Fourth Sunday of Great Lent / St. John Climacus / Tone 8
Beatitudes on 8, from the Octoechos.
1. Remember us, O Christ, Thou Savior of the world, as Thou didst remember the thief upon the Cross; and account us all worthy of Thy heavenly kingdom, O Thou Who alone art compassionate.
2. Hearken, O Adam, and rejoice with Eve; for he who of old stripped you both naked, and by deception hath taken all of us captive, hath been set at nought by the Cross of Christ.
3. Nailed of Thine own will to the Tree, O our Savior, Thou didst deliver Adam from the curse which came through the tree, and hast rewarded that which is in Thine image with a dwelling in paradise, in that Thou art compassionate.
4. Today is Christ risen from the tomb, granting incorruption unto all the faithful; and He reneweth the joy of the myrrh-bearing women after His suffering and resurrection.
5. Rejoice, O wise myrrh-bearing women, who were first to behold the resurrection of Christ, and who proclaimed to the apostles the glad tidings of the restoration of the whole world!
6. O ye apostles, who are manifestly the friends of Christ and are to be enthroned with Him in glory: entreat Him with boldness, that He intercede for us, for ye are His disciples.
7. O unoriginate Trinity, indivisible Essence, Unity equally enthroned, equal in honor and glory, transcendent Nature and Kingship: Save us who praise Thee with faith!
8. Rejoice, spacious habitation of God! Rejoice, ark of the new covenant! Rejoice, jar whence the heavenly Manna is given to all!
Troparia
Tone 8: From on high didst Thou descend, O
compassionate One; /
to burial of three days
hast Thou submitted /
that Thou mightest free us
from our passions. //
O our Life and
Resurrection, O Lord, glory be to Thee.
[Troparion of the Temple ]
Glory… Tone 1: O John our father, saint of
God, /
thou
wast revealed as a citizen of the desert, /
an
angel in a body and a worker of miracles.
/
Through
fasting, prayer and vigils thou hast received heavenly gifts of grace, /
and
thou healest the sick and the souls of those that turn to thee with faith. /
Glory
to Him who gave thee strength; /
glory
to Him who crowned thee; //
glory
to Him who through thee grants to all men healing.
Both now… Tone 1: When Gabriel announced to thee, “Rejoice!”, O
Virgin, /
the Master of all became incarnate within thee, the holy
tabernacle, at his cry, /
as the righteous David said. /
Thou wast shown to be more spacious than the heavens, /
having borne thy Creator. /
Glory to Him Who made His abode within thee! /
Glory to Him Who came forth from thee! //
Glory to Him Who hath set us free by thy birthgiving.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in the 8th Tone: Make your vows and pay them to the Lord our
God.
Choir: Make your
vows and pay them to the Lord our God.
Reader: In
Judea is God known, His name is great in Israel.
Choir: Make your vows and pay them to the Lord our
God.
Reader: In the 7th
Tone: The saints shall boast in
glory and they shall rejoice upon their beds.
Choir: The saints shall boast in glory and they
shall rejoice upon their beds.
Reader: The
[Hebrews
6:13-20 (§314); Ephesians 5:9-19 (§229)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 8th Tone: Come let us
rejoice in the Lord, let us shout with jubilation unto God our Savior.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Let us come
before His countenance with thanksgiving, and with psalms let us shout in
jubilation unto Him.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 2nd
Tone: They that are planted in the house of the Lord, in the
courts of our God they shall blossom forth.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Mark 9:17-31 (§40); Matthew 4:25-5:12
(§10)]
Kontakia
Tone 8: Having risen from the tomb, Thou
didst raise up the dead and didst resurrect Adam. /
Eve also danceth at Thy Resurrection,
//
and the ends of the world
celebrate Thine arising from the dead, O Greatly-merciful one.
[Kontakion of the
Glory… Tone 4:
Truly the Lord hath set thee as a fixed star in the firmament of abstinence, /
giving light to the ends of the earth, //
O father John our teacher.
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.
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!