The Three Holy Hierarchs
Beatitudes Verses: Octoechos: Hieararchs: 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.
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.
Glory… 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 Reading is from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul
to the Hebrews:
[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: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet for the
upright. Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!