The Sunday of the Last Judgment
(Meatfare)
Tone 2
Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 2, on 10: Octoechos 6; Triodion 4 (When Thou shalt come, O righteous Judge); G: Triodion (When the thrones are set); N: Sunday
Dogmatic in the tone of the week.
Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.
Aposticha: Octoechos, G:
Triodion (Alas, black soul!); N:
Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.
Matins: God is the Lord,
Tone 2; Troparia: Resurrection x2, G/N: Resurrectional Theotokion Tone 2 (All of thy most glorious mysteries).
After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos; By the Waters of Babylon; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).
Hypakoe;
Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 2.
Matins Gospel 2, Mark 16:1-8 (§70).
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 8 Have
mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 2.
Katavasia: He is for me unto salvation [in the Triodion].
At Ode 3, Sessional hymn of the Triodion (I think upon the fearful day); G: Triodion (In the valley of lamentation); N: Theotokion (O Theotokos Virgin).
At Ode 6, Kontakion (When
Thou, O God, shalt come) and Ikos of the Triodion.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection,
Triodion (As I ponder); G: Triodion (Behold there comes the day); N: Triodion
(As I call to mind the hour).
Praises, Tone 2: Octoechos 5;
Triodion 4 (I think upon that day and
hour – with the Psalm verses given in the Triodion); G: Triodion (Let us cleanse ourselves); N: Most blessed art thou. After
the Great Doxology, the troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and
Sunday Dismissal. After the
dismissal: G/N: Gospel Sticheron; followed by First Hour.
Hours:
Troparion (only one): Resurrection; Kontakion: Triodion
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos 6; Triodion 4, from Ode 6.
After the entrance: In a
In a
In a
Prokimenon Tone 3, Great is our Lord, and great is His strength, and
of His understanding there is no measure.
Epistle: I Cor. 8:8-9:2
(§140).
Alleluia,
Tone 8.
Gospel: Matt. 25:31-46
(§106).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens; & Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous. Resurrectional Dismissal.
IT SHOULD BE KNOWN that from this day until Saturday of the 6th week, excluding Sundays,
the aposticha stichera from the Octoechos are not used, but instead the
idiomela in the Triodion are sung.