Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates

3^rd Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 2

Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 6; Great Martyr 4 (Wholly didst thou bring thyself); G: Great Martyr (Today hath the honored memory); 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: Great Martyr (O all ye faithful); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Great Martyr (Through true recruitment); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe; Hymns of Ascent; and Prokimenon, Tone 2.

Matins Gospel 3, Mark 16:9-20 (§71).

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 2 Glory, O Lord, to Thy precious Cross and Resurrection

Theotokos 2 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Great Martyr 6 Holy great martyr Theodore, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 2.

Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Arrayed in faith with manliness of soul) and Ikos; Sessional hymn of the Great Martyr (Having put on the armor of God); G/N: Theotokion (Having fallen into the subtle temptations of enemies).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Great Martyr (Adorned with comeliness); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 2, 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.

The Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Great Martyr; Kontakion: Resurrection.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 10 Octoechos: 6; Great Martyr: 4, from Ode 3.

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

Prokimenon Tone 2: The Lord is my strength and my song. & Tone 7: The righteous man shall be glad in the Lord.

Epistle: Rom. 5:1-10 (§88); II Tim. 2:1-10 (§292).

Alleluia, Tone 2 & 4.

Gospel: Matt. 6:22-33 (§18); Matt. 10:16-22 (§36).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & In everlasting remembrance.

Resurrectional Dismissal.