St. Jonah of Hancow, Wonderworker of Manchuria

17^th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 8

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 8, on 10: Octoechos 4; Hierarch 6 (Praise of Kozelsk and glory of Kalúga); G: Hierarch (O father Jonah); N: Sunday Dogmatic Theotokion in the tone of the week.

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

Litia: Sticheron of the Temple and the Stichera of the Hierarch (Moved by love of God and for mankind); G: Hierarch (Thou wast faithful to God); N: Theotokion (Thy womb, O Birthgiver of God).

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Hierarch (Today the transgressors have fallen silent); N: Theotokion, Tone 6 (Christ the Lord).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Hierarch (Thou wast a good pastor for the Russian people) x1.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 8; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Hierarch (Thou wast a good pastor for the Russian people); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

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

Hypakoe of the Tone; all the Sessional hymns of the Hierarch.

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 8.

Matins Gospel 6, Luke 24:36-53 (§114).

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.

Hierarch 8 Holy Hierarch Father Jonah, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 8.

Katavasia, I shall open my mouth.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Taking care for their daily needs), Ikos, and Sessional hymn of the Hierarch (Thou wast captured and cast into prison for thy faith); G/N: Theotokion (O sweetness of the angels).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Hierarch (In worthy hymns, let us honor Jonah); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 8, on 8: Resurrection 4; Hierarch 4 (In the time of cruel persecution – with the Doxasticon (O good and faithful servant) and the final two psalm verses: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. & What shall I render unto the Lord for all that He hath rendered unto me?); 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.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Hierarch; Kontakion: Hierarch & Resurrection, alternating.

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

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

Prokimenon, Tone 8: Make your vows. & Tone 7: The righteous man shall rejoice in the Lord.

Epistle: II Cor. 6:16-7:1 (§182 mid); Heb 13:17-21 (§335).

Alleluia, Tone 8 & 4.

Gospel: Luke 7:11-16 (§30); Luke 6:17-23 (§24).

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

Resurrectional Dismissal.