6th
Sunday after Pentecost / The Holy
Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils
/ St.
Vladimir Beatitudes
on 12, Octoechos: 4; Fathers: 4, from Ode 3; Saint: 4, from Ode 6.
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
& 6. The mindless Arius, showing himself to be a servant of a created
being, and
Macedonius,
likewise revealed as abominable, are tormented together in the fire of
Gehenna
with the heathen.
7. With the seven sacred councils of the holy
fathers didst thou adorn the honored
Church,
O Christ, driving far away the darkness of deception as with the light of seven
beacons.
8. The multifarious murrain of the heretics
destroyeth Thy flock, O Word; but the
shepherds
of Thy noetic sheep have cured this by their doctrine.
9. By the power of God have Satan, the destroyer
of souls, and his false sacrifices been
trampled
underfoot; for unto us hath Christ shown the faithful Prince Vladimir to be a
model
of one who doth crush and dash him down beneath our feet.
10. Of old the Lord saved Israel from slavery by the
hand of Moses; and now He hath
likewise
saved us all from the falsehood of idolatry by the hand of Vladimir, the
faithful
prince.
11. As is meet, we all call upon thee, crying
aloud: Rejoice, O most honored and all-
blessed
one! For we have thee as our deliverer
with God, O Vladimir. Disdain not thy
servants,
but ever preserve us.
12.
O all-pure and all hymned Virgin, through thee we have found salvation. Our God,
Whom
the angels in heaven desire to see, hath now become a visible infant in thy
womb.
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.
Tone
8: Most glorified art Thou, O Christ our God, /
Who
hast established our holy fathers as luminous stars upon the earth, /
and
through them didst guide us all to the true Faith. //
O
Most merciful One, glory be to Thee.
Glory…
Tone 4: Thou wast like a merchant
that seeketh a beautiful pearl, /
O
glorious sovereign Vladimir, /
sitting
on the height of the throne of the mother of cities, God-protected Kiev. /
Searching
and sending to the imperial city to know the Orthodox Faith, /
thou
didst find Christ, the priceless Pearl, /
Who
chose thee as a second Paul, /
and
Who did shake off thy spiritual and physical blindness in the holy font. /
Wherefore,
we who are thy people celebrate thy falling asleep. /
Pray
that thy Russian land be saved, /
and
that Orthodox people //
be
granted peace and great mercy.
Both now… Tone 4: The mystery hidden from before the ages /
and unknown even to the angels, /
through thee, O Theotokos, hath been revealed to those on earth: /
God incarnate in unconfused union, /
Who willingly accepted the Cross for our sake /
and thereby raising up the first-formed man, //
hath saved our souls from death.
The
Epistle
Reader: In
the 4th Tone: Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and
praised
and
glorified is Thy name unto the ages.
Choir: Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers,
and praised and glorified is
Thy name unto the ages.
Reader: For righteous art Thou in all which Thou hast done for us.
Choir: Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God
of our fathers, and praised and glorified is
Thy name unto the ages.
Reader: 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: The Reading is from the
First Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the
Romans:
[Rom. 12:6-14 (§110); Heb. 13:7-16
(§334); Gal 1:11-19 (§200)]
Reader: Alleluia
in the 1st Tone: The God of
gods, the Lord hath spoken, and He hath
called the earth from
the rising of the sun unto the setting thereof.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Gather
together unto Him His holy ones who have established His covenant
upon
sacrifices
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In
the 6th Tone: I have raised up one chosen out of My people.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Matt. 9:1-8
(§29); John 17:1-13 (§56); John 10:1-9 (§35 mid)]
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.
Tone
8:
The
preaching of the apostles and the doctrines of the fathers confirmed the one
Faith of the Church. /
And
wearing the garment of truth, woven from the theology on high, //
She
rightly divideth and glorifieth the great mystery of piety.
Glory…
Tone 8: Like the great Apostle Paul,
O most glorious Vladimir, /
in
old age thou didst leave off all zeal for idols as a childish sophism, /
and
as a full-grown man thou wast adorned with the royal purple of divine baptism.
/
And
now as thou standest in joy in the presence of Christ the Savior, /
pray
that thy Russian land be saved, //
and
that Orthodox people be granted peace and great mercy.
Both
now... Tone 6: O protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, /
O
mediation unto the Creator unfailing, /
disdain
not the suppliant voices of sinners, /
but
be thou quick, O good one, to help us who in faith cry unto thee; /
hasten
to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, //
thou
who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.