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- them, and cast lots upon My vesture.' There are then four readings, with Prokimena before the second and fourth: Exodus 33:11-23 - God shows Moses His glory...
- prokeimenon (Gr**** Προκείμενον, plural prokeimena; sometimes prokimenon/prokimena; lit. 'that which precedes') is a psalm or canticle refrain sung responsorially...
- very widely used. Fragments of Psalms and individual verses are used as Prokimena (introductions to Scriptural readings) and Stichera. The bulk of Vespers...
- before the Trisagion, and the scriptural readings with their corresponding prokimena.[citation needed] On the w****days of Great Lent the Psalms are omitted...