Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos / Holy Virgins Menodora, Metrodora and Nymphodora.

17th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 8

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 8, on 10: Octoechos 4; Feast: 3 (O all glorious wonder); Martyrs 3 (Having adorned yourselves); G: Feast (What is this noise of revelers?); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.

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

Aposticha: Octoechos; G/N: Feast (The Queen of all).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (Thy nativity, O Theotokos Virgin) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 8; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G/N: Feast.

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascent, and Prokimenon, Tone 8.

Matins Gospel 6, Luke 24:36-53 (§114).

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.

Feast (second canon) 4 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Martyrs 4 Holy martyrs, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 8.

Katavasia: Inscribing the invincible weapon of the Cross.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Joachim and Anna were freed) and Ikos of the Feast; Kontakion (Clad as sisters in spirit), and Sessional hymn of the Martyrs (The heavenly choirs of the incorporeal hosts); G/N: Feast (Today is Mary, the divine Maiden).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G/N: Feast (She from whom the noetic Sun hath come forth).

Praises, Tone 8, on 8: Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (The only Theotokos – from the Matins Aposticha, with the doxasticon (The joy of the whole world) and the Psalm verses); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

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

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

After entrance: in a temple of the Lord or of the Theotokos, Troparion of the Resurrection; and Feast; Kontakion of the Resurrection; G: Martyrs; N: Feast.

In a temple of a saint, Troparion of the Resurrection; Feast; and Temple; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Temple; G: Martyrs; N: Feast.

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

Epistle: Gal. 6:11-18 (§215).*

Alleluia, Tone 1 & Tone 8.

Gospel: John 3:13-17 (§9).

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, first canon (Foreign to mothers is virginity).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.

*The readings for the 17th Sunday will be read on January 21, 2019 (the 36th Sunday).