The Apodosis of the Nativity of the Theotokos

15th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 6

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: Feast (Today God, Who resteth on the noetic thrones); 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 (Come, all ye faithful).

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

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 6; 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 Ascents; and Prokimenon, Tone 6.

Matins Gospel 4, Luke 24:1-12 (§112).

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 (both 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 upon the waters.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Joachim and Anna were freed), Ikos, Sessional hymn of the Feast (Like a cloud of light hath the Virgin Mary).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; GN: Feast (Today the Theotokos).

Praises, Tone 6, on 8: Resurrection 4; Feast 4 (O wondrous miracle – with the Doxasticon (This is the day of the Lord), 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: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Sunday Dismissal; First Hour.

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

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 10 Octoechos 6; Feast 4, from Ode 9, first canon.

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 & 8.

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.