Presanctified Liturgy: Wednesday in the 1st Week

St. Timothy of Symbola

 

Tone 8:

While fasting with the body, brethren, let us also fast in spirit. /

Let us loose every bond iniquity; /

let us undo the knots of every contract made by violence; /

let us tear up all unjust agreements; /

let us give bread to the hungry /

and welcome to our house the poor who have no roof to cover them, //

that we may receive great mercy from Christ our God.    (Twice)

 

If there be any virtue and if there be any praise, /

rightly are these things ascribed to the saints. /

They bowed their necks beneath the sword, /

for Thy sake who hast bowed the heavens and come down. /

They shed their blood for Thee, /

who hast emptied Thyself and taken the form of a servant; /

they humbled themselves even unto death, /

following the example of Thy poverty. /

At their prayers have mercy upon us, O God, //

according to the multitude of Thy tender mercies.

 

Tone 2:

Jesus, the true spiritual Sun, /

sent you out as lightning into all the world, /

and by the brightness of your divine preaching. /

O ye apostles and eyewitnesses of God, /

He has dispersed the darkness of error /

and given light to those held fast in the evil gloom of ignorance. /

Entreat Him to send down upon us also //

His illumination and great mercy.

 

Elijah, glorified by fasting, /

rode in the divine chariot of the virtues /

and was carried up to the height of heaven. /

Eagerly follow his example, O my humble soul, /

and fast from every evil, /

from envy, strife and passing pleasure. /

So shalt thou escape the harsh and everlasting agony of Gehenna, /

crying out to Christ: //

Glory be to Thee, O Lord.

 

Tone 5:

Apostles of God, fervent intercessors for the world, /

defenders of the Orthodox, /

ye who have the power to draw near with boldness unto Christ our God: /

we beseech you, intercede on our behalf, /

that unhindered we may keep the holy season of the Fast /

and receive the grace of the consubstantial Trinity. /

O great and glorious preachers, //

worthy of all reverence, pray for our souls.

 

Tone 8 (to the special melody “O most glorious wonder…”):

O divinely wise father Timothy, /

by great abstinence /

and frequent prayer /

thou didst utterly ally the movements of the passions; /

and receiving the grace of dispassion, /

thou wast shown to be a receptacle of the divine Spirit. /

Wherefore, as thou livest even after death, /

O divinely blessed one, //

thou dost ever drive away evil spirits.           Twice

 

O divinely wise father Timothy, /

thou wast a true emulator of Abraham, /

everywhere healing those who have recourse unto thee. /

In thy pangs thou didst acquire the strength of job; /

and, possessing the meekness of David, /

thou didst live on earth a life /

equal to that of the angels,/

and hast receive thine ultimate desire, //

praying for us all.

 

O divinely wise father Timothy, /

a model of chastity, an example of abstinence, /

an image of piety, and a wellspring of compunction, /

an unshakable foundation of Orthodoxy, /

an ever-flowing stream of healings, /

a never-setting sun, a child of divine grace, /

and the adornment of monastics /

wast thou shown to be, //

O all-honored one.

 

Glory... Now and ever... Same Tone and Melody:

The preëternal God, /

taking flesh of thy blood, /

hath shown thee forth, O pure one, /

as an intercessor for men. /

Wherefore, deliver thy servants from all misfortune /

and every evil circumstance, /

and vouchsafe that all who glorify and bow down before thee /

may be accounted worthy //

of the splendor of the elect.

 

Prokimena and Old Testament Readings

 

Tone 5: Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt preserve us * from this generation, and forevermore.

 

Stichos: Save me, O Lord, for a righteous man there is no more.

 

Reading: Genesis 1:24-2:3

 

Tone 6: Look upon me, hear me, * O Lord my God.

 

Stichos: How long, O Lord, wilt Thou utterly forget me? How long wilt Thou turn Thy face away from me?

 

Reading: Proverbs 2:1-22

 

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