The Holy Apostle James the Brother of the Lord

22nd Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 5

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 5, on 10: Octoechos 4; Apostle 6* (Come, O ye divinely wise); G: Apostle (With the blood of martyrdom); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.

Entry: Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Apostle (Thou wast the brother and successor of Christ); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

*The Bogosluzhebniye Ukazaniya calls for “Octoechos 6; Apostle 4.”

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 5; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Apostle (As a disciple of the Lord); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 5.

Matins Gospel 11, John 21:15-25 (§67).

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

Theotokos 2 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Apostle 6 Holy Apostle James, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 5.

Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (The Word of God), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Apostle (Thou wast the kinsman of Jesus); G/N: Theotokion (O undefiled, pure and most immaculate Mistress).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Apostle (As is meet); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 5, on 8: Resurrection 4; Apostle 4 (O Lord, even as James stood – including the Doxasticon (Enlightened by the fiery beams), 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: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Apostle; Kontakion: Apostle and 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 5: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us. & Tone 8: Their sound hath gone forth.

Epistle: Gal. 6:11-18 (§215); Gal. 1:11-19 (§200).

Alleluia, Tone 5 & 1.

Gospel: Luke 16:19-31 (§83); Matt. 13:54-58 (§56).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.