19th
Sunday after Pentecost / The Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
Beatitudes on 10, Octoechos: 6; Fathers: 4, Ode 3.
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. Initiated into the
mysteries by Christ, the divine chief shepherds drove away from the
pious the parties of
Antichrist, who wished to trouble the Church of Christ, that it not be
shaken.
8. The Company of the
fathers, drawing forth streams of teaching from the wellsprings of
salvation, give the
thirsting people of Christ to drink thereof, and wash away the turbid
streams of filth.
9. The Seventh Council of the Christ-loving,
whose defenders were the imperial Irene
and Constantine, was held
in the splendid city of Nicaea against those who of a truth
accused Christians and
brought them to trial.
10. Let all the ungodly depart who do not
venerate the precious icon of the Theotokos
and do not proclaim her to
be the one who gave birth to Christ theandrically; and let them
be sent into the fire, to
burn without being consumed.
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 8: Most glorified
art Thou, O Christ our God, /
Who hast established our
holy fathers as luminous stars upon the earth, /
and through them didst
guide us all to the true Faith. //
O Most merciful One, glory
be to Thee.
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.
Glory… Tone 6: The
Son Who shined forth from the Father ineffably was born, /
twofold of nature, of a
woman. /
Knowing Him, we deny not
the image of His form; /
but depicting it piously,
we revere it faithfully. /
And for this cause, the
Church, in that it holdeth the true faith, //
doth kiss the icon of
Christ’s incarnation.
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.
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 4th Tone: Blessed art Thou, O
Lord, the God of our fathers, and
praised and glorified is Thy name unto the ages.
Choir: Blessed art Thou, O Lord,
the God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is
Thy
name unto the ages.
Reader: The Reading
is from the Second Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians:
[II Cor. 11:31-12:9 (§194); Heb. 13:7-16 (§334)]
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: In the 1st Tone: The
God of gods, the Lord hath spoken, and He hath called
the earth from the
rising of the sun unto the setting thereof.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel
[Luke
8:5-15 (§35); John 17:1-13 (§56)]
Communion Verse: Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the
highest!
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet for the
upright. Alleluia,
Alleluia,
Alleluia!