Forgiveness Sunday / The Casting out of
Adam (Cheesefare)
Tone 4
Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, 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 4; Troparia: Resurrection x2, G/N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).
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 4.
Matins Gospel 4, Luke 24:1-12 (§112).
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 & 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 4.
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 4, 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: Having risen; 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 4, on 10: Penitential Stichera from the Octoechos 4 (I want to wash away with tears – Triodion, p. 185f); Triodion 3 (Let us all make haste to humble the flesh by
abstinence); Martyrs 3 (Shedding the
garments of mortality – Holy Martyrs at the Gate of Eugenius, February
22nd); G/N: Theotokion in the Menaion (As
thou art an intercessor for our whole race).
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 epitrachelion, 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.