The Second Sunday of Great Lent/ St Gregory Palamas / Tone 5
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos 6; Hierarch 4, from Ode 3. 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. Holding fast to thy inspired teaching, we reject every false invention of the heretics, and we put them all to flight with thy holy writings, O Gregory.
8. O blessed of God, thou hast refuted the foolish wisdom of the heretics. He who is Himself the true Wisdom came to dwell in thy heart, and with His aid triumphantly thou hast broken their rebellious pride.
9. In thy wisdom thou hast put to death every lust of the flesh that is condemned to perish, and through asceticism thou hast brought thy soul to life, devoting all its powers
to the contemplation of God.
10. With full knowledge and by my own free choice, I have eagerly desired a shameful and prodigal life; but through thy holy intercessions, O Virgin and Bride of God, bind my
heart with divine love.
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.
[Troparion of the Temple Tone 8: Light of Orthodoxy, pillar and teacher of the Church, /
adornment of monks, invincible champion of theologians, /
O Gregory, thou wonderworker, boast of Thessalonica, //herald of grace, ever pray that our souls be saved.
[Kontakion
of the
Glory… Tone 8:
O sacred and divine organ of wisdom, clear trumpet of theology: /we praise thee with one accord, O Gregory of divine speech; /
but as a mind standing before the Primordial Mind, //
direct our mind to Him, O father, that we may cry: Rejoice, O herald of grace!
Both now... Tone 4: The season of the virtues hath now been revealed, /
and judgment is at the doors; /
therefore let us arise and keep the Fast, /
offering tears of compunction together with our alms, /
and let us cry: Our sins are more than the sands of the sea; /
but do Thou pardon us, O Creator of all, //
that we may receive incorruptible crowns.
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 1st Tone: My
mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart
shall be of understanding.
Choir: My mouth
shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of
understanding.
Reader: The
[Hebrews 1:10-2:3 (§304); Hebrews 7:26-8:2
(§318)]
Reader: Alleluia
in the 5th Tone:
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: 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!
Gospel [Mark 2:1-12 (§7); John 10:9-16 (§36)]
Instead of “It is truly
meet…”[Tone 8 in the Octoechos, but usually sung to
one
of many special
melodies]:
All creation
– the assembly of angels and the race of man – rejoiceth in thee, O thou who
art full of grace, O sacred temple and noetical paradise,
boast of virgins, from whom
God, Who existeth from before time, was incarnate and became a
child; for He made thy
body a throne, and thy womb He made more spacious
than the heavens. All creation
rejoiceth in thee, O thou who art full of grace. Glory to thee!
Communion Verse: Praise the Lord in the heavens, praise Him in the
highest! In
everlasting remembrance shall the righteous be; he shall not be afraid of evil
tidings.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!