St. Maximus the Confessor / Martyr Neophytus

36th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 3

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Octoechos 4; Saint 3 (O venerable Maximus); Martyr 3 (O all-glorious wonder!); G: Saint (O venerable father); 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: Saint (We honor thee as the instructor of monks); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 3; Troparia: Resurrection x1; Saint (O instructor of Orthodoxy); G: Martyr (In his sufferings, O Lord); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe; Hymns of Ascents; and Prokimenon, Tone 3.

Matins Gospel 3, Mark 16:9-20 (§71).

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.

Saint 4 Venerable father Maximus, pray to God for us.

Martyr 4 Holy martyr Neophytus, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 3.

Katavasia: The Sun once shone with its rays.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (The thrice-radiant light) of the Saint and Ikos; Sessional hymn of the Saint (Having suffered persecution); G: Martyr (Thou didst spring forth); N: Theotokion (Fleeing to thy divine protection).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Saint (Thou didst show); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 3, on 8: Resurrection 8; 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.

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

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 8, Octoechos 8.

After the entrance: Troparia & Kontakia as in Appendix I, B.

Prokimenon, Tone 3: O chant unto our God, chant ye. & Tone 4: In saints that are in His earth.

Epistle: I Tim. 1:15-17 (§280); Heb. 11:33-12:2 (§330).

Alleluia, Tone 3 & Tone 4.

Gospel: Luke 18:35-43 (§93); Luke 12:8-12 (§64).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.