Sunday of the Myrrh Bearing Women 2/15 May, 2005 Tone 2
IF VESPERS ONLY:
Priest: Blessed is our God…
Reader: Usual post-Pascha beginning
Opening Psalm (Psalter – Psalm 103)
Great Ektenia
Choir: Blessed is the man… (VIGIL MUSIC)
Small Ektenia
At Lord I have Cried: Octoechos 7 Pentecostarion 3 G: Pentecostarion N: Dogmatic Theotokion in the Tone of the Week (VIGIL MUSIC)
“O Gentle Light…” (VIGIL MUSIC)
Prokimenon for Saturday evening (VIGIL MUSIC)
2 Ektenias with “Vouchsafe O Lord…” between them (VIGIL BOOK)
Aposticha: Octoechos: 1 Paschal Stichera G: Pentecostarion N: “It is the day of the Resurrection…” & “Christ is Risen…” 1x
“Now lettest Thou Thy servant…” through “Our Father” (Vigil Book)
Priest: For Thine is the kingdom…
Troparia : Sunday Tone 2 Glory… “The Noble Joseph…” Both now… “Unto the myrrh bearing women…” Priest: Wisdom!
Choir: Father bless!
Priest: He that is is…
Choir: Establish, O God, the holy Orthodox Faith of Orthodox Christians unto the ages of ages.
Priest: O most holy Theotokos…
Choir: More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim; who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the very Theotokos, thee do we magnify.
Priest: Glory to Thee…
Choir: Glory…Both now… Lord have mercy 3x. Father bless!
Priest: Dismissal.
Choir: The Orthodox Episcopate… (VIGIL MUSIC)
IF VIGIL: Priest: Glory to the Holy…
Choir: Amen. XB 3x (different languages if possible) Å “Bless the Lord, O my soul…”
Great Ektenia
Blessed is the man… (VIGIL MUSIC)
Small Ektenia
At Lord I have Cried: Octoechos 7 Pentecostarion 3 G: Pentecostarion N: Dogmatic Theotokion in the Tone of the Week (VIGIL MUSIC)
“O Gentle Light…” (VIGIL MUSIC)
Prokimenon for Saturday evening (VIGIL MUSIC)
2 Ektenias with “Vouchsafe O Lord…” between them (VIGIL BOOK)
Aposticha: Octoechos: 1 Paschal Stichera G: Pentecostarion N: “It is the day of the Resurrection…” & “Christ is Risen…” 1x
“Now lettest Thou Thy servant…” through “Our Father” (Vigil Book)
Priest: For Thine is the kingdom…
Troparia: “O Theotokos Virgn…” 3x
Choir: Blessed be the name… 3x Psalm 33
Priest: “The blessing of the Lord…”
Choir: Amen. XB 3x Å
Matins:
Reader: 6 Psalms (in middle of church before icon, holding candle)
Great Ektenia
Choir: “God is the Lord…” Tone 2 Troparia: Sunday Tone 2 2x Glory… “The Noble Joseph…” Both now… “Unto the myrrh bearing women…”
Choir: LHM 3x Glory…
Reader: Both now… Read one psalm Glory…
Choir: Both now… (Alleluia 3x, Glory to Thee O God!) 3x LHM 3x Glory…
Reader: Both now… Read one psalm Glory…
Choir: Both now… (Alleluia 3x, Glory to Thee O God!) 3x LHM 3x Glory…
Reader: Both now… Read one psalm Glory… Both now… (Alleluia 3x, Glory to Thee O God!) 3x
Priest: Small Ektenia
Reader: Sessional Hymns Pentecostarion
Choir: “Blessed art Thou, O Lord…”
Priest: Small Ektenia
Reader: Hypakoe (OCTOECHOS) Hymns of Ascent, Tone 2 (OCTOECHOS)
Priest: Prokimenon (OCTOECHOS)
Choir: Prokimenon (OCTOECHOS)
Priest: Stichos
Choir: Prokimenon (OCTOECHOS)
Priest: Prokimenon (OCTOECHOS)
Choir: Prokimenon (OCTOECHOS)
Priest: Let us pray to the Lord!
Choir: LHM
Priest: For holy art Thou…
Choir: Amen.
Priest: Let every breath praise the Lord!
Choir: Let every breath praise the Lord!
Priest: Praise ye God…
Choir: Let every breath praise the Lord!
Priest: Let every breath…
Choir: … praise the Lord!
Priest: And that He will vouchsafe…
Choir: LHM 3x
Priest: Wisdom, aright…
Choir: And to thy spirit!
