The Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee / Afterfeast of the Meeting of the Lord

Tone 5

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 5, on 10: Octoechos 4; Triodion 3 (Brethren, let us not pray as the Pharisee); Afterfeast 3 (He Who loveth mankind – Menaion, February 4); G: Triodion (Almighty Lord); Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.

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

Aposticha: Octoechos, G: Triodion (Mine eyes are weighed down), N: Afterfeast (The sacred Virgin brought the Sacred One to the high priest).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (Rejoice, thou who art full of grace) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 5; Troparia: Resurrection x2, G/N: Feast.

After each Kathisma, Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 5.

Matins Gospel 5, Luke 24:12-35 (§113).

Having beheld the Resurrection; Psalm 50; G: The doors of repentance; N: Guide me in the paths of salvation; Have mercy on me, O God; When I think of the multitude of evil things I have done. Save, O God, Thy people.

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

Theotokos 2 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Triodion 4 Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.

Feast 4 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 5.

Katavasia: The Sun once shone with its rays.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Thou Who didst sanctify the Virgin’s womb by Thy birth) and Ikos of the Feast; Sessional hymn of the Triodion (Humility exalted the Publican); G: Triodion (In days of old); N: Afterfeast (Thou wast born on earth).

After Ode 6, Kontakion (As the Publican) and Ikos of the Triodion.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection, G: Triodion (Let us flee from the wicked boasting of the Pharisee); N: Feast (Set by the Spirit in the sanctuary).

Praises, Tone 5, on 8: Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (Christ is born of the Virgin – from the Matins Aposticha, with the Doxasticon (Thou hast come from heaven to earth) and the Psalm verses); G: Triodion (O Lord, Thou hast condemned the Pharisee); N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal. After the Dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron; First Hour.

Hours: Troparion: Resurrection, G: Feast; Kontakion: Feast and Triodion, alternating.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos 4; Triodion 4, from Ode 6; Feast 4, from Ode 3.

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

Prokimenon, Tone 5: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us. & Tone 3: My soul doth magnify the Lord.

Epistle: II Tim. 3:10-15 (§296).

Alleluia, Tone 5 & Tone 8 (Octoechos & Feast).

Gospel: Luke 18:10-14 (§89).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain O Virgin Theotokos, thou hope of Christians, with the Irmos of the Ninth Ode of the canon of the Feast (In the shadow and the letter of the Law).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.