14th
Sunday after Pentecost / Prophet Samuel / Afterfeast of
the Dormition
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos: 6; Feast: 4, from Ode 6.
1. Believing
Thee to be God, O Christ, the thief on the cross confessed Thee in a pure
manner, crying out from the depths of his
heart: Remember me in Thy kingdom, O
Lord!
2. Together
let us hymn as Savior and Creator, Him Who on the Cross budded forth life
for our race and caused the curse which originated
from the tree to wither up.
3. By Thy
death hast Thou destroyed the power of death, O Christ, and Thou didst raise
up with Thyself the dead of ages past, who now hymn
Thee as our true God and Savior.
4. Arriving
at Thy tomb, O Christ, the honorable women sought to anoint Thee with
myrrh, O Bestower of life; but an angel appeared to
them, crying out: The Lord is risen!
5. When Thou
wast crucified between two condemned thieves, O Christ, one of them
blasphemed Thee and was justly damned, while the
other confessed Thee and dwelleth
now in paradise.
6. When they
had come to the choir of the apostles, the honorable women cried out:
Christ is risen!
Let us worship Him as Master and Creator.
7. God, the King of all,
giveth thee that which transcendeth nature; for, as He kept thee a
virgin during thy
birthgiving, so did He preserve thy body untouched by corruption in the
tomb; and He glorified
thee with Himself by a divine translation, rendering thee honor as
a Son to His Mother.
8. Truly, O Virgin, thine
Offspring set thee in the Holy of Holies as the splendid
candlestick of the
immaterial Light, the golden censer of the divine Coal, the jar and the
staff, the divinely
inscribed tablet, the holy ark, the table of the Word of life.
9. From thee did Life
shine forth, leaving intact the seal of thy virginity. How, therefore,
hast thine all-pure and
life-giving body been permitted to be tempted by death?
10. As the temple of Life,
thou didst attain life everlasting; for, having given birth to the
hypostatic Life, thou
didst pass through death on to life.
Troparia & Kontakia
Tone 5: Let us, O faithful, praise and worship the Word /
Who is co-unoriginate with the Father and the Spirit, /
and Who was born of the Virgin for our salvation; /
for He was pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh /
and to endure death, //
and to raise the dead by His glorious Resurrection.
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
Tone 2: Celebrating the memory /
of Thy prophet Samuel, O Lord, //
through him do we entreat Thee: Save Thou our souls!
Tone 5: Unto
hades, O my Savior, didst Thou descend, /
and having broken its gates as one omnipotent, /
Thou, as Creator, didst raise up the dead together
with Thyself. /
And Thou didst break the sting of death, /
and didst deliver Adam from the curse, O Lover of
mankind. /
Wherefore, we all cry unto Thee: //
Save us, O Lord.
[Kontakion of the
Glory… Tone 8: As a gift of great worth given to God before thy conception, /
from thine infancy thou
didst serve him, O most blessed one; /
and thou wast vouchsafed to
declare beforehand the things of the future. //
Wherefore, we cry out to
thee: Rejoice, O Samuel, prophet of God, thou great high priest!
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 5th Tone:
Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt
preserve us from this
generation and for evermore.
Choir: Thou,
O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt preserve us from this generation and for
evermore.
Reader: Save me, O Lord for a righteous man there
is no more.
Choir: Thou,
O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt preserve us from this generation and for
evermore.
Reader: In the 3rd Tone: My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit
hath rejoiced in
God my Savior.
Choir: My soul doth magnify the
Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
Reader: The Reading is from the Second Epistle of
the Holy Apostle Paul to the
Corinthians: [II Cor. 1:21-2:4 (§170)]
Reader:
Alleluia in the 5th Tone: Of Thy
mercies, O Lord, will I sing for ever. Unto
generation and generation will I declare Thy truth with my mouth.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader:
For Thou hast said: Mercy shall be
built up for ever, in the heavens shall Thy
truth be established.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 2nd
Tone: Arise, O Lord, into Thy rest, Thou
and the ark of Thy holiness.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Matt.
22:2-14 (§89)]
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! I
will
take the cup of salvation, and I will call upon
the name of the Lord. Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia!