The Meeting of the Lord / The Casting
out of Adam (Cheesefare)
Tone 3
Great Vespers: Blessed is
the man
Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Octoechos 3;
Triodion 3; Feast 4 G: Triodion (Adam sat
before
Entrance,
Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.
3
Litia: Feast 3 (The
Ancient of Days; Today, He Who gave
the law; & Him to Whom the
ministers on high pray); Triodion 2 (from the first two stichera of the
Praises (Woe is me, Adam cried & The arena of the virtues); G: Triodion (The sun hid its rays); N: Feast (The Ancient of Days).
Aposticha: Octoechos, G:
Triodion (Adam was cast out), N:
Feast (He Who is borne upon the cherubim).
Troparia: Feast x3
Matins: God is the
Lord, Tone 3; Troparia: Sun x2, G/N: Feast
After each Kathisma:
Sessional hymns from the Octoechos
Polyeleos and By the waters of
Magnification of the Feast: We
magnify Thee, O Christ the Giver of life, and we honor Thy most-pure Mother, by
whom Thou now art brought in accordance with the Law into the
Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe of the Tone, and the
Sessional Hymns of the Feast
Hymns of Ascent of the Tone
of the week
Prokimenon of the Feast, Tone
4: I shall commemorate thy name in every
generation and generation.
Matins Gospel : Luke 2:25-32 (§8)
Having beheld the Resurrection; Psalm 50; G: Through
the prayers of the Theotokos; N: Repeat; Have mercy on me, and the sticheron of the feast, Tone 6: O God; Let the gates of heaven be opened today; Save, O God, Thy people.
Canon: Resurrection 4 Glory to Thy Holy
Resurrection, O Lord.
Triodion 4 Have
mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Feast 6 Glory to Thee, our God,
glory to Thee.
Irmos of the resurrectional canon, Tone 3
Katavasia of
the Presentation: The Sun once shone with
its rays
At Ode 3, Kontakion (O Thou
guide unto wisdom) and Ikos of the Triodion, Sessional hymn of the Triodion
(Adam was cast out from the delight of
Paradise), G/ N: Feast (Of old, on
At Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Feast
At Ode 9, More
Honorable... [the festal verses for the feast are not sung]
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Triodion (In my wretchedness); N: Feast (Set
by the Spirit).
Praises, Tone 3, on 9:
Octoechos 4; Feast 4, including the doxasticon, with the following verses for
the last two stichera of the feast: 1) Now
lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, O Master, according to Thy word. 2) A
light to enlighten the gentiles, and the glory of the People Israel; then the verse Arise,
O Lord my God, and the sticheron of the Triodion: Adam was driven out; G: Triodion (The time is now at hand); N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology,
the troparion:
Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Sunday dismissal; After the dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed
by First Hour.
Hours: Troparion: Resurrection, G: Feast; Kontakion
of the Triodion and Feast, alternating
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos 4; Triodion 4, from Ode 3; Feast 4, from Ode 6.
At the entrance, the deacon (or priest if there is no deacon) says the Festal Introit
in place of the usual O come let us
worship: The Lord hath made known His salvation, in the sight of the nations
hath He revealed His righteousness.
And immediately the Troparion
of the Resurrection; Feast; G: Kontakion of the Triodion; N: Feast.
Prokimenon Tone 8: Make your vows and pay them to the Lord our
God & Tone 3: My soul doth
magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
Epistle: Romans 13:11-14:4
(§112); Hebrews 7:7-17 (§316)
Alleluia,
Tone 6 and Tone 8
Gospel: Matthew 6:14-21 (§17)
and Luke 2:22-40 (§7)
Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain O Virgin Theotokos, thou hope of Christians,
with the Irmos of the 9th 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, and I will
call upon the name of the Lord.
Resurrectional Dismissal
Sunday Evening Vespers: Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10:
Penitential Stichera from the Octoechos 4; Triodion 3 (With Incense and with spiritual songs);
Martyr (Tryphon, February 1st) 4 G: Martyr (Thou didst disdain); N: Theotokion, Tone 2 (Rejoice, O Theotokos Mary, thou temple indestructible)
Entrance, O gladsome light.
Great Prokimenon, Tone 8: Turn not Thy countenance away from Thy
servant, for I am afflicted; quickly hearken unto me. Attend unto my soul and
deliver it.
During the final repetition of
the prokimenon, the priest closes the royal doors, removes his phelonion and
puts on a dark epitrachilion, and goes out to the
Vouchsafe, O Lord.
Then the Litany, Let us complete our evening prayer unto the
Lord, with the choir singing the responses according to the penitential
Lenten melody.
Aposticha: Triodion (Stichera
and verses, beginning with Thy grace has
shone forth, O Lord), G/N: Theotokion in the Triodion (The ranks of the angels glorify thee).
Now lettest Thou Thy servant
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin (with a great
prostration); G: O Baptizer of Christ (with a great prostration): N: Plead in our behalf (great prostration);
Beneath thy compassion (without a
prostration).
Lord, have mercy. 40 times
G/N More Honorable.
In the name of the Lord, father bless.
Priest: He that is is blessed.
Reader: O Heavenly King, strengthen Orthodox Christians.
Then the priest says the
prayer of St. Ephrem with 3 prostrations, then the dismissal* And we kiss the
icons, the Cross, and the priest, and the faithful, having asked forgiveness of
one another, enter into the holy Forty Days.
Small Compline:
Without canon.
*In parishes, instead of the
usual dismissal, the priest reads the prayer O Master plenteous in mercy (which
is the dismissal at Great Compline), while we prostrate ourselves, and he asks
forgiveness of the faithful, usually preceding this with a word of instruction
appropriate to the occasion.