The Three Holy Hierarchs
Beatitudes Verses: Octoechos: Hierarchs: 4 from Ode 3 & 4, from Ode 6
1. The great clarion of the Church, the beacon
illumining the whole world, the preacher embracing all the ends of the earth
with his proclamation, Basil of great renown moveth this assembly.
2. Radiant of life and activity, radiant of
discourse and teachings, outshining all in all things, as another sun
outshineth all in all things, as another sun outshineth the stars, the much
hymned Theologian is blessed.
3. Lo! the light of the world shineth upon the
world! Behold, the salt of the earth sweeteneth
the earth! Lo! the tree of life
produceth the fruits of immortality, O holy Chrysostom. Come ye who desire to escape death, and find
ye delight!
4. Praised with splendor may the radiant
instructors of life be: the correctors of morals, the edifiers of souls, the
common saviors of all, who have shown forth to us models of deeds and words.
5. Together, O ye three, bless the properties of God: the unbegottenness of the Father, the generation of the Word and the procession of the Spirit Himself. 6. Today hath salvation, radiantly manifest, come to this house; for Christ, honoring His own name, is present in the midst of the two or three gathered together. 7. Immeasurably distant from the heights of heaven is the abyss of the earth; yet divine desire hath borne the saints from the earth higher than the heavens. 8. The three divine preachers, having thee as a new wellspring and source of mysteries, O Virgin, adopt a novel manner of speech with new sources.
Troparia
& Kontakia
Tone 4: In that ye share in the ways of the apostles, /
O
teachers of the whole world, /
entreat
the Master of all, /
that
He grant peace to the world //
and
great mercy to our souls.
Glory… Tone 2:
The sacred heralds of divine proclamation, /
the foremost among the
teachers, /
hast Thou received, O Lord,
into the enjoyment of Thy good things and into rest; /
for Thou hast accepted their
labors and death as surpassing any wholeburnt offering, //
O Thou Who alone dost glorify
Thy saints.
Both now...
Tone 6: O protection of
Christians that cannot be put to shame, /
O mediation unto the Creator unfailing, /
disdain not the suppliant voices of sinners, /
but be thou quick, O good one, to help us who in
faith cry unto thee; /
hasten to intercession and speed thou to make
supplication, //
thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them
that honor thee.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in the 8th Tone: Their sound hath gone forth into all
the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world
Choir: Let Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and
their words unto the ends of the world.
Reader: The
heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth the work of his
hands.
Choir: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and
their words unto the ends of the world.
Reader: Their sound hath gone forth
into all the earth.
Choir: And their words unto the ends of the world.
Reader: The
[Hebrews
13:7-16]
Reader: Alleluia in the 4th Tone.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: The
heavens shall confess Thy wonders, O Lord, and Thy truth in the congregation of
saints.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: God is glorified in the council of the
saints.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Matthew 5:14-19]
Communion Verse: Their sound hath gone forth into
all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia!