The Order of Festal Matins & Lauds in their role as the second part of the All-Night Vigil of the Great Feast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. While in some places it has become the rule to always move Matins to the morning, which on the face of it makes perfect logical sense, for festal vigils this is usually done immediately appended to the evening service, normally Great Vespers but on this Fasting Feast Great Compline. Similarly there is no Divine Liturgy permitted on this day other than that which is attached to Great Vespers in the evening of the Feast itself, however this is in many places ignored as a matter of rote liturgical abuse.

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