Martyr Florus and Laurus

12th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 3

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Octoechos 4; Feast: 3 (With what unworthy lips); Martyrs 3 (Revealed as perfect stones); G: Feast (Come, O ye people); 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 (Let us chant the hymn of David).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (In giving birth) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 3; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Martyrs (O ye faithful, let us praise as is meet); N: Feast.

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascent, and Prokimenon, Tone 3.

Matins Gospel 1, Matt. 28:16-20 (§116).

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 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Martyrs 4 Holy martyrs Florus and Laurus, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 3.

Katavasia: Thy sacred and renowned memorial, O Virgin.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (The grave and death could not hold the Theotokos) and Ikos of the Feast;

Kontakion (The whole world doth all-gloriously honor), and Sessional hymn of the Martyrs (Ye were shown to be spiritual architects); G/N: Feast (Having conceived God without seed).

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 ye apostles).

Praises, Tone 3, on 8: Octoechos 4; Feast (Brought together from the ends of the earth – from the Matins Aposticha, with the doxasticon (O all-holy and pure virgin) and the Psalm verses); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

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

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

After entrance: in a temple of the Lord or of the Theotokos, Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, and Martyrs; Kontakion of the Resurrection; G: Martyrs; N: Feast.

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

Prokimenon Tone 3, O chant unto our God, chant ye. & Tone 4: In the saints that are in His earth hath the Lord been wondrous.

Epistle: I Cor. 15:1-11 (§158); Eph. 6:10-17 (§233).

Alleluia, Tone 3 &Tone 4.

Gospel: Matt. 19:16-26 (§79); Luke 12:2-12 (§63).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain The angels, having beheld the Dormition of the Most pure One, were struck with wonder, at how the Virgin went up from earth to heaven, with the Irmos of the Ninth Ode, first canon (In thee, O Virgin without spot).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.

Resurrectional Dismissal.