Sunday of the Prodigal Son / Afterfeast of the Meeting of the Lord / Tone 6
Beatitudes on 12: Octoechos 4; Triodion 4, from Ode 6;
Feast 4, from Ode 7.
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. The depth of sin ever holds me fast, and the tempest of transgressions overwhelms me. Pilot me, O Christ my God, to the haven of life and save me, King of glory.
6. I have wasted in evil living the riches which the Father gave me, and now am brought to poverty. I am filled with shame and enslaved to fruitless thoughts. Therefore I cry to Thee who lovest mankind: Take pity on me and save me.
7. I am wasted with hunger, deprived of every blessing, and an exile from Thy presence, O Christ supreme in loving-kindness. Take pity on me as I now return, and save me as I sing the praises of Thy love for mankind.
8. O Maiden who hast conceived Christ the Savior and Master, though in my poverty I lack all good, count me worthy of salvation, O pure Virgin, that I may sing the praises of thy majesty.
9 & 10. I go to announce the glad tidings unto Adam who dwelleth in hades and unto Eve, cried Symeon, joining chorus with the prophets, singing: Blessed is the God of our fathers!
11. God Who doth deliver the mortal race shall go even unto hades; He shall grant remission to all, sight to the blind, and even the mute shall chant: Blessed is the God of our fathers!
12. And Symeon
foretold to the Virgin: A sword shall
pierce thy heart, O incorrupt one, beholding thy Son upon the Cross, to Whom we
cry out: Blessed is the God of our fathers!
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.
Tone 1: Rejoice, thou who art full of grace, O Virgin Theotokos, /
for from thee hath risen the Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God, /
enlightening those in darkness. /
Rejoice, thou also, O righteous Elder, /
as thou receivest in thine arms the Redeemer of our souls, //
Who also granteth unto us the Resurrection.
Glory... Tone 3: Having foolishly abandoned Thy paternal
glory, /
I squandered on vices the wealth
which Thou gavest me. /
Wherefore, I cry unto Thee with
the voice of the Prodigal: /
I have sinned before Thee, O
compassionate Father. /
Receive me as one repentant, //
and make me as one of Thy hired
servants.
Both now... Tone 1:
Thou Who didst sanctify the
Virgin’s womb by Thy birth, /
and didst bless Symeon’s hands
as was meet, /
by anticipation didst even now
save us, O Christ God. /
But grant peace in the midst of
wars unto Thy commonwealth, /
and strengthen Orthodox
Christians //
whom Thou hast loved, O only Lover
of mankind.
The Epistle
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: The
Lord is my strength and my song.
Choir: And He is become my salvation.
Reader: The Reading is
from the First Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians: [1
Corinthians 6:12-20 (§135)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 2nd Tone
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: 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!
Gospel [Luke 15:11-32 (§79)]
Instead of “It is truly
meet…” we chant the Irmos of the 9th Ode of the Canon of the feast, Third Tone:
Refrain: O
Virgin Theotokos, thou hope of Christians: //
Do thou protect, preserve, and
save those that hope in thee.
Irmos: In
the shadow and the letter of the Law, /
let us, the faithful, discern a
figure: /
every male child that opens the
womb /
shall be sanctified to God. /
Therefore do we magnify the
firstborn Word and Son of the Father without beginning, /
the firstborn Child of a Mother //
who hath not known a man.
Communion Verse: Praise the Lord in the heavens, praise Him in the highest!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!