Apostle Bartholomew / Apostle Titus

13th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 4

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, on 10: Octoechos 4; Ap. Bartholomew 3 (Earnestly let us bless); Ap. Titus 3 (Proclaiming the one Godhead); G: Ap. Bartholomew (Forsaking earthly things); 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.

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 4; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Apostles (O holy apostles); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 3 (We hymn thee).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Blessed are the blameless; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe; Hymns of Ascents; and Prokimenon, Tone 4.

Matins Gospel 2, Mark 16:1-8 (§70).

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.

                Theotokos                             2              O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.   

                Ap. Bartholomew                4              Holy Apostle Bartholomew, pray to God for us.

                Ap. Titus                               4              Holy Apostle Titus, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 4.

Katavasia: Inscribing the invincible weapon of the Cross.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Thou hast appeared to the Church) and Ikos of the Ap. Bartholomew; Kontakion (Revealed as a companion of Paul) of the Ap. Titus; Sessional hymn of the Ap. Bartholomew (O Apostle Bartholomew); G: Ap. Titus (Like a star with the sun); N: Theotokion (O all-hymned one).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God. 

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Apostles (O ye faithful, let us glorify); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 4, on 8: Resurrection 8; G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Apostles; Kontakion: Resurrection.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 8, Octoechos 8.

After the entrance: Troparia & Kontakia as in Appendix I, B.

Prokimenon Tone 4: How magnified are Thy works O Lord.& Tone 8: Their sound hath gone forth.

Epistle: I Cor. 16:13-24 (§166); Titus 1:1-4,2:15-3:3,12-13,15 (§300).

Alleluia, Tone 4 & Tone 1.

Gospel: Matt. 21:33-42 (§87); Matt. 5:14-19 (§11).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens.& Their sound hath gone forth.

Resurrectional Dismissal.