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Mon21Oct2024
🕃 Our Venerable Father Hilarion the Great.
VESPERS ON SUNDAY EVENING
Kathisma Reading
There are no appointed psalms to be chanted.
At Psalm 140
Tone 4
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
Being meek of soul and heart, when you were wounded with divine love* and submitted to withdraw from the tumults of life through sacred ascents,* then, armed with the power of the Cross,* you advanced upon the demons waging battle, O most blessed one,* and fashioned for yourself a diadem of victory;* and now you dwell in the splendours of the saints.* With them ask for us enlightenment and peace,* and deliverance from offenses.
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
Being meek of soul and heart, when you were wounded with divine love* and submitted to withdraw from the tumults of life through sacred ascents,* then, armed with the power of the Cross,* you advanced upon the demons waging battle, O most blessed one,* and fashioned for yourself a diadem of victory;* and now you dwell in the splendours of the saints.* With them ask for us enlightenment and peace,* and deliverance from offenses.
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
With the luminous beams of your healings* thou all-gloriously enlightened the world, O right glorious father,* dispelling the most profound darkness of infirmities.* Wherefore, we all acknowledge you to be another sun,* the confirmation of monastics, who by the divine Spirit guides those who are saved.* And we now celebrate your radiant and saving memory, O Hilarion,* receiving remission of transgressions through you.
For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
With the luminous beams of your healings* thou all-gloriously enlightened the world, O right glorious father,* dispelling the most profound darkness of infirmities.* Wherefore, we all acknowledge you to be another sun,* the confirmation of monastics, who by the divine Spirit guides those who are saved.* And we now celebrate your radiant and saving memory, O Hilarion,* receiving remission of transgressions through you.
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
By abstinence, O father,* you made the carnal passions subject to your reason-endued soul,* and, adorned with wings of dispassion, O venerable one,* you have received the grace to heal, to expel evils spirits and to save those who have recourse to you.* Wherefore, the choirs of monastics bless you, O right glorious one,* and all creation honours your struggles, O Hilarion.
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
By abstinence, O father,* you made the carnal passions subject to your reason-endued soul,* and, adorned with wings of dispassion, O venerable one,* you have received the grace to heal, to expel evils spirits and to save those who have recourse to you.* Wherefore, the choirs of monastics bless you, O right glorious one,* and all creation honours your struggles, O Hilarion.
Tone 2, Glory…
Bearing the wisdom of perfection from your youth,* and taking upon yourself the yoke of Christ, O Hilarion,* you emulated the life of the godly Anthony, imitating his virtue in diverse ways;* and you caused to wither up the flesh which leapt about like a colt,* for it was needful that your soul tame it, finishing the race of fasting.* O most blessed father and miraculous God-bearer,* ask cleansing and great mercy for those who celebrate your memory with love.
Now…
Tone 2, Now…
With thrice-holy voices, О most pure one,* the multitude of your Son’s angels hymn you,* who are ever His fiery throne, animate palace, and divine bridge leading to Him from the earth.* And together with the Archangel Gabriel they cry out to you:* Rejoice, О joyous one, for you have given birth to the Source of joy!
Prokeimenon, Tone 8
And now bless the Lord,* all you servants of the Lord.
verse: Who stand in the temple of the Lord, in the courtyards of the house of our God.
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.
Not caring for all earthly things, and manfully braving tortures,* you were not disappointed in your goodly hopes,* but became inheritors of the kingdom, of heaven, О all-praised martyrs.* Having boldness before God the Lover of mankind,* ask peace for the world and great mercy for our souls.
Tone 8, Glory…
Filled with the Holy Spirit, the venerable Hilarion set at nought the wiles of the demons;* for, armed with the Cross, and being of good cheer therein,* by his word he healed all sicknesses, the passions of the soul and every bodily infirmity.* Through his supplications, O Christ, send down peace upon us,* in that Thou love mankind.
Now…
Taking up the cry of the Archangel Gabriel, let us say:* Rejoice, O Mother of God, who has given birth to Christ,* the bestower of life upon the world!
Troparia
Tone 8
Like the great Anthony you were the strength of monks,* a model for the desert-dwellers and a worker of miracles.* You are a source of help for people troubled by passion.* O father Hilarion, pray for those who keep your holy memory.
Glory… Now…
Rejoice, O woman who at the angel’s greeting contained the Joy of the world!* Rejoice, for you gave birth to your Creator and Lord!* Rejoice, for you were made worthy to become the Mother of God.
DIVINE LITURGY ON MONDAY 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 Hilarion,* 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 Hilarion, 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 Thessalonians 1:1-5
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
Luke 10:22-24
Communion Hymn
The just man shall be in everlasting remembrance;* of evil hearsay he shall have no fear.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 111:6)