The Sunday of the Samaritan Woman / St. George

Tone 4

Great Vespers: Priest: Glory to the Holy. Choir: Amen.

Priest: Christ is risen from the dead. 2 ½ times. The Choir sings: And upon those in the tombs bestowing life.

Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, on 10: Octoechos 3; Samaritan Woman 3 (At the sixth hour); Great Martyr 4 (As one valiant among the martyrs – with the doxasticon (Thou didst live thy life)); G: Samaritan Woman (By Jacob's Well); N: Sunday Dogmatic (The Prophet David, the forefather of God).

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

Three Readings for the Great Martyr.

Litia: Temple sticheron, and the stichera of the Great Martyr (In his glorious suffering); G: Great Martyr (Springtime hath arrived);; N: Pentecostarion (Let Heaven and earth radiantly rejoice today).

Aposticha: The sticheron of the Resurrection 1 (Having ascended the Cross, O Lord); The Paschal Stichera, with their verses; G: Great Martyr (O brethren, let us spiritually praise); N: Pentecostarion (When by Thine unfathomable dispensation);

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin. x2; Great Martyr (As a liberator of captives) x1.

Matins: Choir: Christ is risen from the dead. x3

Reader: Glory to God in the highest; and the 6 psalms as usual.

God is the Lord, Tone 4; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Great Martyr; N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).

After each Kathisma, Sessional hymns from the Pentecostarion.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Great Martyr: We magnify thee, O holy and victorious great martyr George, and we honor thy venerable sufferings, which thou didst endure for Christ; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the Tone; All the Sessional Hymns of the Great Martyr.

Hymns of Ascent, and Prokimenon in tone, Tone 4.

Matins Gospel 7, John 20:1-10 (§63).

Having beheld the resurrection x3; 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: Pascha (with the 2 Theotokia) 6 Christ is risen from the dead.

Great Martyr (1st Canon) 4 Holy Great Martyr and Trophy-bearer George, pray to God for us.

Samaritan Woman 4 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Irmos & Katavasia: It is the day of resurrection.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Cultivated by God) Ikos, and sessional hymn of the Great Martyr (Manfully contending in every manner of piety); G/N: Samaritan Woman (Let Heaven joyfully resound and exult now).

After Ode 6, Kontakion (Having come to the well in faith) and Ikos of the Samaritan woman.

At Ode 9, We do not sing More Honorable; but instead we immediately begin the Irmos of the 9th ode (Shine, shine), with the refrain Christ is risen, and rest as at the previous odes.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Pascha (Having fallen asleep); G: Great Martyr (Springtime hath shone forth upon us); N: Samaritan woman (On coming to Samaria).

Praises, Tone 4, on 8: Resurrection 4; Great Martyr 4 (Come, all ye who have celebrated – with the doxasticon (Let the eye-lids of men assent) and the final two psalm verses: The righteous man shall flourish like a palm-tree, and like a cedar in Lebanon shall he be multiplied. & They that are planted in the house of the Lord, in the courts of our God they shall blossom forth); G: Samaritan Woman (The Well-spring of the principle of life); N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, Troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Sunday dismissal. After the Resurrectional dismissal: G/N: 7th Gospel Sticheron (Lo! It is dark and very early in the morning); followed by First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Great Martyr; Kontakion: Great Martyr & Pentecostarion, alternating.

Liturgy: The beginning, as on St. Thomas Sunday.

Beatitudes on 12, Tone 4, from the Pentecostarion: 4; Samaritan Woman: 4, from Ode 3; Great Martyr: 4, from Ode 6.

After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection (Having learned the joyful proclamation); Great Martyr G: Kontakion of the Great Martyr; N: Kontakion of the Samaritan Woman (Having come to the well in faith).

Prokimenon, Tone 3: O chant unto our God, chant ye. & Tone 7: The righteous man shall be glad in the Lord.

Epistle: Acts 11:19-26,29-30 (§28); Acts 12:1-11 (§29).

Alleluia, Tone 4 (Pentecostarion & Great Martyr).

Gospel: John 4:5-42 (§12); John 15:17-16:2 (§52).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain The angel cried, with the Irmos of the Ninth Ode of Pascha (Shine, shine).

Communion Hymn: Receive ye the body of Christ & In everlasting remembrance shall the righteous be.

And the rest as on St. Thomas Sunday.