The Kursk Icon of the Mother of God

27th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 2

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 4; Icon 6 (O all-hymned Virgin); G: Icon (Forming a most festive choir today); N: Sunday Dogmatic Theotokion in the tone of the week.

Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King. 3 Readings for the Icon.

Litia: Sticheron of the Temple and the stichera of the Icon (Come, all ye people); G/N: Icon (When the fullness of time shall come).

Aposticha: Octoechos; G/N: Icon (O Virgin Theotokos).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Icon (Having obtained thee as an unassailable wall) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G/N: Icon.

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Icon: It is meet to magnify thee, O Theotokos, more honorable than the Cherubim and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe, Tone 2; all the Sessional hymns of the Icon.

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 2.

Matins Gospel 5, Luke 24:12-35 (§113).

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.

Icon 8 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 2.

Katavasia: Christ is born.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (we thy people celebrate thy venerable icon), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Icon (What feast is more splendid).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Icon (O Virgin Theotokos); N: Icon (By my sins).

Praises, Tone 2, on 8: Resurrection 4; Icon 4 (Bowing the knee of our hearts – with the Doxasticon (Pray thou fervently) and the final two psalm verses: Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear. & The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David, and He will not repent); 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: Icon; Kontakion: Icon & Resurrection, alternating.

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

After the entrance: In a temple of the Lord or of the Theotokos: Troparion of the Resurrection; Icon; G: Kontakion of the Resurrection; N: Icon.

In a temple of a Saint: Troparion of the Resurrection; Icon; Temple; Kontakion of the Resurrection; G: Temple; N: Icon.

Prokimenon, Tone 2: The Lord is my strength and my song. & Tone 3: My soul doth magnify the Lord.

Epistle: Eph. 6:10-17 (§233); Heb. 9:1-7 (§320).

Alleluia, Tone 2 & Tone 8.

Gospel: Luke 13:10-17 (§71); Luke 10:38-42,11:27-28 (§54).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & I will take the cup of salvation.

Resurrectional Dismissal.