23rd Sunday after Pentecost / The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
Beatitudes
on 10 Octoechos: 6; Icon: 4, from Ode 3.
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. Rejoice, O
unshakable, pure and animate palace of Christ the King Most High!
Rejoice, O
Directress, Rejoice! For by thee is our city preserved intact!
8. In thy womb which
tasted not of wedlock thou didst bodily contain Him Whom
creation cannot
contain, O Virgin Directress. Wherefore, magnifying thee as is meet, we
chant, Rejoice!
9. Thou didst once fill
thy first-painted icon with grace, O Virgin Lady Theotokos; and
now that same grace
speaketh forth truly in the effulgence of the wonders of faith, as the
first one did for
the sake of thee who wast first depicted thereon, unto those who with
faith have recourse
to thee after God.
10. We bow down
before the all-pure image of thee and thy Babe all-sweet, Christ the
preëternal and
never-waning Light, O Theotokos, by Whom thou hast saved all human
nature from cruel
evils and mortal corruption.
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 4: O
fervent intercessor, Mother of the Lord Most High, /
thou prayest for all
to thy Son, Christ our God, /
and thou contrivest
to save all who have recourse to thy powerful protection./
O Sovereign Lady and
Queen, help and defend all of us /
who in troubles and
trials, in pains and burdened with many sins, /
stand before thy
most pure Icon in thy presence, /
and pray to thee
with compunction of soul, /
contrition of heart,
and with tears, /
and who have
unflagging hope in thee. /
Grant to all what is
good for us, /
deliverance from all
evil, /
and save us all, O
Virgin Theotokos, //
for thou art a
divine protection to thy servants.
[Troparion of the Temple]
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.
Glory… [Kontakion of the
Temple]
Both now... Tone
8:
Let us run, O ye peoples, to that quiet and good harbor, to the speedy helper, /
to the ready and warm salvation, to the Virgin’s protection. /
Let us hurry to prayer and hasten to repentance; /
for the most pure Theotokos poureth out for us unfailing mercy, /
anticipateth our needs with her help and delivereth from great disasters and evils //
her well-pleasing and God-fearing servants.
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 Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to
the Ephesians:
[Eph. 2:4-10 (§220); Phil. 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 8th Tone: Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Luke 16:19-31 (§83); Luke 10:38-42,11:27-28 (§54)]
Communion
Verse:
Praise the Lord from 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!