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In the Orality/Aurality of the Book | 177www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 173–190 after it (Pentecost) is combined with a fixed cycle. The main “canonical” (and fixed) calendar is organised around the “Twelve Feasts” (Dodekaorton), twelve to sixteen key events of the Orthodox faith celebrated on fixed days. Further- more, each day of the week (recollecting the seven days of the creation) is dedicated to an important religious event. This normative order of time and services is based on formal documents, named Typikon, that are the products of synodical meetings and established traditions.8 Space and time are incorporated in the liturgical use of the book. In figure 1 we see the book arrangement for Matins on a Lenten Sunday in April 2020 at the chapel of St Andrew’s. The books are placed in the order to be used, merging the moving and fixed calendars. Hence, books such as the Triodion (The Three Odes) and Pentikostarion (The Book of the Fifty Days) refer to the texts to be read during the Great Lent and the Fifty Days that follow it, until the celebration of Pentecost. In parallel, we have books of the fixed liturgical calendar, such as the Menaion (The Book for the Month) or the Festal Menaion (important feasts of the fixed calendar). Typikon suggests a complex system of liturgical worship in which these books are combined in different ways to facilitate the readings of the services. Very few prayers are read “silently” by 8 Getcha 2009. Fig. 1: Books arranged for Matins on a Lenten Sunday, at the chapel of St Andrew’s in April 2020. (Photo by the author)