Inter-Hours
The Inter-Hours are brief services in the Daily Office of the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches. The Inter-Hours are called for during the Lenten seasons of the Church year. They are styled after the Little Hours—First Hour, Third Hour, Sixth Hour, and Ninth Hour—only briefer.
The Inter-Hours are called for during the Lesser Fasts. The structure of each Inter-Hour is as follows:
- O come, let us worship...
- Three Psalms
- Trisagion and the Lord's Prayer
- Troparia
- Lord, have mercy
- Concluding prayers and blessing
- Prayer of St. Ephraim
- Final prayer
- Dismissal by the Priest
- Inter-Hour of the First Hour—45, 91, 92
- Inter-Hour of the Third Hour—29, 31, 60
- Inter-Hour of the Sixth Hour—55, 56, 69
- Inter-Hour of the Ninth Hour—112, 137, 139