The Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God

9th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 8

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 8, on 10: Octoechos 4; Icon 6 (O golden censer); G: Icon (O Virgin, who didst receive); 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 Icon.

Litia: The stichera of the Icon (O Good one); G/N: Icon (Let us all hymn Mary the Theotokos).

Aposticha: Octoechos; G/N: Icon (Rejoice, O boast of the whole world!).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Icon (To the Theotokos) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 8; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G/N: Icon (To the Theotokos).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Icon: It is meet to magnify thee, O Theotokos, more honorable than the cherubim and beyond compare more glorious than the seraphim; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe, Tone 8; all the Sessional hymns of the Icon.

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.

Icon 8 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 8.

Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (O Protection of Christians), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Icon (O refuge of the world).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G/N: Icon (Let the most hymned Mother of God).

Praises, Tone 8, on 8: Resurrection 4; Icon 4 (To all who with faith – with the doxasticon (O Good One) and the final two psalm verses: I shall commemorate thy name in every generation and generation. & Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear); 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.

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

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

After the entrance: In a temple of the Lord or of the Theotokos: Troparion of the Resurrection; Icon; G: Kontakion of the Resurrection; N: Icon.

In a temple of a Saint: Troparion of the Resurrection; Icon; Temple; Kontakion of the Resurrection; G: Temple; N: Icon.

Prokimenon, Tone 8, Make your vows. & Tone 3: My soul doth magnify the Lord.

Epistle: 1 Cor. 3:9-17 (§128); Phil. 2:5-11 (§240).

Alleluia, Tone 8 & Tone 2.

Gospel: Matt. 14:22-34 (§59); Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28 (§54).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens & I will take the cup of salvation.

Resurrectional Dismissal.