The Sunday of St. Thomas (Antipascha)

Before the ninth hour the royal doors and the deacon’s doors are shut.

Vespers:

Priest: “Glory to the Holy…” Choir: “Amen”

Priest: “Christ is risen…” 2 ½ times.  The Choir sings the conclusion of “Christ is Risen” and then the select verses of Psalm 103.

Blessed is the man

At Lord I have Cried:  Pentecostarion 10, G/ N: “Thou didst come...” (Pentecostarion)

Litia: Pentecostarion

Aposticha: Pentecostarion, G/N: Pentecostarion

Troparia:  “Whilst the tomb was sealed…” x3

 

Matins: 

Choir: “Christ is risen…” x3

Reader: “Glory to God in the highest…” and the 6 psalms as usual.

Troparia after God is the Lord: “Whilst the tomb was sealed…” x2; G/N: repeat troparion x1.

Sessional hymns from the Pentecostarion

Polyeleos, followed by the Magnification:

“We magnify Thee, O Christ the Giver of life, who for our sakes hast descended into hades, and with Thyself hast resurrected all.” Psalm verse: “The Lord is King, He is clothed with majesty.”

(This is not found in the Pentecostarion from Boston, but it is in the Jordanville Horologion, in the section “Selected Psalms”, which gives all the additional selected verses)  

The Evlogitaria (Blessed art Thou) are not sung

After the small ektenia, The Sessional  Hymn

Hymns of Ascent, 4th Tone: “From my youth…”, and  the Prokimenon in the 4th tone: “Praise thy Lord, O Jerusalem…”

Matins Gospel 1

“Having beheld the Resurrection…” x3; Psalm 50; Glory: “Through the prayers of the Apostles,” Both now:  “Through the prayers of the Theotokos,”  “Have mercy on me, O God,”   “Jesus having risen…”   Then the Litany: “Save, O God, Thy people…”

 

Canon:                               

                Pentecostarion                        12                            “Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.”

                Katavasia: “It is the day of resurrection…” 

 

After Ode 3,  Hypakoe from the Pentecostarion

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos from the Pentecostarion

At Ode 9, We do not sing “More Honorable...”  Instead we immediately begin the Irmos of the 9th ode.

Holy is the Lord, our God.   

Exapostilaria:  Pentecostarion

Praises: Pentecostarion 4 [Tone 1]; G: Pentecostarion, N: “Most blessed art thou…”

After the Great Doxology: Troparion : “Whilst the tomb was sealed…”

After the dismissal:  G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed by First Hour.

At the Hours:  Troparia: Pentecostarion; Kontakion: Pentecostarion.