottesdienste
Hymnos Akathistos | Paraklesis | Moleben
Wasserweihe | Artoklasia
Taufgottesdienst | Krankensalbung
Weihegottesdienst | Hochzeitsgottesdienst
Begräbnisgottesdienst | Totengedächtnisgottesdienst


Struktur

Das Königsgebet
Segen und Gesang der Engel
Der Hexapsalm
Wechselgesang
Psalterkathsimen
Aufstiegsgesänge
Evangelium
Die biblischen Oden und ihre Kanons
Schlussgruppe

Formen des Orthros

Es werden sieben verschiedene Formen unterschieden:

Grundformen
An Sonntagen The longest of the regular orthros services - Gospel Reading and Great Doxology. If this service is celebrated in its entirety it can last up to six hours but is typically abridged.
An Wochentagen Dieser Orthros wird an den meisten Wochentagen gefeiert. Es gibt keine Evangeliumslesung und nur eine kleine Doxologie.
An Festtagen Diese Ordnung ist der Sonntagsordnung sehr ähnlich, ausgenommen Abschnitte, die Auferstehung betreffend. Very similar to Sunday orthros, excluding those parts which are strictly resurrectional in nature - gospel reading and Great Doxology.
Besondere Formen
Lenten orthros—Weekdays during great lent, the Wednesday and Friday of Cheesefare Week, and, optionally when there is no divine liturgy, on the weekdays of the lesser fasting seasons (Nativity Fast, Apostles' Fast and Dormition Fast). The service follows the order of daily orthros but with penitential material added (hymns and prayers), most days have three kathismata from the Psalter, "God is the Lord" is replaced by "Lenten Alleluia" (from which fact these days are identified as "days with Alleluia"). The petition: "O God, save your people and bless your inheritance ..." is read by the priest. There is no gospel reading. The Small Doxology is read and there is special lenten ending of the service, including the Prayer of St. Ephraim.
Great and Holy Friday Orthros — Twelve Passion Gospels are interspersed throughout the service; Antiphons are used between the Gospels (these originated in a different office).
Great and Holy Saturday Orthros—Lamentations are chanted around the epitaphios, interspersed between the verses of Psalm 118. Contains some elements of the old cathedral office: reading of three pericopes (lessons from the Old Testament, epistle and Gospel) at the end - Great Doxology followed by the procession with epitaphios.
Paschal orthros—Celebrated during Bright Week, from the Sunday of Pascha (Easter) through Bright Saturday. The service is vastly different from the rest of the year; only the ektenias, canon (the canticles of which are omitted) and lauds are the same; everything else, including the psalms, are replaced by special paschal hymns. The priest vests fully in his eucharistic vestments on the Sunday of Pascha and wears a phelonion throughout the week. There is no doxology at all. (WP)

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