The Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils

7th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 6

 

Vespers:

Blessed is the man

Lord I have Cried, Tone 6, on 10:  Resurrection 4; Fathers 6; G: Fathers; N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week

Entrance: Prokimenon of the day, tone 6: The Lord is King;

3 Readings for the Fathers

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Fathers; N: Theotokion (Mercifully regard the supplications of thy servants)

Troparia:  O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Fathers x1

 

Matins: 

God is the Lord, Tone 6; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Fathers; N: Resurrectional Theotokion in the 8th tone (O Good One, Who for our sake wast born of the Virgin).

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 5

Matins Gospel 7

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.

                Fathers                                   8              Holy God-bearing Fathers, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the canon of the resurrection, Tone 6

                Katavasia, I shall open my mouth

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection; Sessional Hymns of the Fathers

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Fathers

At Ode 9, More Honorable

 

Holy is the Lord, our God.   

Exapostilaria:  Resurrection; G: Fathers; N: Theotokion in the Menaion

Praises, Tone 6, on 8: Resurrection 4; Fathers 4 (with psalm verses in the Menaion); G: Fathers; N: Most blessed art thou…

After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Sunday dismissal.

 

After the dismissal:  G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed by First Hour.

 

At the Hours:  Troparia: Resurrection; G: Fathers; Kontakion: Resurrection & Fathers, alternating.

 

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

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

Prokimenon Tone 6, Save, O Lord, Thy people; and the song of the fathers, Tone 4: Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers.

Epistle: Romans 15:1-17 (§116) and Hebrews 13:7-16 (§334)

Alleluia, Tone 5

Gospel: Matthew 9:27-35 (§33) and John 17:1-13 (§56)

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

Resurrectional Dismissal