The Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos

20th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 3

 

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Octoechos 4; Feast 6 (O pure Theotokos, wellspring of wisdom); G: Feast (All the ranks of noetic beings rejoice); 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 Feast.

Litia: Stichera of the Feast (The all-radiant feast of thine honored protection); G/N: Feast (Having purified our minds and thoughts).

Aposticha: Octoechos; G/N: Feast (The Church of God is adorned).

Troparia: Feast (Today we Orthodox people joyfully celebrate) x3.

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 3; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G/N: Feast (Today we Orthodox people joyfully celebrate).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Feast: We magnify thee, O Most-holy Virgin, and we honor thy precious Protection, for St. Andrew saw thee in the air, entreating Christ for us; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the Tone, all the Sessional hymns of the Feast.

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon Tone 3.

Matins Gospel 9, John 20:19-31 (§65).

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                                      8              O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

                Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 3.

                Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Today the before Virgin doth stand before us in church), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Feast (O pure Ever-virgin, fervent and invincible intercessor).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

 

Holy is the Lord, our God.   

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G/N: Feast (O all-holy lady, Virgin Theotokos).

Praises, Tone 3, on 8: Resurrection 4; Feast 4 (We fall down before thee, O Lady – with the doxasticon  (In that the all-wondrous Andrew) and the final two psalm verses: Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear. & The rich among the people shall entreat thy countenance); 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; Kontakion: Feast & Resurrection, alternating.

 

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

After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection; Feast; G: Kontakion of the Resurrection; N: Feast.

Prokimenon, Tone 3: O chant unto our God, chant ye. & Tone 3: My soul doth magnify the Lord.

Epistle: Gal. 1:11-19 (§200); Heb. 9:1-7 (§320).

Alleluia, Tone 3 & Tone 8.

Gospel: Luke 6:31-36 (§26); 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.