St. Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Constantinople

24th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 7

 

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 7, on 10: Octoechos 6; Hierarch 4 (The divinely eloquent Paul); G: Hierarch (Arrayed in hierarchal vestments); 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 (Sailing the deep of fasting); N: Theotokion, Tone 2 (O new wonder).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 7; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Hierarch (By thy confession); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 3 (We hymn thee).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe; Hymns of Ascent; and Prokimenon, Tone 7.

Matins Gospel 2, Mark 16:1-8 (§70).

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.

                Cross & Resurrection          2              Glory, O Lord, to Thy precious Cross and Resurrection.

                Theotokos                             2              O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.   

                Hierarch                                                6              Holy hierarch father Paul, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 7.

                Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (O Paul, who shone forth) and Ikos; Sessional hymn of the Hierarch (Holding fast to the dogma); G: Hierarch (As the namesake and emulator of the chosen vessel); N: Theotokion (All of us, the generation of men and angels).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.   

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Hierarch (Set afire with zeal); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 7, on 8: Resurrection 8; G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

 

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Hierarch; Kontakion: Resurrection.

 

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

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

Prokimenon, Tone 7: The Lord will give strength unto His people. & Tone 7: The saints shall boast in glory.

Epistle: Eph. 2:14-22 (§221); Heb. 8:3-6 (§318 mid).

Alleluia, Tone 7 & 2.

Gospel: Luke 8:41-56 (§39); Luke 12:8-12 (§64).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & In everlasting remembrance.

Resurrectional Dismissal.