The Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
Tone 2 / Second Sunday of Lent
Great Vespers: Blessed is
the man
Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 6;
Hierarch 4 (What hymns of praise – from
the Triodion); G: Hierarch (Thrice-blessed
saint); 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:
Hierarch (Thy tongue, watchful in
teaching); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O
unwedded Virgin).
Troparia: O
Theotokos and Virgin x3
Matins: God is the
Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Hierarch (Light of Orthodoxy); N: Resurrectional
Theotokion, Tone 8 (O Good One, Who for
our sake wast born of the Virgin).
After each Kathisma:
Sessional hymns from the Octoechos
Blessed are the blameless; Evlogitaria (The assembly of
angels was amazed).
Hypakoe;
Hymns of Ascent; and Prokimenon, Tone 2.
Matins Gospel 10, John 21:1-14 (§66)
Having beheld the Resurrection; Psalm 50; G: The
doors of repentance; N: Guide me in
the paths of salvation; Have mercy on me, O God; When I think of the multitude of evil things I have done; Save,
O God, Thy people.
Canon: Resurrection 4 Glory to Thy Holy Resurrection, O
Lord.
Triodion (first
canon) 4 Have
mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Triodion (canon of the Saint) 6 Holy
Hierarch, Father Gregory, pray to God for us.
Irmos
of the resurrectional canon, Tone 2
Katavasia: I shall open my mouth
At Ode 3, Kontakion (The
season of the virtues) and Sessional hymns of the Triodion
At Ode 6, Kontakion (O
sacred and divine organ of wisdom) and Ikos of the Hierarch
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Hierarch (Rejoice, glory of the fathers); N: Theotokion
in the Triodion (O Lady, Queen of all).
Praises, Tone 2, on 9:
Octoechos 5; Triodion 4 (sticheron: In
the world thou hast lived a life of blessedness; verse: The mouth of the righteous; Sticheron: O blessed saint; verse: Thy priests shall be clothed with
righteousness; sticheron: The glory
of thy blameless life; verse: Arise,
O Lord my God; sticheron: In this
season of abstinence); G: Triodion (In
this season of abstinence); N: Most
blessed art thou. After
the Great Doxology, the troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and
Sunday dismissal; After the dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed by
First Hour.
The Hours: Troparion: Resurrection; G: Hierarch;
Kontakion: Triodion and Hierarch, alternating.
Liturgy of St. Basil the Great: Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos 6; Hierarch 4, from Ode
3.
After the entrance: In a
In a
In a
Prokimenon, Tone 5: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt preserve us from this generation
and for evermore, and of the Hierarch, Tone 1: My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of
understanding.
Epistle: Hebrews 1:10-2:3
(§304); Hebrews 7:26-8:2 (§318)
Alleluia, Tone
2
Gospel: Mark 2:1-12 (§7);
John 10:9-16 (§36)
Instead of It is truly meet: All creation Rejoiceth.
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens; & In everlasting remembrance shall the righteous
be.
Resurrectional Dismissal
Sunday Evening Vespers: As
on Cheesefare Sunday.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Penitential
Stichera from the Octoechos 4 (Like the
prodigal son); Triodion 3 (I have
sinned against Thee countless times); Hierarch 3 (Watched over by divine guardians –Theophylact, March 8) 3; G/N:
Theotokion in the Menaion (Heal thou my
soul).
Entrance, O gladsome light.
Great Prokimenon, Tone 8: Turn not Thy countenance away from Thy
servant, for I am afflicted; quickly hearken unto me. Attend unto my soul and
deliver it.
During the final repetition
of the prokimenon, the priest closes the royal doors, removes his phelonion and
puts on a dark epitrachilion, and goes out to the
Vouchsafe, O Lord.
Then the Litany,
Let us complete our evening prayer unto
the Lord, with the choir singing the responses according to the penitential
Lenten melody.
Aposticha: Triodion (Stichera
and verses, beginning with Throwing off
from my unruly mind), G/N: Theotokion in the Triodion (The heavenly powers praise thee).
Now lettest Thou Thy servant
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin (with a great
prostration); G: O Baptizer of Christ (with a great prostration): N: Plead in our behalf (great prostration);
Beneath thy compassion (without a prostration).
Lord, have mercy. 40 times
G/N More Honorable.
In the name of the Lord, father
bless.
Priest: He that is is blessed.
Reader: O Heavenly King, strengthen Orthodox Christians.
Then the priest says the prayer
of St. Ephrem with 3 prostrations, then the dismissal.