Great-Martyr Nikitas / Afterfeast of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
16th Sunday After
Pentecost / Tone 7
Great Vespers:
Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 7, on 10: Octoechos 3; Feast: 3 (Rejoice, O life-bearing Cross); Martyr 4 (Arrayed in the armor of piety); G: Martyr (We know thee as a lamp unto the martyrs); 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:
Martyr (Thou didst show thyself to be);
N: Feast (O God, the words of Moses).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (O Lord, save Thy people) x1.
Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 7; Troparia:
Resurrection x2; G: Martyr (Taking up the
Cross of Christ); 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 7.
Matins Gospel 5, Luke 24:12-35 (§113).
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 4 Glory, O Lord, to Thy precious
Cross.
Martyr 4 Holy Great-Martyr Nikitas, pray to
God for us.
Irmos of the canon of the
Resurrection, Tone 7.
Katavasia:
Inscribing the invincible weapon of the
Cross.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (O
Thou Who wast lifted up
willingly on the Cross) and Ikos of the Feast; Kontakion (Having cut down the dominion of deception),
and Sessional hymn of the Martyr (Showing
thyself to be an invincible warrior); G/N: Feast (Raising his hands up to heaven).
After
Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the
Resurrection.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection;
G: Martyr (Defending himself ); N: Feast (Today is the Cross raised on high).
Praises, Tone 7, on 8:
Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (Today is exalted
the Cross of Christ – from the Matins Aposticha, with the doxasticon (Today the whole world rejoiceth) and the
Psalm verses); 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: Feast & Martyr, alternating; Kontakion: Feast
& Resurrection, alternating.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos: 4; Feast: 4, from Ode 1; Martyr: 4, from Ode 6.
After entrance: in a temple of the Lord, Troparion of the
Resurrection, Feast, and Martyr; Kontakion of the Resurrection; G: Martyr; N:
Feast.
In a
temple of the Theotokos, Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, Temple, and
Martyr; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Feast; G: Martyr; N: Temple.
In a temple of a saint, Troparion of the
Resurrection, Feast, Temple, Martyr; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Temple; G: Martyr ; N: Feast.
Prokimenon, Tone 7: Exalt ye the Lord our
God. & Tone 7: The
righteous man shall be glad in the Lord.
Epistle: Gal. 2:16-20 (§203);
II Cor. 6:1-10 (§181); II Tim. 2:1-10 (§292).
Alleluia,
Tone 1 & Tone 4 (for the Sunday after the Exaltation, and the Great Martyr).
Gospel: Mark 8:34-9:1 (§37);
Matt. 25:14-30 (§105); Matt. 10:16-22 (§36).
Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain Magnify, O my soul, with the Irmos of
the Ninth Ode (O Theotokos, thou art a
mystical Paradise).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & In everlasting remembrance.
Resurrectional
Dismissal.