Prophet Samuel / Afterfeast of the Dormition

14th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 5

 

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 5, on 10: Octoechos 4; Feast 3 (Today the all-immaculate); Prophet 3 (Having received thee); G: Feast (O Theotokos, Mother of Life); 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 (When the repose of thine all-pure body drew nigh).

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

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 5; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Prophet (Celebrating the memory of Thy Prophet Samuel); 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 5.

Matins Gospel 3, Mark 16:9-20 (§71).

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 (First Canon)              4              O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

                Prophet                                  4              Holy prophet of God Samuel, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 5.

                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 (As a gift of great worth); and Sessional hymn of the Prophet (Nurtured on the judgments of the law); G/N: Feast (Thy seedless conception).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable. 

Holy is the Lord, our God.   

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Prophet (Let Samuel be hymned); N: Feast (O ye apostles from afar).

Praises, Tone 5, on 8: Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (O how thy mysteries transcend those of nature – from the Matins Aposticha, with the doxasticon (O all ye earthborn) 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.

 

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

 

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

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

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

Prokimenon, Tone 5: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us. & Tone 3: My soul doth magnify the Lord.

Epistle: II Cor. 1:21-2:4 (§170).

Alleluia, Tone 5 & Tone 2.

Gospel: Matt. 22:2-14 (§89).

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. & I will take the cup of salvation.

Resurrectional Dismissal.