Presanctified Liturgy: Friday in the 3rd Week

St. Timothy of Symbola

 

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 5:

Despising every earthly thing, /

bravely withstanding torture, /

ye attained the blessedness for which ye hoped, /

and were made heirs of the Kingdom of heaven, /

O martyrs worthy of all praise.  /

Since ye have boldness before God who loves mankind, /

pray that peace be given to the world, //

and to our souls great mercy.

 

Taking up the shield of faith, /

strengthening themselves with the sign of the Cross, /

Thy saints, O Lord, went willingly and bravely to torture, /

and they overthrew the pride of and error of the devil. /

At their supplications, O almighty God, /

send down peace upon the world, /

and on our souls great mercy. 

 

Intercede on our behalf, O holy martyrs, /

that we may be delivered from our sins: //

for to you is given grace to pray for us.

 

Your souls, O holy martyrs, were filled with an insatiable love; /

not denying Christ ye endured great sufferings and torment, /

and ye cast down the tyrants’ Pride.  /

Ye kept the faith unaltered and unharmed, /

and now have gone to dwell in heaven.  /

Since ye have boldness before Christ, //

pray that He may grant us His great mercy.


Tone 8 (to the special melody “O most glorious wonder…”):

O divinely wise father Timothy, /

by great abstinence /

and frequent prayer /

thou didst utterly ally the movements of the passions; /

and receiving the grace of dispassion, /

thou wast shown to be a receptacle of the divine Spirit. /

Wherefore, as thou livest even after death, /

O divinely blessed one, //

thou dost ever drive away evil spirits.            Twice

 

O divinely wise father Timothy, /

thou wast a true emulator of Abraham, /

everywhere healing those who have recourse unto thee. /

In thy pangs thou didst acquire the strength of job; /

and, possessing the meekness of David, /

thou didst live on earth a life /

equal to that of the angels,/

and hast receive thine ultimate desire, //

praying for us all.

 

O divinely wise father Timothy, /

a model of chastity, an example of abstinence, /

an image of piety, and a wellspring of compunction, /

an unshakable foundation of Orthodoxy, /

an ever-flowing stream of healings, /

a never-setting sun, a child of divine grace, /

and the adornment of monastics /

wast thou shown to be, //

O all-honored one.

 

Glory…  Tone 5:

I called to mind the Prophet’s words, /

“I am dust and ashes.” /

I went also to the tombs, and saw the naked bones, /

and said: “Which now is the king or the soldier, /

the rich man or the beggar, /

the upright or the sinner?”  /

But give rest, O Lord, unto Thy servants with the righteous, //

for Thou lovest mankind.

 

Both now… Tone 5:

Once, the image of the Bride who knoweth not wedlock /

was inscribed in the Red Sea. /

There Moses was the parter of the waters; /

and here Gabriel is the minister of a miracle. /

There Israel traversed the deep dryshod; /

and now the Virgin giveth birth unto Christ without seed. /

The sea remained impassible after Israel had crossed; /

and the immaculate one remaineth incorrupt after the birth of Emmanuel. /

O God Who hast appeared as a man, /

Who existest and hast existed from the beginning: //

Have mercy upon us!

 

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