The Sunday of the Holy Fathers
30th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 5
Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 5, on 10: Octoechos 6; Fathers 4 (Unto the ends of the earth); G: Fathers (Daniel, the man of divine desires); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone
of the week.
Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King. 3
Readings for the Fathers.
Aposticha: Octoechos; G:
Fathers (Rejoice, ye honorable prophets);
N: Theotokion, Tone 2 (O
new wonder).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Fathers (Great are the achievements of faith) x1.
Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 5; Troparia:
Resurrection x2; G: Fathers; N: Tone 2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries).
After each Kathisma:
Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe of the Tone,
Sessional hymn of the Fathers (With hymns
let us all praise); G/N: Theotokion (Like
the widow).
Hymns of Ascents, and
Prokimenon, Tone 5.
Matins Gospel 8, John 20:11-18 (§64).
Having beheld the resurrection; Psalm 50; G: Through
the prayers of the apostles; N: Through the prayers of the Theotokos; Have mercy on me, O God; Jesus having risen. 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.
Fathers
6 Holy Fathers, pray to God for us.
Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 5.
After Ode 3, Hypakoe of the Fathers (An Angel bedewed the children).
After Ode 6, Kontakion (A
hand-wrought image ye would not worship) and Ikos of the Fathers.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection;
G: Fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob);
N: Theotokion in the Menaion (Wondrous
hath this been).
Praises, Tone 5, on 8:
Octoechos 4; Fathers 4 (Lift up thy
voice, O Zion – with the psalm verses in the Menaion); G: Fathers (The compilation of the teachings of the Law);
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:
Troparia: Resurrection, G: Fathers; Kontakion: Fathers.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 10, Octoechos 6; Fathers 4, Ode 3.
After the entrance: Troparia of the Resurrection, Fathers; G/N:
Kontakion of the Fathers.
Prokimenon, the song of the
fathers, Tone 4: Blessed art Thou, O
Lord, the God of our fathers.
Epistle: Heb. 11:9-10,17-23,32-40 (§328).
Alleluia,
Tone 4.
Gospel: Matt. 1:1-25 (§1).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
Resurrectional Dismissal.