Commemoration of the Holy &
Righteous Joseph the Betrothed,
David the King,
& James the Brother of the Lord
Tone 6 / 31st Sunday After
Pentecost
Great
Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I
have Cried, Tone 6, on 10: Octoechos 3; Feast 4 (Come let us rejoice in the Lord); Saints 3 (Let us all praise King David); G: Saints (Let us celebrate the memory); 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:
Saints (Thy birthgiving); N: Feast (Today is the invisible Nature).
Troparia: Feast x2 (Thy nativity); Saints x1 (O Joseph, proclaim the wonders).
Matins:
God is the
Lord, Tone 6; Troparia: Resurrection
x2; G: Saints; N: Feast.
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 6.
Matins Gospel 9, John
20:19-31 (§65).
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 Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Feast (Canon 1) 4
Glory to Thee, our God, glory
to Thee.
Saints
4 Holy Kinsmen of Christ, pray to
God for us.
Irmos of the canon
of the Resurrection, Tone 6.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (Today
the Virgin) and Ikos of the Feast, Sessional hymns of the Saints (Right fittingly let us hymn the righteous
Joseph); G: Feast (The Virgin hath
given birth); N: Feast (The choir of
prophets doth divinely celebrate).
After Ode 6, Kontakion (Today
divine David is filled with gladness) and Ikos of the Saints.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection,
G: Saints (Let us hymn David, the
forefather of God); N: Feast (From on
high our Savior).
Praises, Tone 6, on 8: Resurrection 4; Feast 4 (Be glad, O ye righteous – with the last
two Psalm verses: From the womb before the morning star have I begotten
Thee. The Lord hath sworn and will not repent. &
The Lord said unto my Lord: Sit Thou at My right hand); G: Feast (Blood and fire and
clouds of smoke); N: Most blessed art
thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and
Resurrectional Dismissal. After the
dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed by First Hour.
The
Hours: Troparia: Resurrection, G: Feast & Saints,
alternating; Kontakion: Feast & Saints, alternating
Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12, Octoechos: 4; Feast: 4, Ode 7;
Saints: 4, Ode 6.
After
the entrance: Troparia Resurrection; Feast; Saints; G: Kontakion of the Saints; N:
Kontakion of the Feast.
Prokimenon, Tone 6: Save, O Lord, Thy
people. & Tone 4: Wondrous
is God in His saints.
Epistle: Gal. 1:11-19 (§200).
Alleluia,
Tone 6 & Tone 4.
Gospel: Matt. 2:13-23 (§4).
Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain Magnify, O my soul, with the Irmos of the second canon of the Ninth
Ode (Better would it be for us to keep
silence in fear).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
Resurrectional
Dismissal.