St. Gregory of Nyssa /
Afterfeast of Theophany
31st Sunday after Pentecost / Tone
6
Note: The
service to the St. Dometian is transferred to Small Compline.
Great
Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I
have Cried, Tone 6, on 10: Octoechos 4; Feast: 3 (Let all creation – Vespers Aposticha);
Hierarch 3 (O venerable father); G:
Feast (The hand of the Baptist); N:
Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.
Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.
Aposticha: Octoechos; G:
Hierarch (Seeing thy godly life aright); N: Feast (Seeing
Thee).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (When
Thou, wast baptized in the Jordan) x1.
Matins:
God is the
Lord, Tone 6; Troparia: Resurrection
x2; G: Hierarch (Showing forth godly watchfulness); N: Feast.
After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Blessed are the blameless; Evlogitaria (The
assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe, 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.
Theotokos 2 O
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Feast (first canon) 4 Glory
to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.
Hierarch 4 Holy
hierarch father Gregory, pray to God for us.
Irmos of the Canon of the
Resurrection, Tone 6.
Katavasia: The Lord mighty in battle.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (Thou
hast appeared today) and Ikos of the Feast; Kontakion (Keeping watch with the eyes of thy soul); and Sessional hymn of the
Hierarch (Thou hast inherited); G/N:
Feast (When Jesus had been born).
After Ode 6,
Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Hierarch (With festive hymns); N: Feast (The Savior appeared).
Praises, Tone 6, on 8: Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (Now the Savior giveth – from the Matins
Aposticha, with the Doxasticon (Desiring
to fulfill that which Thou hast established) and Psalm verses); G: Gospel
Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies
and Sunday Dismissal; First Hour.
Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G:
Feast & Hierarch; Kontakion: Feast & Resurrection, alternating.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos: 4; Feast: 4, from Ode 5; Hierarch: 4, from Ode 6.
After
entrance in a temple of
the Lord, Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, and Hierarch; Kontakion of the
Resurrection; G: Hierarch; N: Feast.
In a temple of the Theotokos,
Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast,
In
a temple of a saint, Troparion of the Resurrection; Feast;
Prokimenon,
Tone 1: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon
us; & Tone 7: Precious in the
sight of the Lord.
Epistle: Eph. 4:7-13 (§224 mid); Col. 3:12-16 (§258); I Cor. 12:7-11 (§151).
Alleluia,
Tone 5 and Tone 2.
Gospel: Matt. 4:12-17 (§8);
Matt. 25:14-30 (§105); Matt. 10:1,5-8 (§34 mid).
Instead
of It is truly meet, we sing the
refrain Magnify, O my soul, with the Irmos of the Ninth Ode,
second canon (Every tongue is at a loss
to praise thee as is due).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & In everlasting remembrance. Resurrectional
Dismissal.