The Holy Fathers of the Seventh
Ecumenical Council / The Optina Fathers
19th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 2
Vespers:
Blessed is the man.
Lord I
have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Resurrection 3; Fathers 4 (The Patriarch Germanus the New); Saints
3 (O venerable elders of Optina); G: Fathers (Let us praise today the mystic clarions of the Spirit); 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 Fathers
& 3 readings for the Saints.
Litia: Sticheron of the
Temple; Fathers (O holy fathers);
Saints (God, Who is wondrous in His
saints); G: Saints (Come, ye zealots
of piety); N: Theotokion in the Menaion for the Saints (Thou art the temple and portal).
Aposticha: Octoechos; G:
Fathers (This day let us, the assemblies of the Orthodox); N:
Theotokion (Mercifully regard the supplications of thy servants).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Saints (Abiding in unceasing prayer) x1.
Matins:
God is the
Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x1; Fathers (Most glorified art Thou); G: Saints; N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 1 (When Gabriel
announced).
After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos and Magnification
of the Saint: We bless you, O venerable fathers of Optina, and we honor your holy
memory, O instructor of monks and conversers with angels; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe of the Tone; all the
Sessional hymns of the Saints.
Hymns of Ascents, and
Prokimenon, Tone 2.
Matins Gospel 8, John 20:11-18 (§64).
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.
Fathers 6 Holy God-bearing Fathers, pray to
God for us.
Saints 4 Venerable fathers of Optina, pray to God for us.
Irmos of the Canon of the
Resurrection, Tone 2.
Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (Having withdrawn from this vain world)
and Ikos of the Saints; Sessional Hymn of the Fathers (O ye truly most blessed and divinely eloquent fathers); G: Saints (Ye have been shone to be); N: Theotokion
(At a loss).
After Ode 6, Kontakion (The Son Who shined forth from the Father)
and Ikos of the Fathers.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection; Fathers (O ye fathers of heavenly mind); G: Saints (Let us honor); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.
Praises, Tone 2, on 8: Resurrection 3; Fathers 2 (Having combined their spiritual art);
Saints 3 (Having set aside all care –
with the doxasticon (Having lifted the
cross) and the final two psalm verses: Precious
in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. & What shall I render unto the Lord for all
that He hath rendered unto me); G: Fathers; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies
and Resurrectional Dismissal. After
the dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed by First Hour.
Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Fathers & Saints,
alternating; Kontakion: Resurrection, Fathers, & Saints, alternating.
Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12, Octoechos: 4; Fathers: 4 from Ode 3;
Saints: 4 from Ode 6.
After
the entrance: In a Temple of the Lord or a Saint: Troparion of the Resurrection,
Fathers, Saints; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Fathers; G: Saints; N: O Protection of Christians.
In a Temple of the Theotokos:
Troparion of the Resurrection, Fathers, Saints; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Fathers;
G: Saints; N: Kontakion of the Temple.
Prokimenon: The song of the fathers, Tone 4: Blessed
art Thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers. & Tone 7: Precious in the
sight of the Lord.
Epistle: II Cor. 11:31-12:9
(§194); Heb. 13:7-16 (§334); Gal. 5:22-6:2 (§213).
Alleluia,
Tone 1 & Tone 6 (Fathers & Saints).
Gospel: Luke 7:11-16 (§30);
John 17:1-13 (§56); Luke 6:17-23 (§24).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
Resurrectional Dismissal.