Read Psalms 47-55 (according to the Hebrew Numbering)
SESSIONAL HYMN, TONE 3
GOD-BEARING
APOSTLES, CHRIST WHO IS THE VINE BROUGHT YOU FORTH AS CLUSTERS OF
GRAPES GIVING THE WORLD THE NEW WINE OF SALVATION! THEREFORE, I ENTREAT
YOU, DELIVER ME FROM THE DRUNKENNESS OF SENSUAL PLEASURES; GRANT MY SOUL
TEARS OF COMPUNCTION ON THIS HOLY DAY OF THE FAST, THAT I MAY GAIN LIFE
AND SALVATION!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
GOD-BEARING
APOSTLES, CHRIST WHO IS THE VINE BROUGHT YOU FORTH AS CLUSTERS OF
GRAPES GIVING THE WORLD THE NEW WINE OF SALVATION! THEREFORE, I ENTREAT
YOU, DELIVER ME FROM THE DRUNKENNESS OF SENSUAL PLEASURES; GRANT MY SOUL
TEARS OF COMPUNCTION ON THIS HOLY DAY OF THE FAST, THAT I MAY GAIN LIFE
AND SALVATION!
Now and forever and ever. Amen
CALLING
TO MIND THE MEASURELESS RICHES OF YOUR COMPASSION AND THE INVINCIBLE
MIGHT OF YOUR POWER, I RUN TO YOU FOR PROTECTION! OPPRESSED BY TROUBLES
AND UTTERLY PERPLEXED, I CRY OUT WITH TEARS FROM THE DEPTHS OF MY HEART:
HELP ME, VIRGIN THEOTOKOS, FOR YOU ARE THE ONLY GUARDIAN OF THE WORLD!
Read psalms 56-64
SESSIONAL HYMN, TONE 8
LORD,
IN THIS HOLY SEASON, BE MERCIFUL TO US! GIVE US THE GRACE TO WEEP FROM
OUR HEARTS ALWAYS BEFORE YOU, WASHING AWAY THE POLLUTION OF OUR SOULS;
GROWING EVER MORE OBEDIENT TO YOUR COMMANDS, THAT IN OUR FASTING WE MAY
TRULY PLEASE YOU! AT THE PRAYERS OF YOUR APOSTLES WHO BROUGHT THE WORLD
SALVATION, GRANT US ALL TO SEE YOUR HOLY PASSION! O LORD, GLORY TO YOU!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
LORD,
IN THIS HOLY SEASON, BE MERCIFUL TO US! GIVE US THE GRACE TO WEEP FROM
OUR HEARTS ALWAYS BEFORE YOU, WASHING AWAY THE POLLUTION OF OUR SOULS;
GROWING EVER MORE OBEDIENT TO YOUR COMMANDS, THAT IN OUR FASTING WE MAY
TRULY PLEASE YOU! AT THE PRAYERS OF YOUR APOSTLES WHO BROUGHT THE WORLD
SALVATION, GRANT US ALL TO SEE YOUR HOLY PASSION! O LORD, GLORY TO YOU!
Now and forever and ever. Amen.a
PURE
AND HOLY THEOTOKOS, VIRGIN AND MOTHER, CAUSE THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUR
COMPASSION TO FLOW ABUNDANTLY ON US; GRANT US THE REMISSION OF OUR SINS,
FOR YOU ARE OUR GUARDIAN AND DIVINE PROTECTION!
APOSTIKHA
TONE 8
IF
WE SET OUR HANDS TO DOING GOOD, THE EFFORT OF LENT WILL BE A TIME OF
REPENTANCE FOR US, A MEANS TO ETERNAL LIFE, FOR NOTHING QUITE SAVES THE
SOUL AS MUCH AS GIVING TO THOSE IN NEED. ALMS, INSPIRED BY FASTING,
DELIVER MAN FROM DEATH. LET US EMBRACE THIS, FOR IT HAS NO EQUAL; IT IS
SUFFICIENT TO SAVE OUR SOULS!
IF WE SET OUR HANDS TO DOING GOOD...
DRESSED
IN THE ARMOR OF FAITH, ARMED WITH THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, YOU WERE
SOLDIERS WHO WERE WORTHY OF GOD. MANFULLY YOU OPPOSED THE TORTURERS,
CRUSHING THE DEVIL'S DECEITS. YOU WERE VICTORS, MADE WORTHY OF CROWNS. PRAY TO CHRIST FOR US THAT HE MAY SAVE OUR SOULS!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.
I RUN TO YOUR PROTECTION, HOLY VIRGIN THEOTOKOS, KNOWING I SHALL OBTAIN SALVATION, FOR YOU ARE ABLE TO HELP, PURE ONE.
TRIODION
From the Noon Office
TROPARION OF THE PROPHECY, TONE 1
RAISE
UP THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN, O GOD; TURN BACK THOSE WHO HAVE TURNED AWAY,
FOR YOU ARE THE LOVER OF MANKIND WHO UPHOLD THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
PROKEIMENON OF THE PROPHECY, TONE 6
I SOUGHT THE LORD AND HE ANSWERED ME * AND DELIVERED ME FROM ALL MY FEARS.
