10th Sunday after
Pentecost / Afterfeast of the Dormition / Translation
of the Icon Not-made-by-hands
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos: 4; Feast: 4, from Ode 1; Icon: 4, from Ode 6
1. Through food did the enemy lead Adam forth
from paradise; but by the Cross hath Christ led back to it the thief who
cried: Remember me when Thou comest in
Thy kingdom!
2. With Adam and the thief I worship Thy
sufferings and glorify Thy resurrection; and I cry out with a splendid
voice: Remember me, O Lord, when Thou
comest in Thy kingdom!
3. O Sinless One, of Thine own will Thou wast
crucified and placed in the Tomb, yet Thou didst arise as God, raising up with
Thyself Adam who crieth out: Remember me when Thou comest in Thy kingdom!
4. Raising up the temple of Thy body by Thy
resurrection on the third day, O Christ God, Thou
didst raise up Adam and his descendants who cry: Remember me when Thou comest
in Thy kingdom!
5. Let the immaterial ranks accompany thy divine
and immaterial body to Zion. For the multitude
of the apostles, coming together of a sudden from the ends of the earth, stood before
thee, O Theotokos. With them we also
glorify thine honored memory, O pure one.
6. The honors of victory over nature hast thou
taken, having given birth unto God, O pure one; yet, emulating thy Creator and
Son, thou submittest to the laws of nature in supernatural
manner. Wherefore, having died, thou risest with thy Son unto
everlasting life.
7. O virgin maidens, with Miriam the prophetess raise ye now a hymn of parting! For she who alone is Virgin and Mother of God
is translated and received into heaven.
8. The divine mansions of heaven received thee
as an animate heaven, as is meet, O all-pure one; and thou hast taken thy place
as a bride, splendidly adorned, before thy King and God, O most immaculate one.
9. O Savior, Thou art more comely in beauty than all the sons of men: for
if Thou wast bereft of form and beauty at the time of Thy passion, yet thou
didst enlighten all things and reveal the form of Thy countenance, whose
likeness, depicted upon an aged napkin, hath been given unto us as a treasure.
10. The depiction of Thy face hast Thou now given
to the new Israel as strength against the hordes of the Moslems, as of old Thou
gavest the ark against the Philistines, O Christ. And it hath acquired glory; for it is not
fitting to cast holy things to dogs.
11. Thou didst send Thine apostle unto Abgar who
was ignorant of Thy heavenly kingdom, to which Thou, O Christ, hast led us up
from the corrupt things that drag us down, O Good One Who art unapproachable
even to the immaterial cherubim; and he revealed the mysteries, that Thou didst
descend even unto hades.
12. I am now left without the strength of Thine
arm, O Savior, yet Thou hast withdrawn Thy wounding from me through the
supplications of her who gave Thee birth without knowing wedlock, O Word, that
I might not be left foundering in the storm of sin and barely afloat, O only
Deliverer.
Troparia & Kontakia Tone 1: When
the stone had been sealed by the Jews, /
And the soldiers were
guarding Thine immaculate Body, /
Thou didst arise on the
third day, O Savior, /
granting life unto the
world. /
Wherefore, the Hosts of
the Heavens cried out to Thee, O Life-giver: /
Glory to Thy Resurrection,
O Christ. /
Glory to Thy kingdom. //
Glory to Thy dispensation,
O only Lover of mankind.
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.
Tone 2: We venerate Thine
immaculate Icon, O Good One, /
asking the forgiveness of our failings, O Christ
God; /
for of Thine Own will Thou was well-pleased to
ascend the Cross in the flesh /
that Thou mightest deliver from slavery to the enemy
those whom thou hadst fashioned. /
Wherefore, we cry to Thee thankfully: //
Thou didst fill all things with joy, O our Savior,
when Thou camest to save the world.
Tone 1: As
God, Thou didst arise from the tomb in glory, /
and Thou didst raise the
world together with Thyself. /
And mortal nature praiseth
Thee as God, /
and death hath vanished. /
And Adam danceth, O
Master, /
and Eve, now freed from
fetters, rejoiceth as she crieth out: /
Thou art He, O Christ, //
that grantest unto all
resurrection.
Glory… Tone 2. O uncircumscribable Word of the
Father, /
knowing the victorious image, uninscribed and divinely wrought, /
of Thine ineffable and divine dispensation towards man, /
of Thy true incarnation //
we honor it with veneration.
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.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in
the 1st Tone: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according
as we have hoped in Thee.
Choir: Let Thy mercy, O
Lord, be upon us, according as we have hoped in Thee.
Reader: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise
is meet for the upright.
Choir: Let Thy mercy, O
Lord, be upon us, according as we have hoped in Thee.
Reader: In the 4th Tone: O
sing unto the Lord a new song, for the Lord hath wrought wondrous things.
Choir: O sing unto the Lord a new
song, for the Lord hath wrought wondrous things.
Reader: The Reading is from the First Epistle of
the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians: [I
Cor. 4:9-16 (§131); Col. 1:12-18 (§250)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 1st Tone: O God who givest avengement
unto me and hast subdued people under me.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: It is He that magnifieth the salvation of
His king and worketh mercy for His anointed, for David and for His seed unto
eternity.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 4th Tone: O Lord, in the light of Thy face shall we
walk, and in Thy name shall we rejoice unto the ages.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Matt.
17:14-23 (§72); Luke 9:51-56,10:22-24 (§48 mid)]
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.
Communion Verse: Praise the
Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest! O Lord, in the light of Thy face shall we
walk, and in Thy name shall we rejoice forever. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!