Presanctified Liturgy:
Friday in the 3rd Week
Martyr Conon
Tone
7:
Like
the Prodigal, /
I
have departed from Thy grace and wasted the riches of Thy love: /
but
now I run to Thee crying, O compassionate Lord: //
I
have sinned, O God, have mercy upon me. Twice
Tone
6:
Thy
martyrs, O Lord, /
denied
Thee not and forsook not Thy commandments: /
At
their intercessions //
have
mercy upon us.
Those
who suffered martyrdom for Thee, O Christ, /
endured
great torments: /
at
their prayers and intercessions, //
O
Lord, preserve us all.
Thy
victorious martyrs, /
when
they contended on this earth, endured great torments; /
but
now they dwell in heaven /
and
have received a perfect crown, //
that
they may offer intercession for our souls.
Thy
Cross was for the martyrs /
an
invincible weapon, O Lord. /
They
saw death before them; /
but,
looking to the life that is to come, /
they
were strengthened by their hope in Thee. /
At
their intercessions //
have
mercy upon us.
Tone
8 (Special Melody: “O most glorious wonder…”):
O
unwaning, divine ray, /
luminous
radiance of the commandments of God, /
ever-memorable
athlete, /
most
excellent of martyrs! /
Thou
hast dispelled the gloom of darkness /
like
a brilliant star, O blessed one! /
O
goodly offering and unblemished sacrifice! /
Wherefore,
unceasingly entreat Christ, //
that
He save our souls. Twice
O
all-wise preacher of the Truth, /
showing
thyself to be an armed opponent of ungodliness, /
thou
didst fell the enemy with the suffering of thy head, /
and
didst openly proclaim the command of God, /
publishing
glad tidings /
to
the people who knew them not. /
O
Conon, who dwellest with the martyrs, /
entreat
the Deliverer, that He deliver from the passions //
thy
servants who hymn thee.
Good
was the change /
which
the Lord of our fathers wrought upon thee /
by
the right hand of the Most High, /
O
most glorious athlete! /
A
fruit blossoming forth from the root of unbelief /
wast
thou shown to be, O most blessed and all-praised Conon, /
and,
having Christ as thy most excellent Leader, /
thou
didst mightily vanquish //
the
hordes of the demons.
Glory…
Tone 6:
The
creative ordinance was my beginning and foundation. /
For
Thou hast willed to fashion me as a living creature /
from
natures visible and invisible: /
Thou
hast made my body from the earth, /
and
given me a soul by Thy divine and quickening breath. /
Therefore,
O Savior, grant rest to Thy servants in the land of the living, //
in
the tabernacles of the righteous.
Both now… Tone 6:
Who doth not call thee
blessed, O all-holy Virgin? /
Who will not hymn thine
all-pure birthgiving? /
For the only-begotten Son /
Who shone forth timelessly
from the Father, /
came forth, ineffably
incarnate, from thee, the pure one; /
and being God by nature, /
He became man by nature for
our sake, /
not divided into two Persons,
/
but known in two natures
without confusion. /
Him do thou beseech, O pure
and most blessed one, //
that our souls find mercy!
Tone
4: Give us
help from affliction, * for vain is the salvation of man.
Stichos:
O
God, Thou hast cast us off and hast destroyed us.
Lesson:
Genesis 8:4-21
Tone
6: Hearken,
O God, unto my supplication; * attend unto my prayer.