The Conception of the All-Holy Theotokos by St. Anna
26th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 1
Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 1, on 10: Octoechos 6; St. Anna 4 (The barren woman); G: St. Anna (The all-glorious great mystery); 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; G/N: St. Anna (Today the mystic flower beginneth).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; St. Anna (Today, the bonds of barrenness are loosed).
Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 1; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G/N: St. Anna.
After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe; Hymns of Ascents; and Prokimenon, Tone 1.
Matins Gospel 4, Luke 24:1-12 (§112).
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.
St. Anna (both canons) 8 Holy righteous Anna, pray to God for us.
Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 1.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (Today the whole world doth celebrate), Ikos, and Sessional hymn of St. Anna (The sacred Joachim and Anna); G/N: Theotokion (The divinely adorned Mary).
After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G/N: St. Anna (Her who gave birth unto the light).
Praises, Tone 1, on 8: Resurrection 4; St. Anna 4 (Human nature, which before was sterile – with the doxasticon (Come, ye every rank), and the final two psalm verses: The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David, and He will not annul it. & Of the fruit of thy loins will I set upon thy throne); G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.
Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: St. Anna; Kontakion: St. Anna and Resurrection, alternating.
Liturgy: Beatitudes on 10 Octoechos 6; St. Anna 4, from Ode 3, First Canon.
After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection; St. Anna; G: Kontakion of the Resurrection; N: Kontakion of St. Anna.
Prokimenon, Tone 1: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us. & Tone 4: Wondrous is God in His saints.
Epistle: Eph. 5:8-19 (§229); Gal. 4:22-31 (§210 mid).
Alleluia, Tone 1 (Tone & St. Anna).
Gospel: Luke 17:12-19 (§85); Luke 8:16-21 (§36).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
Resurrectional Dismissal.