St. Tikhon Bishop of Amathus

3rd Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 2

 

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 7; Saint 3 (Possessed of a life equal to that of the angels); 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.

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Saint (A desert-dweller, an angel in the flesh and a wonderworker); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 1 (When Gabriel announced).

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.

                Saint                                       4              Holy Hierarch Father Tikhon, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 2.

                Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Persevering in the struggle), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Saint (Desiring to receive everlasting life); G/N: Theotokion (O thou who alone gavest birth).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.   

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G/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.

 

The Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Saint; 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 in the heavens.

Resurrectional Dismissal.