VERSE: I will bless the Lord at all times.
PROPHECY OF ISAIAH 6: 1-12
In
the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne
high and elevated: and his train filled the temple. Upon it stood the
seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two
they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two
they hew. And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the
Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory. And the lintels
of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house
was filled with smoke. And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my
peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King
the Lord of hosts.
And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his
hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.
And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips,
and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.
And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who
shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me. And he said: Go,
and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not:
and see the vision, and know it not. Blind the heart of this people, and
make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their
eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be
converted and I heal them.
And I said: How long, O Lord? And he
said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses
without man, and the land shall be left desolate. And the Lord shall
remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the
midst of the earth.
PROKEIMENON, TONE 6
ARISE, O LORD * AND TAKE UP MY RIGHT.
VERSE: Judge those who have wronged me, Lord!
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Second Wednesday in Lent
From the Morning Office
Psalm 144-150 (after the Hebrew Numbering)
SESSIONAL HYMN, TONE 1
STRETCHED OUT AND KILLED UPON THE CROSS, O CHRIST, YOU KILLED OUR ENEMY, THE SERPENT, SOURCE OF EVIL! YOU HAVE RESTORED TO LIFE THOSE KILLED BY HIS STING, THEREFORE, I ENTREAT YOU, SAVIOR: GIVE LIFE TO MY DEADENED SOUL, FOR I TURN TO YOU IN PRAYER AND FASTING.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
STRETCHED OUT AND KILLED UPON THE CROSS, O CHRIST, YOU KILLED OUR ENEMY, THE SERPENT, SOURCE OF EVIL! YOU HAVE RESTORED TO LIFE THOSE KILLED BY HIS STING, THEREFORE, I ENTREAT YOU, SAVIOR: GIVE LIFE TO MY DEADENED SOUL, FOR I TURN TO YOU IN PRAYER AND FASTING.
Now and forever and ever. Amen.
WHEN THE EWE BEHELD, O CHRIST, HER LAMB HANGING ON THE CROSS BETWEEN TWO EVILDOERS, SHE CRIED OUT TO YOU, WEEPING AND LAMENTING BITTERLY: DEAREST CHILD, WHAT IS THIS WONDER I SEE? YOU REPLIED: MOST PURE MOTHER, THIS WONDER SHALL BRING LIFE TO ALL THE WORLD!
Psalm 1-8
SESSIONAL HYMN, TONE 3
AS WE PASS THROUGH THE SOLEMN TIME OF ABSTINENCE, LET US SOUND THE TRUMPET AND CRY ALOUD: LIFE HAS BLOSSOMED IN THE WORLD THROUGH THE FAST! THE DEATH THAT COMES FROM SELF-INDULGENCE IS DESTROYED! GUARD YOUR SERVANTS IN THE FAST BY THE POWER OF YOUR CROSS, O CHRIST THE WORD!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
AS WE PASS THROUGH THE SOLEMN TIME OF ABSTINENCE, LET US SOUND THE TRUMPET AND CRY ALOUD: LIFE HAS BLOSSOMED IN THE WORLD THROUGH THE FAST! THE DEATH THAT COMES FROM SELF-INDULGENCE IS DESTROYED! GUARD YOUR SERVANTS IN THE FAST BY THE POWER OF YOUR CROSS, O CHRIST THE WORD!
Now and forever and ever. Amen.
BY YOUR OWN FREE CHOICE, COMPASSIONATE CHRIST, YOU ENDURED A SHAMEFUL DEATH ON THE CROSS. WHEN YOUR MOTHER SAW YOU SHE WAS WOUNDED IN HEART AND BEATING HER BREAST, LAMENTED WITH A MOTHER'S SORROW. AT HER PRAYERS, THROUGH YOUR TENDER MERCY, HAVE PITY ON THE WORLD AND SAVE IT, FOR YOU TAKE AWAY ITS SIN.
APOSTIKHA
TONE 7
DEATH CAME INTO THE WORLD THROUGH THE TREE FORBIDDEN IN PARADISE, BUT BY YOUR CROSS, YOU DESTROYED DEATH, LORD! THROUGH THIS FAST, DELIVER US FROM EVERY PLEASURE THAT CORRUPTS THE SOUL; ENABLE US TO BEAR THE FOOD THAT NOURISHES ETERNAL LIFE, SO THAT WE MAY RECEIVE THE INCORRUPTIBLE SWEETNESS OF HEAVENLY CROWNS WHICH YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO TRULY FAST; WE BESEECH YOU.
DEATH CAME INTO THE WORLD...
YOU WERE LIGHTS FOR THE UNIVERSE ALL-LAUDABLE, SUFFERING SAINTS, CRYING TO CHRIST: O LORD, GLORY TO YOU!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.
WHEN THE BLAMELESS VIRGIN SAW YOU VOLUNTARILY NAILED TO THE WOOD, SHE WEPT, SINGING PRAISE TO YOUR MAJESTY.
