Great-Martyr Nikitas / Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

16th Sunday After Pentecost / Tone 7

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 7, on 10: Octoechos 3; Feast: 3 (Rejoice, O life-bearing Cross); Martyr 4 (Arrayed in the armor of piety); G: Martyr (We know thee as a lamp unto the martyrs); 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: Martyr (Thou didst show thyself to be); N: Feast (O God, the words of Moses).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (O Lord, save Thy people) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 7; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Martyr (Taking up the Cross of Christ); N: Feast.

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 7.

Matins Gospel 5, Luke 24:12-35 (§113).

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.

                Feast                                      4              Glory, O Lord, to Thy precious Cross.

                Martyr                                    4              Holy Great-Martyr Nikitas, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 7.

Katavasia: Inscribing the invincible weapon of the Cross.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (O Thou Who wast lifted up willingly on the Cross) and Ikos of the Feast; Kontakion (Having cut down the dominion of deception), and Sessional hymn of the Martyr (Showing thyself to be an invincible warrior); G/N: Feast (Raising his hands up to heaven).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable. 

Holy is the Lord, our God.   

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Martyr (Defending himself ); N: Feast (Today is the Cross raised on high).

Praises, Tone 7, on 8: Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (Today is exalted the Cross of Christ – from the Matins Aposticha, with the doxasticon (Today is put forth) and the Psalm verses); 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: Feast & Martyr, alternating; Kontakion: Feast & Resurrection, alternating.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos: 4; Feast: 4, from Ode 1; Martyr: 4, from Ode 6.

After entrance: in a temple of the Lord, Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, and Martyr; Kontakion of the Resurrection; G: Martyr; N: Feast.

In a temple of the Theotokos, Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, Temple, and Martyr; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Feast; G: Martyr;  N: Temple.

                In a temple of a saint, Troparion of the Resurrection, Feast, Temple, Martyr; Kontakion of the Resurrection; Temple; G: Martyr ; N: Feast.

Prokimenon, Tone 7: Exalt ye the Lord our God. & Tone 7: The righteous man shall be glad in the Lord.

Epistle: Gal. 2:16-20 (§203); II Cor. 6:1-10 (§181); II Tim. 2:1-10 (§292).

Alleluia, Tone 1 & Tone 4 (for the Sunday after the Exaltation, and the Great Martyr).

Gospel: Mark 8:34-9:1 (§37); Matt. 25:14-30 (§105); Matt. 10:16-22 (§36).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain Magnify, O my soul, with the Irmos of the Ninth Ode (O Theotokos, thou art a mystical Paradise).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.