St. Juliana of Lazarevo / Forefeast of
Theophany
31st Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 6
Great Vespers:
Glory
to the holy, and consubstantial, and life-creating, and indivisible Trinity.
Psalm 103; Great Litany; Blessed is
the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 6, on 10: Octoechos 3; Forefeast: 3 (With piety, let us sound forth); Saint 4
(O Lord, even though Juliana); G:
Saint (Let every tongue); N: Sunday
Dogmatic Theotokion in the tone of the week.
Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King. 3 Readings for the Saint.
Litany: Let us
all say; Vouchsafe, O Lord;
Litany: Let us complete our evening
prayer.
Litia: Temple and Saint (O blessed and righteous Juliana); G:
Saint (O blessed and righteous Juliana);
N: Forefeast (O Forerunner John –
from the Matins stichera at the Praises).
The usual litany of the Litia: Save, O God, Thy people; and the prayer: O Master plenteous in mercy.
Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Saint (Let Juliana, the dove of Christ); N: Forefeast (Come, all ye faithful).
Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart; Trisagion
to Our Father; Troparia: O
Theotokos and Virgin x2; Saint (Shining
forth with grace divine) x1.
Prayer for the blessing of
the loaves; Blessed be the name of the
Lord, x3; Psalm 33: I will bless the
Lord at all times; to …but they that
seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good thing; Priest: The blessing of the Lord; Choir: Amen; And the reader begins the Six
Psalms.
Matins: After the
Six Psalms: Great Litany.
God is the Lord, Tone 6; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Saint; N Forefeast (Make ready, O Zebulun).
Kathismas 2 and 3. After each
Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos and Magnification
of the Saint: We magnify thee, O holy and righteous Juliana, 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 Saint.
Hymns of Ascents, and
Prokimenon, Tone 6.
Matins Gospel 9, John 20:19-31 (§65).
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.
Forefeast 4 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to
Thee.
St. Juliana 6 Holy Righteous Juliana, pray to God
for us.
Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 6.
Katavasia of
Theophany: The Lord mighty in battle.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (In
the streams of the Jordan) & Ikos of the Forefeast; Kontakion (All of us amid misfortune), Ikos, and
Sessional Hymn of the Saint (Adorned with
fasting); G/N: Forefeast (O invisible
God).
After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection;
G: Saint (The light of Christ); N:
Forefeast (The voice of one crying out).
Praises, Tone 6, on 8:
Resurrection 4; Saint 4 (Through fasting
and prayer – with the doxasticon (O
venerable mother) and the final two psalm verses: Wondrous is God in His saints, the God of Israel. & In congregations bless ye God, the Lord from
the wellsprings of Israel); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining
Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal: May Christ our True God, Who arose from the
dead; First Hour.
Hours:
Troparia: Resurrection; G: Forefeast & Saint, alternating; Kontakion:
Resurrection, Forefeast & Saint, alternating.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos 4; from the canon of the Forefeast: 4 from Ode 3;
and of the Saint: 4 from Ode 6.
At the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection; Forefeast; Saint;
Kontakion of the Resurrection; G: Saint; N: Feast.
But if the Temple is
dedicated to a feast of the Theotokos, Troparion of the Resurrection;
Forefeast; Temple; Saint; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Forefeast; G: Saint;
N: Temple.
Prokimenon Tone 6, Save, O Lord, Thy people. & Tone 4: Wondrous is God in His saints.
Epistle: II Tim. 4:5-8
(§298); Col. 3:12-16 (§258); Gal. 3:23-29 (§208).
Alleluia,
Tone 8 & Tone 1.
Gospel: Mark 1:1-8 (§1); Luke
18:35-43 (§93); Mark 5:24-5:34 (§21).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
Resurrectional Dismissal.