St. Sabbas the Sanctified

27th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 2

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 4; Saint 6 (O divinely wise Sava); G: Saint (Having preserved); 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 Saint.

Litia: Temple; Saint (O venerable Sabbas); G: Saint (Receiving a desire for good things); N: Theotokion (O new wonder).

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Saint (We honor thee); N: Theotokion in tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Saint (With the streams of thy tears) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Saint (With the streams of thy tears); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 8 (O Good One).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Saint: We bless thee, O venerable father Sabbas, and we honor thy holy memory, instructor of monks and converser with the angels; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the Tone; all Sessional hymns of the Saint.

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon Tone 2.

Matins Gospel 5, Luke 24:12-35 (§113).

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.

Saint 8 Venerable father Sabbas, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 2.

Katavasia: Christ is born.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (In thy virtue), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Saint (Having forsaken all earthly things); G: Saint (Abandoning the tumults); N: Theotokion (O all-immaculate Bride).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Saint (With thy wisdom loving ways); N: Resurrectional Theotokion

Praises, Tone 2, on 8: Resurrection 4; Saint 4 (The divinely wise Sabbas – with doxasticon (O venerable father) and the final two psalm verses: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. & Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord; in His commandments shall he greatly delight); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Sunday Dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Saint; Kontakion: Saint and Resurrection, alternating.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 10 Octoechos 6; Saint 4, from Ode 3.

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

Prokimenon, Tone 2: The Lord is my strength and my song. & Tone 7: Precious in the sight of the Lord.

Epistle: Eph. 6:10-17 (§233); Gal. 5:22-6:2 (§213).

Alleluia, Tone 2 & Tone 6.

Gospel: Luke 17:12-19 (§85); Matt. 11:27-30 (§43).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & In everlasting remembrance.

Resurrectional Dismissal.