Rubrics: The Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles

5th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 4

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, on 10: Octoechos 4; Ss. Peter & Paul 3 (With what wreaths of praise); 12 Apostles 3 (As witnesses and beholders of the incarnation); G: Apostles (The most honored feast of the apostles); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.

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

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Apostle (A joyous feast hath shone forth); N: Theotokion, Tone 6 (Christ the Lord).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 4; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Apostles (O first enthroned among the apostles); 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 4.

Matins Gospel 5, Luke 24:12-35 (§113).

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.

Ss. Peter & Paul 4 Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, pray to God for us.

12 Apostles 4 Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 4.

Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Christ the Rock), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the 12 Apostles (O ye who have made your abode); G: Ss. Peter & Paul (Let us praise Peter and Paul); 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; Apostles (Let us hasten together) G: Apostles (O ye faithful, let us all praise); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 4, on 8: Resurrection 4; Apostles 4 (O supreme foundation of the apostles – including the doxasticon (O disciples of the Savior), 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: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

The Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Apostles; Kontakion: Apostles and Resurrection, alternating.

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

After the entrance: Troparia & Kontakia as in Appendix I, B.

Prokimenon Tone 4: How magnified are Thy works O Lord. & Tone 8: Their sound hath gone forth.

Epistle: Rom. 10:1-10 (§103); I Cor. 4:9-16 (§131).

Alleluia, Tone 4 & 1.

Gospel: Matt. 8:28-9:1 (§28); Mark 3:13-19 (§12).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.