Venerable Sisoes the Great

7th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 6

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 6, on 10: Octoechos 7; Saint 3 (Thine all-festive commemoration); G: Saint (We honor thee as the instructor of a multitude of monks); 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: Theotokion in the Octoechos.

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 6; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Saint (A desert-dweller); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 1 (When Gabriel announced).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 6.

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         3              Glory, O Lord, to Thy precious Cross and Resurrection.

                Theotokos                             3              O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

                Saint                                       4              Venerable father Sisoes, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 6.

Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Having struggled), and Sessional hymn of the Saint (Thou didst adorn thy life with abstinence); G/N: Theotokion (O pure Ever-virgin).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God. 

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G/N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 6, on 8: Octoechos 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: Saint; Kontakion: Resurrection.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 8, from the Octoechos. 

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

Prokimenon, Tone 6: Save, O Lord, Thy people.

Epistle: Rom. 15:1-7 (§116).

Alleluia, Tone 6.

Gospel: Matt. 9:27-35 (§33).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord from the heavens.

Resurrectional Dismissal.