Martyr Euphemia / St. Olga

6th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 5

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 5, on 10: Octoechos 4; Martyr 3 (O most glorious wonder); St. Olga 3 (Thy most glorious commemoration); G: Martyr (The virgin athlete); 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: Martyr (O thou who art clad in the virtues); N: Theotokion (Christ the Lord).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 5; Troparia: Resurrection x1; Martyr (Thy ewe-lamb Euphemia); G: St. Olga (Having furnished thy mind); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 1 (When Gabriel announced).

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 5.

Matins Gospel 6, Luke 24:36-53 (§114).

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.

Martyr 4 Holy Martyr Euphemia, pray to God for us.

St. Olga 4 Holy blessed princess Olga, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 5.

Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (For thy Bridegroom) and Ikos of the Martyr; Kontakion of the St. Olga (Let us hymn today); Sessional hymn of the Martyr (With the streams of thy blood); G: St. Olga (Taking flight in mind); N: Theotokion (Stretching forth thy divine hands).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Martyr (O all ye people, glorify); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 5, on 8: Resurrection 4; Martyr 4 (O ye faithful, beholding the solemnity – with the doxasticon (Let every tongue), 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 Sunday Dismissal; First Hour.

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

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 10, Octoechos 6; Martyr 4, from Ode 3.

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

Prokimenon, Tone 5: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us. & Tone 4: Wondrous is God in His saints.

Epistle: Rom. 12:6-14 (§110); II Cor. 6:1-10 (§181).

Alleluia, Tone 5 & Tone 1.

Gospel: Matt. 9:1-8 (§29); Luke 7:36-50 (§33).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & In everlasting remembrance.

Resurrectional Dismissal.