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Sat03Aug2024
Our Venerable Fathers Isaac (406-25), Dalmatus and Faustus.
Dormition Fast.
VESPERS ON FRIDAY EVENING
Kathisma Reading
There are no appointed psalms to be chanted tonight.
At Psalm 140
Tone 8
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
Making themselves like to the incorporeal ones, O Lord,* with prayer and abstinence Your saints dispelled the passions of the flesh* and, shining with wondrous works, have illumined the hearts of all.* Through their supplication grant Your people great mercy.
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
Taking up zeal for the virtues,* Dalmatus and Isaac manifestly set at nought the heresy of Arius and Nestorius,* and as champions of the orthodox have received the acclaim of all.* Through their prayers, O Christ, grant Your people great mercy.
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
Having shown yourselves to be stars of the firmament of abstinence, O venerable fathers,* you have illumined the monastics, driving away the darkness of the demons.* Wherefore, even after your repose you are called blessed,* praying that all be saved who celebrate your godly memory.
Tone 1
For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
The triumphal solemnity of the martyrs* drowned a multitude of the demons in the streams of their blood,* caused all the abominable sacrifices to cease,* and set at naught the deception of the idols, for they suffered patiently.* And they now entreat Christ to grant our souls* peace and great mercy.
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
With wise words and doctrines the most sacred pastors* taught all to glorify the threefold Godhead in Unity,* divinely avoiding the commingling and division of Its Hypostases;* and they now pray that peace and great mercy* be granted our souls.
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
The company of the venerable lulled carnal desires to sleep* and restrained their onslaughts, showing their life to be angelic;* wherefore, they now join chorus in the habitations of heaven,* entreating Christ to grant our souls* peace and great mercy.
Glory… Now…
Let us sing a hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary,* glory of the whole world!* She was herself formed by human seed,* yet she became the Mother of the Master, the Gate of heaven,* the theme of the angels’ hymn and beauty of the faithful.* She was seen as being heavenly* and the Tabernacle of the Godhead.* She indeed tore down the wall of enmity between God and man,* and brought peace in its place.* She opened up the kingdom of heaven.* Let us therefore cling fast to her for she is the anchor of faith,* and let us receive as our stronghold the Lord Who was born of her.* Be of good cheer, then, and have confidence, O people of God,* for He will fight our enemies for us,* He is all-powerful!
Prokeimenon, Tone 7
O God, You are my defender* and Your mercy goes before me.
verse: Deliver me from my enemies, O God; save me from those who rise up against me.
Aposticha
Tone 1
O all-praised martyrs, you were not buried in the earth,* yet heaven has received you;* the gates of Paradise were opened to you,* and entering within you have partaken of the tree of life.* Pray to Christ that He grant peace* and great mercy to our souls.
Blessed are they whom You have chosen* and taken to Yourself, О Lord.
What pleasure in this life remains unmarked by sorrow?* What glory can endure upon this earth unchanged?* All is feebler than a shadow,* more deceptive than a dream;* for death in a single moment takes away all things.* But in the light of Your countenance, O Christ,* and in the joy of Your beauty,* grant rest to those whom You have chosen,* for You are the Lover of mankind.
Their souls shall dwell* amid good things.
No man is free from sin,* none save You, who alone art immortal.* Therefore, O compassionate God,* grant to Your servants a dwelling-place in the Light,* with the choirs of Your angels.* In Your loving-kindness overlook their transgressions,* and grant them forgiveness.
Glory… Now…
Truly wondrous beyond understanding* are the mighty works of your birthgiving, O Bride of God,* of which all the prophets proclaimed,* and your conception and birth giving are most glorious, O all-hymned one,* whereby your Offspring has incomprehensibly and ineffably saved the world,* in that He is merciful.
Troparia
Tone 4
O God of our fathers,* You always deal with us according to Your everlasting compassion,* take not Your mercy away from us;* but through the prayers of our fathers,* guide our lives along the ways of peace.
Glory… Now…
O Mother of God, the mystery hidden from all eternity* and unknown even to the angels,* was revealed through you to those on earth:* God took on our human nature* and united it to His divine nature in a perfect but unconfused union.* Then, He willingly accepted the cross for our sake* and thereby raised again the first created,* and saved our souls from death.
DIVINE LITURGY ON SATURDAY MORNING
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 4: O God of our fathers,* You always deal with us according to Your everlasting compassion,* take not Your mercy away from us;* but through the prayers of our fathers,* guide our lives along the ways of peace.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kontakion, Tone 2: Divinely armed with purity of spirit* and mightily wielding the lance of unceasing prayers,* you overcame the powers of demons,* Venerable Isaac, Dalmatus, and Faustus, pray without ceasing for all of us.
Prokeimenon, Tone 7
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His venerable ones.
verse: What shall I render to the Lord for all the things He has rendered to me? (Psalm 115:15,12)
Epistle
1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Alleluia, Tone 6
verse: Blessed is the man who fears the Lord; he shall delight exceedingly in His commandments.
verse: His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth. (Psalm 111:1,2)
Gospel
Matthew 19:3-12
Communion Hymn
The just man shall be in everlasting remembrance;* of evil hearsay he shall have no fear.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 111:6)