Forgiveness Sunday / The Casting out of
Adam (Cheesefare) /
Hieromartyr Hermogenes of Moscow, Tone 3
Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Octoechos 4; Triodion 3 (The Lord my Creator); Hierarch 3 (The voice of the Holy Orthodox
Church); G: Triodion (Adam sat before
Paradise); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.
Entry;
O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King. 3 Readings of the Hierarch.
Litia: Sticheron of the
Temple; Triodion (Woe is me! – from the stichera at the Praises, Triodion,
p. 178); Triodion (The arena of the virtues – Triodion, p.
178f); G: Hierarch (What is this festival?); N: Triodion (The sun hid its
rays – Triodion, p. 169).
Aposticha: Octoechos, G:
Hierarch (Like a most precious shrine); N: Triodion (Adam was cast out).
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Hierarch (x1).
Matins: God is the Lord,
Tone 3; Troparia: Resurrection x2, G: Hierarch
(O foremost hierarch of the Russian land); N: Resurrectional Theotokion,
Tone 4 (The mystery
hidden).
After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.
Polyeleos; By the waters of Babylon; Magnification
of the Hierarch: We magnify thee, O holy hierarch father Hermogenes, 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 hymn of the Hierarch. Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 3.
Matins Gospel 3, Mark 16:9-20 (§71).
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.
Hierarch 4 Holy Hierarch Hermogenes, pray to
God for us.
Irmos of the Resurrectional Canon, Tone 3.
Katavasia: Crossing the deep on foot (in the Triodion).
After Ode 3, Kontakion (Wasting
away in imprisonment) and Ikos of the Hieromartyr; sessional hymn of the
Hieromartyr (Ascending to the summit of
heaven); G/N: Triodion (Adam was cast
out).
After Ode 6, Kontakion (O
Thou guide unto wisdom) and Ikos of the Triodion.
At Ode 9, More Honorable.
Holy is the Lord, our God.
Exapostilaria: Resurrection;
G: Hierarch (In the light of Orthodoxy); N: Triodion (In my wretchedness).
Praises, Tone 3, on 9:
Octoechos 4, Hierarch 4 (Praise the saint in his power – with the
Doxasticon (Come ye, let us bless), with the following verses for the
last two stichera of the Hierarch: 1) Precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of His saints. 2) They priest shall be clothed with
righteousness, and Thy righteous shall rejoice; then the verse Arise, O Lord my God, and the sticheron
of the Triodion: Adam was driven out;
G: Triodion (The time is now at hand);
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; followed by First Hour.
* The magnification is sung
only once, by the clergy. The selected psalm verses are not sung on Sundays,
unless it is a Great Feast of the Lord.
Hours:
Troparion: Resurrection; G: Hierarch; Kontakion: Hierarch & Triodion,
alternating.
Note: At the
Proskomedia three Lambs are prepared: one for Liturgy of the day, and two for
the Presanctified Liturgies on Wednesday and Friday of the first week of Lent.
And on each Sunday through Palm Sunday, as many additional Lambs are prepared
as will be needed for the number of Presanctified Liturgies served between that
Sunday and the next full Liturgy. When Annunciation falls during the week, any
Lambs that would be needed for a Presanctified Liturgy between that Liturgy and
the next Sunday would be prepared at that time.
Liturgy:
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos: 4; Triodion: 4, from Ode 3; Hierarch: 4, from Ode
6.
After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection; Hierarch G: Kontakion
of the Hierarch; N: Kontakion of the Triodion.
Prokimenon Tone 8: Make your vows and pay them to the Lord our
God. Tone 7: The righteous man shall
rejoice in the Lord.
Epistle: Rom. 13:11-14:4
(§112); Heb. 13:17-21 (§335).
Alleluia,
Tone 6 & Tone 4.
Gospel: Matt. 6:14-21 (§17);
John 10:9-16 (§36).
Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord in the heavens. & In
everlasting remembrance shall the righteous be. Resurrectional Dismissal.
Sunday Evening Vespers: No Kathisma.
Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Penitential
Stichera from the Octoechos 4 (With
incense and with spiritual songs – Triodion, p. 185); Triodion 3 (Let us all make haste to humble the flesh by
abstinence); Hierarch 3 (What shall
we name thee (St. Leo, Pope of Rome, February 18th)); G/N: Theotokion, Tone
8 (Whom hast thou imitated, O wretched
soul – from the Menaion).
Entry; O Gladsome Light; Great Prokimenon, Tone 8: Turn not Thy countenance away from Thy servant, for I am afflicted;
quickly hearken unto me. Attend unto my soul and deliver it.
During the final repetition
of the prokimenon, the priest closes the Royal Doors, removes his phelonion and
puts on a dark epitrachelion, and goes out to the Ambon. All the other
liturgical covers are likewise changed.
Vouchsafe, O Lord.
Then the Litany, Let us complete our evening prayer unto the
Lord, with the choir singing the responses according to the penitential
Lenten melody.
Aposticha: Triodion (Stichera
and verses, beginning with Thy grace has
shone forth, O Lord), G/N: Theotokion in the Triodion (The ranks of the angels glorify thee).
Now lettest Thou Thy servant. Trisagion to Our Father.
Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin (with a great
prostration); G: O Baptizer of Christ
(great prostration): N: Plead in our
behalf (great prostration); Beneath
thy compassion (without a prostration).
Lord, have mercy x40; G/N: More Honorable. In the name of the Lord, father bless. Priest:
He that is is
blessed. Reader: O Heavenly King,
strengthen Orthodox Christians.
Then the priest says the
prayer of St. Ephrem with 3 prostrations, then the Dismissal.* And we kiss the
icons, the Cross, and the priest; and the faithful, having asked forgiveness of
one another, enter into the holy Forty Days.
Small Compline:
Without canon.
*In parishes, instead of the
usual dismissal, the priest reads the prayer O Master plenteous in mercy (which is the dismissal at Great
Compline), while we prostrate ourselves, and he asks forgiveness of the
faithful, usually preceding this with a word of instruction appropriate to the
occasion.