The Second Sunday of Great Lent/ St Gregory Palamas / Tone 5
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos 6; Hierarch 4, from Ode 3. 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. Holding fast to thy inspired teaching, we reject every false invention of the heretics, and we put them all to flight with thy holy writings, O Gregory.
8. O blessed of God, thou hast refuted the foolish wisdom of the heretics. He who is Himself the true Wisdom came to dwell in thy heart, and with His aid triumphantly thou hast broken their rebellious pride.
9. In thy wisdom thou hast put to death every lust of the flesh that is condemned to perish, and through asceticism thou hast brought thy soul to life, devoting all its powers
to the contemplation of God.
10. With full knowledge and by my own free choice, I have eagerly desired a shameful and prodigal life; but through thy holy intercessions, O Virgin and Bride of God, bind my
heart with divine love.
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.
[Troparion of the Temple] Glory… Tone 8: Light of Orthodoxy, pillar and teacher of the Church, /
adornment of monks, invincible champion of theologians, /
O Gregory, thou wonderworker, boast of Thessalonica, //herald of grace, ever pray that our souls be saved.
Both now… Tone 8: O Good One, Who for our sake wast born of the
Virgin /
and, having endured crucifixion, cast down death by death, /
and as God revealed the resurrection: /
disdain not that which Thou hast fashioned with
Thine own hand. /
Show forth Thy love for mankind, O Merciful One; /
accept the Theotokos who gave Thee birth and
prayeth for us; //
and save Thy despairing people, O our Savior!
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 1st Tone: My
mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart
shall be of understanding.
Choir: My
mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of
understanding.
Reader: The
[Heb. 1:10-2:3 (§304); Heb. 7:26-8:2
(§318)]
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: Tone 2: The mouth of the righteous shall meditate wisdom and his tongue shall
speak of judgment.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Mark 2:1-12 (§7); John 10:9-16 (§36)]
Kontakia
[Kontakion
of the
Glory… Tone 8:
O
sacred and divine organ of wisdom, clear trumpet of theology: /
we
praise thee with one accord, O Gregory of divine speech; /
but
as a mind standing before the Primordial Mind, //
direct our mind to Him, O father, that we may cry: Rejoice, O herald of grace!
Both now... Tone 4: The season of the virtues hath now been revealed, /
and
judgment is at the doors; /
therefore let us arise and keep the Fast, /
offering tears of compunction together with our alms, /
and
let us cry: Our sins are more than the sands of the sea; /
but
do Thou pardon us, O Creator of all, //
that we may receive incorruptible crowns.
Instead of “It is truly
meet…”[Tone 8 in the Octoechos, but usually sung to
one
of many special
melodies]:
All creation
– the assembly of angels and the race of man – rejoiceth in thee, O thou who
art full of grace, O sacred temple and noetical
paradise, boast of virgins, from whom
God, Who existeth from before time, was incarnate and became a
child; for He made thy
body a throne, and thy womb He made more spacious
than the heavens. All creation
rejoiceth in thee, O thou who art full of grace. Glory to thee!