Presanctified Liturgy: Friday in the 4th Week
The Holy Martyr Sabinas
Tone 7:
My soul’s dignity I have enslaved to the passions; /
I am become like the beasts, /
and have no power to lift mine eyes to Thee, Most High. /
But with my head bowed like the publican, /
I pray to Thee, O Christ, and cry aloud: //
God be merciful to me and save 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 (to the special melody “What shall we call you…”):
What shall we call thee, O glorious one. /
Warrior of the mighty King and God, /
who hast manfully set at nought the impiety of the incorporeal ones, /
beacon who shinest forth the noetic Light, /
all-powerful destroyer of idols, /
most fervent athlete and most lawful sufferer. //
Pray thou that our souls be saved. Twice
What now shall we call thee, O Sabinas? /
River of living water, pouring forth breadth of spirit /
upon us who are oppressed amid cruelties, /
inexhaustible flood of healings, /
cup which pourest out a holy draught, /
and wonderworker most true, equal in honor to the incorporeal ones. //
Pray thou that our souls be saved.
What shall we call thee, O holy one? /
Guide of the erring, or intercessor for sinners, /
true physician for them bestormed amid evils, /
precious and fragrant lily of paradise, /
first-fruit among martyrs and their confirmation, /
ever-flowing fount of miracles, valiant struggler. //
Pray thou that our souls be saved.
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: O Shepherd of Israel, attend, * Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Stichos: Thou that sittest on the cherubim, manifest Thyself.
Lesson: Genesis 12:1-7
Tone 4: Rejoice in God * our helper.