Fourth Sunday of Great Lent / 40 Martyrs of Sebaste /
Tone 8
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos 6; Martyrs 4, from Ode 3.
1. Remember us, O Christ, Thou Savior of the
world, as Thou didst remember the thief
upon the Cross; and account us all worthy of Thy heavenly
kingdom, O Thou Who alone
art compassionate.
2. Hearken, O Adam, and rejoice with Eve; for he
who of old stripped you both naked,
and by deception hath taken all of us captive, hath been
set at nought by the Cross of
Christ.
3. Nailed of Thine own will to the Tree, O our
Savior, Thou didst deliver Adam from the
curse which came through the tree, and hast rewarded that
which is in Thine image with a
dwelling in paradise, in that Thou art compassionate.
4. Today is Christ risen from the tomb, granting
incorruption unto all the faithful; and He
reneweth the joy of the myrrh-bearing women after His
suffering and resurrection.
5. Rejoice, O wise myrrh-bearing women, who were
first to behold the resurrection of
Christ, and who proclaimed
to the apostles the glad tidings of the restoration of the whole
world!
6. O ye apostles, who are manifestly the friends
of Christ and are to be enthroned with
Him in glory: entreat Him
with boldness, that He intercede for us, for ye are
His disciples.
7. Disdaining the army and life, the comeliness
of their bodies and wealth, the right
glorious forty martyrs inherited Christ instead of all these
things.
8. When the forty martyrs
were beaten mercilessly with stones at the command of the
tormentors, through the Spirit of God the stones were hurled
back against them that
commanded that they be beaten.
9. O ye martyred company
and united chorus of crowned martyrs: standing before the
Master, do ye ever save us
that sing your praises.
10. O Virgin Bride of God:
be thou the confirmation, refuge and protection of them that
have recourse unto thee in faith and confess thee to be
the Mother of God.
Troparia & Kontakia
Tone 8: From on high didst Thou descend, O
compassionate One; /
to burial of three days hast Thou submitted /
that Thou mightest free us from our passions. //
O our Life and
Resurrection, O Lord, glory be to Thee.
[Troparion of the Temple]
Tone 1: By
the pangs of Thy saints, /
be Thou entreated, O Lord, /
and heal all our diseases, we beseech Thee, //
O Thou Who lovest mankind.
Tone 8: Having risen from the tomb, Thou didst raise up the dead and didst resurrect Adam. /
Eve also danceth at Thy
Resurrection, //
and the ends of the world celebrate Thine arising from
the dead, O Greatly-merciful one.
[Kontakion
of the Temple]
Glory… Tone 6:
Having left every military array of the world, /
ye cleaved unto the Master in the heavens, /
O forty passion-bearers of
the Lord; /
for, having passed through fire and water, O blessed
ones, /
as is meet ye received glory from the heavens //
and a multitude of crowns.
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: Make your vows and pay
them to the Lord
our God.
Choir: Make
your vows and pay them to the Lord our God.
Reader: In
Judea is God known, His name is great in Israel.
Choir: Make your vows and pay them to the Lord our
God.
Reader: 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: The Reading is from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul
to the Hebrews:
[Heb. 6:13-20 (§314); Heb. 12:1-10 (§331)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 8th Tone: Come let us
rejoice in the Lord, let us shout with
jubilation unto God our Savior.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Let us
come before His countenance with thanksgiving, and with psalms let us
shout in jubilation unto Him.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In
the 4th Tone:
Shout with jubilation unto the Lord all the earth; chant ye
unto
His name, give glory in praise of Him.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel
[Mark 9:17-31 (§40); Matt. 20:1-16 (§80)]
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 from the heavens, praise Him in the highest!
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye
righteous; praise is meet for the upright. Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia!