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Mon13May2024
Post-feast of the Ascension. Holy Martyr Glyceria (138-61).
VESPERS ON SUNDAY EVENING
Kathisma Reading
No psalms are assigned to be chanted.
At Psalm 140
Tone 6
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
Before the morning star from the womb* You were begotten from the Father, motherless before the ages,* though Arius held You were created and thus not God,* boldly and mindlessly identifying You, the Creator, with things created,* thus storing up fuel for the eternal fire.* But the Council gathered in Nicaea proclaimed that You, O Lord,* are truly the Son of God,* one in rank with the Father and the Spirit.
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
O My Saviour, who has rent Your raiment?* You said: It was Arius who has cut asunder the Trinity’s headship,* which is one in rank and honour,* disputing that You are One of the Most Holy Trinity;* thereby teaching Nestorius, the godless one, to not say Theotokos.* But the Council gathered in Nicaea proclaimed that You, O Lord, are truly the Son of God,* one in rank with the Father and the Spirit.
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
Keeping his eyes shut, that he might not see light,* Arius fell headlong into the deep pit of sin.* His bowels were rent asunder by a divine hook,* such that he violently gave up all his substance and his soul* and in this manner became another Judas,* through his most evil purpose and disposition.* But the Council gathered in Nicaea proclaimed that You, O Lord, are truly the Son of God,* one in rank with the Father and the Spirit.
Tone 8
For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Attending to the sweet words of the divine Spirit,* you forsook all the bitterness of the carnal passions, O divinely blessed Glyceria,* and through death you have passed over to immortal glory,* entreating Christ that He grant great mercy to all.
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
Glyceria was wounded with Your sweet love, O Master,* and endured the bitter pain of wounds, O Word of God.* Wherefore, she has been translated to delight devoid of pain,* as one undefiled and incorrupt.* Through her supplications, O Word, grant great mercy to all.
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
Confessing well the name of Christ your Bridegroom before the iniquitous enemy,* you suffered lawfully for His sake, O honoured one,* your members severed by force;* and you manfully vanquished the wild beasts,* and now you pray that He grant great mercy to all.
Tone 6, Glory…
Let us acclaim today those mystical trumpets of the Spirit,* the God-bearing Fathers,* who, in the midst of the Church,* sang a harmonious song of theology,* teaching that the Trinity is one, unchanging in essence and Godhead;* they are the refuters of Arius,* and the foremost warriors of the orthodox.* And they ever intercede with the Lord* that our souls find mercy.
Tone 6, Now…
Having beheld Your ascents on the holy mountains, O Christ,* effulgence of the Father’s glory,* we praise the radiant likeness of Your countenance.* We worship Your passion, we honour Your Resurrection,* and we glorify Your glorious Ascension.* Have mercy on us.
Aposticha
Tone 6
Having brought together all knowledge of things of the spirit* and made careful inquiry by the divine Spirit’s grace,* lo, like godly scribes the august Fathers* wrote the celestial Symbol, the august Creed of our holy Faith,* wherein they clearly teach that,* like God the Father, the Word of God, is also beginningless and is consubstantial with Him in truth.* Thus did these all-blessed, and renowned, and godly-minded ones* indeed follow in manifest manner in that which the Apostles taught.
Blessed are You, O Lord,* the God of our Fathers.
When those blessed defenders of the Gospel’s doctrines,* Christ’s heralds, had received the fullness of noetic enlightenment through the Spirit’s grace,* they proclaimed the august oracle to all mankind* under inspiration from our God,* that most transcendent truth which, though few in words, is sublimely wise.* These champions of piety and pious traditions and teachings* thus received revelation of piety and dogma from on high* and were enlightened and then set forth* that faith which was taught of God.
Look upon me,* and have mercy on me.
