11th Sunday after Pentecost / The Apodosis of the Dormition
Beatitudes
on 10: Octoechos: 6; Feast: 4, from Ode 9.
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. Risen from the tomb, Thou didst
meet the myrrh-bearing women; and Thou didst tell Thy disciples to announce
Thine arising.
6. Those who slept in darkness, beholding Thee, the Light, in the nethermost parts of hades, O Christ, were raised from the dead.
7. The angelic hosts were amazed, seeing their
Master in Zion, bearing in His arms a woman’s soul; for as befitteth a Son, He
exclaimed to her in all-pure manner: Come, O pure one, and be glorified with
thy Son and God!
8. The choirs of angels buried thy body, which
had received God, gazing upon it with fear, and exclaiming with a loud voice: O
Theotokos who ascendest to thy Son in the heavenly mansions, thou ever savest
thine inheritance!
9. Come ye to Zion, the divine and fertile
mountain of the living God, and let us behold the Theotokos; for Christ hath
translated here, as His mother, to the Holy of Holies of a far better and
divine tabernacle.
10. Accept from us a hymn of parting, O Mother of
the living God, and with thy light-bearing and divine grace overshadow us,
granting victory to Orthodox hierarchs over heresies, and forgiveness to all
Christian people who hymn thee, and salvation to their souls.
Troparia & Kontakia
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.
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.
Glory… Tone 2: Thou didst
rise from the tomb, O omnipotent Savior, /
and Hades was terrified on beholding the wonder; /
and the dead arose, /
and creation at the sight thereof rejoiceth with Thee. /
And Adam also is joyful, //
and the world, O my Savior, praiseth Thee for
ever.
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 2nd Tone: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He
is become my salvation.
Choir: The Lord is my strength and my
song, and He is become my salvation.
Reader: With
chastisement hath the Lord chastened me, but He hath not given me over unto
death.
Choir: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He
is become my salvation.
Reader: In the 3rd Tone: My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit
hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
Choir: My soul doth magnify the Lord,
and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
Reader: The Reading is from the Second Epistle of the Holy Apostle
Paul to the Corinthians: [I Cor. 9:2-12
(§141); Phil. 2:5-11 (§240)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 2nd Tone: The Lord
hear thee in the day of affliction; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: O Lord,
save the king, and hearken unto us in the day when we call upon Thee.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Arise, O Lord, into Thy rest, Thou and the
ark of Thy holiness.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Matt. 18:23-35 (§77); Luke 10:38-42,11:27-28 (§54)]
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! I will take the cup
of salvation, and I will call upon the name of the Lord. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!