Great Martyr Catherine / Afterfeast of
the Entry of the Theotokos
26th Sunday After
Pentecost / Tone 1
Note: The service for
the GM Mercurius is transferred to Compline.
Great Vespers:
Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 1, on 10: Octoechos 3; Feast: 3 (Come, all ye who love the feasts of the Church – from the Vespers
Aposticha); Martyr 4 (Today the city of
Alexandria); G: Martyr (O ye who love
the martyrs); 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:
Martyr (Having acquired an immaterial
life); N: Feast (David foretold thee).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (Today is the prelude of God’s good will)
x1.
Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 1; Troparia:
Resurrection x2; G: Martyr (Thy ewe-lamb
Catherine); N: Feast.
After each Kathisma:
Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascent, and
Prokimenon, Tone 1.
Matins Gospel 4, Luke 24:1-12 (§112).
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.
Theotokos 2 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Feast (first Canon) 4 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Martyr 4 Holy great martyr Catherine, pray
to God for us.
Irmos of the canon of the
Resurrection, Tone 1.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (The
most pure temple of the Savior) and Ikos of the Feast;
Kontakion (O ye who love the martyrs); and
Sessional hymn of the Martyr (Thou didst
love Christ thy Bridegroom); G/N: Feast (O David, go thou before us).
After
Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the
Resurrection.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection;
G: Martyr (Aflame with wisdom); N:
Feast (The ranks of angels).
Praises, Tone 1, on 8:
Resurrection 4; Martyr 4 (Celebrating the
most sacred memory – with the doxasticon (Having achieved an immaterial life) and the final two psalm verses:
Wondrous is God in His saints, the God of
Israel. & In congregations bless
ye God, the Lord from the wellsprings of Israel); 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: Feast & Martyr, alternating; Kontakion: Feast
& Resurrection, alternating.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos: 4; Feast: 4, from Ode 7, first Canon; Martyr: 4,
from Ode 6.
After entrance: in a temple of the Lord or of the Theotokos,
Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, and Martyr; Kontakion of the
Resurrection; G: Martyr; N: Feast.
In a temple of a saint, Troparion of the
Resurrection; Feast;
Prokimenon, Tone 1: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us. &
Tone 4: Wondrous is God in His saints.
Epistle: Eph. 5:9-19 (§229);
Eph. 6:10-17 (§ 233).
Alleluia,
Tone 1.
Gospel: Luke 13:10-17 (§71);
Luke 21:12-19 (§106).
Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain: The angels beholding the entry, with the Irmos of the first canon
of the Ninth Ode (Let no profane hand
touch the living Ark of God).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
Resurrectional
Dismissal.