Holy Martyr Archdeacon Euplus / Afterfeast of the Transfiguration

11th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 2

 

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 4; Feast: 3 (He Who of old spake with Moses); Martyr 3 (Thou didst traverse); G: Feast (The mountain which before was dark and gloomy); 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/N: Feast (Transfigured on the high mountain).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (Thou wast transfigured) x1.

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Martyr (In his suffering, O Lord); N: Feast.

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 2.

Matins Gospel 11, John 21:15-25 (§67).

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.

                Theotokos                             2              O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

                Feast (1st Canon)                                4              Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

                Martyr                                   4              Holy martyr Euplus, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 2.

                Katavasia: The choirs of Israel passed dry-shod.

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (On the mount Thou wast transfigured) and Ikos of the Feast; Kontakion (Holding the laws of Christ in thy hand), and Sessional hymn of the Martyr (Having sailed well); G/N: Feast (Transfigured by the unapproachable glory).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable. 

Holy is the Lord, our God.   

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G/N: Feast (O Word, Thou immutable Light).

Praises, Tone 2, on 8: Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (The three divine apostles rejoice – from the Matins Aposticha, with the doxasticon (The voice of the Father) and the Psalm verses); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

 

The Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Feast & Martyr, alternating; Kontakion: Feast & Resurrection, alternating.

 

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

After entrance: in a temple of the Lord, Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, Martyr; Kontakion of the Resurrection; G: Martyr; N: Feast.

In a temple of the Theotokos, Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, Temple, and Martyr; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Feast; G: Martyr; N: Temple.

                In a temple of a saint, Troparion of the Resurrection; Feast; Temple, and Martyr; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Temple; G: Martyr; N: Feast.

Prokimenon Tone 2: The Lord is my strength and my song. & Tone 4: How magnified are Thy works, O Lord!

Epistle: I Cor. 9:2-12 (§141).

Alleluia, Tone 2 and Tone 8.

Gospel: Matt. 18:23-35 (§77).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain Magnify, O my soul, with the Irmos of the Ninth Ode, first canon (Thy birthgiving was undefiled).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & O Lord, in the light of Thy face.

Resurrectional Dismissal.