The Sunday of the Samaritan Woman / St.
Nicholas
Tone 4
Great Vespers: Priest:
Glory to the Holy… Choir: Amen.
Priest:
Christ is risen
from the dead. 2 ˝ 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); Hierarch 4 (Having
attained) 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 Hierarch.
Litia:
Aposticha: The sticheron of
the Resurrection 1 (Having ascended the
Cross, O Lord); The Paschal Stichera, with their verses; G: Hierarch (O man of God); N: Pentecostarion (When by Thine unfathomable dispensation);
Troparia: O
Theotokos and Virgin. x2; Hierarch (The day of splendid solemnity is come)
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: Hierarch; N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).
After each Kathisma,
Sessional hymns from the Pentecostarion.
Polyeleos and Magnification
of the Hierarch: We magnify thee, O holy hierarch Nicholas, and we honor thy holy
memory; for thou dost pray for us to Christ our God; The
Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was
amazed).
Hypakoe of
the Tone; All the Sessional Hymns of the Hierarch.
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.
Hierarch (2 Canons) 4 Holy Hierarch Father Nicholas,
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 (Thy relics have moved like a star) and
Ikos of the Hierarch; Sessional hymn of
the Hierarch (The translation of thy
precious relics); 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:
Hierarch (Great are thy wonders); N:
Samaritan woman (On coming to
Praises,
Tone 4, on 8: Resurrection 4; Hierarch 4 (Having
gazed steadfastly – with doxasticon (Let
us sound the trumpet) and the final two psalm verses: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. &
Thy priests shall be clothed with
righteousness and Thy righteous shall rejoice); 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: Hierarch; Kontakion: Hierarch & Pentecostarion,
alternating.
Liturgy: The beginning, as on
Beatitudes on
12, Tone 4, from the Pentecostarion: 4; Samaritan Woman: 4, from Ode 3;
Hierarch: 4, from Ode 6.
After the entrance: Troparion
of the Resurrection (Having learned the
joyful proclamation); Hierarch G: Kontakion of the Hierarch; 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 saints shall boast in glory.
Epistle: Acts 11:19-26,29-30 (§28); Hebrews 13:17-21 (§335).
Alleluia,
Tone 4 & Tone 2.
Gospel:
John 4:5-42 (§12); Luke 6:17-23 (§24).
Instead
of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain The angel cried…, with the Irmos of the
9th 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.