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The lesser classes—'''Third Class Feasts''', '''Fourth Class Feasts''', and '''Fifth Class Feasts'''—commemorate the lives of the [[saints]], holy events, and holy objects. Between the Third Class and Fourth Class there are two '''Intermediate Classes'''.
== First Class Feasts —Feasts of the Lord ==:[[Elevation of the Holy Cross]], [[September 14]]:[[Nativity]] of Christ (Christmas), [[December 25]]:[[Theophany]], [[January 6]]:[[Palm Sunday]], the Sunday before [[Pascha]]:[[Ascension]], forty days after Pascha:[[Pentecost]], fifty days after Pascha:[[Transfiguration]], [[August 6]]*Most of these feasts have both a [[forefeast]] and a [[leavetaking]] (exceptions: '''Palm Sunday''' has neither; '''Ascension''' and '''Pentecost''' have a leavetaking but no forefeast). *An [[All-Night Vigil]] is appointed for the eve of the feast. *At [[Vespers|Great Vespers]] the [[kathisma]] reading from the [[Psalter]] that follows the litany of peace is omitted unless the feast coincides with a [[Sunday]], in which case the first kathisma (Psalms 1-8) is read at Great Vespers on Saturday evening as usual (exceptions: the first kathisma is omitted on the eve of Pentecost and on the eves of '''Nativity''', '''Theophany''', and '''Transfiguration''' when those feasts fall on a Sunday). *[[Festal Orthros]] **The [[polyeleos]] (Psalms 134 and 135) is chanted immediately after the second poetic kathisma (on a Sunday it replaces the [[amomos]] (Psalm 118) as the third reading from the Psalter).**Select Psalm verses from the [[eclogarion]] can follow the polyeleos, if desired. **There is a gospel periscope for the feast (chanted from the [[holy doors]] and without a veneration following).**The praises and the great doxology are chanted. *At the [[Divine Liturgy]] for the feast, the patronal [[troparion]] of the temple is suppressed.*The divine services are for the feast alone; all other commemorations are suppressed (even on a Sunday). *When the feast falls on a [[fasting|fasting day]], the fast is relaxed to permit fish, wine, and oil.
== Second Class Feasts ==