The Synaxis of the Three Great Hierarchs

(This service is transferred to Thursday, January 29, 2010 o.s.)

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man

Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, on 8: Saint 8; G: Saints; N: Dogmatic Theotokion: (Who doth not call thee blessed).

Entry, Prokimenon of the day, Tone 5: O God, in Thy name save me.

3 Readings for the Saints

Litia:  Temple and Saints

Aposticha: Saints; G: Saints; N: Theotokion in the Menaion (Today is Christ borne into the sanctuary).

Troparia: Saints x2 (In that ye share in the way of the apostles); O Theotokos and Virgin x1

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 4; Troparia: Saints x2; G/N: Theotokion (The mystery hidden from before the ages).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns of the Saints

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Saints:

We magnify you, O Hierarchs of Christ: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom, and we honor your holy memory; for ye do pray for us to Christ our God.  Psalm verse: O hear ye this, all ye people; ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world.

Sessional hymns of the Saints (Let the all-wise teachers); G: (The Church doth celebrate today); N: O invincible intercessor.

Hymn of Ascents, 1st Antiphon, Tone 4: From my youth…

Prokimenon of the Saints, Tone 4: Thy priests shall be clothed with righteousness, and Thy righteous shall rejoice.

Matins Gospel: John 10:9-16 (§36)

Psalm 50; G:  Through the prayers of the holy hierarchs Basil the Great, Gregory the theologian, and John Chrysostom; N:   Through the prayers of the Theotokos; Have mercy on me, O God   Sticheron of the Saints in the Menaion (Grace was poured forth);  Save, O God, Thy people.

 

Canon:    

Theotokos                            6     Most holy Theotokos, save us.

                Saints (2 Canons)                 8     Holy Three Hierarchs of Christ, pray to God for us.

                Irmos: Come, ye people, let us chant a hymn.

            Katavasia of the Presentation: The Sun once shone with its rays

 

After Ode 3, Sessional Hymns of the Saints

After Ode 6, Kontakion (The sacred heralds of divine proclamation) and Ikos of the Saints

At Ode 9, We do not sing More Honorable.  We instead sing the refrains of the Feast, with the canon of the feast: Magnify, O my soul, the all-pure Virgin Theotokos, who is more honorable than the armies on high;. and the others.

 

Exapostilarion:  Saints (Let us praise the God-bearing fathers); G: (Now let us all praise); N: Theotokion (O sole Godhead).

Praises, Tone 4: Saints 4; G: Saints; N: (Tone 5) Let us sound the clarion of hymns, for the Virgin Mother.

After the Great Doxology: Troparion of the Saints; G/N: Theotokion (The mystery hidden from before the ages).

The two remaining Litanies, and the usual dismissal of the day.

Then the first hour.

 

The Hours:  Troparion:  Saints; Kontakion: Saints

 

The Liturgy:  Beatitudes on 8: From the canon of the Saints, 4 from Ode 3 of the First Canon; and 4 from Ode 6 of the Second Canon.

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

Prokimenon (Tone 8):  Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth.

Epistle: Hebrews 13:7-16 (§334)

Alleluia, Tone 4

Gospel: Matthew 5:14-19 (§11)

It is truly meet (as usual).

Communion Hymn: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth.