12th Sunday after Pentecost / Prophet Micah / Forefeast of the Dormition

Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos: 6; Forefeast: 4, from Ode 3.

 
1. From paradise didst Thou drive our forefather Adam, who had broken Thy commandment, O Christ; but, O Compassionate One, Thou didst cause to dwell therein the thief who confessed Thee on the cross, crying out: “Remember me, O Savior, in Thy kingdom!”
 
2. With the curse of death didst Thou condemn us who had sinned, O Lord, Bestower of life; yet having suffered in Thy flesh, O sinless Master, Thou hast granted life unto mortals who cry out: “Remember us also in Thy kingdom!”
 
3. In rising from the dead, Thou hast raised us up from the passions with Thyself through Thy resurrection, O Lord; and all the power of death hast Thou destroyed, O Savior. Wherefore, with faith we cry out to Thee: “Remember us also in Thy kingdom!”
 
4. O Thou who as God grantest life, by Thy three days in the tomb Thou didst raise up with Thyself the dead in hell, and as One Who is good Thou hast poured forth incorruption upon all of us who with faith ever cry out: “Remember us also in Thy kingdom!”
 
5. Risen from the dead, O Savior, Thou didst first appear to the myrrh-bearing women, crying out: “Rejoice!” and through them Thou didst announce Thy resurrection to Thy friends, O Christ.  Wherefore, with faith we cry out to Thee, “Remember us also in Thy kingdom!”
 
6. Moses, stretching out his arms on the mountain, prefigured the Cross and thus conquered Amelek.  And, receiving it with faith as a mighty weapon against the demons, we all cry out: “Remember us also in Thy kingdom!”
 
7 & 8.  Let us now send up funeral hymns to the pure one, the Theotokos who gave birth to the Creator, and, rejoicing, with the incorporeal armies let us surround her life-bearing bier as though it were a divine and holy throne.
 
9. Shedding tears with faithful hearts, come ye, let us touch her incorrupt body, the life-bestowing, divine and ever-flowing fountain, gazing upon it with our eyes as it lieth, laid out and enshrouded.
 
10. O divine and right noble habitation of God, true seat and animate city of the true King of all, through thy memorial grant remission of all our offenses, and save us from misfortunes.
 
Troparia
 
Tone 3:  Let the heavens be glad; let earthly things rejoice; /
for the Lord hath wrought might with His arm. /
He hath trampled down death by death; /
the first-born of the dead hath He become. /
From the belly of Hades hath He delivered us //
and Hath granted to the world great mercy.
 

Glory…[Troparion of the Temple]

 
Both now... Tone 4: 
Leap up in anticipation, O ye people, /
clapping your hands with faith, and assemble with love, /
all rejoicing today and exclaiming with splendor; /
for the Mother of God, whom we ever glorify with hymns as the Theotokos, //
will gloriously pass over from those on earth to those on high.
 

The Epistle

 

Reader: The Prokimenon in the 3rd Tone:  O chant unto our God, chant ye; chant unto our King, chant ye.

Choir:  O chant unto our God, chant ye; chant unto our King, chant ye.

Reader: Clap your hands, all ye nations; shout unto God with a voice of rejoicing.

Choir:  O chant unto our God, chant ye; chant unto our King, chant ye.

Reader:  O chant unto our God, chant ye
Choir:  Chant unto our King, chant ye.

 

Reader: The Reading is from the First Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians: [I Cor. 15:1-11 (§158)]

 

Reader: Alleluia in the 3rd Tone.

Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

Reader:  In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me not be put to shame in the age to come.

Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

Reader:  Be Thou unto me a God to defend me and a house of refuge to save me.

Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

 

Gospel [Matt. 19:16-26 (§79)]

 

Kontakia

 

Tone 3:  Thou didst rise today from the tomb, O Merciful One, /
and didst lead us out of the gates of death. /
Today Adam danceth and Eve rejoiceth; /
and together with them both the prophets and patriarchs //
unceasingly praise the divine might of Thine authority.

 

Glory… [Kontakion of the Temple]

 

Both now... Tone 4:

The universe, embroidered by the immaterial Spirit for thy glorious memorial, /

noetically crieth out to thee with gladness: //

Rejoice, O Virgin, thou boast of Christians!

 

 

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