At the Noon office
TROPARION OF THE PROPHECY, TONE 6
MOST HIGH GOD, WHO DWELL IN THE HEAVENS, WHO CREATED ALL THAT HAS BREATH, SAVE US, FOR WE HAVE HOPED IN YOU, OUR SAVIOR!
PROKEIMENON OF THE PROPHECY, TONE 5
TO YOU, LORD, WILL I CRY * AND TO MY GOD I WILL MAKE SUPPLICATION.
VERSE: I will extol You, Lord, for You have drawn me up.
PROPHECY OF ISAIAH 5: 16-25
And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice. And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness. Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart. That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it. Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Woe to you that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits. Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness. That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him. Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the dame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
PROKEIMENON, TONE 6
IN YOU, LORD, HAVE I HOPED * LET ME NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME.
VERSE: Deliver me in Your righteousness and rescue me.
Psalm 144-150 (after the Hebrew Numbering)
SESSIONAL HYMN, TONE 1
STRETCHED OUT AND KILLED UPON THE CROSS, O CHRIST, YOU KILLED OUR ENEMY, THE SERPENT, SOURCE OF EVIL! YOU HAVE RESTORED TO LIFE THOSE KILLED BY HIS STING, THEREFORE, I ENTREAT YOU, SAVIOR: GIVE LIFE TO MY DEADENED SOUL, FOR I TURN TO YOU IN PRAYER AND FASTING.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
STRETCHED OUT AND KILLED UPON THE CROSS, O CHRIST, YOU KILLED OUR ENEMY, THE SERPENT, SOURCE OF EVIL! YOU HAVE RESTORED TO LIFE THOSE KILLED BY HIS STING, THEREFORE, I ENTREAT YOU, SAVIOR: GIVE LIFE TO MY DEADENED SOUL, FOR I TURN TO YOU IN PRAYER AND FASTING.
Now and forever and ever. Amen.
WHEN THE EWE BEHELD, O CHRIST, HER LAMB HANGING ON THE CROSS BETWEEN TWO EVILDOERS, SHE CRIED OUT TO YOU, WEEPING AND LAMENTING BITTERLY: DEAREST CHILD, WHAT IS THIS WONDER I SEE? YOU REPLIED: MOST PURE MOTHER, THIS WONDER SHALL BRING LIFE TO ALL THE WORLD!
Psalm 1-8
SESSIONAL HYMN, TONE 3
AS WE PASS THROUGH THE SOLEMN TIME OF ABSTINENCE, LET US SOUND THE TRUMPET AND CRY ALOUD: LIFE HAS BLOSSOMED IN THE WORLD THROUGH THE FAST! THE DEATH THAT COMES FROM SELF-INDULGENCE IS DESTROYED! GUARD YOUR SERVANTS IN THE FAST BY THE POWER OF YOUR CROSS, O CHRIST THE WORD!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
AS WE PASS THROUGH THE SOLEMN TIME OF ABSTINENCE, LET US SOUND THE TRUMPET AND CRY ALOUD: LIFE HAS BLOSSOMED IN THE WORLD THROUGH THE FAST! THE DEATH THAT COMES FROM SELF-INDULGENCE IS DESTROYED! GUARD YOUR SERVANTS IN THE FAST BY THE POWER OF YOUR CROSS, O CHRIST THE WORD!
Now and forever and ever. Amen.
BY YOUR OWN FREE CHOICE, COMPASSIONATE CHRIST, YOU ENDURED A SHAMEFUL DEATH ON THE CROSS. WHEN YOUR MOTHER SAW YOU SHE WAS WOUNDED IN HEART AND BEATING HER BREAST, LAMENTED WITH A MOTHER'S SORROW. AT HER PRAYERS, THROUGH YOUR TENDER MERCY, HAVE PITY ON THE WORLD AND SAVE IT, FOR YOU TAKE AWAY ITS SIN.
APOSTIKHA
TONE 7
DEATH CAME INTO THE WORLD THROUGH THE TREE FORBIDDEN IN PARADISE, BUT BY YOUR CROSS, YOU DESTROYED DEATH, LORD! THROUGH THIS FAST, DELIVER US FROM EVERY PLEASURE THAT CORRUPTS THE SOUL; ENABLE US TO BEAR THE FOOD THAT NOURISHES ETERNAL LIFE, SO THAT WE MAY RECEIVE THE INCORRUPTIBLE SWEETNESS OF HEAVENLY CROWNS WHICH YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO TRULY FAST; WE BESEECH YOU.
DEATH CAME INTO THE WORLD...
YOU WERE LIGHTS FOR THE UNIVERSE ALL-LAUDABLE, SUFFERING SAINTS, CRYING TO CHRIST: O LORD, GLORY TO YOU!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.
WHEN THE BLAMELESS VIRGIN SAW YOU VOLUNTARILY NAILED TO THE WOOD, SHE WEPT, SINGING PRAISE TO YOUR MAJESTY.
At the Noon office
TROPARION OF THE PROPHECY, TONE 6
MOST HIGH GOD, WHO DWELL IN THE HEAVENS, WHO CREATED ALL THAT HAS BREATH, SAVE US, FOR WE HAVE HOPED IN YOU, OUR SAVIOR!
