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• Tue

  27

  Aug

  2024

  Our Venerable Father Pimen.

  VESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING

  Kathisma Reading

  The appointed psalms are chanted.

  At Psalm 140

  Tone 5

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

  Woe to me who have angered You, my merciful God and Lord!* How many times have I promised to repent, О Christ,* and have been found to be a senseless liar?* I have soiled my first baptismal raiment, and have forsaken my covenant with You,* and this second commandment, which I confessed before You in the presence of men and angels,* have I also abandoned, clad in a lamentable form.* Setting this aside, О Saviour, leave me not to perish utterly.

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

  What answer shalt you find on the day of judgment, О wretched soul?* Who will deliver you from condemnation to everlasting fire and other torments?* No one, if you yourself do not placate the Compassionate One,* forsaking your evil deeds and acquiring a right pleasing life,* every day weeping over your countless transgressions,* which you commit at every hour in deed, word, and thought,* and beseeching Christ to grant you the complete forgiveness of them.

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

  Let sinful habit not seize me, dragging me down, О Saviour,* nor let the demon, which ever wages war on me and subjects me to his will, gain dominance over me;* but rescue me from his dominion with Your mighty hand,* О Almighty One who loves mankind, and reign within me.* Grant that I may be wholly Yours,* and living according to Your will, О Word, may find rest in You,* and cleansing, salvation, and great mercy for myself.

  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.

  What shall we call you, Pimen?* Example for monastics, performer of healings!* Wounder of the soul’s passions with blows of abstinence!* Dweller and converser with the angels!* Inhabitant of the city on high!* Vessel of virtues and support of the pious!* Pray that our souls may be saved!

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

  What shall we say of you, Pimen?* Dweller in the wilderness and lover of silence!* Uprooter of passions and guide of monks!* Flood of the divine spirit’s instruction!* Unfading lamp of discernment!* True worker of wonders, healing all kinds of passions!* Pray that our souls may be saved!

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

  You were a lamp of discernment, wise one,* illumining the souls of those who rightly came to you:* you showed them the path of life!* Therefore, Pimen, we who celebrate your holy feast * bless you with praises.* Boast of the fathers and adornment of ascetics!* Pray that our souls may be saved!

  Tone 6, Glory…

  The sound of your teachings has gone out into all the earth,* venerable father!* Therefore you have found the reward of your labours in the heavens.* You destroyed the hosts of demons* and reached the ranks of angels whose life you blamelessly followed!* Since you have boldness before Christ our God,* entreat peace for our souls!

  Now…

  О most holy Virgin, show forth upon me, the wretched one,* the depths of your love for mankind,* the abyss of your tender compassion, and the countless compassions of thy goodness.* Mow down the stubble of sin, granting me chastity,* and preserve my body and soul undefiled,* О you who have given birth to the Saviour.

  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 5

  O Lord, I cease not to sin,* nor do I perceive Your love for mankind which You have granted me.* Vanquish my lack of discernment, O You who alone are good,* and have mercy upon me.

  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.

  O Lord, from reverent fear of You I tremble,* yet I cease not from committing sins.* Who, when called to trial, does not fear the judge?* Or who, desiring to be healed, angers the physician, as I do?* O longsuffering Lord, have compassion upon my weakness,* and have mercy upon me.

  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.

  Having put on the breastplate of faith and armed themselves with the image of the Cross,* Your saints, О Lord, manfully gave themselves over to torments* and cast down the pride and deception of the devil.* As God almighty, send down peace upon the world through their entreaties,* and great mercy upon our souls.

  Glory… Now…

  Assuage the sufferings of my much-sighing soul,* O you that wipe every tear from the face of the earth;* for you banish the sufferings of mankind,* and dispel the sorrows of the sinful.* For in you do we all have our hope and confirmation,* O most holy Virgin Mother.

  and righteous ones!* Together with them, entreat the Lord that He may grant mercy to our souls!

  Troparia

  Tone 8

  Your abundant tears made the wilderness bloom,* and your sufferings made your labours fruitful a hundredfold;* you became a shining torch over the world.* O venerable father Pimen,* pray to Christ our God that He may save our souls.

  Glory… Now…

  With hymns of praise let us, the faithful, exalt the Mother of God,* the solid foundation of our faith* and the precious gift to our souls:* Rejoice, O woman who contained in your womb the Rock of life!* Rejoice, O hope of the world and helper of those who are in trouble!* Rejoice, O bride and Virgin forever!

   

  DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING

  Troparia and Kontakia

  Troparion, Tone 8: The divine image was faithfully preserved in you, O father,* for taking up the Cross you followed Christ.* By your deeds you have taught us to see beyond flesh, which passes,* and care for the soul, a thing immortal.* and so, O Venerable Pimen,* your spirit rejoices with the angels.

  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 Pimen, 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

  Galatians 2:21-3:7

  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

  Mark 6:1-7

  Communion Hymn

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