Triodio called the liturgical book of the Church, which contains the hymns of Sundays, from Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee until the Saturday before the ceremony of the Resurrection. So called because most rules of Matins (morning Sequence) containing three Odes ……and usually contain nine Odes - 8th and 9th always, after successively one of the top five.
The Triodion placed in proportions of our Churches in the Saturday Evening Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee after the Chanter receive the image of Christ and embrace. This opens the Triodion, period which is divided into three smaller, ie. Publican and Pharisee Sunday to Sunday Shrovetide, Net Monday to Saturday of Lazarus and Palm Sunday evening until Saturday before the Resurrection. Previously in the Triodion period and included the period from Easter Sunday to Sunday All Saints. Later the liturgical celebrations of the period included in particular the "Pentecostarion" liturgical book.
For the configuration of the Triodion, as has the use of today our church, They played a role in all Christian generations from the 5th to the 15th century AD. (The first form of the Triodion issued 1522 A.D. in Venice). This is evidenced by the asmatikes sequences of feasts of Saint Gregory Palamas (Second Sunday of Lent), of St. John of the Ladder (Fourth Sunday of Lent), etc.. also evidenced by the introduction of Lamentation, praise, that is chanted in Epitaph, and the introduction of synaxaria Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos. In shaping canticlelieular Masses cycle Triodion also contributed hymnographers famous and melodies of our church, like Romanos the Melodist, (see 1 October) and John Damascene (see 4 December).
The Triodion more from all religious books containing liturgical leads the souls of the faithful children of the Orthodox Church in meditation and devotion. Therefore called devout Triodio. Cycle of the Triodion holidays renews fasting experiences, continence, of repentance, and charmolypis.
SUNDAYS:
All Sundays of Triodion have a particular name and form a meaningful sequence and message.
In order, Sundays of Triodion is:
-Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
- Sunday of the Prodigal Son
- Sunday of Carnival
- Sunday of Shrovetide
- A Lent: Quadragesima
- Second Lent: Gregory Palamas
- Third Lent: Sunday Holy Cross
- D Lent: John of the Ladder
- E 'Lent: Mary of Egypt
- Palm Sunday
The first week, ending Sunday of the Prodigal Son, called Profoni or Profonesimi, because old profonousan, ie trumpeted that began Halloween. This week is also called loose tendrils or absolute, because then the souls of the dead go to the World Over.
The second week is called Creatine or meat eating or Olokrigia, because eating meat and do not fast on Wednesday and Friday. The Sunday of that week, Sunday of Carnival, so named because it was the last day of meat-eating (from + meat) the entire period of the Triodion.
The third week is called casein or Shrovetide, because they ate dairy products. From Monday, a week before Ash Monday, began abstaining from meat and use cheese imposed and milky like intermediate exercise between meat-eating and fasting.