Liturgy: St. Hilarion the Great

20th Sunday after Pentecost / St. Hilarion the Great

Beatitude Verses: Octoechos: 6; Martyr: 4 from 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. The uprisings of the poisonous passions didst thou dry up, restraining them with the medicine of fasting, O ever-memorable one, and crying aloud: There is none as holy as our God, and none more righteous than Thee, O Lord!

8. Having cut away garments of mortal skin with the knife of abstinence, thou didst fashion a robe of salvation, crying out to thy Creator: Thou art our God, and there is none more holy than Thee, O Lord!

9. Strengthened by hope of things eternal, and brought to God by the hands of the divinely wise Anthony, O venerable God-bearer, emulating him thou becamest a beacon, shedding the rays of all-glorious miracles.

10. He Who formed all things by His divine desire deigned to form Himself into a man, taking form In thy womb, O Theotokos. To Him do we now cry out: Thou art our God, and there is none more righteous than Thee, O Lord!

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.

[Troparion of the Temple]

Tone 8: With streams of thy tears thou didst irrigate the barren desert, /

and with sighs from the depths of thy soul thou didst make it to bear fruit an hundredfold./

Thou wast a beacon to the whole world, radiating miracles. //

O Hilarion our father, entreat Christ God, that our souls be saved!

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.

[Kontakion of the Temple]

Glory… Tone 3:  Assembling today, in hymns we praise thee /

as a never-waning luminary of the noetic Sun; /

for thou hast shone forth upon those /

in the darkness of ignorance, /

guiding all up to the divine heights, O Hilarion. /

Wherefore, we cry out: /

Rejoice, O father, //

thou foundation of all fasters!

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 7^th Tone: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.

Choir:  Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints..

Reader: The Reading is from the Second Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians:

[II Cor. 11:31-12:9 (§194); II Cor. 9:6-11 (§188)]

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 6^th Tone: Blessed is the man the feareth the Lord in His commandments

shall he greatly delight.

Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

Gospel [Luke 16:19-31 (§83); Luke 6:17-23 (§24)]

Communion Verse: Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest! In everlasting remembrance shall the righteous be; he shall not be afraid of evil tidings. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!