The Holy Apostle Thomas

19^th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 2

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 4; Apostle 6 (O most beloved one); G: Apostle (As a servant of the Word); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.

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

3 Readings for the Apostle.

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Apostle (Beholding the divine wisdom of Christ); N: Theotokion (Christ the Lord).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Apostle (Thou wast a disciple of Christ); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Apostle: We magnify thee, O holy apostle of Christ Thomas, and we honor thy pains and labors whereby thou hadst labored in proclaming the Gospel of Christ; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

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

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon Tone 2.

Matins Gospel 8, John 20:11-18 (§64).

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.

Apostle 8 Holy apostle Thomas, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 2.

Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Full of the grace of wisdom), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Apostle (Fishing for reason-endowed fish); G/N: Theotokion (All of us, the generation of men).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Apostle (O glory of the apostles); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 2, on 8: Resurrection 4; Apostle 4 (Thou didst follow after Christ – with the doxasticon (Thou wast shown to be like Elijah), and the final two psalm verses: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. & The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth the work of His hands); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Sunday Dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Apostle; Kontakion: Apostle & Resurrection, alternating.

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

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

Prokimenon, Tone 2: The Lord is my strength and my song. & Tone 8: Their sound hath gone forth.

Epistle: II Cor. 11:31-12:9 (§194); I Cor. 4:9-16 (§131).

Alleluia, Tone 2 & Tone 1.

Gospel: Luke 7:11-16 (§30); John 20:19-31 (§65).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & Their sound hath gone forth.

Resurrectional Dismissal.