Presanctified Liturgy: Friday in the 3rd Week
Martyr Eudocia
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 4 (Special Melody: “Thou hast given a sign…”):
Having first fasted and caused the uprisings of the flesh /
to wither up through abstinence, /
thou didst later set at nought the wiles of the enemy/
through martyrdom and didst triumph over him, /
O divinely blessed Eudocia. /
Wherefore, Jesus, Who loveth mankind, /
the Savior of our souls, //
hath crowned thee for thy twofold struggles. Twice
In the furrows of thy heart /
thou didst receive the divine seed /
like rich soil, O divinely blessed one, /
and thou didst truly put forth the grain of martyrdom, /
producing it a hundredfold. /
Thou didst lay it up in noetic granaries /
through the power of the Spirit Who transformed thee /
and wrought in thee a greater change through grace, //
O most lauded Eudocia.
By thy life-creating utterance /
thou didst raise up the dead, /
O glorious Eudocia, /
having first mortified the passions of thy body /
with the pangs of abstinence. /
And now thou livest with the martyrs in the heavens, /
having completed the course of martyrdom /
with the help of the Spirit, //
and thou prayest for all who hymn thee with faith.
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!
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.