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Fri24May2024
Our Venerable Father Simeon of the “Mountain of Wonders” (596).
VESPERS ON THURSDAY EVENING
Kathisma Reading
The appointed psalms are chanted.
At Psalm 140
Tone 8
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
Through visions and your activity, O Symeon who are most rich,* you made of your soul a pillar inscribed, engendering the virtues;* and having vanquished the uprisings of the flesh* and arrayed yourself in life-bearing mortality, O venerable one;* you became a luminary ever shining forth,* enlightening with grace all the ends of the earth.
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
Through visions and your activity, O Symeon who are most rich,* you made of your soul a pillar inscribed, engendering the virtues;* and having vanquished the uprisings of the flesh* and arrayed yourself in life-bearing mortality, O venerable one;* you became a luminary ever shining forth,* enlightening with grace all the ends of the earth.
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
Taking wing with divine desire, while yet bearing the flesh and clad in dust,* you manifestly became a dweller with the angels,* having forsaken earthly things and ascended to the heavenly, O father,* ever mounting to God on your lofty pillar,* and shining forth in your ascents.
For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Taking wing with divine desire, while yet bearing the flesh and clad in dust,* you manifestly became a dweller with the angels,* having forsaken earthly things and ascended to the heavenly, O father,* ever mounting to God on your lofty pillar,* and shining forth in your ascents.
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
Having broken down the flesh by abstinence, O Symeon,* you showed forth your soul as a receptacle of the Spirit,* mounting on high and drawing nigh to God;* and by His power you were vouchsafed to work miracles transcending nature.* Wherefore, your most divine activity has surpassed all understanding and thought.
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
Having broken down the flesh by abstinence, O Symeon,* you showed forth your soul as a receptacle of the Spirit,* mounting on high and drawing nigh to God;* and by His power you were vouchsafed to work miracles transcending nature.* Wherefore, your most divine activity has surpassed all understanding and thought.
Tone 4, Glory…
O right wondrous father,* you have been shown to be a goodly offspring of the desert and our ally;* for therein you found your desire, the heights of heaven,* and were vouchsafed the grace of healing from the treasuries of the Spirit which cannot be stolen.* Wherefore, Christ has enriched you with both, and shown you to be a worker of wonders.* O venerable Symeon, pray that our souls be saved.
Tone 2, Now…
Let us praise in hymns the Trinity one in essence,* the Father, and the Son, with the Holy Spirit:* who has been declared by all the prophets, apostles, and martyrs.
Aposticha
Tone 1
On the mountain, Moses beheld in the fire, He Who Is.* And now the Spirit has come in the form of fire to the wise Apostles, the beholders of God.* Thus clearly enlightening them,* that it is One God who spoke both then and now,* of the same essence.
Create in me a clean heart, O God,* and renew a right spirit within me.
With fiery tongues God’s rhetoricians,* call all to the waters of divine Baptism;* and with the fire of the Spirit* they burn the babblings of ungodly rhetoricians.* But, O Comforter, come and enlighten us* who faithfully proclaim You as God.
Cast me not away from Your presence,* and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
As You consecrated all the fiery bodiless ones,* so with the Spirit’s fire consecrate all* who in material bodies now serve You, O God, who ineffably assumed flesh.* O, how abundantly praised are You,* and how wondrous are You in Your works* O Lover of mankind!
Tone 7, Glory… Now…
The Comforter, having come from the Father through Christ God,* has come to us on earth today,* therefore with faith we worship the Holy Spirit.
Troparion
Tone 1
You were shown to be a desert-dweller,* an angel in the flesh and a wonderworker, O our God-bearing father Symeon.* For, having acquired heavenly gifts through fasting, vigilance and prayer,* you heal the infirm and the souls of those who have recourse to you with faith.* Glory to Him who gave you strength!* Glory to Him who has crowned you!* Glory to Him who works healings for all through you!
Tone 8, Glory… Now…
Blessed are You, O Christ our God who revealed the fishermen as most wise* by sending them the Holy Spirit;* through them You caught the entire world.* Loving Master, glory to You.
DIVINE LITURGY ON FRIDAY MORNING
At the beginning of the Liturgy, immediately after Blessed be the Kingdom… and Amen we all kneel and sing the following in Tone 6, samohlasnyj:
Heavenly King, Advocate, Spirit of Truth, Who are everywhere present and fill all things, Treasury of Blessings, Bestower of Life: come, and dwell within us; cleanse us of all that defiles us, O Good One, save our souls.
Antiphon 1
The heavens tell the glory of God, and the firmament declares the work of his hand.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God,* O Saviour, save us.
Day to day pours forth the message and night proclaims this knowledge to night.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God,* O Saviour, save us.
Their utterance has gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
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.
O good Advocate,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
Let us come before His face with praise,* and acclaim Him in psalms.
O good Advocate,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
For God is the great Lord,* the great king over all the earth.
O good Advocate,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
Entrance
Come, let us worship* and fall down before Christ.
O good Advocate,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 8: Blessed are You, O Christ our God who revealed the fishermen as most wise* by sending them the Holy Spirit;* through them You caught the entire world.* Loving Master, glory to You.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kontakion, Tone 8: When the Most high descended and confused the tongues,* He parted the nations.* He called all to unity;* and with one voice* we glorify the all-Holy Spirit.
Prokeimenon, Tone 8
Their utterance has gone forth into all the earth,* and their words unto the ends of the world.
verse: The heavens tell the glory of God, and the firmament declares the work of His hand. (Psalm 19:5,2)
Epistle
Romans 2:14-29
Alleluia, Tone 1
verse: By the Lord’s words the heavens were established, and by the Breath of His mouth all their host.
verse: The Lord has looked down from heaven and beheld the whole human race.
Gospel
Matthew 5:33-41
Hymn to the Mother of God
O my soul, magnify the one Divinity in three Persons.
And the Irmos: Rejoice, O Queen, boast of the virgins and mothers, for every tongue, though capable and eloquent, cannot hymn you as is your due, and every mind is confounded in seeking to comprehend the way in which you gave birth. Wherefore with one accord we glorify you.
Communion Hymn
Your good Spirit will lead me* to the land of righteousness.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 142:10)