First
Sunday of Great Lent/ the Triumph of Orthodoxy / Tone 1
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos 6; Triodion 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. Very early, the myrrh-bearing women arrived,
weeping, at Thy tomb, O Christ God; and they found an angel sitting there, clad
in white garments, who said: What seek ye? Christ is risen! Lament no longer!
6. When Thine apostles went to the mountain whither Thou hadst commanded them to go, and saw Thee, O
Savior, they worshipped Thee; and Thou didst send them unto the nations, to
teach and baptize them.
7. Once more the Master’s countenance is depicted,
honored with faith and venerated; once more the Church regains her boldness of
approach to God, reverently glorifying the Savior.
8. The Church of Christ is delivered from the dark
despondency of heresy: she puts on a robe of gladness, and is clothed in the
light of divine grace.
9. The Orthodox people has regained the light and
glory which it had of old, through the decision of the Empress Theodora and her
pious son the Emperor Michael.
10. He who of old commanded Moses to set up the ark
of the testimony, came to dwell in thee, O Virgin, as in a spiritual ark: He
alone is glorified, and he makes thy temple glorious with miracles.
Troparia
& Kontakion
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 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.
Glory… Both now… Tone 8:
The uncircumscribable Word of the Father
was circumscribed /
when He took flesh of thee, O Theotokos;
/
and when He had restored the defiled
image to its ancient state, /
He suffused it with divine beauty. //
As for us, confessing our salvation, we
record it in deed and word.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon 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: For
righteous art Thou in all which Thou hast done for us.
Choir: Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our
fathers, and praised and glorified is Thy name unto the ages.
Reader: Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our
fathers
Choir: and praised and glorified
is Thy name unto the ages.
Reader: The
[Hebrews
11:24-26;32-12:2 (§329 ctr)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 4th Tone
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Moses and Aaron among His priests, and
Samuel among them that call upon His name.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: They called upon the Lord, and He hearkened
unto them.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [John 1:43-51 (§5)]
Instead of “It
is truly meet…”[Tone 8 in the Octoechos, but usually
sung to one of many special melodies]:
All creation
– the assembly of angels and the race of man – rejoiceth in thee, O thou who art
full of grace, O sacred temple and noetical paradise, boast of virgins, from
whom God, Who existeth from
before time, was incarnate and became a child; for He made thy body a throne,
and thy womb He made more spacious than the heavens. All creation rejoiceth in thee, O thou who art full of grace. Glory to
thee!
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!