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In Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, Pope Benedict writes: The Eastern Church has further developed and deepened this understanding of Jesus' Baptism in her liturgy and in her theology of icons. She sees a deep connection between the content of the feast of Epiphany (the heavenly voice proclaiming Jesus to be the Son of God: for the East the Epiphany is the day of the Baptism) and Easter. She sees Jesus' remark to John that "it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness" (Mt 3:15) as the anticipation of his prayer to the Father in Gethsemane: "My father ... not as I will, but as thou wilt" (Mt 26:39) The liturgical hymns for January 3 correspond to those for Wednesday in Holy Week; the hymns for January 4 to those for Holy Thursday; the hymns for January 5 to those for Good Friday and Holy Saturday. (Emphasis added) Is this a reference to the hymns of the Byzantine tradition? If so, can anyone provide me with examples of these corresponding hymns?
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Royal Hours are perhaps a better service to make a comparison between Great and Holy Friday and the vigils of the Nativity and Theophany. There are some very general structural parallels, such as the use of triodes at Small Compline for the prefestal time of Christmas and Theophany and the time from Great and Holy Wednesday onward until Great and Holy Saturday, but not a direct correspondence of texts.
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That is the answer I gave to the person who asked me. As far as textual correspondence, there is the well-known parallelism between the final sticheron of the Ninth Royal Hour at Nativity and Holy Friday, but the textual parallelism for that sticheron does not extend to the Theophany Royal Hours.
The only possibility I see is that the reference is to an Eastern Church of other than the Byzantine tradition.
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