Great Martyr Barbara / St. John of Damascus

28th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 3

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Octoechos 4; Martyr 3 (When at the dreadful tribunal); Saint 3 (O most wise father John); G: Martyr (Forsaking homeland); 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: Saint (O venerable father); N: Theotokion, (Christ the Lord).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 3; Troparia: Resurrection x1; Martyr (Let us honor the holy Barbara); G: Saint (O instructor of Orthodoxy); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 8 (O Good One).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

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

Matins Gospel 6, Luke 24:36-53 (§114).

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.

Martyr 4 Holy Great-martyr Barbara, pray to God for us.

Saint 4 Venerable father John, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 3.

Katavasia: Christ is born.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Following God Who is piously hymned) and Ikos of the Martyr; Kontakion of the Saint (Let us hymn John); Sessional hymn of the Martyr (In thy suffering); G: Saint (Thou hast been shown to us); N: Theotokion (Thou wast the divine tabernacle).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; Martyr (Like a most beautiful rose); G: Saint (Thou didst shine forth); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 3, on 8: Resurrection 4; Martyr 4 (Disdaining the sweetness of earthly food – with the Doxasticon (Treading the path of suffering), and the final two psalm verses: Wondrous is God in His saints, the God of Israel. & In congregations bless ye God, the Lord from the wellsprings of Israel); 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.

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

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12, Octoechos 4; Martyr 4, from Ode 3; Saint 4, from Ode 6.

After the entrance: Troparia & Kontakia as in Appendix I, B.

Prokimenon, Tone 3 (We hymn thee). & Tone 4: Wondrous is God in His saints.

Epistle: Col. 1:12-18 (§250); Gal. 3:23-29 (§208).

Alleluia, Tone 3 & Tone 1.

Gospel: Luke 17:12-19 (§85); Mark 5:24-34 (§21).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.