The Smolensk Icon of the Theotokos

8th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 7

Vespers:

Blessed is the man

At Lord I have Cried: Resurrection 4; Theotokos 6; G: Theotokos; N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week

Readings: 3 for the Theotokos

Aposticha: Resurrection; G/N: Theotokos

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Icon x1

Matins:

Troparia after God is the Lord: Resurrection x2; G/N: Icon of the Theotokos

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos

Polyeleos, Magnification of the Theotokos

The Evlogitaria

Hypakoe of the Tone; Sessional hymns of the Theotokos

Hymns of Ascent, and Prokimenon in tone of the week

Matins Gospel 8

“Having beheld the Resurrection;” Psalm 50; Glory: “Through the prayers of the Apostles,” Both now: “Through the prayers of the Theotokos,” “Have mercy on me, O God,” “Jesus having risen…” Then the Litany: “Save, O God, Thy people…”

Canon:

Resurrection 4 “Glory to Thy Holy Resurrection, O Lord.”

Theotokos 2 “O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.”

Icon 8 “O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.”

Katavasia, “I shall open my mouth…”

After Ode 3, Kontakion, Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Theotokos

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection

At Ode 9, “More Honorable...”

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G/N: Icon of the Theotokos

Praises: Resurrection 4; Theotokos (with doxasticon, and with psalm verses below); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: “Most blessed art thou…”

[Last two Psalm verses at the Praises:

“I shall commemorate thy name in every generation and generation.”

“Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear.”]

At the Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Theotokos; Kontakion: Theotokos and Resurrection, alternating.