Forgiveness Sunday / The Casting out of
Adam (Cheesefare)
Tone 3
Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Octoechos 6; Triodion 4 (The Lord my Creator); G: Triodion (Adam sat before Paradise); 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:
Triodion (Adam was cast out), N:
Theotokion in the Triodion (Christ the
Lord, my Creator and Deliverer).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.
Matins: God is the Lord,
Tone 3; Troparia: Resurrection x2, G/N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 3 (We hymn thee).
After each Kathisma:
Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos; By the waters of Babylon; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe;
Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 3.
Matins Gospel 3, Mark 16:9-20 (§71).
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.
Cross and Resurrection 2 Glory, O
Lord, to Thy precious Cross and Resurrection
Theotokos 2 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Triodion 6 Have
mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Irmos of the Resurrectional canon, Tone 3.
Katavasia: Crossing the deep on foot [in the Triodion].
After Ode 3, Sessional hymns of the Triodion (Adam was cast out); G: Triodion (The season of the virtues); N:
Theotokion (Unworthy though we be, O
Theotokos).
After
Ode 6, Kontakion (O Thou guide unto wisdom) and Ikos of
the Triodion.
At Ode
9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Triodion (In my wretchedness); N: Theotokion in
the Triodion.
Praises,
Tone 3, on 9: Octoechos 5, Triodion 4 (“Woe
is me!” Adam cried lamenting – with the Psalm verses given in Triodion) 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 Resurrectional
Dismissal; After the Dismissal:
G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed by First Hour.
Hours:
Troparion (only one): Resurrection; Kontakion: Triodion.
Note:
At the Proskomedia three Lambs are prepared: one for Liturgy of the day, and
two for the Presanctified Liturgies on Wednesday and Friday of the first week
of Lent. And on each Sunday through Palm Sunday, as many additional Lambs are
prepared as will be needed for the number of Presanctified Liturgies served
between that Sunday and the next full Liturgy. When Annunciation falls during
the week, any Lambs that would be needed for a Presanctified Liturgy between
that Liturgy and the next Sunday would be prepared at that time.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos: 6; Triodion: 4, from Ode 6.
After the entrance: In a
In a
In a
Prokimenon, Tone 8: Make your vows and pay them to the Lord our
God.
Epistle: Rom. 13:11-14:4
(§112).
Alleluia,
Tone 6.
Gospel: Matt. 6:14-21 (§17).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. Resurrectional Dismissal.
Sunday Evening Vespers: No Kathisma.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Penitential
Stichera from the Octoechos 4 (With
incense and with spiritual songs – Triodion, p. 185); Triodion 3 (Let us all make haste to humble the flesh by
abstinence); Saint 3 (Showing forth
an increase of asceticism (Venerable Auxentius, February 14th)); G: Saint (The pure wisdom of the Holy Spirit); N:
Theotokion, Tone 4 (Taking up the cry of
the Archangel – See
The Common Theotokia: Theotokia Following the Doxasticon in the Appendix of
the Menaion).
Entry; 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 Ambon. All the other
liturgical covers are likewise changed.
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. Trisagion to Our Father.
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin (with a great
prostration); G: O Baptizer of Christ
(great prostration): N: Plead in our
behalf (great prostration); Beneath thy compassion
(without a prostration).
Lord, have mercy x40; 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.