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• Tue

  09

  Jul

  2024

  The Holy Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of Tauromenia.

  VESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING

  Kathisma Reading

  The appointed psalms are chanted.

  At Psalm 140

  Tone 7

  If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.

  O most compassionate Master and God, by the judgments which You know* grant that I may have the fear of You in my heart,* that I may spurn the works of the evil one,* love You with all my soul, and do Your saving will;* for You are our God, who said: Ask, and you shall receive.

  I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.

  I have become a mockery for the demons and contemptable for men,* lamentation for the righteous and weeping for the angels,* polluting the air, the earth, and the waters;* for I have defiled my body* and sullied my soul and mind with countless evil acts,* and have become an enemy to God.* Woe is me, О Lord! I have sinned, I have sinned against You!* Forgive me!

  From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.

  I pray: Be patient with me, who am devoid of fruits, О Master,* and cut me not down like the barren tree with the axe of death,* dispatching me to the fire;* but be entreated to make me fruitful,* giving me time for repentance, in that You love mankind,* that I may wash away my many sins, О Christ my Saviour.

  Tone 2

  For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.

  When the pre-eminent among the disciples, going about, confirmed the whole world,* he found you to be like a precious stone,* and as a foundation of the Church, O blessed one,* did he set you who cast down the pillars and temples of idolatry* by the divine power of the Word* whose good pleasure it was to consort with men in the flesh.

  Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.

  Dispelling the evil spirits of malice by the Word,* you made people spiritual by the grace of the Spirit, O martyr Pancratius,* working the field of their hearts, and casting the divine seed thereupon,* the fruits of which you have offered to the heavenly Husbandman,* praying for them that praise you with faith.

  Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.

  With noetic splendours you made the West like to the East,* bearing the sun of the knowledge of God* who shone forth upon us from the Virgin in manner past understanding;* and having set in your suffering, O father,* you shone forth to the never-setting Light,* where, the looking glass being abolished,* you behold the longed-for beauty of the Judge of your contest, O Pancratius.

  Tone 2, Glory… Now…

  In your womb you, without confining Him, bore God who alone is infinite* and who became man in His goodness, O all-holy Bride of God.* Therefore, I entreat you: rescue me from the passions which hem me in,* that, having trod the straight and narrow path,* I may attain to that which leads to life, O Virgin.

  Prokeimenon, Tone 4

  The Lord hears me* when I cry out to Him.

  verse: Whenever I called, the God of my justice heard me.

  Aposticha

  Tone 7

  I have come, О Compassionate One, like the prodigal son.* As one of Your hirelings accept me who fall down before You, О God,* and have mercy on me, О Lover of mankind.

  I have lifted up my eyes to You enthroned in heaven. Behold, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress, so are our eyes on the Lord our God until He has mercy on us.

  Like the one who fell among thieves and was wounded,* so have I fallen through many sins, and my soul hath been wounded.* To whom shall I who am guilty flee?* If not to You alone, the Physician of our souls.* О God, pour forth upon me Your great mercy!

  Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been filled with shame; our soul is all too full of the mockery of the rich, of the contempt of the proud.

  О holy martyrs, you who have fought the good fight and received crowns:* Entreat the Lord, that He have mercy upon our souls.

  Tone 7, Glory… Now…

  Rejoice, O Sovereign Lady, O cloud of the noetic and ineffable Sun!* Rejoice, all-luminous lantern: Rejoice all-golden candle-stand.* Through you, O most holy one, has Eve been delivered from the curse.* But as you possess boldness before your Son and God* who is readily moved to compassion,* fail not to entreat Him by your maternal supplication, O most pure one.

  Troparia

  Tone 4

  Having shared the way of life of the apostles,* and having become a successor to their thrones,* labouring you found the divinely inspired way to contemplation.* Therefore, forthrightly ministering the word of truth,* you shed your blood for the faith, O hieromartyr, Pancratius.* Intercede with Christ our God for the salvation of our souls.

  Glory… Now…

  Let us poor sinners hasten with fervour to the Mother of God;* let us humbly kneel before her and say from the depth of our hearts:* O Lady, be kind to us and help us.* Hasten, for we are perishing under a multitude of sins.* Do not turn away your servants empty-handed,* for you are their only hope and protection.

   

  DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING

  Troparia and Kontakia

  Troparion, Tone 4: Having shared the way of life of the apostles,* and having become a successor to their thrones,* labouring you found the divinely inspired way to contemplation.* Therefore, forthrightly ministering the word of truth,* you shed your blood for the faith, O hieromartyr, Pancratius.* Intercede with Christ our God for the salvation of our souls.

  Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.

  Kontakion, Tone 4: Having piously lived among the hierarchs,* and having trod the path of suffering,* you extinguished the sacrifices to idols* and were a defender for your flock, O godly one.* Therefore, venerating you, we sincerely cry to you:* “Rescue us from dangers by your prayers, O our father, Pancratius.

  Prokeimenon, Tone 7

  The venerable ones will exult in glory* and they shall be joyful in their beds.

  verse: Sing to the Lord a new song; let His praise be in the assembly of the venerable ones. (Psalm 149:5,1)

  Epistle

  1 Corinthians 10:5-12

  Alleluia, Tone 2

  verse: Your priests shall clothe themselves with justice, and Your venerable ones shall rejoice.

  verse: For the Lord has chosen Sion; He has chosen it for His dwelling. (Psalm 131:9,13)

  Gospel

  Matthew 16:6-12

  Communion Hymn

  The just man shall be in everlasting remembrance;* of evil hearsay he shall have no fear*. Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 111:6)