PROKEIMENON OF THE PROPHECY, TONE 5
TO YOU, LORD, WILL I CRY * AND TO MY GOD I WILL MAKE SUPPLICATION.
VERSE: I will extol You, Lord, for You have drawn me up.
PROPHECY OF ISAIAH 5: 16-25
And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice. And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness. Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart. That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it. Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Woe to you that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits. Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness. That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him. Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the dame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
PROKEIMENON, TONE 6
IN YOU, LORD, HAVE I HOPED * LET ME NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME.
VERSE: Deliver me in Your righteousness and rescue me.
Monday, February 27, 2012
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!
(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!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
First Saturday of Lent
TROPARION (to Theodore) TONE 2
Great are the accomplishments of faith, for the holy martyr Theodore rejoiced in the flames as though at the waters of rest
Offering himself as sweet bread to the Trinity.
So by his prayers, o Christ God, save our souls!
KONTAKION TONE 8
Your faith in Christ was like a breastplate upon your heart:
With its aid, you overcame the power of the enemy.
Therefore you are crowned in eternity with a heavenly diadem.
THEOTOKION TONE 2
Beyond all thought and exceedingly glorious are your mysteries, Theotokos!
Sealed in purity and preserved in virginity,
You were revealed as truly the Mother who bore the true God!
Beseech him to save our souls!
Great are the accomplishments of faith, for the holy martyr Theodore rejoiced in the flames as though at the waters of rest
Offering himself as sweet bread to the Trinity.
So by his prayers, o Christ God, save our souls!
KONTAKION TONE 8
Your faith in Christ was like a breastplate upon your heart:
With its aid, you overcame the power of the enemy.
Therefore you are crowned in eternity with a heavenly diadem.
THEOTOKION TONE 2
Beyond all thought and exceedingly glorious are your mysteries, Theotokos!
Sealed in purity and preserved in virginity,
You were revealed as truly the Mother who bore the true God!
Beseech him to save our souls!
SESSIONAL HYMN TONE 3
You burned with the Orthodox faith,
Quenching the error of false teaching!
You destroyed the godless worship of idols.
You were sacrificed as a burnt offering to God!
With your miracles you bring joy to the end of the earth!
Glorious martyr, pray to Christ our god that we may receive great mercy!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
The Lord who strengthened you in your sufferings,
Has given you to all the inhabited earth
As a divine gift of salvation.
You heal the diseases of our soul
And put to flight the passions of our body!
Martyr Theodore, pray to Christ our God that we may receive great mercy!
Now and forever and ever. Amen.
You have conceived in your womb, undefiled Virgin,
The God whom nothing can contain:
The hypostatic word and consubstantial Son,
Who shone forth changelessly before all ages from the Father!
With the prophets and martyrs,
The holy monks, ascetics and righteous,
Entreat him that we may be granted remission of our sins!
You burned with the Orthodox faith,
Quenching the error of false teaching!
You destroyed the godless worship of idols.
You were sacrificed as a burnt offering to God!
With your miracles you bring joy to the end of the earth!
Glorious martyr, pray to Christ our god that we may receive great mercy!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
The Lord who strengthened you in your sufferings,
Has given you to all the inhabited earth
As a divine gift of salvation.
You heal the diseases of our soul
And put to flight the passions of our body!
Martyr Theodore, pray to Christ our God that we may receive great mercy!
Now and forever and ever. Amen.
You have conceived in your womb, undefiled Virgin,
The God whom nothing can contain:
The hypostatic word and consubstantial Son,
Who shone forth changelessly before all ages from the Father!
With the prophets and martyrs,
The holy monks, ascetics and righteous,
Entreat him that we may be granted remission of our sins!
Friday, February 24, 2012
First Friday of Lent
THE CANON
Canon
CANTICLE FIVE:
TONE 2
Seeing the sinfulness that is in me,
the deceitful enemy urges me on to sin and works with me:
for he truly rejoices over my perdition.
But I entreat You, Savior,
grant me amendment of life that I may destroy him!
By Your Cross You have triumphed over the powers of darkness.
Deliver me from their wickedness,
for I am fallen into a depth of sin and a pit of iniquity;
but by Your mercy, I hope to be saved.
You hung dead upon the Cross:
restore life to my soul, deadened through sin, O Christ,
count me worthy to attain Your holy Resurrection tn peace,
obediently fulfilling Your commandments.
Pure Maiden, you are a light to me in my infirmity
and the salvation of my darkened soul;
save me, O save me, for I perish!
Clothe me, corrupted by my grievous sins,
in a garment of incorruption!
CANTICLE EIGHT:
In Your compassion You humbled Yourself, and were lifted on the Cross,
Raising up with Yourself
the one who had fallen of old through eating from the tree.
Therefore You are glorified, Lord, alone greatest in love,
and we sing Your praises for ever!
I have fallen into the heavy sleep of sin through heedlessness,
but, my Christ, Who for my sake fell asleep on the Cross,
awaken me, that the night of death not come on me.
Blinded by sensual pleasures,
I bear within me a darkened soul,
and the crafty enemy laughs when he sees me.
