The Beheading of
Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I
have Cried, Tone 6: Forerunner 8 (While the birthday); G: Forerunner (While the birthday); N: Dogmatic
Theotokion, Tone 6 (Who doth not call
thee blessed).
Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 1: Thy mercy, O Lord, shall pursue me.
3 Readings for the Forerunner.
Litia: Forerunner (What shall we call thee, O prophet?); G:
(Herod, thinking to escape); N: (Hymn, O hymn ye the Mother of our God).
Aposticha: Forerunner; (O John the Baptist, preacher of repentance);
G: (O forerunner of the Savior); N: (O unwedded Virgin).
Troparia: Forerunner (The memory of the righteous) x2; O Theotokos and Virgin x1.
Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 2;
Troparia: Forerunner x2; G/N
Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone
2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries).
After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns of the Forerunner.
Polyeleos and Magnification
of the Forerunner: We magnify thee, O John, baptizer of the Savior, and we all honor the
severing of thy venerable head. Psalm verse: Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord; in His commandments shall he
greatly delight.
Sessional hymn of the
Forerunner (Having denounced Herod);
G/N: Theotokion (The Word of the Father
descended to earth).
Hymns of Ascents, First
Antiphon, Tone 4: From my youth.
Prokimenon of the Forerunner,
Tone 4: Precious in the sight of the
Lord.
Matins Gospel: Matt. 14:1-13
(§57)
Psalm 50; G: Through the prayers of the Forerunner;
N: Through the prayers of the Theotokos;
Have mercy on me, O God; Sticheron of
the Forerunner (The disciple of the most
evil devil danced). Save, O God,
Thy people.
Canon: Forerunner (first
canon) 8 Holy Great John, Forerunner of the Lord,
pray to God for us.
Forerunner (second canon) 6 Holy Great John,
Forerunner of the Lord, pray to God for us.
Irmos, Having passed through
the water as on dry land.
Katavasia, Inscribing the invincible weapon of the Cross.
After Ode 3, Sessional hymn of the Forerunner (Having shone forth by the judgment of God);
G/N: Theotokion (All of us, the
generations of men).
After Ode 6, Kontakion (The glorious beheading) and Ikos of the Forerunner.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Exapostilarion: Forerunner (With hymns of praise let us magnify the
forerunner); G: Second of the Forerunner (The vile Herod); N: Theotokion (Having
destroyed the curse on the world).
Praises, Tone 8: Forerunner 4 (O
all-glorious wonder); G: Forerunner (Again
Herodias rageth insanely); N: Theotokion (O Theotokos, thou art the true vine). After
the Great Doxology, the troparia:
Forerunner; G/N Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries); the two
remaining Litanies and Daily dismissal; First Hour.
Hours: Troparion:
Forerunner; Kontakion: Forerunner.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 8: Forerunner: 4 from Ode 3 of the first Canon; and 4 from Ode 6
of the second Canon.
After the entrance: Troparia & Kontakia as in Appendix I, C.
Prokimenon, Tone 7: The righteous man shall be glad in the Lord.
Epistle: Acts 13:25-33a
(§33).
Alleluia,
Tone 4.
Gospel: Mark 6:14-30 (§24).
Communion Hymn: In everlasting remembrance shall the
righteous be.