If you're unfamiliar with the western style of offices, this is a perfectly reasonable question, so have no fear. The division of texts between an officiant and everybody else is for those occasions when praying as a group but the usual thing to do when praying alone would simply be to offer the prayers as they are. You would pray both what we call the versicles (V) and the responses (R). e.g. V. O God, come to my aid. R. O Lord, hasten to help me. &c. The only adjustment I make when praying alone (although we never truly pray alone) is that, when I come to the Long Responsory at any of the offices of prayer, I omit the first repetition and go straight into the psalm verse. So, for instance, at Compline: e.g. V. Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit. (I omit this - R. Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.) V. For You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. R. Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit. V. Glory be...&c. R. Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit. I hope that's of some use. May God bless you.

It is and it isn't at the same time. When the Gallican Mass (as well as the liturgical rite more broadly) was restored for Orthodox use in the 20th century, the sources were two detailed expositions of the Mass in 6th/7th-century Paris, ancient liturgical manuscript sources, the writings of such fathers as Ss Caesarius of Arles and Ireneaus of Lyons, and some pronouncements of certain local councils. However, it was also decidedly not intended to be an exercise in liturgical archaeology but the provision of a rite for the Western Orthodox Christians of modern times. So certain well-known and loved texts from Byzantine Orthodox worship were incorporated, in keeping with the cross-fertilisation that has been a hallmark of various rites from time immemorial. This is perhaps more pronounced during Paschaltide, so your observation is not without justification. "The Angel Cried" in our rite is properly chanted to Gregorian tone 6. However, Maxime Kovalevsky's tone 6 arrangement is too complicated for the abilities of our parish at the moment, so we use the popular Balkirev setting. All of that having been said, there are elements of the Gallican Mass that are often incorrectly identified by the casual observer as being eastern, when they are in fact nothing less than the ancient practice of the Western church. It is easy to forget that liturgiucally, the West incorporated much more than just the Roman rite, and just because certain elements are not Roman (such as the Trisagion at the Mass, the liturgical fans, the waving of the chalice veil over the Gifts, among others) it does not negate the fact that they were very much part of worship of the Western church in the first millennium.

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It's Gregorian chant, which is Orthodox.

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