But give me light, O Christ, and deliver me forever from his malice.
I have wasted my life in carelessness,
and my soul is heavy with the drowsiness of sin.
I fly to your unsleeping intercession, all-pure Virgin:
do not let me slumber in the sleep of death!
CANTICLE NINE:
Hateful thoughts have covered my soul with leprosy:
cleanse it, Word of God, with the sprinkling of Your blood.
Christ, for my sake You have suffered shameful Crucifixion:
make me a partaker in Your glory.
I am bowed down to the earth, O Christ,
by the burden of my sinful deeds,
and in dark discouragement I cry to You, Lover of mankind:
By Your precious blood heal the incurable wounds of my soul
that I may sing the praises of Your Divinity.
I have made iniquity my food and heedlessness my drink,
and I continue without any change.
I take pleasure in abstaining from food to no purpose,
for such is not the fast the Lord has chosen.
You have destroyed the sentence of condemnation
passed upon mankind of old;
You are the restoration of our first Mother Eve,
the cause of our reconciliation to God, our bridge to the Creator!
We magnify you, Theotokos!
Canon
CANTICLE FIVE:
TONE 2
Seeing the sinfulness that is in me,
the deceitful enemy urges me on to sin and works with me:
for he truly rejoices over my perdition.
But I entreat You, Savior,
grant me amendment of life that I may destroy him!
By Your Cross You have triumphed over the powers of darkness.
Deliver me from their wickedness,
for I am fallen into a depth of sin and a pit of iniquity;
but by Your mercy, I hope to be saved.
You hung dead upon the Cross:
restore life to my soul, deadened through sin, O Christ,
count me worthy to attain Your holy Resurrection tn peace,
obediently fulfilling Your commandments.
Pure Maiden, you are a light to me in my infirmity
and the salvation of my darkened soul;
save me, O save me, for I perish!
Clothe me, corrupted by my grievous sins,
in a garment of incorruption!
CANTICLE EIGHT:
In Your compassion You humbled Yourself, and were lifted on the Cross,
Raising up with Yourself
the one who had fallen of old through eating from the tree.
Therefore You are glorified, Lord, alone greatest in love,
and we sing Your praises for ever!
I have fallen into the heavy sleep of sin through heedlessness,
but, my Christ, Who for my sake fell asleep on the Cross,
awaken me, that the night of death not come on me.
Blinded by sensual pleasures,
I bear within me a darkened soul,
and the crafty enemy laughs when he sees me.
But give me light, O Christ, and deliver me forever from his malice.
I have wasted my life in carelessness,
and my soul is heavy with the drowsiness of sin.
I fly to your unsleeping intercession, all-pure Virgin:
do not let me slumber in the sleep of death!
CANTICLE NINE:
Hateful thoughts have covered my soul with leprosy:
cleanse it, Word of God, with the sprinkling of Your blood.
Christ, for my sake You have suffered shameful Crucifixion:
make me a partaker in Your glory.
I am bowed down to the earth, O Christ,
by the burden of my sinful deeds,
and in dark discouragement I cry to You, Lover of mankind:
By Your precious blood heal the incurable wounds of my soul
that I may sing the praises of Your Divinity.
I have made iniquity my food and heedlessness my drink,
and I continue without any change.
I take pleasure in abstaining from food to no purpose,
for such is not the fast the Lord has chosen.
You have destroyed the sentence of condemnation
passed upon mankind of old;
You are the restoration of our first Mother Eve,
the cause of our reconciliation to God, our bridge to the Creator!
We magnify you, Theotokos!
It is truly right to bless you, Theotokos,
ever blessed and most pure and the Mother of our God!
More honorable than the Cherubim,
And more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim!
Without corruption you gave birth to God the Word:
True Theotokos, we magnify you!
ever blessed and most pure and the Mother of our God!
More honorable than the Cherubim,
And more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim!
Without corruption you gave birth to God the Word:
True Theotokos, we magnify you!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
First Thursday in Lent
FIRST CANON
TONE 2 (By Joseph the Hymnographer)
CANTICLE FOUR:
Become as lightning, my soul,
receiving the flashing rays of abstinence,
and flee from the obscurity of sin:
that through the divine Spirit
the light of forgiveness may enlighten you as the rising sun.
The deceiver enticed and captured me with the hook of pleasure.
But, apostles, as by your preaching
you have caught the whole world in your net
deliver me from his malice.
Glorious apostles,
you shine as rays from the Sun of glory.
You dispel the eclipse of error.
Let your light also fall on me,
for I am darkened by every evil.
(Theotokion)
I cry out to you day and night in my affliction.
Encircled by your help and strength, Virgin, I shall be saved,
and shall leap over the wall of sensual pleasure.
CANTICLE EIGHT:
Let us abstain from every pleasure;
let us enrich our powers of perception through fasting,
and let us drink gladly the cup of compunction, as we sing:
All works of the Lord, bless the Lord!
Apostles, when you sit with Christ to judge mortal men,
though I deserve condemnation for my many sins,
intercede for me, that I may be granted a place at His right hand.
