The Beheading of
13th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 4
Great Vespers:
Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, on 10: Octoechos 4; Forerunner 6 (While the birthday); G: Forerunner (While the birthday); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.
Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.
3 Readings for the
Forerunner.
Litia: Forerunner (What shall we call thee, O prophet?).
Aposticha: Octoechos; G:
Forerunner (O forerunner of the Savior);
N: Theotokion (O unwedded Virgin).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Forerunner (The memory of the righteous); x1
Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 4; Troparia:
Resurrection x2; G: Forerunner; N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries).
After each Kathisma:
Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos and Magnification
of the Forerunner: We magnify thee, O John, baptizer of the Savior, and we all honor the
severing of thy venerable head; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe of the Tone, all the
Sessional hymns of the Forerunner.
Hymns of Ascents, and
Prokimenon Tone 4.
Matins Gospel 2, Mark 16:1-8 (§70).
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.
Forerunner (both canons) 8 Holy Great John,
Forerunner of the Lord, pray to God for us.
Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 4.
Katavasia,
Inscribing the invincible weapon of the
Cross.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (The
glorious beheading) Ikos, and Sessional hymn of the Forerunner (Having shone forth by the judgment of God);
G/N: Theotokion (All of us, the
generations of men).
After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection;
Forerunner (With hymns of praise let us
magnify the forerunner); G: Second of the Forerunner (The vile Herod); N: Resurrectional Theotokion
Praises, Tone 4, on 8:
Resurrection 4; Forerunner 4 (O
all-glorious wonder – with the doxasticon (Again Herodias rageth insanely), and the
final two psalm verses: The righteous man
shall flourish like a palm tree, and like a cedar in
Hours: Troparia:
Resurrection; G: Forerunner; Kontakion: Forerunner & Resurrection,
alternating.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos 6; Forerunner 4, from Ode 3.
After the entrance: Troparia & Kontakia as in Appendix I, A.
Prokimenon, Tone 4: How magnified are Thy works O Lord.
& Tone 7: The righteous man shall be
glad in the Lord.
Epistle: I Cor. 16:13-24
(§166); Acts 13:25-32 (§33).
Alleluia,
Tone 4 (Sunday & Forerunner).
Gospel: Matt. 21:33-42 (§87);
Mark 6:14-30 (§24).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & In everlasting remembrance.
Resurrectional Dismissal.