18th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 1

The Opening of the Relics of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

Note: This feast is celebrated as a Polyeleos-rank service, using the June 19 Menaion, combined with the Sunday Octoechos. If the rector so directs, a Six-Stichera-rank service may be served for St. Cyriacus the Anchorite. See ODS, §1C.

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 1, on 10: Octoechos 4; Hierarch 6 (Let us hymn John); G: Hierarch (Having assembled today); N: Dogmatic Theotokion, Tone 1 (Let us hymn the Virgin Mary).

Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King. 3 Readings for the Hierarch.

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Hierarch (Thou wast truly a model); N: Theotokion in the Menaion, Tone 6 (Christ the Lord).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 1; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Hierarch; N: Theotokion, Tone 5 (Rejoice, impassible gate).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Hierarch: We magnify thee, O holy hierarch father John, and we honor thy holy memory; for thou dost pray for us to Christ our God; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the Tone; All the Sessional hymns of the Saint.

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon Tone 1.

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

                Theotokos                             2              O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Hierarch                                6             Holy hierarch father John, pray to God for us.

                Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 1.

Katavasia: I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Following Christ, the Chief Shepherd), and Ikos of the Hierarch; Sessional Hymn of the Hierarch (Thy supplications, O father John); G/N: Theotokion (O Mother of God).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection

At Ode 9, More Honorable. Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilarion: Resurrection; G: Hierarch (Even though I have died); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 1, on 8: Resurrection 4; Hierarch 4 (O ye faithful, with thanksgiving – including the Doxasticon (We confess thy wondrous aid), and the final two psalm verses: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. & The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth the work of His hands); 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: Hierarch; Kontakion: Resurrection and Hierarch, alternating.

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

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

Prokimenon, Tone 1: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us. & Tone 1: My mouth shall speak wisdom.

Epistle: II Cor 9:6-11 (§188); Heb. 7:26-8:2 (§318).

Alleluia, Tone 1 & Tone 2.

Gospel: Luke 6:31-36 (§26); John 10:9-16 (§36).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.