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Glory to Jesus Christ!!
The time between Theophany and the start of the triodion can be very variable and I was wondering whhere one can obtain the Epistle Readings and Gospel readings as this period of time becomes progressively longer. In a couple of years Pascha will occur very late. Also during this period is there a difference between Slavic and Greek traditions? Thanks

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The answer is that it varies in each Church. Technically one would keep 'counting up' from the Pentecost of the previous year (and, beginning in September, 'counting up' the Gospel readings from Luke) until one starts the Triodion for the next year.

In years where an early Pascha is followed by a late Pascha there is the gap (that you are asking about). The readings are repeated but the way this done can be slightly different between Greeks & Slavs and even among each group. For the Greeks, the Ecumencial Patriarch now simply publishes a list. [The Melkites appear to be nearly identical to this, with allowances for the different date for Pascha.] Among the Ruthenian Catholics it appears the the tendency is to count backwards from Pascha to the leave-taking of Theophany. The practical effect is that the readings from the weeks after Pentecost which would normally be skipped (due to Christmas and Theophany) are taken. But different local Churches do things differently. I've not done a study but my expectation is that most Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches simply continue 'counting up' from Pentecost (Epistles) and from the Exaltation (Gospels) and when they run out they calculate enough of a repeat to take them to Zacchaeus and then to the Triodion cycle.

See the lectionary page at this site and the Greek Kanonion [goarch.org] for more information. Father David Petras of the Ruthenians publishes a good Typicon [davidpetras.com] that provides a full lectionary.

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The typikon is a little more complicated than that.

There are only 35 Sundayss after Pentecost (for Epistles) and 17 Sundays after the Feast of the Exultaton of the Holy Cross (14 September; for Gospels).

I shan't give the long rules for determining the readings for the weeks when an early Easter and a following later Easter leave a gap. Basically, you first read those readings that were skipped or not read during the previous calendar year. Then if you still need some readings, you choose the readings of the commemorations (i.e., Class 5 feasts that would not normally determine readings of the day), and then, if no specific readings of the day exits, the general readings for the class of saint, or angel, prophet, etc.


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