Propers & Hymns - Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost - August 19, 2012

Propers, hymns and hymn selection (order of worship) for the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost - August 19, 2012 - are available on the For the Faithful resource page.

Sunday is also a Post-festive Day of the Dormition (i.e. falls in the octave of this Great Feast of the Church), so the propers will be carried over from the Feast, as explained below.

Further, we will also be celebrating the joyous occasion of the Christening of Mila Dnyprowsky, with the Rite of Christian Initiation (i.e. the Sacraments of Initiation - Baptism, Chrismation and Holy Eucharist) incorporated into the celebration of Sunday's Divine Liturgy.

Epistle - 1st Corinthians 15:1-11
Gospel - Matthew 19:16-26

Tone of the week = Tone 3

During the Great Incensation, we will sing Rejoice, O Purest Mother (Veselisja, Vo Čistot'i), a well-known  para-liturgical hymn traditionally associated with the Feast of the Dormition. The melodic theme of this hymn will also be embraced throughout the celebration of this Divine Liturgy, with the Cherubic Hymn, Anamnesis Acclamation and Communion Hymn chanted to the same melodic pattern.

As a reminder, for a Sunday in the octave of a Great Feast of the Theotokos:

• the Troparion and Kontakion of the feast are taken in place of the Kontakion for Sunday, immediately after the Troparion for Sunday in the tone of the week (Tone 3);
• the Prokeimenon and Alleluia for the feast are taken together with the Prokeimenon and Alleluia for Sunday in the tone of the week (Tone 3); and,
• the Magnification & Irmos for the feast are chanted instead of It is truly proper (Dostojno jest'). Please note that we will take the Samopodoben melody (on pgs. 353-355) instead of the "simple setting".

However, as we will also be incorporating the Rite of Christian Initiation into the celebration, the Sunday Troparion, as well as the Troparion and Kontakion of the Feast, will be omitted. The Divine Liturgy will continue from the point at which the Trisagion is chanted, after the Chrismation is complete, with All You Who Have Been Baptized taken instead on the occasion of the celebration of the Rite of Christian Initiation.

As always, the reference sheet posted on the For the Faithful resource page can guide you through it. You should be able to print a copy and bring it to the Divine Liturgy, if you wish.

Hope to see you for a special Sunday morning at the Church of the Resurrection!