Sunday of the Prodigal Son / The Three Holy Hierarchs
Beatitudes
on 12: Octoechos 4; Triodion 4, from Ode 3; Hierarchs 4, from Ode 6.
1. Through food did the enemy lead Adam forth
from paradise; but by the Cross hath
Christ led back to
it the thief who cried: Remember me when
Thou comest in Thy
kingdom!
2. With Adam and the thief I worship Thy
sufferings and glorify Thy resurrection; and I
cry out with a splendid voice: Remember me, O Lord, when Thou comest in Thy
kingdom!
3. O Sinless One, of Thine own will Thou wast crucified and placed in the Tomb, yet
Thou didst arise as
God, raising up with Thyself Adam who crieth out:
Remember me
when Thou comest in Thy kingdom!
4. Raising up the temple of Thy body by Thy
resurrection on the third day, O Christ
God, Thou didst
raise up Adam and his descendants who cry: Remember me when Thou
comest in Thy kingdom!
5 &6. Utterly beside myself, I have clung in madness to the sins suggested to me by the
passions. But accept me, O Christ, as the Prodigal.
7. With the words of the Prodigal I cry aloud: I have sinned, O Father; like him, receive
me now in Thine embrace and reject me not.
8. Open Thine arms, O Christ, and in loving-kindness receive me as I return from a far
country of sin and passions.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11.
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.
12. 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 1: When
the stone had been sealed by the Jews, /
And the soldiers were guarding Thine immaculate Body, /
Thou didst arise on the third day, O Savior, /
granting life unto the world. /
Wherefore, the Hosts of the Heavens cried out to Thee, O
Life-giver: /
Glory to Thy Resurrection, O Christ.
/
Glory to Thy kingdom. //
Glory to Thy dispensation, O only Lover
of mankind.
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.
Tone 1: As God,
Thou didst arise from the tomb in glory, /
and Thou didst raise the world
together with Thyself. /
And mortal nature praiseth Thee as God, /
and death hath vanished. /
And Adam danceth, O Master, /
and Eve, now freed from fetters,
rejoiceth as she crieth out: /
Thou art He, O Christ, //
that grantest unto all
resurrection.
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 3: Having
foolishly abandoned Thy paternal glory, /
I squandered on vices the wealth
which Thou gavest me. /
Wherefore, I cry unto Thee with
the voice of the Prodigal: /
I have sinned before Thee, O compassionate
Father. /
Receive me as one repentant, //
and make me as one of Thy hired servants.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in the 1st Tone: Let Thy mercy, O
Lord, be upon us, according
as we have hoped in Thee.
Choir: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according
as we have hoped in Thee.
Reader: Rejoice
in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet for the
upright.
Choir: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according
as we have hoped in Thee.
Reader: In the 8th
Tone: Their sound hath gone forth
into all the earth, and their words
unto the ends of the world.
Choir: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the
world.
Reader: The
Corinthians: [I Cor.
6:12-20 (§135); Heb. 13:7-16 (§334)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 1st Tone: O God who givest avengement unto me and hast
subdued people under me.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: It is
He that magnifieth the salvation of His king and worketh mercy for His
anointed, for David and for His seed unto eternity.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 4th tone: The heavens shall
confess Thy wonders, O Lord, and Thy truth
in the congregations of saints.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Luke 15:11-32 (§79); Matt. 5:14-19 (§11)]
Communion Verse: Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest!
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet for the upright.
Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia!