Presanctified Liturgy: Friday in the 3rd Week

St. Gerasimus of the Jordan

 

Tone 7:

Like the Prodigal, /

I have departed from Thy grace and wasted the riches of Thy love: /

but now I run to Thee crying, O compassionate Lord: //

I have sinned, O God, have mercy upon me.                Twice

 

Tone 6:

Thy martyrs, O Lord, /

denied Thee not and forsook not Thy commandments: /

At their intercessions //

have mercy upon us.

 

Those who suffered martyrdom for Thee, O Christ, /

endured great torments: /

at their prayers and intercessions, //

O Lord, preserve us all.

 

Thy victorious martyrs, /

when they contended on this earth, endured great torments; /

but now they dwell in heaven /

and have received a perfect crown, //

that they may offer intercession for our souls.

 

Thy Cross was for the martyrs /

an invincible weapon, O Lord.  /

They saw death before them; /

but, looking to the life that is to come, /

they were strengthened by their hope in Thee. /

At their intercessions //

have mercy upon us.


Tone 8 (Special Melody: “O most glorious wonder…”):

O divinely wise father Gerasimus, /

uniting thyself unto God /

through prayer, supplication and great abstinence, /

thou didst remain impervious to the designs of the foe, /

and didst show thyself a servant of the Almighty. /

Hence, we honor thee, /

and faithfully celebrating /

thy divine memory with great joy, //

we praise thee.                                            Twice

 

O venerable father Gerasimus, /

ever abiding in faith, /

in deserts, caves and mountains, /

thou didst seek God. /

And thou didst find Him, /

as thou didst desire. /

Ever strengthened with steadfast soul /

and good ascents, /

thou didst lead multitudes of saved monastics unto God.

 

Submitting to the behest of God /

Who beholdeth all things, /

thou didst receive the grace from Him /

to work miracles /

and to drive away wicked spirits, /

and to tame wild beasts by the purity of thy mind. /

Wherefore, we honor thee, /

and as is meet we celebrate with faith //

thy divine memory, O divinely blessed one.

 

Glory…  Tone 6:

The creative ordinance was my beginning and foundation.  /

For Thou hast willed to fashion me as a living creature /

from natures visible and invisible: /

Thou hast made my body from the earth, /

and given me a soul by Thy divine and quickening breath.  /

Therefore, O Savior, grant rest to Thy servants in the land of the living, //

in the tabernacles of the righteous.

 

Both now… Tone 6:

Who doth not call thee blessed, O all-holy Virgin? /

Who will not hymn thine all-pure birthgiving? /

For the only-begotten Son /

Who shone forth timelessly from the Father, /

came forth, ineffably incarnate, from thee, the pure one; /

and being God by nature, /

He became man by nature for our sake, /

not divided into two Persons, /

but known in two natures without confusion. /

Him do thou beseech, O pure and most blessed one, //

that our souls find mercy!

 

Prokimena and Old Testament Readings

 

Tone 4: Give us help from affliction, for vain is the salvation of man.

Stichos: O God, Thou hast cast us off and hast destroyed us.

 

Lesson: Genesis 8:4-21

 

Tone 6: Hearken O God, unto my supplication; attend unto my prayer.

Stichos:  From the ends of the earth unto Thee have I cried.

 

Lesson: Proverbs 10:31 – 11:12

 

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