Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb

9th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 8

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 8, on 10: Octoechos 4; Martyrs 6 (O all-glorious wonder!); G: Martyrs (Come, let us praise the wonder-workers); N: Sunday Dogmatic Theotokion in the tone of the week.

Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King. 3 Readings for the Martyrs.

Litia: Sticheron of the Temple and the stichera of the Martyrs (Even though the new Cain)

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Martyrs (Come, ye newly baptized assemblies of Russia); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Martyrs (O righteous passion-bearers) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 8; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Martyrs; N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Martyrs: We magnify you, O Holy Passion-bearers and princes Boris and Gleb, and we honor your venerable sufferings, which ye have endured for Christ; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the Tone; all the Sessional hymns of the Martyrs.

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 8.

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.

Martyrs (both canons) 8 Holy martyrs Boris and Gleb, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 8.

Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Today hath your all-glorious memory shone forth), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Martyrs (Having loved Christ); G/N: Theotokion (O Theotokos, pure Virgin unwedded).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Martyrs (As truly all-radiant beacons); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 8, on 8: Resurrection 4; Martyrs 4 (The memory of the martyrs – with the doxasticon (Having gathered together) and the final two psalm verses: The righteous cried, and the Lord heard them, and He delivered them out of all their tribulations. & Many are the tribulations of the righteous, and the Lord shall deliver them out of them all); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Martyrs; Kontakion: Martyrs & Resurrection, alternating.

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

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

Prokimenon, Tone 8: Make your vows. & Tone 4: In the saints that are in His earth hath the Lord been wondrous.

Epistle: I Cor. 3:9-17 (§128); Rom. 8:28-39 (§99).

Alleluia, Tone 8 & Tone 4.

Gospel: Matt. 14:22-34 (§59); John 15:17-16:2 (§52).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.