The Apodosis of Theophany / St. Nina, Enlightener of Georgia

34^h Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 1

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 1, on 10: Octoechos 3; Feast: 4 (The forerunner, beholding our Enlightener); Saint 3 (O blessed Nina); G: Feast (Thou didst bow Thy head); 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 of the Saint.

Litia: Feast 3 (He that doth clothe Himself with light as it were with a garment – from the Aposticha at Great Compline of the Feast); G: Saint (Desiring to fulfill); N: Feast (Today creation is enlightened!).

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Saint (In the church, O blessed Nina); N: Feast (Beholding the Sun Who shone forth from the Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (When Thou, wast baptized in the Jordan) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 1; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Saint (O holy Nina, equal of the apostles); N: Feast.

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos

Polyeleos; Magnification: We magnify thee, O holy Nina, equal of the apostles, who didst illumine the whole land of Iberia with the light of the Gospel and didst lead it to Christ; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the Tone; all the Sessional Hymns of the Saint, G/N: Feast (Come, O ye faithful); Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 1.

Matins Gospel 1, Matthew 28:16-20 (§116).

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.

Feast (Both canons) 6 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Saint 4 Holy Equal-of-the-Apostles, Nina, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 1.

Katavasia of Theophany: The Lord mighty in battle.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Come ye all, and let us hymn today the all-praised Nina) and Ikos of the Saint; Sessional hymn of the Saint (Today Nina, our guide); G/N: Hypakoe of the Feast (When Thou didst illumine all).

After Ode 6, Kontakion (Thou hast appeared today) and Ikos of the Feast.

At Ode 9, More Honorable. The festal refrains are not sung.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Saint (O equal of the apostles); N: Feast (The Savior appeared).

Praises, Tone 1, on 8: Octoechos 3; Feast 2 (Christ our Savior, the Light of Light); Saint 3 (Rejoice with thy children) – with the doxasticon (Today the hosts of heaven rejoice) and the final two psalm verses: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. & The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth the work of His hands); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

The Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Saint & Feast, alternating; Kontakion: Saint & Feast, alternating.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos: 4; Feast: 4, from Ode 9, both Canons; Saint: 4, from Ode 6.

After entrance, Troparion of the Resurrection; Feast; Saint; G: Kontakion of the Saint; N: Feast.

Prokimenon: (Feast) Tone 4: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.& (Saint) Tone 8: Their sound hath gone forth.

Epistle: Col 3:12-16 (§258); I Cor. 4:9-16 (§131).

Alleluia, Tone 1 & Tone 4.

Gospel: Luke 18:18-27 (§91); Matt. 25:1-13 (§104).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain Magnify, O my soul, with the Irmos of the second canon of the ninth Ode (Every tongue is at a loss to praise thee as is due).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens & Their sound hath gone forth.

Resurrectional Dismissal.