The Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 1, on 8: Apostle 8 (The beholder of ineffable revelations); G: Apostle (O ye of the race of man); N: Sunday Dogmatic, Tone 2 (The shadow of the law).

Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: My help cometh from the Lord. 3 Readings for the Apostle.

Litia: Sticheron of the Temple and the stichera of the Apostle (Rivers of Theology); G: Apostle (Reclining against the breast of Christ); N: Theotokion (The Son Who with the Father).

Aposticha: Apostle (Theologizing concerning the Son); G: Apostle (O apostle of Christ); N: Theotokion (Christ the Lord).

Troparia: Apostle (O beloved apostle of Christ God) x2; O Theotokos and Virgin x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 2; Troparia: Apostle x2; G/N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns of the Apostle.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Apostle: We magnify thee, O holy apostle and evangelist John the theologian, and we honor thy pains and labors whereby thou hadst labored in the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ. Psalm verse: The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth the work of His hands.

Sessional hymn of the Apostle (Reclining against the breast of Jesus); G/N: Theotokion (Let us hymn the portal of heaven).

Hymns of Ascents, First Antiphon, Tone 4: From my youth.

Prokimenon of the Apostle, Tone 4: Their sound hath gone forth.

Matins Gospel: John 21:15-25 (§67).

Psalm 50; G: Through the prayers of the apostle and evangelist John the Theologian; N: Through the prayers of the Theotokos; Have mercy on me, O God; Sticheron of the Apostle (O virgin theologian). Save, O God, Thy people.

Canon:   Theotokos                            6              O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.*

                Apostle (both canons)         8              Holy apostle and evangelist John the Theologian, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the Canon of the Theotokos (The desert the barren Church of the nations).

Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.

*In a Temple of the Lord, or of the Theotokos, the canon of the Temple, with the Irmos.

After Ode 3, Sessional hymns of the Apostle (Having reclined); G/N: Theotokion (Having fallen into perils).

After Ode 6, Kontakion (Who can recount thy mighty works) and Ikos of the Apostle.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Exapostilaria: Apostle (O blessed virgin theologian); G: Apostle (As a son of thunder); N: Theotokion (Standing before the Cross).

Praises, Tone 8, on 4: Apostle 4 (Illumined with the beauties); G: Apostle (O evangelist John); N: Theotokion (O Mistress). After the Great Doxology, the Troparion of the Apostle; G/N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries); the two remaining Litanies and Daily Dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparion: Apostle; Kontakion: Apostle.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 8: From the canon of the Apostle: 4 from Ode 3, first canon; and 4 from Ode 6, second canon.

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

Prokimenon, Tone 8: Their sound hath gone forth.

Epistle: I John 4:12-19 (§73 mid).

Alleluia, Tone 1.

Gospel: John 19:25-27,21:24-25 (§61).

Communion Hymn: Their sound hath gone forth. Daily Dismissal.