22nd Sunday after Pentecost / Martyrs Minas, Victor, and Vincent / St. Theodore the Studite
Beatitudes
on 8, Octoechos 8.
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. O indivisible
Trinity, all-effecting and all-powerful Unity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Thee do we hymn as our true God and Savior!
8. Rejoice, O
animate temple of God and impassible gate! Rejoice, O fiery throne which
burneth yet is not consumed! Rejoice, O Mother of Emmanuel, Christ our God!
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.
[Troparion of the
Tone 4: In their sufferings O Lord, /
Thy martyrs received imperishable crowns from Thee, our God; /
for, possessed of Thy might, /
they cast down the tormentors and set at naught the feeble audacity of the demons. //
By their supplications save our souls.
Tone 8: Instructor of Orthodoxy, teacher of piety and purity, /
beacon for the whole world, divinely inspired adornment of monastics: /
by thy teachings thou hast illumined all, O Theodore. //
O harp of the Spirit, entreat Christ God, that our souls be saved.
Tone 5: Unto
hades, O my Savior, didst Thou descend, /
and having broken
its gates as one omnipotent, /
Thou, as Creator,
didst raise up the dead together with Thyself. /
And Thou didst break
the sting of death, /
and didst deliver
Adam from the curse, O Lover of mankind. /
Wherefore, we all
cry unto Thee: //
Save us, O Lord.
[Kontakion of the
Tone 4: O Passionbearer Minas, /
Christ our God, the imperishable
Crown of martyrs, /
took thee from a transient army, /
and showed thee forth as a
partaker //
of what is incorruptible and
heavenly.
Glory… Tone 2: Thine angelic life of fasting /
thou didst adorn
with the struggles of suffering, /
O divinely blessed
Theodore, /
and thou hast been
shown to abide with the angels. //
With them cease thou
never to pray to Christ God for us all.
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 5th Tone: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt preserve us from
this generation and for evermore.
Choir: Thou, O Lord,
shalt keep us and shalt preserve us from this generation and for evermore.
Reader: Save me, O Lord for a righteous man there is no more.
Choir: Thou, O Lord,
shalt keep us and shalt preserve us from this generation and for evermore.
Reader: In
the 4th Tone: In the saints that are in His earth hath the
Lord been wondrous; He hath wrought all His desires in them.
Choir: In the
saints that are in His earth hath the Lord been wondrous; He hath wrought all
His desires in them.
Reader: The Reading is from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul
to the Galatians:
[Gal. 6:11-18 (§215); Eph. 6:10-17 (§233); Heb. 13:17-21
(§335)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 5th
Tone: Of Thy mercies, O Lord, will I sing for ever.
Unto generation and generation will I declare Thy truth with my mouth.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: For Thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever,
in the heavens shall Thy truth be established.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 4th Tone: The righteous
cried, and the Lord heard them, and He delivered them out of all their
tribulations.
Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Luke 10:25-37 (§53); Matt. 10:32-33,37-38,19:27-30 (§38);
Matt. 4:25-5:12 (§10)]
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!