Sunday of the Prodigal Son / The Meeting of the Lord /`Tone 2
Beatitudes Verses: 4 from the
Octoechos, 4 from Ode III Triodion; 4 from Ode VI of the Feast
1. We offer Thee the cry of the thief, and we pray: Remember us in Thy kingdom, O Savior.
2. For the forgiveness of transgressions we offer unto Thee the Cross which Thou didst accept for our sake, O Thou who lovest mankind.
3. We bow down in worship, O Master, before Thy burial and rising, whereby Thou hast delivered the world from corruption, O Thou Who lovest mankind.
4. By Thy death hath death been slain, O Lord, and by Thy resurrection hast Thou saved
the world, O Savior.
5 & 6. Utterly beside myself, I have clung in madness to the sins suggested to me by the
passions. But accept me, O Christ, as the Prodigal.
7. With the words of the Prodigal I cry aloud: I have sinned, O Father; like him, receive
me now in Thine embrace and reject me not.
8. Open Thine arms, O Christ, and in loving-kindness receive me as I return from a far
country of sin and passions.
9. The Elder, having seen with his eyes the salvation that was to come to the peoples,
cried aloud unto Thee: ‘O Christ that comest from God, Thou art my God.’
10. In
disobedient, and the inviolate salvation of the faithful.
11. Manifestly bearing the lineaments of Him Who begot Thee before the ages, Thou
hast now been clothed in the weakness of mortals in Thy lovingkindness.
12. Now Thou lettest depart in peace him who worshipped Thee as the Son of the Most
High, the Son of the Virgin, God become a Child.
The entry verse:
The Lord hath made known His salvation, in the sight of the nations hath He revealed His
righteousness.
Troparia & Kontakia
Tone 2: When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, /
then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. /
And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, /all the Hosts of the heavens cried out: //
O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.
Tone
1: Rejoice, thou who art full of grace, O Virgin
Theotokos, /
for from thee hath risen the Sun of Righteousness,
Christ our God, /
enlightening those in darkness. /
Rejoice,
thou also, O righteous Elder, /
as thou receivest in thine arms the Redeemer of our
souls, //
Who
also granteth unto us the Resurrection.
Glory...
Tone 3: Having foolishly
abandoned Thy paternal glory, /
I squandered on vices the wealth which Thou gavest me. /
Wherefore, I cry unto Thee with the voice of the Prodigal: /
I have sinned before Thee, O compassionate Father. /
Receive me as one repentant, //
and make me as one of Thy hired servants.
Both now...
Tone 1: Thou Who didst sanctify the Virgin’s womb by Thy birth, /
and didst bless Symeon’s hands as
was meet, /
by anticipation didst even now save
us, O Christ God. /
But grant peace in the midst of wars unto Thy commonwealth, /
and strengthen Orthodox Christians
//
whom Thou hast
loved, O only Lover of mankind.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in
the 2nd Tone: The Lord is my
strength and my song, and
He is become my
salvation.
Choir: The Lord
is my strength and my song, and He is become my salvation.
Reader: With chastisement hath the Lord chastened
me, but He hath not given me over
unto death.
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
Corinthians: [1st
Corinthians 6:12-20 & Hebrews 7:7-17]
Reader: Alleluia in the 2nd
Tone: The Lord hear thee in the day of affliction; the name
of the God of Jacob
defend thee.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: O Lord, save the king, and hearken unto us
in the day when we call upon Thee.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 8th Tone: Now
lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, O Master,
according to Thy word.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Luke 15:11-32 & Luke 2:22-40b]
Instead of “It is truly
meet…” we chant the Irmos of the 9th Ode of the Canon of the
feast, Third Tone:
Refrain: O Virgin Theotokos, thou hope of Christians: /
Do thou
protect, preserve, and save //
those that
hope in thee.
Irmos: In the
shadow and the letter of the Law, /
let us, the faithful, discern a figure: /
every male child that opens the womb /
shall be sanctified to God.
/
Therefore do we magnify the
firstborn Word /
and Son of the Father without beginning, //
the firstborn Child of a Mother who hath not known a man.
Communion
Verse: Praise the Lord in 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!