The Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers

Tone 2

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: Octoechos 7 (also found in the Pentecostarion); Myrrh-bearers 3; G: Myrrh-bearers; N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week

Aposticha: Resurrection (in the tone of the week) 1; Paschal Stichera; G: Pentecostarion; N: “It is the day of resurrection…” and “Christ is risen…” x1.

Troparia: “O Theotokos and Virgin…” 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: “When Thou didst descend…” x2; G: “The noble Joseph…” N: “Unto the myrrh-bearing women…”.

Sessional hymns from the Pentecostarion

Blessed are the Blameless

The Evlogitaria

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascent, and Prokimenon in tone of the week

Matins Gospel 3

“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:

Pascha (with the 2 Theotokia) 6 “Christ is risen from the dead.”

Myrrhbearers 8 “Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.”

Katavasia: “It is the day of resurrection…”

After Ode 3, Kontakion and Ikos of Pascha; Sessional hymns 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 9^th ode.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Pascha; G: Pentecostarion; N: Pentecostarion

Praises: Resurrection 8; G: 2^nd Gospel Sticheron; N: “Most blessed art thou…”

At the Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: “The noble Joseph…”; Kontakion: Myrrh-bearers.