Lo, the divine shepherds,* as devoted servants of Christ God and sacred initiates of the preaching inspired by God,* brought together their wisdom as shepherds and their pastoral knowledge.* Then most righteously did they stir up their righteous anger* and cast out from the plenitude of the Church the prowling and destructive wolves,* driving them far off with the Spirit’s sling,* since those thus expelled had incurred a fall that leads to death* and were diseased with an illness* that could not be relieved or cured.
Tone 3, Glory…
You have become exact keepers of the apostolic traditions, O Holy Fathers;* for in setting forth in council the dogma of the consubstantiality of the Holy Trinity in orthodox fashion,* you cast down the blasphemy of Arius.* Then, after censuring Macedonius, the enemy of the Holy Spirit,* you condemned Nestorius, Eutyches, Dioscorus,* Sabellius, and Severus the headless one.* Wherefore we pray, make supplication on our behalf,* that we be delivered from their error,* and that our life be preserved blameless in the Faith.
Tone 6, Now…
God is gone up in jubilation, the Lord with the voice of the trumpet,* to raise the fallen image of Adam,* and to send the Comforting Spirit to sanctify our souls.
Troparion
Tone 8
Christ our God, You are glorified above all, You established our fathers as beacons on earth and through them guided all of us to the true faith. Glory to You, most compassionate Lord.
Tone 4, Glory…
Your lamb, Glyceria, O Jesus, cries in a loud voice:* “You, O my Bridegroom, I love; and, seeking You, I undergo martyrdom.* And with You I am crucified and buried in Your baptism,* and I suffer for Your sake that I may reign with You.* And I die on Your behalf that I may live in You.* Receive me as a spotless sacrifice,* sacrificed for You with love.”* Through her intercession in Your mercy save our souls.
Tone 4, Now…
You ascended in glory, O Christ our God;* giving joy to Your disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit,* and assuring them through Your blessing* that You are the Son of God,** the Redeemer of the world.
DIVINE LITURGY
First Antiphon
Clap your hands, all you nations;* shout to God with the voice of joy.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God, O Saviour, save, us.
For the Lord most high is awesome,* a great king over all the earth.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God, O Saviour, save, us.
He has subdued peoples to us,* and nations under our feet.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God, O Saviour, save, us.
God ascended amid shouts of joy;* the Lord at the sound of the trumpet.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God, O Saviour, save, us.
Glory… Now… Only-Begotten Son…
Third Antiphon
Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord,* let us acclaim God, our Saviour.
Son of God, who ascended in glory,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
Let us come before His face with praise,* and acclaim Him in psalms.
Son of God, who ascended in glory,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
For God is the great Lord,* the great king over all the earth.
Son of God, who ascended in glory,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
Entrance
Come, let us worship* and fall down before Christ.
Son of God, who ascended in glory,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 4: You ascended in glory, O Christ our God,* giving joy to Your disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit,* and assuring them through your blessing* that You are the Son of God,* the Redeemer of the world.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kontakion, Tone 6: When you had fulfilled Your plan for us* and united things on earth with those in heaven,* You ascended in glory, O Christ our God,* in no way distant, but remaining inseparable,* You cried to those who love You:* I am with You and there is none against you.
Prokeimenon, Tone 7
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;* above all the earth be Your glory.
verse: My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready. I will sing and make music in my glory. (Psalm 56:6,8)
Epistle
Acts 21:8-14
Alleluia, Tone 2
verse: God ascended amid shouts of joy; the Lord at the sound of the trumpet.
verse: Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with the voice of joy. (Psalm 46:6,2)
Gospel
John 14:27-15:7
Hymn to the Mother of God
O my soul, magnify the Lord who in glory ascended bodily into the heavens.
And the Irmos: O Mother of God,* you transcended both mind and word,* and in time, ineffably bore the Timeless One:* it is you who, with one accord,* we, the faithful, magnify.
Communion Hymn
God ascended amid shouts of joy;* the Lord at the sound of the trumpet.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 46:6)
Instead of We have seen the true light we sing:
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, above all the earth be Your glory.
Instead of Let our mouths be filled we sing three times:
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, above all the earth be Your glory.