11th
Sunday After Pentecost / The Dormition of the Theotokos
Beatitudes
on 10: Octoechos: 6; Feast: 4, from Ode 3, 1st Canon.
1. We offer Thee the cry of the thief, and we
pray: Remember us in Thy kingdom, O Savior.
2. For the forgiveness of transgressions we
offer unto Thee the Cross which Thou didst accept for our sake, O Thou who
lovest mankind.
3. We bow down in worship, O
Master, before Thy burial and rising, whereby Thou hast delivered the world
from corruption, O Thou Who lovest mankind.
4. By Thy death hath death
been slain, O Lord, and by Thy resurrection hast Thou saved the world, O
Savior.
5. Risen from the tomb, Thou
didst meet the myrrh-bearing women; and Thou didst tell Thy disciples to
announce Thine arising.
6. Those who slept in
darkness, beholding Thee, the Light, in the nethermost parts of hades, O
Christ, were raised from the dead.
7 &8. The
glorious apostles, seeing thee to be a mortal woman, yet, in manner transcending
nature, the Mother of God, O all-immaculate one, with awe touched with their hands
thee who art resplendent in glory, perceiving thee to be a habitation acceptable
to God.
9 & 10.
When God preserved with the glory of His divinity the honor of the
animate ark wherein the Word became flesh, the judgment of retribution overtook
the insolent one through the severing of his audacious hands.
Troparia
Tone 2: When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, /
then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. /
And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, /
all the Hosts of the heavens cried out: //
O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.
Glory… Both now… Tone 1: In giving birth thou didst preserve thy virginity; /
in thy dormition thou
didst not forsake the world, O Theotokos. /
Thou wast translated unto
life, /
since thou art the Mother
of Life; //
and by thine intercessions
dost thou deliver our souls from death.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in the 2nd Tone: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He
is become my salvation.
Choir: The Lord is my strength and my
song, and He is become my salvation.
Reader: With
chastisement hath the Lord chastened me, but He hath not given me over unto
death.
Choir: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He
is become my salvation.
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 First Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the
Corinthians: [I Cor. 9:2-12
(§141); Phil. 2:5-11 (§240)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 2nd Tone: The Lord
hear thee in the day of affliction; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: O Lord,
save the king, and hearken unto us in the day when we call upon Thee.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 2nd Tone Arise, O Lord, into
Thy rest, Thou and the ark of Thy holiness.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Matt. 18:23-35 (§77); Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28 (§54)]
Kontakia
Tone 2: Thou didst rise from the tomb, O omnipotent Savior, /
and Hades was terrified on beholding the wonder; /
and the dead arose, /
and creation at the sight thereof rejoiceth with Thee. /
And Adam also is joyful, //
and the world, O my Savior, praiseth Thee for ever.
Glory… Both now... Tone 2: The grave and death could not
hold the Theotokos, /
who
is sleepless in her intercessions and an unfailing hope in her mediations. /
For
as the Mother of Life she was translated unto life //
by
Him Who dwelt in her ever-virgin womb.
Instead of “It is truly
meet…” we chant the Irmos of the 9th Ode of the First Canon of the
feast, First Tone:
Refrain: The angels, having beheld the Dormition of
the Most pure One, /
were struck with
wonder, //
at how the Virgin
went up from earth to heaven.
Irmos: In thee, O
Virgin without spot, /
the bounds of nature are
overcome: /
for childbirth remains virgin
/
and death is betrothed to
life. /
O Theotokos, Virgin after
bearing child and alive after death, //
do thou ever save thine
inheritance.