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 4; Forefeast 3 (The never-setting Sun); Fathers 3 (Unto the ends of the earth); G: Fathers (Daniel, the man of divine desires); N: Forefeast (Splendidly adorn thyself, O cave).
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: Forefeast (Behold,
the hour of our salvation hath arrived).
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: Forefeast (Make ready, O Bethlehem! – from the Menaion, December
21st).
After each Kathisma:
Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Blessed are the blameless; Evlogitaria (The
assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe, Tone 5, 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.
Forefeast 4 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to
Thee.
Fathers
6 Holy Fathers, pray to God for us.
Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 5.
Katavasia of Nativity: Christ is born!
After Ode 3, Hypakoe of the Fathers (An Angel bedewed the children).
After Ode 6, Kontakion (Be
glad, O Bethlehem!) 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: Forefeast (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 Resurrectional Dismissal. After
the dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed by First Hour.
Hours:
Troparia: Resurrection, G: Fathers & Forefeast, alternating; Kontakion:
Fathers & Forefeast (from the Menaion, December 21st (Beholding
Him Who holdeth the whole world in His hands)),
alternating.
Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12, Octoechos: 4; Fathers: 4, Ode 3; Forefeast:
4, Ode 6.
After
the entrance: Troparia Resurrection; Fathers; Forefeast; G: Kontakion of the
Fathers; N: Kontakion of the Forefeast.
Prokimenon, 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.