Cleansed by the Fast,
let us go up into the chariot of the divine virtues,
making our mind ascend on wings to the height of heaven, as we sing:
All works of the Lord, bless the Lord!
(Theotokion)
Virgin, you bore the fire of the Godhead, yet remained unconsumed.
Burn up the passions of our souls,
for in faith we call on you with the angelic salutation,
since it is you alone who bring us joy!
CANTICLE NINE:
Cast into the yawning deep of sensual pleasure,
I call upon the abyss of Your tender mercies:
O Helmsman, save me!
Fountain of compassion,
give me compunction and cries of sorrow,
that I may lament the endless ocean of my evil deeds.
At the holy prayers of Your disciples, Jesus
grant that I may venerate Your divine passion
and Your dread Resurrection.
(Theotokion)
You made our earthly nature heavenly, undefiled Virgin,
for God took up His dwelling in your womb:
Deliver us all from danger!
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
First Wednesday of Lent
First Canon, TONE 2
CANTICLE THREE:
Let us crucify our members through abstinence;
and as it is written, let us be vigilant in prayer,
living after the example of Him who suffered;
by His Passion, putting to death the passions.
Rejecting the bitter food of sin,
let us seek to please Christ,
Who of His own will tasted gall
and by the Cross cast down the author of evil.
Sin has become a habit for me,
and it drags me down to complete perdition.
But by Your Cross deliver me from my sinfulness,
compassionate Lord of many mercies!
(Theotokion)
Lady who bore the Master,
Queen of all creation,
set me free from bondage to the deceitful enemy!
CANTICLE THREE:
Let us crucify our members through abstinence;
and as it is written, let us be vigilant in prayer,
living after the example of Him who suffered;
by His Passion, putting to death the passions.
Rejecting the bitter food of sin,
let us seek to please Christ,
Who of His own will tasted gall
and by the Cross cast down the author of evil.
Sin has become a habit for me,
and it drags me down to complete perdition.
But by Your Cross deliver me from my sinfulness,
compassionate Lord of many mercies!
(Theotokion)
Lady who bore the Master,
Queen of all creation,
set me free from bondage to the deceitful enemy!
CANTICLE EIGHT:
The furnace of the passions consumes my soul;
but quench its flames with the dew of Your mercy.
For in Your loving self-abasement, Benefactor,
at Your Crucifixion,
You made a fountain of dispassion to flow from Your pure side.
Lifted upon Your Cross, O Christ,
You have raised up us who were fallen into evil.
I have slipped into the pit of sin:
bring me out and set me firmly on the rock of salvation,
that I may glorify Your power!
Through the lance that pierced Your side, O Christ,
You have cleansed my heart from the corruption of the passions.
I have been wounded by the poisonous bite of the serpent.
Heal me in every part,
and make me walk unwavering upon the paths of God.
(Theotokion)
We all honor you, undefiled Virgin,
as the shining lamp and candlestick
in which the fire of the Godhead came to dwell,
bringing light to those held fast in the dark night of corruption,
and we bless your childbearing, blessed among women!
The furnace of the passions consumes my soul;
but quench its flames with the dew of Your mercy.
For in Your loving self-abasement, Benefactor,
at Your Crucifixion,
You made a fountain of dispassion to flow from Your pure side.
Lifted upon Your Cross, O Christ,
You have raised up us who were fallen into evil.
I have slipped into the pit of sin:
bring me out and set me firmly on the rock of salvation,
that I may glorify Your power!
Through the lance that pierced Your side, O Christ,
You have cleansed my heart from the corruption of the passions.
I have been wounded by the poisonous bite of the serpent.
Heal me in every part,
and make me walk unwavering upon the paths of God.
(Theotokion)
We all honor you, undefiled Virgin,
as the shining lamp and candlestick
in which the fire of the Godhead came to dwell,
bringing light to those held fast in the dark night of corruption,
and we bless your childbearing, blessed among women!
CANTICLE NINE:
The Fast shines upon us all more brightly than the sun,
bringing us the light of grace,
proclaiming the good news of the Cross,
of the precious Passion, and the saving day of Resurrection.
Let us love chastity and flee from fornication!
Let us gird our loins with temperance
that we may appear in purity before the Savior of our souls,
Who alone is pure and desires the purification of us all.
The Fast shines upon us all more brightly than the sun,
bringing us the light of grace,
proclaiming the good news of the Cross,
of the precious Passion, and the saving day of Resurrection.
Let us love chastity and flee from fornication!
Let us gird our loins with temperance
that we may appear in purity before the Savior of our souls,
Who alone is pure and desires the purification of us all.
Nail my flesh with the fear of You, O Christ,
Who nailed the sin of Adam to the Cross.
Loose me from the bonds of wickedness,
shatter the arrows of the evil one with Your lance, Master,
and deliver me from all his mischief.
(Theotokion)
Virgin Maiden who bore Christ the Lord,
the just Judge who alone is ever ready to forgive,
deliver me from the condemnation,
from the fire and torment that I deserve to suffer
because of my delight in sin.
Who nailed the sin of Adam to the Cross.
