The Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

15th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 6

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 6, on 10: Octoechos 4; Feast 6 (Today God, Who resteth on the noetic thrones); G/N: Feast (Today God, Who resteth on the noetic thrones).

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

3 Readings for the Feast.

Litia of the Feast (Today is the beginning of our salvation); G/N Feast (On the right excellent day of our feast).

Aposticha: Octoechos; G/N: Feast (Come, all ye faithful).

Troparia: Feast (Thy nativity, O Theotokos Virgin) x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 6; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G/N: Feast.

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Feast: We magnify thee, O Most-holy Virgin, and we honor thy holy parents and we glorify thine all-glorious nativity; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe, Tone 6; all the Sessional hymns of the Feast.

Hymns of Ascents, Tone 6.

Prokimenon of the Feast, Tone 4: I shall commemorate thy name.

Matins Gospel: Luke 1:39-49,56 (§4).

Having beheld the resurrection; Psalm 50; G: Through the prayers of the Theotokos; N: Repeat; Have mercy on me, O God; Sticheron of the Feast (This is the day of the Lord). Save, O God, Thy people.

Canon: Resurrection 4 Glory to Thy Holy Resurrection, O Lord.

Theotokos 2 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Feast (2 Canons) 8 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 6.

Katavasia: Inscribing the invincible weapon of the Cross.

After Ode 3, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection; Sessional hymns of the Feast (Like a cloud of light hath the Virgin Mary).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Feast (Joachim and Anna were freed).

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G/N: Feast (Today the Theotokos).

Praises, Tone 6, on 8: Resurrection 4; Feast 4 (O wondrous miracle – first sticheron x2; and the final two psalm verses: Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear. & The rich among the people shall entreat thy countenance); G: Feast (This is the day of the Lord); N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; after the dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron (4th); First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Feast; Kontakion: Resurrection & Feast, alternating.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 10 Octoechos 6; Feast 4, from Ode 3.

After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection; Feast; G: Kontakion of the Resurrection; N: Feast.

Prokimenon, Tone 6: Save, O Lord, Thy people. & Tone 3: My soul doth magnify the Lord.

Epistle: Gal. 6:11-18 (§215); II Cor. 4:6-15 (§176);Phil. 2:5-11 (§240).

Alleluia, Tone 1 & Tone 6 (Sunday before the Exaltation & Feast).

Gospel: John 3:13-17 (§9); Matt. 22:35-46 (§92); Luke 10:38-42,11:27-28 (§54).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain: Magnify, O my soul, the most glorious nativity of the Mother of God, with the Irmos of the Ninth Ode, second canon (Foreign to mothers is virginity).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens & I will take the cup of salvation.

Resurrectional Dismissal.