The Church New Year (Beginning of the Indiction) / St. Symeon the Stylite

14th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 5

Note: The service of the Holy 40 Women is chanted at compline.

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 5, on 10: Octoechos 4; Indiction 3 (Having prayerfully learned); Saint 3 (O venerable father); G: Indiction (O unoriginate Word and Son); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.

Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King. 2 Readings for the Indiction, and 1 Reading for the Saint.

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Saint (O venerable father); N: Indiction (O Thou that art ever King).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Indiction (O Fashioner of all creation) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 5; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Saint (Thou wast a pillar of patience); N: Indiction.

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Blessed are the blameless; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe; Hymns of Ascents; and Prokimenon, Tone 5.

Matins Gospel 3, Mark 16:9-20 (§71).

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.

Theotokos 2 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Indiction 4 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Saint 4 Venerable father Symeon, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 5.

Katavasia: Inscribing the invincible weapon of the Cross.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (O Christ our King) of the Indiction; Kontakion (Making of thy pillar a fiery chariot) and Ikos of the Saint; Sessional hymn of the Saint (Having forsaken all things); G/N: Indiction (O Thou Who bestowest fruitful seasons).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Saint (Thy life, O venerable one); N: Indiction (O Lord and God of gods).

Praises, Tone 5, on 8: Resurrection 4; Indiction 3 ((O preeternal Word of the Father) and the final two psalm verses: To Thee is due praise, O God, in Zion; and unto Thee shall a vow be rendered in Jerusalem. & Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints); Saint 1 (The sacred Symeon sprang forth – the doxasticon in the Menaion); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional dismissal; First Hour.

The Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Indiction & Saint, alternating; Kontakion: Indiction, Saint, & Resurrection, alternating.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12 Octoechos 4; Indiction 4, from Ode 3; Saint 4, from Ode 6.

After the entrance: Troparia of the Resurrection, Indiction, Saint; Kontakia of the Resurrection, G: Saint; N: Indiction.

Prokimenon of the Indiction, Tone 3: Great is our Lord, and great is His strength. & Saint, Tone 7: Precious in the sight of the Lord.

Epistle: I Tim. 2:1-7 (§282); II Cor. 1:21-2:4 (§170); Col. 3:12-16 (§258).

Alleluia, Tone 4 (Of the Indiction and the Saint).

Gospel: Luke 4:16-22 (§13); Matt. 22:1-14 (§89); Matt. 11:27-30 (§43).

Communion Hymn: Thou shalt bless the crown of the year with Thy goodness. & In everlasting remembrance shall the righteous be.

Resurrectional Dismissal.