Translation of the Relics of the Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen

8th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 7

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 7, on 10: Octoechos 6; Martyr 4 (O Stephen, first among the martyrs); G: Martyr (First among martyrs and deacons); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week

Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Martyr (Rejoice in the Lord, O crown-bearer Stephen); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 7; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Martyr (For the sufferings which thou didst endure); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Blessed are the blameless; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe; Hymns of Ascents; and Prokimenon, Tone 7.

Matins Gospel 8, John 20:11-18 (§64).

Having beheld the resurrection; Psalm 50; G: Through the prayers of the apostles; N: Through the prayers of the Theotokos; Have mercy on me, O God; Jesus having risen. Save, O God, Thy people.

Canon: Resurrection 4 Glory to Thy Holy Resurrection, O Lord.

Cross & Resurrection 2 Glory, O Lord, to Thy precious Cross and Resurrection

Theotokos 2 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Martyr 6 Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 7.

Katavasia, Inscribing the invincible weapon of the Cross.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Thou wast the first to be sown on the earth) and Ikos; Sessional hymn of the Martyr (O apostle of Christ); G/N: Theotokion (O all-holy Virgin).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Martyr (The casting of stones); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 7, on 8: Resurrection 4; Martyr 4 (Assembling mystically – with doxasticon (Stephen, the goodly beginning) and the final two psalm verses: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. & The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth the works of His hands.); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Sunday Dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Martyr; Kontakion: Resurrection.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 10 Octoechos 6; Martyr 4, from Ode 3.

After the entrance: Troparia & Kontakia as in Appendix I, B.

Prokimenon, Tone 7: The Lord will give strength unto His people. & Tone 8: Their sound hath gone forth.

Epistle: I Cor. 1:10-18 (§124); Acts 6:8-15,7:1-5,7:47-60 (§17).

Alleluia, Tone 7 and 2.

Gospel: Matt. 14:14-22 (§58); Matt. 21:33-42 (§87).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & Their sound hath gone forth.

Resurrectional Dismissal.