The Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas

4th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 3

Note: If the rector so directs, a Vigil-rank service may be served for Chinese Martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion. See ODS, §1E.

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Octoechos 4; St. Bartholomew 3 (With the net of thy words); St. Barnabas 3 (Thou hast received invincible authority); G: St. Barnabas (O all-praised Barnabas, thou radiant vessel); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.

Entry; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.

3 Readings for the Apostles.

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: St. Barnabas (O all-praised Barnabas, apostle of the Savior); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 3; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Apostles (O holy apostles); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 3 (We hymn thee).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Apostle: We magnify you, O Apostles of Christ Bartholomew and Barnabas, and we honor your pains and labors, whereby you have labored in proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

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

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon in tone of the week.

Matins Gospel 4, Luke 24:1-12 (§112).

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.

St. Bartholomew 4 Holy Apostle of Christ Bartholomew, pray to God for us.

St. Barnabas 4 Holy Apostle of Christ Barnabas, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 3.

Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Thou hast been shown to be a great sun) and Ikos of St. Bartholomew; Kontakion (Thou wast a most true servant of the Lord) and Ikos of St. Barnabas; Sessional hymn of St. Bartholomew (Dragging the nations up out of the depths); G: St. Barnabas (Thou wast shown to be endowed with reason); N: Theotokion (All of us, the generations of men).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Apostles (Come, ye people); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 3, on 8: Resurrection 4; Apostles 4 (Jesus our God – including the doxasticon (As the Wisdom of God), and the final two psalm verses: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. & The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth the work of His hands.); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Apostles; Kontakion: St. Barnabas, Resurrection, and St. Bartholomew, alternating.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12 Octoechos 4; St. Bartholomew 4, from Ode 3; St. Barnabas 4, from Ode 6.

After the entrance: In a temple of the Lord: Troparion of the Resurrection; Apostles; Kontakion of St. Bartholomew, G: St. Barnabas; N: Kontakion of the Resurrection.

In a temple of Theotokos: Troparion of the Resurrection, Temple, Apostles; Kontakion of the Resurrection; St. Bartholomew, G: St. Barnabas; N: Temple.

In a temple of a Saint: Troparion of the Resurrection, Temple, Apostles; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Temple; St. Bartholomew, G: St. Barnabas; N: O Protection of Christians.

Prokimenon Tone 3: O chant unto our God, chant ye. & Tone 8: Their sound hath gone forth.

Epistle: Rom. 6:18-23 (§93); Acts 11:19-26,29-30 (§28).

Alleluia, Tone 3 & 1.

Gospel: Matt. 8:5-13 (§25); Luke 10:16-21 (§51).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & Their sound hath gone forth.

Resurrectional Dismissal.