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.