Loose me from the bonds of wickedness,
shatter the arrows of the evil one with Your lance, Master,
and deliver me from all his mischief.
(Theotokion)
Virgin Maiden who bore Christ the Lord,
the just Judge who alone is ever ready to forgive,
deliver me from the condemnation,
from the fire and torment that I deserve to suffer
because of my delight in sin.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
First Tuesday of Lent
The First Canon, Tone 2
THE CANON
CANTICLE TWO:
FIRST CANON
Soul, be temperant;
be vigilant, sigh and weep.
Reject all the burden of sin by fasting.
Flee from the fire of passions by true and fervent repentance,
and rending the garments of mourning with tears, be clothed anew.
Woe is me! Who will I become?
And what shall I do?
I have committed sins without conscience,
and have not feared the Master.
Therefore, even before the Judgment, I stand condemned.
Save me and bring me back, O righteous and gracious Judge,
though I have angered You more than all other men.
(Theotokion)
Unsown earth, which brought forth the Nourisher of all:
He who opened His hands, and of His own good will
satisfies every living thing by His power:
strengthen with the Living Bread
the hearts weakened by satisfaction with wicked transgression.
CANTICLE EIGHT:
Soul, put aside the wicked sleep of laziness,
and persevere with sincere vigilance in the Lord's commands.
The torch-bearing Bridegroom is drawing near;
let us hasten to greet Him!
Wounded by wicked pleasures,
heal me with the bountiful cure of Your merciful divine will, O Word,
and I will glorify You with thanksgiving forever.
Restrain yourself, soul, from harmful passions,
from hate and envy and from every evil.
Be nourished in the Fast with the spiritual meat from heaven,
which is the Word of God.
(Theotokion)
Pure Bearer of God,
heal the inclinations of my soul,
the passions of my heart; the instability of my mind.
You are the only helper of us sinners; the invincible wall.
CANTICLE NINE:
Who among men has sinned against the Lord as much as I?
Who has remained in sin for as long as I, a wretched man?
But, O God, the Fountain of mercy, have compassion on me.
Angelic powers who look on God,
entreat the One who is quick to forgive,
to save the soul, lost and adrift on the sea of this life's pleasures,
in a tempest of passions,
suffering from attacks of hostile spirits.
Come, soul, take wing.
By the efforts of the fast arise from indolence.
Be filled with the vision of joy,
and behold God in faith!
(Theotokion)
Who can worthily proclaim your praise,
pure Virgin who gave birth ineffably to the exalted Master and Lord,
to whom the angelic hosts sing praise.
Pray to Him for all of us who have sinned exceedingly,
unwedded Bride.
THE CANON
CANTICLE TWO:
FIRST CANON
Soul, be temperant;
be vigilant, sigh and weep.
Reject all the burden of sin by fasting.
Flee from the fire of passions by true and fervent repentance,
and rending the garments of mourning with tears, be clothed anew.
Woe is me! Who will I become?
And what shall I do?
I have committed sins without conscience,
and have not feared the Master.
Therefore, even before the Judgment, I stand condemned.
Save me and bring me back, O righteous and gracious Judge,
though I have angered You more than all other men.
(Theotokion)
Unsown earth, which brought forth the Nourisher of all:
He who opened His hands, and of His own good will
satisfies every living thing by His power:
strengthen with the Living Bread
the hearts weakened by satisfaction with wicked transgression.
CANTICLE EIGHT:
Soul, put aside the wicked sleep of laziness,
and persevere with sincere vigilance in the Lord's commands.
The torch-bearing Bridegroom is drawing near;
let us hasten to greet Him!
Wounded by wicked pleasures,
heal me with the bountiful cure of Your merciful divine will, O Word,
and I will glorify You with thanksgiving forever.
Restrain yourself, soul, from harmful passions,
from hate and envy and from every evil.
Be nourished in the Fast with the spiritual meat from heaven,
which is the Word of God.
(Theotokion)
Pure Bearer of God,
heal the inclinations of my soul,
the passions of my heart; the instability of my mind.
You are the only helper of us sinners; the invincible wall.
CANTICLE NINE:
Who among men has sinned against the Lord as much as I?
Who has remained in sin for as long as I, a wretched man?
But, O God, the Fountain of mercy, have compassion on me.
Angelic powers who look on God,
entreat the One who is quick to forgive,
to save the soul, lost and adrift on the sea of this life's pleasures,
in a tempest of passions,
suffering from attacks of hostile spirits.
Come, soul, take wing.
By the efforts of the fast arise from indolence.
Be filled with the vision of joy,
and behold God in faith!
(Theotokion)
Who can worthily proclaim your praise,
pure Virgin who gave birth ineffably to the exalted Master and Lord,
to whom the angelic hosts sing praise.
Pray to Him for all of us who have sinned exceedingly,
unwedded Bride.
Monday, February 20, 2012
First Monday of Lent
(After the 2nd reading of the Psalter):
SESSIONAL HYMN TONE 2 (by Joseph)
LET US ACQUIRE COMPUNCTION OF SOUL
AS GOD-GIVEN FIRST-FRUITS OF THE FAST.
