11th Sunday after Pentecost / Martyr Andrew
Stratelates and those with him / Afterfeast of the Dormition
Beatitudes on 10:
Octoechos: 6; Feast: 4, from Ode 5.
1. We offer Thee the cry of the thief, and we pray: Remember us in Thy kingdom, O Savior. 2. For the forgiveness of transgressions we offer unto Thee the Cross which Thou didst accept for our sake, O Thou who lovest mankind.
3. We bow down in worship, O Master, before Thy burial and rising, whereby Thou hast delivered the world from corruption, O Thou Who lovest mankind. 4. By Thy death hath death been slain, O Lord, and by Thy resurrection hast Thou saved the world, O Savior. 5. Risen from the tomb, Thou didst meet the myrrh-bearing women; and Thou didst tell Thy disciples to announce Thine arising. 6. Those who slept in darkness, beholding Thee, the Light, in the nethermost parts of hades, O Christ, were raised from the dead.
7. The choir of the apostles assembled, borne as
on a cloud to Zion from the ends of the
earth, to serve thee, the
light cloud through whom God Most High, the Sun of
righteousness, hath shone
forth upon those who are in darkness and shadow.
8. More melodious than
clarions, the God-pleasing tongues of the theologizing men
sounded forth to the
Theotokos, playing a funeral hymn inspired by the Spirit: Rejoice, O
incorrupt fountain of
God’s life-creating incarnation which saveth all!
9. Let the clarions of the
theologians trumpet forth today, and let the eloquent tongues of
men now render praise; let
the air resound, shining with boundless light, and let the
angels hymn the dormition
of the all-pure Virgin.
10. It was fitting for thee,
O most lauded Virgin Theotokos, to be the chosen vessel,
which is wholly marveled
at in hymnody at thy departure, wholly consecrated to God,
divinely pleasing unto
all, and truly shown to be such.
Troparia & Kontakia
Tone 2: When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, /
then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. /And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, /all the Hosts of the heavens cried out: //O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.
Tone 1: In
giving birth thou didst preserve thy virginity; /
in thy dormition thou
didst not forsake the world, O Theotokos. /
Thou wast translated unto
life, /
since thou art the Mother
of Life; //
and by thine intercessions
dost thou deliver our souls from death.
[Troparion of the Temple]
Tone 5:
Leaving the glory of earthly rank behind, /
thou didst inherit the
kingdom of heaven; /
and with tears of blood as
with all-wondrous stones /
thou didst adorn crowns of
incorruption, /
and didst lead to Christ an
assembly of athletes. /
With the choirs of the angels
thou didst find Christ, the never-setting Sun, /
in light unwaning, O holy
general Andrew. /
With those who suffered with
thee ever entreat Him, //
that He save our souls.
Tone 2: Thou didst rise from the tomb, O omnipotent Savior, /
and Hades was terrified on beholding the wonder; /and the dead arose, /and creation at the sight thereof rejoiceth with Thee. /And Adam also is joyful, //and the world, O my Savior, praiseth Thee for ever.
[Kontakion of the
Temple]
Glory… Tone 2:
Standing before the Lord in prayer, /
like a star preceding the
sun, /
thou didst gain sight of
the desired treasure of the kingdom, /
full of ineffable joy; /
and for ages without end,
O general Andrew, /
thou dost unceasingly sing
to the immortal King with the angels. //
With them pray thou
continually for us all.
Both now... Tone 2:
The grave and
death could not hold the Theotokos, /
who is
sleepless in her intercessions and an unfailing hope in her mediations.
/
For as the
Mother of Life she was translated unto life //
by Him Who
dwelt in her ever-virgin womb.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in the 2nd Tone: The Lord is my strength and my song, and
He is become my salvation.
Choir: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He is become
my salvation.
Reader: With
chastisement hath the Lord chastened me, but He hath not given me over
unto death.
Choir: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He
is become my salvation.
Reader: In the 4th
Tone: In the saints that are in His earth hath the Lord been
wondrous, He hath wrought all His desires
in them.
Choir: In
the saints that are in His earth hath the Lord been wondrous, He hath wrought
all His desires in them.
Reader: The Reading is from the First Epistle of the Holy Apostle
Paul to the Corinthians:
[I Cor. 9:2-12 (§141); Eph. 6:10-17
(§233)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 2nd Tone: The Lord
hear thee in the day of affliction; the name
of the God of Jacob defend thee.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: O Lord,
save the king, and hearken unto us in the day when we call upon Thee.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 4th Tone: The righteous cried, and the
Lord heard them, and He
delivered them out of them all their
tribulations.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel
[Matt. 18:23-35 (§77); Luke 21:12-19 (§106)]
Instead of “It is truly
meet…” we chant the Irmos of the 9th Ode of the First Canon of
the feast, First Tone:
Refrain: The angels, having beheld the Dormition of
the Most pure One, /
were struck with
wonder, //
at how the Virgin
went up from earth to heaven.
Irmos: In thee, O
Virgin without spot, /
the bounds of nature are
overcome: /
for childbirth remains virgin
/
and death is betrothed to
life. /
O Theotokos, Virgin after
bearing child and alive after death, //
do thou ever save thine inheritance.
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!