St. Gregory the Wonderworker

25^th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 8

Note: If the rector so directs, a Polyeleos-rank service may be served for St. Paisius Velichkovsky. See ODS, §1D.

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 8, on 10: Octoechos 6; Hierarch 4 (What shall we call thee); G: Hierarch (Having most wisely entered); 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 (The wakefulness of God was given thee); N: Theotokion, Tone 6 (Christ the Lord).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 8; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Hierarch (By vigilance in prayer); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 8 (O Good One).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe; Hymns of Ascent; and Prokimenon, Tone 8.

Matins Gospel 3, Mark 16:9-20 (§71).

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 Gregory, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 8.

Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Receiving the power to work many miracles); Sessional hymn of the Hierarch (Thou wast a new Moses); G/N: Theotokion (Thou was a divine tabernacle of the Word).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Hierarch (Thou didst shine forth in miracles); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 8, on 8: Resurrection 8; G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

The 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 8: Make your vows. & Tone 7: Precious in the sight of the Lord.

Epistle: Eph. 4:1-6 (§224); I Cor. 12:7-11 (§151).

Alleluia, Tone 8 & 2.

Gospel: Luke 12:16-21 (§66); Matt. 10:1-8 (§34 (mid.)).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.