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.
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.