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*Small Compline is read immediately, if not, then it is read by ourselves before sleep.
== Vesperal Services Offices des Vêpres ===== Basic Forms Formes de base ===Vespers is celebrated in three basic formsLes vêpres sont célébrés selon trois formes de base : '''Great VespersGrandes Vêpres''', '''Daily VespersVêpres quotidiennes''', and et '''Small VespersPetites Vêpres'''. *====Les Grandes Vêpres====Les '''''Great VespersGrandes Vêpres''''' follows the order described above and is appointed to be served on Saturday nights and on the eves of all feasts ranked higher than [[Fourth Class Feasts|Fourth Class]]suivent l'ordre décrit ci-dessus et sont nommées ainsi car elles sont célébrées le samedi soir et la veille des Grandes Fêtes.*====Les Vêpres quotidiennes====Les '''''Daily VespersVêpres quotidiennes''''' is an abbreviated form of Great Vespers and is served on any day that Great Vespers is not appointedsont une forme abrégées des Grandes Vêpres et sont célébrées tous les autres jours. Generally, Daily Vespers is served by a priest alone without the assistance of a deacon, although there is some variation in this practice. In such a case, the deacon's parts are completed by the priest. At Daily Vespers, the Small Entrance is usually omitted; there are fewer stikhera inserted in ''Lord, I have cried unto Thee''; and the Litany following the prokeimenon is abbreviated and moved to follow the apolytikion. The service ends with the [[Little Dismissal]].
*'''''Small Vespers''''' is appointed to be served only on days when there is to be an [[All-Night Vigil]]. Small Vespers is identical in form to Daily Vespers, but omits the Litany of Peace, the kathisma and the Small Litany that follows it, the Litany of Fervent Supplication, and the Prayer at the Bowing of the Heads. The litany that follows the apolytikion is also further abbreviated. It also has no more than 4 stichera at ''"Lord, I have cried"'', and unlike Great Vespers or Daily Vespers, the variable portions of Small Vespers are never combined from multiple sources (such as a double commemoration of the menaion, or a combination of the menaion with the octoechos).
