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*Friday nights of Great Lent <ref>Among the Greeks, Small Compline is served on every Friday evening of Great Lent; the Russians, however, serve Great Compline on Fridays, with some modifications (see n. 7, below). On Friday night of the Fifth Week of Great Lent, the [[Akathist]] to the Theotokos is solemnly chanted, so Small Compline on that night will be either read privately or suppressed.</ref>
*Monday and Tuesday of [[Holy Week]]
*Monday through Friday during the lesser Lenten seasons: the [[Fasting|Nativity Fast]], the [[Fasting|Apostles' Fast]] , and the [[Fasting|Dormition Fast]] <ref>In some places, Great Compline will only be served on the first night of each of the Lesser Fasts.</ref>
*The Eves of certain [[Great Feasts]], as a part of the All-Night Vigil:
**[[Christmas|Nativity]]
'''Third Part'''
:Psalms 69, 142, and the Small Doxology;<ref>On Great Feasts, the order of Great Compline ends here, and we continue the All-Night Vigil with the Litia.</ref> then the Canon followed by ''It is Truly Meet'', the [[Trisagion]], the hymn "O Lord of Hosts, be with us...", ''Kyrie eleison'' (40 times), the Prayer of the Hours, "More honorable than the cherubim....", the [[Prayer of Saint Ephraim]], Trisagion, the Supplicatory Prayer of Paul the Monk, and the Prayer to Jesus Christ of Antiochus the Monk.<ref name="NtPray"/> Then the mutual forgiveness. Instead of the normal final blessing by the Priest, all prostrate themseles while the priest reads a special prayer intercessory prayer. Then the Litany and the veneration of Icons and Relics.
==Notes==