Each day of an Afterfeast will have particular hymns assigned to it, continuing the theme of the Feast being celebrated.
At each of the divine services during an Afterfeast, the troparion and kontakion of the feast are read or chanted.
Some of the Great Feasts of the Lord have a special canon composed of only three odes, called a Triodion, which is usually chanted at Compline on each day of the Forefeast.
The last day of an Afterfeast is called the Apodosis (Ancient Greek for "leave-taking", lit.
In this context, a Synaxis commemorates a saint who is intimately bound up with the Feast being celebrated.