15th Sunday After Pentecost/ The Apodosis of the Dormition

Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos: 6; Feast: 4, from Ode 9.

 

1.  Remember me when Thou comest in Thy kingdom, O God my Savior, and save me,

for Thou alone lovest mankind.

 

2.  By a tree was Adam deceived; yet again by the Tree of the Cross was the thief saved,

who cried out: Remember me in Thy kingdom, O Lord!

 

3.  O Bestower of life, Who hadst broken down the gates and portals of hades, Thou hast

saved all who cry out to Thee, O Savior: Glory to Thine arising!

 

4.  O Thou Who by Thy burial hast made death captive, and by Thy resurrection hast

filled all with joy: remember me, in that Thou art compassionate.

 

5.  The myrrh-bearing women who came to the tomb heard an angel cry out: Christ, Who

hath enlightened all things is risen!

 

6.  Together let us all hymn Christ, Who was nailed to the Cross and hath delivered the

world from beguilement.

 

7.  The angelic hosts were amazed, seeing their Master in Zion, bearing in His arms a

woman’s soul; for as befitteth a Son, He exclaimed to her in all-pure manner: Come, O

pure one, and be glorified with thy Son and God!

 

8.  The choirs of angels buried thy body, which had received God, gazing upon it with

fear, and exclaiming with a loud voice: O Theotokos who ascendest to thy Son in the

heavenly mansions, thou ever savest thine inheritance!

 

9.  Come ye to Zion, the divine and fertile mountain of the living God, and let us behold

the Theotokos; for Christ hath translated here, as His mother, to the Holy of Holies of a

far better and divine tabernacle.

 

10.  Accept from us a hymn of parting, O Mother of the living God, and with thy light-

bearing and divine grace overshadow us, granting victory to Orthodox hierarchs over

heresies, and forgiveness to all Christian people who hymn thee, and salvation to their

souls.

 

Troparia & Kontakia

 

Tone 6. Angelic hosts were above Thy tomb, /

and they that guarded Thee became as dead. /

And Mary stood by the grave seeking Thine immaculate body. /

Thou didst despoil hades and wast not tempted by it. /

Thou didst meet the Virgin and didst grant us life.  //

O Thou Who didst rise from the dead, O Lord, 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.

 

Glory… Tone 6:

Having by His life bestowing hand raised up all the dead out of the dark abysses, /

Christ God, the Giver of life, hath bestowed the Resurrection upon the fallen human race; /

for He is the Savior of all, //

the Resurrection, and the Life, and the God of 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 6th Tone:  Save, O Lord, Thy people and bless Thine

inheritance.

Choir: Save, O Lord, Thy people and bless Thine inheritance.

Reader: Unto Thee, O Lord, Will I cry; O my God, be not silent unto me.

Choir: Save, O Lord, Thy people and bless Thine inheritance.

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: [2 Corinthians 4:6-15 (§176); Philippians 2:5-11 (§240)]

 

Reader: Alleluia in the 6th Tone: He that dwelleth in the help of the Most High shall

abide in the shelter of the God of heaven.

Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

Reader: He shall say unto the Lord: Thou art my helper and my refuge.  He is my God,

and I will hope in Him.

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 [Matthew 22:35-46 (§92); Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28 (§54)]

 

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 in 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!