St. Juliana of Lazarevo / Forefeast of Theophany

 

Great Vespers: Glory to the holy, and consubstantial, and life-creating, and indivisible Trinity.

Psalm 103; The litany of peace; Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, on 8: Forefeast: 3 (With piety, let us sound forth); Saint 5 (O Lord, even though Juliana lived in the world); G: Saint (Let every tongue); N: Forefeast (Christ the truth cometh to the Jordan).

Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 5: O God, in Thy name save me. 3 Readings for the Saint. Litany: Let us all say; Vouchsafe, O Lord; Litany: Let us complete our evening prayer. 

Litia: Temple and Saint (O blessed and righteous Juliana!); G: Saint (O blessed and righteous Juliana! Possessed of a merciful sou); N: Forefeast (Rejoice, O holy Virgin Theotokos). The usual litany of the Litia: Save, O God, Thy people; and the prayer: O Master plenteous in mercy.

Aposticha: Forefeast (Splendid was the feast); G: Saint (Let Juliana, the dove of Christ, be honored); N: Forefeast (Come, all ye faithful) [If the temple is dedicated to St. Seraphim, all of the stichera of the Aposticha are for St. Seraphim (see the Service on July 19), except at Both now…, which is of the forefeast].

Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart; Trisagion to Our Father; Troparia: Saint (Shining forth with grace divine) x2; Forefeast (Make ready, O Zebulun) x1. Prayer for the blessing of the loaves; Blessed be the name of the Lord, x3; Psalm 33: I will bless the Lord at all times; to …but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good thing; Priest: The blessing of the Lord; Choir: Amen; And the reader begins the Six Psalms.

 

Matins: After the Six Psalms, the litany of peace. God is the Lord, Tone 4; Troparia: Forefeast x2; G: Saint; N Forefeast.

Kathismas 10 and 11. After each Kathisma: Sessional hymn of the Saint; G/N Forefeast.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Saint: We magnify thee, O holy and righteous Juliana, and we honor thy holy memory; for thou dost entreat Christ our God in our behalf. Psalm verse: With patience I waited patiently for the Lord, and He was attentive unto me, and He hearkened unto my supplication.

Sessional hymn of the Saint (The all-good God); G/N Forefeast (In His goodness).

Hymns of Ascents, First Antiphon, Tone 4: From my youth.

Prokimenon of the Saint, Tone 4: Wondrous is God in His saints, the God of Israel.

Matins Gospel: Matt. 25: 1-13 (§104).

Psalm 50; G: Through the prayers of St. Juliana; N: Through the prayers of the Theotokos; Have mercy on me, O God; Sticheron of the Saint in the Menaion (We have thee as a right-pleasing mediator). Save, O God, Thy people.

 

Canon:   Forefeast                                              6              Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

                St. Juliana (Both canons)   8              Holy Righteous Juliana, pray to God for us.

                Irmos: Let us chant unto the Lord.

                Katavasia of Theophany: The Lord mighty in battle.

 

After Ode 3, Kontakion (In the streams of the Jordan) & Ikos of the Forefeast; Sessional Hymn of the Saint (Adorned with fasting and prayer); G/N: Forefeast (O invisible God).

After Ode 6, Kontakion (All of us amid misfortune) and Ikos of the Saint.

At Ode 9, More Honorable. 

 

Exapostilarion: Forefeast (The voice of one crying out); G: Saint (The light of Christ abode within thee, O Juliana); N: Forefeast (How can the river’s streams receive [see the service to St. Sylvester (also January 2nd) in the English Menaion]).

Praises, Tone 6, on 6: Stichera: Forefeast 3 (O hosts of angels); Saint 3 (Through fasting and prayer); G: Saint (O venerable mother, righteous Juliana); N: Forefeast: (O Forerunner John, who knewest Me). After the Great Doxology, the troparion of the Saint; G/N Forefeast; the two remaining Litanies and the usual Dismissal of the day; First Hour

 

Hours: Troparia: Forefeast; G: Saint; Kontakion: Forefeast & Saint, alternating.

 

Liturgy: 8 Beatitudes verses: From the canon of the Forefeast: 4 from Ode 3; and of the Saint: 4 from Ode 6.

At the entrance: In a Temple dedicated to a feast of the Lord or of a Saint: Troparion of the Forefeast; Troparion of the Saint; G: Kontakion of the Saint; N: Kontakion of the Feast. 

But if the Temple is dedicated to a feast of the Theotokos, Troparion of the Forefeast; Troparion of the Temple; Troparion of the Saint; Kontakion of the Forefeast; G: Kontakion of the Saint; N: Kontakion of the Temple.

Prokimenon, Tone 4: Wondrous is God in His saints.

Epistle: Gal. 3:23-29 (§208).

Alleluia, Tone 1.

Gospel: Mark 5: 24-6: 1 (§21).

Communion Hymn: Rejoice in the Lord.

Dismissal: Usual Dismissal of the day