The Sunday of
the Myrrh-bearers
Instead of “O come let us worship…” sing
“Christ is risen…” three times.
Beatitude Verses: 4 from the Octoechos,
and 4 from Ode 6 from the Pentecostarion
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. Having wrapped Thee in linen, O Christ, the noble Joseph laid Thee in a tomb; and having anointed with myrrh the fallen temple of Thy Body, he rolled a great stone before the sepulchre. 6. O ye myrrh-bearing women, why hasten ye now? Why bring ye myrrh unto the Living One? Christ is risen, as He foretold. Let your tears cease and be changed into joy. 7. O ye faithful, let us praise the Trinity in Unity, glorifying the Father with the Son, and the Spirit Who is consubstantial with the Son, and Who with the Father is co-beginningless and everlasting God. 8. Like a vineyard didst thou conceive untilled in thy womb the Cluster of grapes wherefrom, like wine, there pour forth for us torrents of immortality, even eternal life. 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…Tone 2: The noble Joseph, taking Thine immaculate Body down from the Tree,
and having wrapped It in pure linen and spices, laid It in a new tomb. But on the third day Thou didst arise, O Lord, granting to the world great mercy. Both now… Tone 2: Unto the myrrh-bearing women did the angel cry out as he stood
by the tomb: Myrrh is meet for the dead, but Christ hath proved to be a stranger to corruption. But cry out: The Lord is risen, granting to the world great mercy.
The Epistle:
Reader: The Prokimenon in the 6th Tone: Save, O Lord, Thy people and bless Thine
inheritance.
Choir: Save, O Lord, Thy people and bless Thine inheritance.
Reader: Unto Thee, O Lord, Will I cry; O my God, be not silent
unto me.
Choir: Save, O Lord, Thy people and bless Thine inheritance.
Reader: Save, O Lord, Thy people.
Choir: And bless Thine inheritance.
Reader: The Reading is from the Acts of the Holy Apostles:
[Acts 6:1-7]
Reader: Alleluia in the 8th
Tone:
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Thou hast been
gracious, O Lord, unto Thy land; Thou hast turned back the
captivity of
Jacob..
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Mercy and truth
are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each
other.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Mark 15:43-16:8]
Kontakia:
Glory… Tone 2: When Thou didst cry, Rejoice, unto the
myrrh-bearers, Thou didst
make the
lamentation of Eve the first mother to cease by Thy Resurrection, O Christ
God. And Thou didst bid Thine apostles to
preach: The Savior is risen from the
grave.
Both now… Tone
8: Thou didst descend into the tomb,
O Immortal, * Thou didst
destroy the
power of death. * In victory didst Thou arise, O Christ God, * proclaiming
“Rejoice!” to
the myrrh-bearing women; * granting peace to Thine apostles, * and
bestowing
resurrection on the fallen.
Instead of “It
is truly meet…” we chant the Irmos of the 9th Ode of the
Canon of the
feast, first Tone:
Refrain: The angel cried unto her that is full of
grace: Rejoice, O pure Virgin!
And again I say,
rejoice! For thy Son is risen from the
grave on the third day, and hath
raised the dead,
O ye people, be joyful!
Irmos: Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem, for the glory
of the Lord is risen upon
thee; dance now
and be glad, O Zion, and do thou exult, O pure Theotokos, in the arising
of Him Whom thou
didst bear.