Second Monday in Lent

From the Triodion, Monday of the Second week of Lent
(Psalms are numbered according to the Hebrew Usage commonly found in contemporary English translations, not the Septuagint/Vulgate usage found in the Douay)

At the Morning Office
Read Psalms 33-37

SESSIONAL HYMN (by Joseph)

I ENTREAT YOU IN YOUR COMPASSION, O CHRIST, RESTORE TO LIFE THROUGH TRUE FASTING AND REPENTANCE MY SOUL SLAIN BY THE FRUIT OF DISOBEDIENCE. GRANT THAT I MAY EVER WALK THE STRAIGHT PATH OF YOUR HOLY COMMANDMENTS, THAT IN THE COMPANY OF ALL WHO LOVE YOU, I MAY SHARE IN YOUR DIVINE GLORY, O JESUS, AND PRAISE YOUR GOODNESS TOWARDS ALL!

GLORY Be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit

I ENTREAT YOU IN YOUR COMPASSION, O CHRIST...

Now and forever and ever. Amen.

TOSSED IN THE STORM OF THE PASSIONS, DEAF TO THE VOICE OF MY CONSCIENCE, I CALL ON YOU WITH FERVOR, PURE VIRGIN! DO NOT LET ME PERISH IN MY WRETCHEDNESS, FOR YOU HAVE BORNE THE LORD OF UNENDING MERCY: I HAVE NO OTHER HOPE BUT YOU; I PUT MY TRUST IN YOU! DO NOT LET MY ENEMIES TRIUMPH OVER ME AND MOCK ME. ALL THAT YOU DESIRE YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DO, FOR YOU ARE MOTHER OF THE GOD OF ALL!


Read Psalms 38-46

DIRECT OUR STEPS, O LORD, AS WE SET OUT ON THE SECOND WEEK OF THE FAST. SHINE THE SANCTIFYING LIGHT OF YOUR COMMANDMENTS ON US AND MAKE US WORTHY TO OFFER YOU AN ACCEPTABLE PRAYER ON BENDED KNEES: FOR YOU ARE OUR FATHER AND WE ARE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS: WE SING YOUR PRAISE WITH FEAR AND CALL ON YOUR NAME!

GLORY Be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit

DIRECT OUR STEPS, O LORD...

Now and forever and ever. Amen.

THE MESSAGE OF GABRIEL TO THE VIRGIN WAS THE BEGINNING OF SALVATION FOR SHE HEARD HIS GREETING: REJOICE! AND DID NOT REJECT HIS SALUTATION. SHE DID NOT DOUBT LIKE SARAH IN THE TENT, BUT REPLIED: BEHOLD THE HANDMAID OF THE LORD, BE IT DONE TO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD!
                               APOSTIKHA

                TONE 5

PRAYER AND FASTING ARE A MARVELOUS WEAPON WHICH SHOWED MOSES A WRITER OF THE LAW, ELIJAH, A ZEALOT IN SACRIFICE. ABIDING IN THEM, FAITHFUL, LET US CRY TO THE SAVIOR: AGAINST YOU ONLY HAVE WE SINNED!  HAVE MERCY ON US!

PRAYER AND FASTING ARE A MARVELOUS WEAPON...

BLESSED IS THE ARMY OF THE HEAVENLY KING! BORN ON EARTH AND ENDURING SUFFERINGS THEY HASTENED TO ACHIEVE THE RANK OF ANGELS. NOT CARING FOR THE FLESH, THROUGH SUFFERING, THEY WERE ACCOUNTED WORTHY OF BODILESS NOBILITY! BY THEIR PRAYERS, LORD, SAVE OUR SOULS!

GLORY Be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
Now and forever and ever. Amen.

WE ENTREAT YOU AS THE MOTHER OF GOD: PRAY FOR OUR SOULS, BLESSED ONE!

At the Noon Office

TROPARION OF THE PROPHECY

REMEMBER THAT WE ARE BUT DUST, CREATOR OF OUR HEARTS! DO NOT CONDEMN US TO THE NETHERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH, SINLESS ONE!
 PROKEIMENON OF THE PROPHECY          TONE 6

COME, PRAISE THE LORD,  *  ALL YOU WHO FEAR THE LORD!
VERSE: My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Hear me!

READING FROM THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH  4:2-6, 5:1-7b
In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written in life in Jerusalem. If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection.
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a security and covert from the whirlwind, and from rain.
I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it broutht forth wild grapes. And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard. What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.
                PROKEIMENON                          TONE 6

YOUR ROD AND YOUR STAFF,  *  THEY COMFORT ME.
VERSE: The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want!