Venerable Martyr Stephen the New

26th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 1

 

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 1, on 10: Octoechos 6; Martyrs 4 (From thy youth); G: Martyrs (Like the great prophet Samuel); 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: Martyrs (Having preserved intact); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 1; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Martyrs (Struggling in fasting); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascents, 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.

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

               Theotokos                           2             O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

               Martyrs                               4             O holy martyr Stephen, pray to God for us.

               Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 1.

               Katavasia: Christ is born.

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (From a barren woman), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Martyrs (Thy blood); G: Martyr (Luminous in fasting); N: Theotokion (O pure and unwedded Virgin Theotokos).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.  

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Martyrs (With the pangs of asceticism); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 1, on 8: Octoechos 8; G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Sunday Dismissal; First Hour.

 

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

 

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

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

Prokimenon, Tone 1: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us. & Tone 8: The saints shall boast in glory.

Epistle: Eph. 5:8-19 (§229); II Tim. 1:8-18 (§291).

Alleluia, Tone 1 & Tone 8.

Gospel: Luke 13:10-17 (§71); Matt. 10:23-31 (§37).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.