14th Sunday After Pentecost / The Deposition of the
Sash of the Theotokos
Beatitudes
on 10 Octoechos 6; Feast 4, from Ode 3, First Canon.
1. Believing Thee to be God, O Christ, the thief
on the cross confessed Thee in a pure manner, crying out from the depths of his
heart: Remember me in Thy kingdom, O
Lord!
2. Together let us hymn as Savior and Creator,
Him Who on the Cross budded forth life for our race and caused the curse which
originated from the tree to wither up.
3. By Thy death hast Thou destroyed the power of
death, O Christ, and Thou didst raise up with Thyself the dead of ages past,
who now hymn Thee as our true God and Savior.
4. Arriving at Thy tomb, O Christ, the honorable
women sought to anoint Thee with myrrh, O Bestower of life; but an angel
appeared to them, crying out: The Lord is risen!
5. When Thou wast crucified between two
condemned thieves, O Christ, one of them blasphemed Thee and was justly damned,
while the other confessed Thee and dwelleth now in paradise.
6. When they had come to the choir of the
apostles, the honorable women cried out: Christ is risen! Let us worship Him as Master and Creator.
7. The heart is renewed which toucheth the
sacred cincture of the Virgin with fervent faith, and it is girded about with
invincible power against impure passions, and remaining unharmed by incorporeal
foes.
8. Thy sacred cincture wherewith thou girded
thine incorrupt body, O Maiden, still remaineth incorrupt, sanctifying those
who approach it piously and removing the corruption of sickness and sorrow.
9. Thou wast the all-beauteous dwelling of the
Word Who was incarnate of thee, O pure one, and wast well pleased to place thy
cincture in thy holy temple; and venerating it, we are sanctified.
10. Thy precious cincture do we all honorably
venerate with joyful heart, as an honor for all the faithful, O Theotokos, in
that it touched thy precious body.
Troparia
Tone 5: Let us, O faithful, praise and worship the
Word /
Who is
co-unoriginate with the Father and the Spirit, /
and Who was born of
the Virgin for our salvation; /
for He was pleased
to ascend the Cross in the flesh /
and to endure death,
//
and to raise the dead
by His glorious Resurrection.
Glory… Both now… Tone 8:
O Ever-virgin Theotokos, protection of mankind: /
thou hast given to thy city a mighty legacy, the robe and cincture of thy most honored body, /
which have remained incorrupt through thy seedless birthgiving. /
For in thee are nature and time renewed. //
Wherefore, we beseech thee to grant peace to thy city and great mercy to our souls.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in
the 5th Tone: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt preserve us from
this generation and for evermore.
Choir: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt
preserve us from this generation and for evermore.
Reader: Save me, O Lord
for a righteous man there is no more.
Choir: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt
preserve us from this generation and for evermore.
Reader: In the 3rd Tone: My soul
doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
Choir: My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit
hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
Reader: The Reading is from the Second Epistle of the Holy Apostle
Paul to the Corinthians: [II Cor. 1:21-2:4
(§170); Heb. 9:1-7 (§320)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 5th
Tone: Of Thy mercies, O Lord, will I sing for ever. Unto generation and generation will I declare
Thy truth with my mouth.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: For Thou hast said:
Mercy shall be built up for ever, in the heavens shall Thy truth be
established.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 8th
Tone: Arise, O Lord, into Thy rest, Thou and the ark of Thy holiness.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Matt. 22:2-14 (§89); Luke 10:38-42,11:27-28 (§54)]
Kontakia
Tone 5: Unto hades, O my Savior, didst Thou descend,
/
and having broken
its gates as one omnipotent, /
Thou, as Creator,
didst raise up the dead together with Thyself. /
And Thou didst break
the sting of death, /
and didst deliver
Adam from the curse, O Lover of mankind. /
Wherefore, we all
cry unto Thee: //
Save us, O Lord.
Glory… Both now... Tone 4: Today thy temple doth celebrate /
the deposition of thy precious cincture, O all-hymned one, /
and it earnestly crieth out to thee: /
Rejoice, O Virgin, //
thou boast of Christians!