22nd
Sunday after Pentecost / St. Euthymius the New /
Monkmartyr Lucian of Antioch
Beatitudes on 8, Octoechos 8.
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. O indivisible Trinity, all-effecting and
all-powerful Unity: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit: Thee do we hymn as our true God and Savior!
8. Rejoice, O animate temple of God and
impassible gate! Rejoice, O fiery throne
which
burneth
yet is not consumed! Rejoice, O Mother
of Emmanuel, Christ our God!
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
Tone 8: In thee, O
father, that which is fashioned according to the image of God was
preserved, /
for, having taken up thy
cross, thou didst follow after Christ, /
and by thine example didst
teach that the flesh is to be disdained as transitory, /
but that the soul must be
cared for as a thing immortal. //
Wherefore, thy spirit doth
rejoice with the angels, O venerable Euthymius.
Tone 4: In his
sufferings O Lord, /
Thy martyr Lucian hath received an imperishable
crown from Thee, our God; /
for, possessed of Thy
might, /
he set at nought his
tormentors and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons. //
By his supplications 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
Tone 2:
Passing through the tumult of the multitude dryshod,
/
thou didst utterly drown
the incorporeal foe in the streams of thy tears, /
O venerable and divinely
wise Euthymius; /
and receiving the gift of
miracles, /
thou healest
all sufferings. //
Pray thou unceasingly for
us all.
Glory… Tone 2:
With hymns let us all gloriously honor as a most splendid luminary /
Lucian, who shown forth in
asceticism /
and later was radiant in
suffering, //
and who prayeth
unceasingly for us all.
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 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: Thou,
O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt preserve us.
Choir: From this generation and for evermore.
Reader: The
Reading is from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Galatians:
[Gal. 6:11-18 (§215)]
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 [Luke
8:5-15 (§35)]
Communion Verse: Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the
highest!
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!