First
Sunday of Great Lent/ the Triumph of Orthodoxy / Tone 5
Beatitudes on 10: Octoechos 6; Triodion 4, from Ode 6.
1. Believing Thee
to be God, O Christ, the thief on the cross confessed Thee in a pure manner,
crying out from the depths of his heart:
Remember me in Thy kingdom, O Lord!
2. Together
let us hymn as Savior and Creator, Him Who on the Cross budded forth life for
our race and caused the curse which originated from the tree to wither up.
3. By Thy
death hast Thou destroyed the power of death, O Christ, and Thou didst raise up
with Thyself the dead of ages past, who now hymn Thee as our true God and
Savior.
4. Arriving
at Thy tomb, O Christ, the honorable women sought to anoint Thee with myrrh, O
Bestower of life; but an angel appeared to them, crying out: The Lord is risen!
5. When Thou
wast crucified between two condemned thieves, O Christ, one of them blasphemed
Thee and was justly damned, while the other confessed Thee and dwelleth now in
paradise.
6. When they
had come to the choir of the apostles, the honorable women cried out: Christ is
risen! Let us worship Him as Master and
Creator.
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
& Kontakia
Tone 5: Let us, O faithful, praise and worship the Word /
Who is co-unoriginate with
the Father and the Spirit, /
and Who was born of the
Virgin for our salvation; /
for He was pleased to ascend
the Cross in the flesh /
and to endure death, //
and to raise the dead by His
glorious Resurrection.
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 in the
heavens, praise Him in the highest!
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye
righteous; praise is meet
for the upright.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!