Instructions for the Sunday of the Blind Man

Sunday
16/29 - 6th Sunday after Pascha, of the Blind Man. Tone 5. Ven. Theodore the Sanctified (368). St.Alexander, Abp. Of Jerusalem (213-250). Martyrs Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia (c. 303). Blessed child Musa of Rome (V). Monk-martyrs of the community of St. Savva the Sanctified (610). St. George II, bishop of Mytilene (842). {Ven. Brendan the Voyager, Abbot of Clonfert (c. 577)}

Matins: G8, Jn. 20:11-18
Liturgy: Acts 16:16-34; Jn. 9:1-38

On Saturday evening the All Night Vigil is served as follows:

At Great Vespers: The beginning as on Thomas Sunday. At Lord, I have cried: 7 Stichera of the Octoechos and 3 of the Pentecostarion, Glory: of the Blind Man; Both now: the Dogmatic Theotokion In the Red Sea. Entrance. Prokeimenon — The Lord is King. At the Aposticha: the 1st Sticheron in Tone 5 — Thou, O Christ Saviour and the Paschal verses with their refrains. Glory: of the Blind man; Both now: It is the day of Resurrection. After Now Letest Thou and the Trisayion: Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos (thrice).

At Matins: Choir — Christ is Risen (thrice) and the Reader — Glory to God in the highest: the Six Psalms. At God is the Lord: Troparion of the Resurrectional tone (twice) Glory, Both now: Rejoice, gateway of the Lord. After the Kathismas the Sessional hymns of the Tone. Resurrectional Evlogitaria. Hypakoe, Gradual hymns and Prokeimenon of the Tone. 8th Resurrectional Gospel, from St. John, per. 64. Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ (thrice - and once in Greek usage). Psalm 50. Glory: Through the prayers of the Holy Apostles and the rest, as usual. Canon of Pascha with the Theotokia and Eirmoi on 8 and of the Pentecostarion on 6; Katavasias of the Ascension — To God the Saviour. After the 3rd Ode: Kontakion of Pascha Though Thou didst descend Oikos, and Kathisma of the Pentecostarion. After the 6th Ode: Kondakion of the Pentecostarion — With blinded spiritual eyes the Oikos which follows, and (in Greek usage) the Synaxarion of the day, and the Pentecostarion. At the 9th ode we do not sing More honourable, but the 9th Ode of the Canon — Shine forth, shine forth. Exapostilarion of Pascha — Thou didst fall asleep in the flesh. Glory: of the Pentecostarion; Both now: of the Pentecostarion. At the Praises: 7 Stichera of the Tone and 1 of the Pentecostarion, Glory: of the Pentecostarion; Both now: Thou art most blessed. The Great Doxology. The Troparion: Today salvation. Litanies and dismissal. Glory, Both now; the 8th Matinal Doxasticon. Polychrnion: Our Great Lord and Father Kyril, and the 1st Hour.

On Sunday morning:

At the Hours: Troparion of the Tone, Kondakion of the Blind Man.

At the Liturgy: The beginning as on Thomas Sunday. After the Entrance, the Troparion of the Tone, Glory: kondakion of the Blind Man; Both now: Kоndakion of Pascha. Prokeimenon in Tone 8: Pray and give glory. Epistle is from Acts, per. 38. Gospel is from St. John, per. 34. Instead of It is truly meet we sing The angel cried and Shine forth, shine forth. Communion hymn: Receive the Body of Christ; and Praise the Lord. The conclusion of the Liturgy is the same as for Thomas Sunday.