Martyr Arethas and those with him

21st Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 4

 

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, on 10: Octoechos 7; Martyrs 3 (Thou didst apply thy courage); G: Martyrs (With oneness of mind); 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 (Perceiving beforehand); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

 

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 4; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Martyrs (By the pangs of the saints); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 1 (When Gabriel announced).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 4.

Matins Gospel 10, John 21:1-14 (§66).

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        3             Glory, O Lord, to Thy precious Cross and Resurrection.

               Theotokos                           3             O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

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

               Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 4.

               Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (The feast of the passion-bearers), Ikos, and Sessional hymns of the Martyrs (Arrayed with the power of the Cross); G/N: Theotokion (Having fallen into the subtle snares).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

 

Holy is the Lord, our God.  

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Martyrs (God was the fulfiller); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 4, on 8: Octoechos 8; 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: Martyrs; Kontakion: Resurrection.

 

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 8, from the Octoechos.

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

Prokimenon, Tone 4: How magnified are Thy works O Lord. & Tone 4: In the saints that are in His earth hath the Lord been wondrous.

Epistle: Gal. 2:16-20 (§203); Heb. 11:33-12:2 (§330).

Alleluia, Tone 4 (Sunday & Martyrs).

Gospel: Luke 16:19-31 (§83); Matt. 10:32-33, 37-38, 19:27-30 (§38).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.

Resurrectional Dismissal.