The Sunday of the Holy Forefathers / Martyr Eustratius & Comp.

27th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 2

 

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Resurrection 3; Forefathers 3 (Celebrating the memory of the forefathers today); Martyrs 4 (Like the sun, in splendor, O Lord); G: Forefathers (O ye faithful); 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 Martyrs.

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Martyrs (Undaunted by the savagery of the torturers); N: Forefathers (Come, ye lovers of the feasts of the Church).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Forefathers (By faith Thou didst justify the Forefathers) x1.

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Martyrs (In their sufferings, O Lord); N: Forefathers.

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Martyrs: We magnify you, O holy five martyrs, and we honor your honored sufferings, which ye have endured for Christ; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the tone; Sessional Hymns of the Martyrs: Manfully arrayed in the breastplate of faith; With the sword of thy discourses; G: Martyrs (Made steadfast by thy faith); N: Forefathers (With hymns let us all praise Abraham, Isaac and Jacob).

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.

               Martyrs (first Canon)        3                            Holy five martyrs, pray to God for us.

               (the Theotokion is omitted)

               Three Youths                      3                            Holy Three Youths, pray to God for us.

               (first two Troparia combined as one, then the third, and then the Theotokion)

               Forefathers                         4                            Holy Forefathers, pray to God for us.

               Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 2.

            Katavasia: Christ is born.

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Speaking eloquently of divine things) & Ikos of the Martyrs; Sessional hymn of the Martyrs (Neither the sword, nor wild beasts); G/N: Hypakoe of the Forefathers (The fire was transformed into dew for the children).

After Ode 6, Kontakion (A hand-wrought image ye would not worship) and Ikos of the Forefathers

At Ode 9, More Honorable

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; Forefathers (Let us praise Adam, Abel, Seth and Enos); G: Martyrs (Thou didst complete the wondrous course of suffering); N: Theotokion of the Forefathers (The great Sun, the Creator).

Praises, Tone 2, on 8: Resurrection 4; Forefathers 4 (Let us all now celebrate – with the psalm verses in the Menaion); G: Forefathers (Come ye all, let us faithfully celebrate); 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.

 

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Forefathers & Martyrs, alternating; Kontakion: Forefathers & Martyrs, alternating.

 

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12, Octoechos 4; Forefathers 4, Ode 3; Martyrs 4, Ode 6.

After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection; Forefathers; Martyrs; G: Kontakion of the Martyrs; N: Kontakion of the Forefathers.

Prokimenon, The song of the fathers, Tone 4: Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers. & Tone 4: In the saints that are in His earth.

Epistle: Col. 3:4-11 (§257); Eph. 6:10-17 (§233).

Alleluia, Tone 4 (Fathers & Martyrs).

Gospel: Luke 14:16-24 (§76); Luke 21:12-19 (§106).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.