5th Sunday after Pentecost / The Kazan Icon of the Mother
of God
Beatitudes on 10 Octoechos 6; Icon 4, from Ode 3.
1. By the tree was Adam
forced to depart from paradise; but by the Tree of the Cross was
the thief made to dwell in
paradise. For the one by tasting, broke
the commandment of
the creator; while the
other, crucified with Him, confessed the hidden God, crying out:
Remember me in Thy kingdom!
2. O Lord Who wast lifted
up upon the Cross, Who hast destroyed the power of
death and
as God hast destroyed the
record of our sins, grant also the repentance of the thief unto us
who faithfully serve Thee
and cry out to thee, O Christ God Who alone lovest mankind:
Remember us also in Thy
kingdom!
3. On the Cross Thou didst
tear asunder with the spear the record of our sins; and,
numbered among the dead, Thou didst bind the tyrant of hades, O Lord Who lovest
mankind, Who by Thy
resurrection hast delivered all from the bonds of hades. Thereby
have we been illumined,
and we cry to Thee: Remember us also in Thy kingdom!
4. O Thou Who alone art
immortal, Who wast crucified and as almighty didst
arise from
the tomb on the third day,
and hast raised up Adam, the first created: Vouchsafe that I
also may turn to repentance with my whole heart, and may
ever cry out to Thee with
fervent faith: Remember
me, O Savior, in Thy kingdom!
5. For our sake He Who is
without passion became a man subject to the passions; and,
nailed of His own will to
the Cross, He hath raised us up with Himself.
Wherefore, we
glorify His Cross,
passion, and resurrection, whereby we have been refashioned and
whereby we also are saved,
who cry out: Remember us also in Thy kingdom!
6. O ye faithful, let us
entreat Him who hath risen from the dead, hath made captive the
dominion of hades, and
wast seen by the myrrh-bearing women and said to them:
“Rejoice!”, that He
deliver from corruption the souls of us who ever cry out to Him with
the voice of the noble
thief: Remember us also in Thy kingdom!
7. Rejoice, O unshakable,
pure and animate palace of Christ the King Most High!
Rejoice, O Directress,
Rejoice! For by thee is our city preserved intact!
8. In thy womb which
tasted not of wedlock thou didst bodily contain Him Whom
creation cannot contain, O
Virgin Directress. Wherefore, magnifying thee as is meet, we
chant, Rejoice!
9. Thou didst once fill
thy first-painted icon with grace, O Virgin Lady Theotokos; and
now that same grace
speaketh forth truly in the effulgence of the wonders of faith, as the
first one did for the sake
of thee who wast first depicted thereon, unto those who with
faith have recourse to
thee after God.
10. We bow down before the
all-pure image of thee and thy Babe all-sweet, Christ the
preëternal and never-waning Light, O Theotokos, by Whom thou
hast saved all human
nature from cruel evils
and mortal corruption.
Troparia & Kontakia
Tone 4: Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the angel, /
and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, /
the women disciples of the Lord spake to the apostles exultantly: /
Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, //
granting to the world great mercy.
Tone 4:
O
fervent intercessor, Mother of the Lord Most High, /
thou
prayest for all to thy Son, Christ our God, /
and
thou contrivest to save all who have recourse to thy powerful protection./
O
Sovereign Lady and Queen, help and defend all of us /
who
in troubles and trials, in pains and burdened with many sins, /
stand
before thy most pure Icon in thy presence, /
and
pray to thee with compunction of soul, /
contrition
of heart, and with tears, /
and
who have unflagging hope in thee. /
Grant
to all what is good for us, /
deliverance
from all evil, /
and
save us all, O Virgin Theotokos, //
for
thou art a divine protection to thy servants.
[Troparion of the Temple]
Tone 4: My Savior and Redeemer hath, as God, /
raised up the earthborn from the grave and from their fetters, /
and He hath broken the gates of hades, /
and, as Master, //
hath risen on the third day.
Glory… [Kontakion of the Temple]
Both now... Tone 8:
Let us run, O ye peoples,
to that quiet and good harbor, to the speedy helper, /
to the ready and warm
salvation, to the Virgin’s protection. /
Let us hurry to prayer and
hasten to repentance; /
for the most
pure Theotokos poureth out for us unfailing mercy, /
anticipateth our needs
with her help and delivereth from great disasters and evils //
her well-pleasing and
God-fearing servants.
The Epistle
Reader: The
Prokimenon in the 4th Tone: How magnified are Thy works O Lord! In
wisdom
hast Thou made them all.
Choir: How
magnified are Thy works O Lord! In wisdom hast Thou made them all.
Reader: Bless
the Lord, O my soul; O Lord my God, Thou hast been
magnified
exceedingly.
Choir:
How magnified are Thy works O Lord! In wisdom hast Thou made them all.
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 Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Romans:
[Rom. 10:1-10 (§103); Phil. 2:5-11 (§240)]
Reader: Alleluia
in the 4th Tone: Bend Thy bow, and proceed prosperously, and be king,
because
of truth and meekness and righteousness.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Thou
hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 8th Tone: Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia!
Gospel [Matt.
8:28-9:1 (§28); Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28 (§54)]
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!