Priest: The reading…
Choir: Glory to…
Priest: Let us attend! Reads Gospel
Choir: Having beheld… (VIGIL MUSIC) SUNG THREE TIMES Å VIGIL MUSIC: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Through the prayers of the apostles… Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen. Through the prayers of the Theotokos… Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy great mercy… Jesus having risen from the grave…
Priest: Save O God…
Choir: LHM 12x
Priest: Through the mercy…
Choir: Paschal Canon as during Bright Week (including 2 extra verses) – Ode 1 Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads first troparion (NOT THE IRMOS) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads second troparion of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory… Both now… Reads last troparion (NOT THE KATAVASIA) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Choir: Sing Irmos of Paschal Canon as Katavasia BUT NOT XB 3X
Choir: Paschal Canon as during Bright Week (including 2 extra verses) – Ode 3 Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads first troparion (NOT THE IRMOS) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads second troparion of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory… Both now… Reads last troparion (NOT THE KATAVASIA) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Choir: Sing Irmos of Paschal Canon as Katavasia BUT NOT XB 3X Priest: Small Ektenia Choir: Kontakion & Ikos of Pascha
Choir: Paschal Canon as during Bright Week (including 2 extra verses) – Ode 4 Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads first troparion (NOT THE IRMOS) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads second troparion of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory… Both now… Reads last troparion (NOT THE KATAVASIA) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Choir: Sing Irmos of Paschal Canon as Katavasia BUT NOT XB 3X
Choir: Paschal Canon as during Bright Week (including 2 extra verses) – Ode 5 Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads first troparion (NOT THE IRMOS) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads second troparion of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory… Both now… Reads last troparion (NOT THE KATAVASIA) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Choir: Sing Irmos of Paschal Canon as Katavasia BUT NOT XB 3X
Choir: Paschal Canon as during Bright Week (including 2 extra verses) – Ode 6 Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads first troparion (NOT THE IRMOS) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads second troparion of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory… Both now… Reads last troparion (NOT THE KATAVASIA) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Choir: Sing Irmos of Paschal Canon as Katavasia BUT NOT XB 3X Priest: Small Ektenia Reader: Kontakion and Ikos (Pentecostarion)
Choir: Paschal Canon as during Bright Week (including 2 extra verses) – Ode 7 Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads first troparion (NOT THE IRMOS) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads second troparion of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory… Both now… Reads last troparion (NOT THE KATAVASIA) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Choir: Sing Irmos of Paschal Canon as Katavasia BUT NOT XB 3X
Choir: Paschal Canon as during Bright Week (including 2 extra verses) – Ode 8 Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads first troparion (NOT THE IRMOS) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads second troparion of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory… Both now… Reads last troparion (NOT THE KATAVASIA) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: We praise, we bless, we worship the Lord, praising and supremely exalting Him unto all ages. (read INCREDIBLY SLOWLY – chant really) Choir: Sing Irmos of Paschal Canon as Katavasia BUT NOT XB 3X NO: Priest: The Theotokos… NO: Choir: My soul doth magnify… (VIGIL MUSIC)
Choir: Paschal Canon as during Bright Week (including 2 extra verses) – Ode 9 Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads first troparion (NOT THE IRMOS) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee! Reads second troparion of the canon (Pentecostarion) Reader: Glory… Both now… Reads last troparion (NOT THE KATAVASIA) of the canon (Pentecostarion) Choir: Sing Irmos of Paschal Canon as Katavasia BUT NOT XB 3X Priest: Small Ektenia Priest: Holy is the Lord our God. (VIGIL MUSIC) Choir: Holy is the Lord our God. Priest: For holy… Choir: Holy is the Lord our God. Priest: Above all… Choir: Holy is the Lord our God.
Choir: Exapostilarion of Pascha
Reader: Glory… Exapostilarion 1 Pentecostarion Both now… Exapostilarion 2 Pentecostarion
Choir: Let every breath…, Tone of week (VIGIL MUSIC) Praise ye God…, Tone of week (VIGIL MUSIC) SKIP PSALM VERSE TO VERSE 8
Reader: Read Verse (from VIGIL BOOK – PERHAPS IN VIGIL MUSIC TOO)
Choir/Reader: Verse from Octoechos Praises (Repeat for each of the 8 verses)
Reader: Glory…
Reader: Gospel Sticheron 3 (OCTOECHOS)
Choir: Both now… Most blessed art Thou… (VIGIL MUSIC)
Priest: Glory to Thee…
Choir: Glory to God in the highest… (VIGIL MUSIC) Special Sunday Troparion, Tone 2, at end of Doxology (VIGIL MUSIC)
Priest: Two ektenias, nothing in between.
Priest: Wisdom! Choir: Father bless!
Priest: He that is is…
Choir: Establish, O God, the holy Orthodox Faith of Orthodox Christians unto the ages of ages.
Priest: O most holy Theotokos…
Choir: More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim; who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the very Theotokos, thee do we magnify.
Priest: Glory to Thee…
Choir: Glory…Both now… Lord have mercy 3x. Father bless!
Priest: Dismissal.
Choir: The Orthodox Episcopate… (VIGIL MUSIC)
Reader: First Hour (begins with XB 3x – not “O come let us worship…”)
Hours:
Troparia: Sunday Tone 2 Glory… “The noble Joseph…” Kontakion: Myrrh Bearing Women
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom:
Beginning of Liturgy: Priest XB 2.5, Choir .5
Troparia/Kontakia: 1. Sunday Tone 2 Troparion 2. Myrrh Bearing Women Troparion: “The Noble Joseph…” 3. Glory… 4. Myrrh Bearing Women Kontakion 5. Both now… 6. “Thou didst descend into the tomb…” (Pascha)
The Prokimenon in the 6th Tone: Save, O Lord, Thy people and bless Thine inheritance. Stichos: Unto Thee, O Lord, Will I cry; O my God, be not silent unto me.
Epistle: Acts 6:1-7
The Alleluia in the 8th Tone: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia! Stichos: Thou hast been gracious, O Lord, unto Thy land; Thou hast turned back the captivity of Jacob. Stichos: Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Eucharistic Canon: Special “Милость мира” to “Noble Joseph” melody
Instead of “It is truly meet…”: “The angel cried…” & “Shine, shine…”
Communion Verses: 1. Receive ye the body of Christ, taste ye of the fountain of immortality. 2. Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest. 3. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!