The Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt

Tone 8 / Fifth Sunday of Lent

 

Great Vespers:  Blessed is the man

Lord I have Cried, Tone 8, on 10:  Octoechos 6; Triodion 4 (The pollution of past sins); G: Triodion (The power of Thy Cross); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.

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

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Triodion (The desires of thy soul); N: Triodion (O new wonder)

Troparia:  O Theotokos and Virgin x3

 

Matins:  God is the Lord, Tone 4; Troparia:  Resurrection x2; G: Saint (In thee, O Mother, was preserved); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 8 (O Good One, Who for our sake).

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 8

Matins Gospel 8

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.

                Theotokos                             2              Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

                Triodion                                 4              Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.

                Saint (in the Triodion)         4              Venerable Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the resurrectional canon, Tone 8

                Katavasia: I shall open my mouth 

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Thou who once of old) and Ikos of the Saint [The English Triodion has the Kontakion after Ode 6]; Sessional hymns of the Triodion (All the rebellious impulses of the flesh; G/N Let us sing the praises of the Gate of heaven)

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

 

Holy is the Lord, our God.   

Exapostilaria:  Resurrection; G: Saint (Thee we have as a pattern of repentance); N:  Theotokion in the Triodion (O sweetness of the angels).

 

Praises, Tone 8, on 9: Octoechos 8, with the last two psalm verses being:

1. I will confess Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart, I will tell of all Thy wonders.

2. I will be glad and rejoice in Thee, I will chant unto Thy name, O Most High.

And then the verse Arise, O Lord my God, followed by the sticheron in the Triodion: The Kingdom of God is not food and drink; G: Triodion (The Kingdom of God is not food and drink), 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:  Troparia: Resurrection; G: Saint; Kontakion: Resurrection.

 

Liturgy of St. Basil the Great: Beatitudes on 8, from the Octoechos.

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

Prokimenon, Tone 8: Make your vows and pay them to the Lord our God, and of the Saint, Tone 4: Wondrous is God in His saints, the God of Israel.

Epistle: Hebrews 9:11-14 (§321 ctr); Galatians 3:23-29 (§208)

Alleluia, Tone 8

Gospel: Mark 10:32-45 (§47); Luke 7:36-50 (§33)

Instead of It is truly meet: All creation Rejoiceth

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens; & In everlasting remembrance shall the righteous be; he shall not be afraid of evil tidings.

Resurrectional Dismissal

 

Sunday Evening Vespers:  Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 1, on 10: Triodion 4 (Thou who art most rich, the first sticheron being repeated once); Martyrs (40 Martyrs of Sebaste, March 9th) 6 (Valiantly enduring present torments); G: Martyrs (Valiantly enduring present torments); N: Theotokion, Tone 2 (The shadow of the law passed away).

Entrance, O gladsome light.

Great Prokimenon, Tone 8: Thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear Thy Name.

3 Readings for the Martyrs

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 Marvelous is the Savior’s loving providence); G: Martyrs (In hymnody let us praise the forty passion-bearing martyrs); N: Theotokion in the Menaion, Tone 6: (O Theotokos, thou art the true vine).

Now lettest Thou Thy servant

Troparia: Martyrs (By the pangs of Thy saints); G/N: Theotokion: When Gabriel announced to thee.

Litany: Have mercy on us, O God.

Then the priest says the prayer of St. Ephrem with 3 prostrations, then the dismissal.