The Sunday of the Holy Fathers

29th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 4

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, 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 4; 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 4.

Matins Gospel 7, John 20:1-10 (§63).

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 4.

Katavasia of Nativity: Christ is born!

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 4, 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: Having risen; 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