Martyrs Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his
companions / Afterfeast of the Dormition
12th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 3
Great Vespers:
Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Octoechos 4; Feast: 3 (O most glorious wonder! – from the Vespers Aposticha); Martyrs 3 (Seeking the primal goodness); G: Feast (It was fitting)*; 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:
Martyrs (Named for the treasury of good
things); N: Feast (Jesus, thy Son and
our God, O Theotokos).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (In giving birth) x1.
Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 3; Troparia:
Resurrection x2; G: Martyrs (In their
sufferings, 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 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 (first canon) 4 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Martyrs 4 Holy martyr Agathonicus, 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 (Having acquired a good name); and
Sessional hymn of the Martyr (Drowning
the noetic Pharaoh); G/N: Feast (The
choir of the divine apostles).
After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection;
G: Martyrs (As the namesake of good
things); N: Feast (O ye apostles from
afar).
Praises, Tone 3, on 8:
Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (Escorting thy
precious body – from the Matins Aposticha, with the Doxasticon (O all ye mortals) and its Psalm verses);
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.
*According to the Moscow
Patriarchate's Bogosluzhebniye Ukazaniya,
the Doxasticon is that of the Martyr (Aptly
wast thou named), but according to the Troitskii
Pravoslavnyi Russkii Kalendar' (the “Jordanville Calendar”), it is for the
Feast as above.
Hours:
Troparia: Resurrection; G: Feast & Martyr, alternating; Kontakion: Feast
& Resurrection, alternating.
Liturgy: Beatitudes
on 10: Octoechos: 6; Feast: 4, from Ode 8.
After entrance: in a temple of the Lord or of the Theotokos,
Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, and Martyr; Kontakion of the
Resurrection; G: Martyr; N: Feast.
In a temple of a saint, Troparion of the Resurrection;
Feast;
Prokimenon, Tone 3: O chant unto our God, chant ye. &
Tone 3: My soul doth magnify the Lord.
Epistle: I Cor. 15:1-11 (§158).
Alleluia, Tone
3 & Tone 2 (Sunday & Feast).
Gospel: Matt. 19:16-26 (§79).
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.