Presanctified Liturgy: Great
and Holy Monday
Tone 1: As the Lord
went to His voluntary Passion, /
He said to His apostles on
the way: /
“Behold, we go up to
and the Son of man shall be
betrayed, as it is written of Him.” /
Come, then, and let us also
journey with Him, /
purified in mind; let us be
crucified with Him /
and die for His sake to the
pleasures of this life, /
that we may also live with
Him and hear Him say: /
“No longer do I ascend to the
earthly
but I ascend to My Father and
your Father, /
and to My God and your God; /
and I shall raise you up to
the
in the Kingdom of heaven.” Twice.
Tone 5: We have come,
O faithful, /
to the saving Passion of
Christ our God: /
let us glorify His ineffable
forbearance, /
that in His tender mercy He
may also raise us up /
who have been slain by sin,
//
for He is good and loves
mankind. Twice.
O Lord, as Thou camest to Thy
Passion, /
Thou hast strengthened the
faith of Thy disciples, /
taking them aside and saying
to them: /
“How have ye forgotten what I
told you before? /
According to the Scriptures,
/
it cannot be that a prophet
should be killed save in
Now is the time at hand, of
which I spake to you: /
for see, I am betrayed into
the hands of sinners; /
they shall mock Me and nail
Me to the Cross /
and deliver Me up for burial,
/
with loathing looking on Me
as a corpse. /
Yet be of good courage: /
for on the third day I shall
rise, //
bringing joy and life eternal
to the faithful.” Twice.
O
Lord, the mother of the sons of Zebedee, /
not
understanding the hidden mystery of Thy dispensation, /
asked
Thee to give the honors of a temporal kingdom to her sons. /
But
instead of this Thou hast promised to Thy friends /
that
they should drink the cup of death; /
and
Thou hast said that Thou wouldest drink this cup before them, /
to
cleanse men from their sins. /
Therefore
we cry aloud to Thee: //
O
salvation of our souls, glory to Thee. Twice.
O Lord, teaching Thy disciples to think perfect
thoughts, /
Thou hast said to them: /
“Be not like the Gentiles, /
who exercise dominion over those who are less
strong. /
But it shall not be so among you, My disciples, /
for I of mine own will am poor. /
Let him, then, who is first among you be the
minister of all. /
Let the ruler be as the ruled, /
and let the first be as the last. /
For I Myself have come to minister to Adam in his
poverty, /
and to give my life as a ransom //
for the many who cry aloud to Me: Glory to Thee.”
Tone 8: O brethren, let us fear the punishment of the
fig tree, /
withered because it was unfruitful; /
and let us bring worthy fruits of repentance unto
Christ, //
who grants us His great mercy.
Glory…
Both now… Same Tone:
The
serpent found a second Eve in the Egyptian woman, /
and
with words of flattery he sought to make Joseph fall. /
But,
leaving his garments behind him, /
Joseph
fled from sin; /
and
like the first man before his disobedience, /
though
naked he was not ashamed. //
At
his prayers, O Christ, have mercy upon us.
Prokimena
and Old Testament
Tone
6: The Lord
bless thee out of Zion, * and mayest Thou see the good things of Jerusalem.
Stichos: Blessed
are all they that fear the Lord, that walk in His ways.
Tone
6:
We
have blessed you * in the name of the Lord.
Stichos: Many
a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say.
Gospel:
Matthew 24:3-35.