LET US CRY: ACCEPT OUR PRAYER AS PURE INCENSE, O CHRIST OUR MASTER.
DELIVER US, WE ENTREAT YOU, FROM THE STENCH OF CORRUPTION
AND FROM FEARFUL TORMENT.//
FOR YOU ALONE ARE READY TO FORGIVE!
GLORY BE TO THE FATHER AND TO THE SON AND THE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
LET US ACQUIRE COMPUNCTION OF SOUL...
NOW AND FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.
GRANT US YOUR MERCY, THEOTOKOS,
FOUNT OF TENDER COMPASSION.
LOOK UPON THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SINNED,
AND MANIFEST, AS ALWAYS YOUR POWER.
FOR TRUSTING IN YOU, WE CRY OUT AS ONCE DID GABRIEL, CHIEF OF THE BODILESS HOSTS://
REJOICE, FULL OF GRACE, THE LORD IS WITH YOU!
(After the 3rd reading of the Psalter):
SESSIONAL HYMN (by Theodore) TONE 2
LET US BEGIN THE ALL-HOLY SEASON OF FASTING WITH JOY;
LET US SHINE WITH THE BRIGHT RADIANCE OF THE HOLY COMMANDMENTS OF CHRIST OUR GOD:
WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF LOVE AND THE SPLENDOR OF PRAYER,
THE STRENGTH OF GOOD COURAGE AND THE PURITY OF HOLINESS!
SO, CLOTHED IN GARMENTS OF LIGHT,
LET US HASTEN TO THE HOLY RESURRECTION ON THE THIRD DAY,//
THAT SHINES ON THE WORLD WITH THE GLORY OF ETERNAL LIFE!
SESSIONAL HYMN TONE 2 (by Joseph)
LET US ACQUIRE COMPUNCTION OF SOUL
AS GOD-GIVEN FIRST-FRUITS OF THE FAST.
LET US CRY: ACCEPT OUR PRAYER AS PURE INCENSE, O CHRIST OUR MASTER.
DELIVER US, WE ENTREAT YOU, FROM THE STENCH OF CORRUPTION
AND FROM FEARFUL TORMENT.//
FOR YOU ALONE ARE READY TO FORGIVE!
GLORY BE TO THE FATHER AND TO THE SON AND THE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
LET US ACQUIRE COMPUNCTION OF SOUL...
NOW AND FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.
GRANT US YOUR MERCY, THEOTOKOS,
FOUNT OF TENDER COMPASSION.
LOOK UPON THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SINNED,
AND MANIFEST, AS ALWAYS YOUR POWER.
FOR TRUSTING IN YOU, WE CRY OUT AS ONCE DID GABRIEL, CHIEF OF THE BODILESS HOSTS://
REJOICE, FULL OF GRACE, THE LORD IS WITH YOU!
(After the 3rd reading of the Psalter):
SESSIONAL HYMN (by Theodore) TONE 2
LET US BEGIN THE ALL-HOLY SEASON OF FASTING WITH JOY;
LET US SHINE WITH THE BRIGHT RADIANCE OF THE HOLY COMMANDMENTS OF CHRIST OUR GOD:
WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF LOVE AND THE SPLENDOR OF PRAYER,
THE STRENGTH OF GOOD COURAGE AND THE PURITY OF HOLINESS!
SO, CLOTHED IN GARMENTS OF LIGHT,
LET US HASTEN TO THE HOLY RESURRECTION ON THE THIRD DAY,//
THAT SHINES ON THE WORLD WITH THE GLORY OF ETERNAL LIFE!
GLORY BE TO THE FATHER AND TO THE SON AND THE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
LET US BEGIN THE ALL-HOLY SEASON...
NOW AND FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.
BEYOND ALL HOPE, I AM WONDROUSLY SET FREE, MOTHER OF GOD,
FROM ALL THAT TROUBLES ME,
FOR I HAVE OBTAINED IN MY DISTRESS YOUR INVINCIBLE INTERCESSION!
YOU ARE ALWAYS SWIFT TO HELP THOSE WHO BESEECH YOU IN FAITH,
DISPELLING THE DARKNESS OF THEIR MANY SINS.
THEREFORE, WITH THANKSGIVING, I CRY TO YOU:
ACCEPT, LADY, THIS SMALL OFFERING OF GRATEFUL PRAISE,//
AND BE MY HELP IN ALL THINGS!
LET US BEGIN THE ALL-HOLY SEASON...
NOW AND FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.
BEYOND ALL HOPE, I AM WONDROUSLY SET FREE, MOTHER OF GOD,
FROM ALL THAT TROUBLES ME,
FOR I HAVE OBTAINED IN MY DISTRESS YOUR INVINCIBLE INTERCESSION!
YOU ARE ALWAYS SWIFT TO HELP THOSE WHO BESEECH YOU IN FAITH,
DISPELLING THE DARKNESS OF THEIR MANY SINS.
THEREFORE, WITH THANKSGIVING, I CRY TO YOU:
ACCEPT, LADY, THIS SMALL OFFERING OF GRATEFUL PRAISE,//
AND BE MY HELP IN ALL THINGS!
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