St. Metrophanes, Patriarch of Constantinople
3rd Sunday after Pentecost /
Tone 2
Great
Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I
have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 7; Hierarch 3 (Thou wast shown to be a God-bearer); G/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/N: Theotokion in the Octoechos.
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.
Matins:
God is the
Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection
x2; G: Hierarch (The truth of things revealed thee to thy
flock); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The
mystery hidden).
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 2.
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.
Cross & Resurrection 3 Glory,
O Lord, to Thy precious Cross and Resurrection
Theotokos 3 O
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Hierarch 4 Holy
Hierarch father Metrophanes, pray to God for us.
Irmos of the canon of the
Resurrection, Tone 2.
Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.
After Ode 3,
Kontakion (From childhood), Ikos, and
Sessional hymn of the Hierarch (Having
gained dominion); G/N: Theotokion (Having
fallen into greatly tangled perils).
After Ode 6,
Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Hierarch (We know thee to be a greatly radiant star);
N: Resurrectional Theotokion.
Praises, Tone 2, on 8: Octoechos 8; 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: Hierarch; Kontakion: Resurrection.
Liturgy: Beatitudes on 8, from the Octoechos.
After the entrance:
Troparia & Kontakia as in Appendix I, B.
Prokimenon, Tone 2: The Lord is my strength and my song.
Epistle: Rom. 5:1-10 (§88).
Alleluia,
Tone 2.
Gospel: Matt. 6:22-33 (§18).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord from the heavens.
Resurrectional Dismissal.