The Sunday of the Prodigal Son/
The Holy New Martyrs &
Confessors of Russia (Tone 2)
Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 3; Triodion 3 (I was entrusted with a sinless and living land); Saints 4 (With fervent supplication); G: Triodion
(Of what great blessings in my
wretchedness); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.
Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King. 3
Readings for the Saints.
Litia: Stichera of the Temple;
Triodion 2 (from the stichera at the Praises: I come before Thee, O Lord. & As the Prodigal Son I have wasted); G: Saints (May the joyous angels); N: Triodion (As the Prodigal Son I come to Thee).
Aposticha: Octoechos, G:
Saints (O holy and most humble priests);
N: Triodion (I have wasted the wealth).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2, Saints (O ye holy hierarchs, royal passion-bearers
and pastors) x1.
Matins: God is the Lord,
Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2, G: Saints; N: Resurrectional Theotokion Tone
4 (The mystery hidden from before the
ages).
After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos; By the Waters of Babylon; and
Magnification of the Saints: We magnify you, O holy new martyrs and
confessors of Russia, and honor your honored sufferings, which ye have endured
for Christ; Evlogitaria (The assembly of
angels was amazed).
Hypakoe of
the Tone; Sessional hymns of the Saints.
Hymns of Ascent, and
Prokimenon, Tone 2.
Matins Gospel 2, Mark 16:1-8 (§70).
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 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Triodion 4 Have
mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Saints 4 Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of
Russia, pray to God for us.
Irmos of the Resurrectional canon, Tone 2.
Katavasia: The Sun once shone with its rays.
After Ode 3, Kontakion, Ikos & Sessional hymn of the Saints (Prone to the weakness); G: Saints (The priest Alexis); N: Sessional hymn of
the Triodion (Make haste to open unto me
Thy fatherly embrace).
After
Ode 6, Kontakion (Having foolishly abandoned Thy paternal
glory) and Ikos of the Triodion.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection,
G: Saints (O holy new martyrs and
confessors), N: Triodion (The wealth
of grace).
Praises, Tone 2: Octoechos 4;
Saints (with the Psalm verses given in the Menaion) 4; G: Triodion (O loving Father); 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.
Hours:
Troparia: Resurrection, G: Saints; Kontakion: Saints and Triodion, alternating.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos 4; Triodion 4, from Ode 3; Saints 4.
After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection; Saints; Kontakion of
the Resurrection; G: Saints; N: Triodion.
Prokimenon, Tone 2: The Lord is my strength and my song. &
Tone 7: For Thy sake, O Lord, we are slain
all the day long.
Epistle: I Cor. 6:12-20
(§135); Rom. 8:28-39 (§99).
Alleluia,
Tone 2 & Tone 4.
Gospel: Luke 15:11-32 (§79);
Luke 21:12-19 (§106).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise
is meet for the upright.
Resurrectional
Dismissal.