St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

26th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 1

 

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 1, on 10: Octoechos 4; Hierarch 6 (Dwelling bodily in Myra); G: Hierarch (Assembling, O ye who love the feasts of the Church); 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 Hierarch.

Litia: Sticheron of the Temple and the stichera of the Hierarch (Christ God hath revealed thee to thy flock); G: Hierarch (O good and faithful servant); N: Forefeast (Hold festival, O Zion).

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Hierarch (O man of God); N: Forefeast (O Virgin who knewest not wedlock).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Hierarch (The truth of things hath revealed thee to thy flock) x1.

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 1; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Hierarch; N: Resurrectional Theotokion in the 4th tone (The mystery hidden from before the ages).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Hierarch: We magnify thee, O holy hierarch Nicholas, and we honor thy holy memory; for thou dost pray for us to Christ our God; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the Tone, all the Sessional hymns of the Hierarch.

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon Tone 1.

Matins Gospel 4, Luke 24:1-12 (§112).

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.

               Hierarch                              8             Holy Hierarch, Father Nicholas, pray to God for us.

               Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 1.

               Katavasia, Christ is born.

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (In Myra, O Saint), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Hierarch (Having ascended to the summit of the virtues); G: Hierarch (The Abyss of mercy); 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; Hierarch (Let us all praise Nicholas); G: Hierarch (The Lord glorified thee greatly in miracles); N: Resurrectional Theotokion

Praises, Tone 1, on 8: Resurrection 4; Hierarch 4 (Lifting thine eyes unwaveringly – with the doxasticon (Rejoicing, let us sound the trumpet of festal hymns ) and the final two psalm verses: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. & Thy priests shall be clothed with righteousness, and Thy righteous shall rejoice); 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: Hierarch; Kontakion: Hierarch and Resurrection, alternating.

 

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

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

Prokimenon, Tone 1: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us. & Tone 7: The righteous man shall be glad in the Lord.

Epistle: Eph. 5:8-19 (§229); Heb 13:17-21 (§335).

Alleluia, Tone 1 & Tone 4.

Gospel: Luke 17:12-19 (§85); Luke 6:17-23 (§24).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.