Presanctified Liturgy:
Friday in the 4th Week
St. Hypatius the
Wonderworker and Bishop of Gangra
Tone
7:
My
soul’s dignity I have enslaved to the passions; /
I
am become like the beasts, /
and
have no power to lift mine eyes to Thee, Most High. /
But
with my head bowed like the publican, /
I
pray to Thee, O Christ, and cry aloud: //
God
be merciful to me and save me.
Twice
Tone
3:
Great
is the power of Thy martyrs, O Christ! /
Though
they lie in their tombs, /
they
drive out evil spirits /
and
fight in defense of true devotion, /
subduing
the dominion of the enemy //
through
faith in the Trinity.
The
prophets, the apostles of Christ and the martyrs /
have
taught mankind to sing the praises of the consubstantial Trinity; /
they
have given light to the nations that were gone astray, //
and
have made the sons of men companions of the angels.
Supported
by faith and made strong by hope, /
Thy
martyrs, O Lord, destroyed the tyranny of the enemy; /
and
receiving crowns of glory, together with the angels //
they
make intercession for our souls.
It was
set up in the place of the skull, and it acts in all the world; /
it
made the fishermen into apostles, /
and
the Gentiles into martyrs, //
that
they might intercede for our souls.
Tone
8 (Special Melody: “O all-glorious wonder…”):
O
divinely wise Hypatius, /
raised
well in abstinence, /
thou
didst enter upon the all-glorious heights of the virtues, /
manifestly
stretching thyself out toward divine vision, /
contemplating
the beauty of Christ. /
And
having illumined thy mind and thought /
with
His radiance, //
thou
hast surrounded all with rays of miracles.
O
Hypatius, father of fathers, /
shining
with the light of Orthodoxy /
thou
hast illumined the thoughts /
of
those who have recourse to thee with faith; /
and
blinding the eyes of Arius, /
thou
didst drive him from the Church of Christ, O venerable one. / Wherefore, all of
us, having acquired thee as a beacon, /
honor
and bless //
thy
sacred memory.
O
sacred father Hypatius, /
having
in thy heart /
Christ
the King, Whom thou didst preach /
as
consubstantial with the Father, /
thou
didst shine forth with wondrous beams, /
casting
light upon the whole world. /
Thou
didst slay the serpent /
and
by thy supplications didst pour forth a torrent of warm waters //
for
the healing of sufferings.
Glory… Tone 3:
All human things are vain, /
and endure not after death. /
Our wealth will not remain, /
our glory will not go with us upon the way; /
for when death comes all these things will disappear. /
Therefore let us cry to Christ who is immortal: /
Give rest to our departed brethren //
and make them dwell with the joyful.
Both
now… Tone 3:
How
can we not marvel /
at
thy giving birth to the God-man, O all-honored one. /
For
without having accepted the temptation of a man, /
O
all-immaculate one, /
without
a father thou gavest birth in the flesh to a Son /
Who
was begotten without a mother before the ages, /
without
His undergoing change, confusion or division, /
yet
preserving intact the character of both essences. /
Wherefore,
O Virgin Mother and Mistress, /
entreat
Him, that the souls of those who in Orthodox manner //
confess
thee to be the Theotokos be saved.
Tone
4: O
Shepherd of Israel, attend, * Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Stichos:
Thou
that sittest on the cherubim, manifest Thyself.
Lesson:
Genesis 12:1-7
Tone
4: Rejoice
in God * our helper.