The Sunday of the Prodigal Son /
Afterfeast of the Meeting of the Lord
Tone 1
Note:
The service for St. Symeon the God-Receiver is chanted at Compline.
Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 1, on 10: Octoechos 4; Triodion 3 (I was entrusted with a sinless and living land); Afterfeast 3 (The Creator of all – Menaion, February
3); G: Triodion (Of what great blessings
in my wretchedness); Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.
Entry; O
Gladsome Light; Prokimenon, Tone 6: The
Lord is King.
Aposticha: Octoechos, G:
Triodion (I have wasted the wealth),
N: Afterfeast (Today, He Who gave the law
to Moses).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Feast (Rejoice, thou who art full of grace) x1.
Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 1; Troparia: Resurrection x2, G/N: Feast.
After each Kathisma,
Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos; By the waters of
Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascents,
and Prokimenon, Tone 1.
Matins Gospel 1, Matt. 28:16-20 (§116).
Having beheld the Resurrection; Psalm 50; G: The
doors of repentance; N: Guide me in
the paths of salvation; Have mercy on me, O God; When I think of the multitude of evil things I have done. Save, O God, Thy people.
Canon: Resurrection 4 Glory
to Thy Holy Resurrection, O Lord.
Theotokos 2 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Triodion 4 Have
mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Feast 4 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to
Thee.
Irmos
of the Canon of the Resurrection, Tone 1.
Katavasia: The Sun once shone
with its rays.
After Ode 3, Kontakion (Thou
Who didst sanctify the Virgin’s womb by Thy birth) and Ikos of the Feast;
Sessional hymn of the Triodion (Make
haste to open unto me Thy fatherly embrace); G/N: Afterfeast (Rejoicing, the sacred Symeon took Thee up).
After Ode 6, Kontakion (Having
foolishly abandoned Thy paternal glory) and Ikos of the Triodion.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection,
G: Triodion (The wealth of grace that
Thou hast given me); N: Feast (Set by
the Spirit in the sanctuary).
Praises, Tone 1, on 8:
Octoechos 4; Feast 4 (Take up in thine
arms the Creator of all – from the Matins Aposticha, with the Doxasticon (The sacred Virgin brought the Sacred One)
and the Psalm verses); G: Triodion (O
loving Father); N: Most blessed art
thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Today is
salvation; the two remaining Litanies and
Resurrectional Dismissal. After
the Dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron; First Hour.
Hours:
Troparion: Resurrection, G: Feast; Kontakion: Feast and Triodion, alternating.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos 4; Triodion 4, from Ode 6; Feast 4, from Ode 1.
After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection; Feast; G: Kontakion
of the Triodion; N: Kontakion of the Feast.
Prokimenon, Tone 1: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us. & Tone 3: My soul doth magnify the Lord.
Epistle: I Cor. 6:12-20
(§135).
Alleluia, Tone
1 & Tone 8 (Octoechos & Feast).
Gospel: Luke 15:11-32 (§79).
Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain O Virgin Theotokos, thou hope of Christians,
with the Irmos of the Ninth Ode of the canon of the Feast (In the shadow and the letter of the Law).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & I will take the cup of salvation. Resurrectional
Dismissal.