Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia Music

VARIOUS DISMISSAL HYMNS CHANTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for September

• September 7 — Forefeast of the Birth of the Theotokos
• September 8 — Birth of the Theotokos
• September 14 — Exaltation of the Precious Cross
• September 26 — Saint John the Theologian

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for October

• October 2 — Saints Cyprian and Justina
• October 18 — Saint Luke the Evangelist
• October 28 — Saint Philaret of New York

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for November

• November 11 — Holy Great Martyr Menas
• November 21 — Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple
• November 25 — Saint Catherine
• November 29 — Holy Apostle Andrew the First-called

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for December

• December 4 — St. Barbara (Dismissal Hymn only)
• December 6 — St. Nicholas
• December 12 — St. Spyridon
• December 12 — St. Peter the Aleut (DH only)
• December 20 — Prefestival of the Nativity of Christ (includes DH for the 20th to the 23rd, and another DH which is used on the 24th, plus the Kontakion, which is used for the whole period of the Prefestival)
• December 25 — The Nativity of Christ

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for January

• January 1 — Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for the Circumcision and St. Basil the Great
• January 2 — Dismissal Hymn of the Forefeast of Holy Theophany
• January 2-4 — Kontakion of the Forefeast of Theophany
• January 5 — Second Dismissal Hymn of the Forefeast of Theophany
• January 6 — Dismissal Hymn of Holy Theophany
• January 6 — Kontakion of Holy Theophany

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for February

• February 2 — Meeting in the Temple

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for March

• March 24 — Forefeast of the Annunciation
• March 25 — The Annunciation of the Mother of God

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for March

• May 21 — Saints Constantine and Helen
• May 27 — Saint John the Russian

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for June

• June 19 — Dismissal Hymn for St. John of San Francisco
• June 24 — Birth of the Forerunner
• June 29 — The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
• June 30 — Synaxis of the 12 Holy Apostles

Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia for July

• July 1 — SS. Cosmas and Damian the Unmercenaries
• July 13-19 — Sunday of the 7 Holy Ecumenical Councils
• July 20 — Holy Prophet Elias
• July 25 — St. Anna, Mother of the Holy Theotokos
• July 27 — St. Panteleimon the Healer

Dismissal Hymns for August

• August 5 — Prefestival of the Transfiguration
• August 6 — Feast of the Transfiguration
• August 14 — Prefestival of the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos
• August 15 — The Dormition of the Holy Theotokos
• August 29 — Beheading of St. John the Forerunner

Coming soon.