St. John the Theologian / Apodosis of Mid-Pentecost

Wednesday of the 5th Week after Pascha

Note: The service for St. Arsenius the Great is transferred to Compline.

Vespers: Priest: Glory to the Holy. Choir: Amen.

Priest: Christ is risen 2 ½ times. The Choir sings: And upon those in the tombs bestowing life.

Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 4, on 8: Mid-Pentecost: 4 (The middle of the days is come); Apostle 4 (The beholder of ineffable revelations); G: Apostle (O ye of the race of man); N: Mid-Pentecost (As the midpoint is reached).

Entry, O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 1: Thy mercy, O Lord, shall pursue me.

3 Readings for the Apostle.

Litia: Temple; Apostle (Rivers of theology); G: Apostle (Reclining against the breast of Christ); N: Mid-Pentecost (When Thou wast teaching at Mid-feast, O Savior – from the Doxasticon at the Aposticha).

Aposticha: Mid-Pentecost (The midpoint of the days of Pentecost); G: Apostle (O apostle of Christ); N: Mid-Pentecost (When Thou wast teaching at Mid-feast, O Savior).

Troparia: Mid-Pentecost (In the midst of the feast) x2; Apostle (O beloved apostle of Christ God) x1.

Matins: Choir: Christ is risen x3.

Reader: Glory to God in the highest; and the 6 psalms as usual.

God is the Lord, Tone 8; Troparia: Mid-Pentecost (In the midst of the feast) x2; G: Apostle (O beloved apostle of Christ God); N: Mid-Pentecost (In the midst of the feast).

After the first Kathisma: Sessional hymn of the Apostle (As the disciple of Christ); G/N: first Sessional hymn of the Mid-Pentecost (O Thou Who knowest the thoughts of all hearts).

After the second Kathisma: Sessional hymn of the Apostle (With hymns and sacred praises); G/N: second Sessional hymn of Mid-Pentecost (Standing in the Temple on the mid-feast of the honored Pentecost). 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 hast 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.

All the Sessional hymn of the Apostle; G/N: Theotokion (Let us hymn the portal).

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

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

Matins Gospel: John 21:15-25 (§67).

Having beheld the resurrection x1; Psalm 50; G: Through the prayers of the holy apostle and evangelist John the Theologian; N: Through the prayers of the Theotokos; Have mercy on me, O God; Sticheron of the Apostle in the Menaion (O virgin theologian). Save, O God, Thy people.

Canon: Mid-Pentecost (first canon) 4 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Apostle 6 Holy apostle and evangelist John the Theologian, pray to God for us.

Mid-Pentecost (second canon) 4 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Irmos of Mid-Pentecost: Having traversed the depths of the red sea.

Katavasia of Mid-Pentecost: Thou didst bring the sea together.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (In the midst of the Judaic feast) and Ikos of the Mid-Pentecost; Sessional hymn of the Apostle (Having reclined against the breast of Wisdom); G/N: Mid-Pentecost (Thou, O Savior, dost pour out for all the world living waters).

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

At Ode 9, More Honorable is not sung.

Exapostilarion: Mid-Pentecost (O Thou that hast the wine bowl of gifts); G: Apostle (As a Son of thunder); N: Mid-Pentecost (O Thou that hast the wine bowl of gifts).

Praises, Tone 4, on 6: Mid-Pentecost 3 (The Divine Wisdom, Might, and Peace); Apostle 3 (O all-wise and blessed John); G: Apostle (O evangelist John); N: Mid-Pentecost (Having been enlightened by the Resurrection). After the Great Doxology, the Troparia: Apostle; G/N: Mid-Pentecost (In the midst of the feast); the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparion: Mid-Pentecost; G: Apostle; Kontakion: Mid-Pentecost & Apostle, alternating.

Liturgy: The beginning, as on St. Thomas Sunday. Beatitudes on 8, Mid-Pentecost: 4, from Ode 9; Apostle: 4, from Ode 6.

After the entrance, the Troparia: Mid-Pentecost; Apostle; G: Kontakion of the Apostle; N: Mid-Pentecost.

Prokimenon, Tone 3: Great is our Lord, and Great is His strength. & Tone 8: Their sound hath gone forth.

Epistle: Acts 13:13-24 (§32); 1 John 1:1-7 (§68).

Alleluia, Tone 1 (Feast and Apostle).

Gospel: John 6:5-14 (§18); John 19:25-27, 21:24-25 (§61).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the Irmos of the ninth Ode of the second canon of the feast (Virginity is alien to mothers). Communion Hymn: He that eateth My Flesh and drinketh My Blood abideth in Me and I in him, saith the Lord. & Their sound hath gone forth.

And the rest as on St. Thomas Sunday.