Apodosis of the
Entry / Hieromartyr Clement of Rome
25th
Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 8
Note: the service for the Hieromartyr Peter of Alexandria is
transferred to Compline.
Great
Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I
have Cried, Tone 8, on 10: Octoechos 4; Feast: 3 (Let us join chorus today); Hieromartyr 3
(As a branch of the vine of life); G:
Feast (After thy nativity); 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/N: Feast (Assembling today).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.
Matins:
God is the
Lord, Tone 8; Troparia: Resurrection
x2; G: Hieromartyr (All-gloriously amazing all
the ends of the earth); N: Feast (Today
is the prelude of God’s good will).
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.
Theotokos 2 O
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Feast (1st Canon) 4 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Hieromartyr 4 Hieromartyr Clement, pray to God for us.
Irmos of the Canon of the
Resurrection, Tone 8
After Ode 3, Kontakion (The
most pure temple of the Savior) and Ikos of the Feast; Kontakion (Thou hast been shown to all), Ikos, and
Sessional hymn of the Hieromartyr (Having
shone forth); G/N: Feast (With
gladness Mary, the Theotokos).
After Ode 6,
Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Hieromartyr
(Now hath been revealed); N: Feast (With faith let us praise the divine Maiden
Mary).
Praises, Tone 8, on 8: Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (Virgins bearing lamps – including the Doxasticon
(Today the most immaculate Virgin),
and the final two psalm verses: The
virgins that follow after her shall be brought unto the King, those near her
shall be brought unto Thee. & They
shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing, they shall be brought into the
temple of the King); 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.
Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G:
Feast & Martyr, alternating; Kontakion: Feast & Resurrection,
alternating.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos: 6; Feast: 4, from Ode 9.
After entrance,
Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, and Hieromartyr; Kontakion of the
Resurrection; G: Hieromartyr; N: Feast.
Prokimenon, Tone 8: Make your vows. &
Tone 3: My soul doth magnify the Lord.
Epistle: Eph. 4:1-6 (§224);
Heb. 9:1-7 (§320).
Alleluia, Tone
8 & Tone 8.
Gospel: Luke 13:10-17 (§71);
Luke 10:38-42,11:27-28 (§54).
Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain: The angels beholding the entry, with
the Irmos of the Ninth Ode, first canon (Let
no profane hand touch the living Ark of God).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens & I will take the cup of salvation.
Resurrectional Dismissal.