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Tue10Dec2024
The Holy Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus.
Nativity Fast.
VESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING
Kathisma Reading
The appointed psalms are chanted.
At Psalm 140
Tone 4
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
Emulating the Canaanite woman, О my soul,* touch Christ from behind, and cry out repeatedly:* Have mercy on me, О Master!* My body, like her daughter, is possessed by evil spirits, and it flails about.* Quench the burning of my flesh, I pray;* and, causing the disorderly seizures to cease,* mortify it by the fear of You,* by the prayers of her who conceived and gave birth to You, and of all the saints,* О greatly merciful Benefactor.
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
You once sent Jonah to the sinful Ninevites to preach to them, О Christ,* and, repenting, they transformed their anger into kindliness,* having been delivered from pernicious wrath.* Wherefore, send also Your mighty help to me, who am unworthy, О Lover of mankind,* that I may turn away from my countless offenses* and be guided to the path of repentance;* for I weep, groaning bitterly, that I may be delivered by Your mercy* from my many transgressions.
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
О Compassionate One, who came into the world to save sinful men and call them to repentance:* In that You are full of tender compassion, have pity on me* who have angered You more than all others,* save me in Your goodness, guide me to the way of repentance,* and grant me thought of compunction, in Your goodness* making my heart steadfastly humble, simple, meek and guileless, О my Saviour,* in that You are full of loving-kindness.
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.
All-glorious Martyr Menas,* when your heels were struck,* your eyes put out and your God-speaking tongue removed,* you endured with steadfastness, looking for divine rewards.* Therefore pray that God may grant peace and great mercy to our souls!
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
The glorious Hermogenes* desired the severing of his hands and feet.* beholding the fire, he showed forth a greater burning of heart* as he clung to his God!* Now we pray to Him that He may grant peace and great mercy to our souls!
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
Your limbs were broken, wise saints;* You were cast into the depths of the sea!* having drowned the malice of the serpent,* you were guided by the hands of the Most High* to the calm haven of sweetness!* Therefore pray that God may grant peace and great mercy to our souls!
Tone 4, Glory… Now…
Grant me tears from the depths of my heart,* sighing from the depths of my soul, О Maiden,* and contrition and confession of the transgressions I have committed in this life,* that by your help, О all-pure one*, I may pass my life in repentance and receive remission.
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 4
I wish to wash away the record of my sins with tears, O Lord,* and please You the rest of my life through repentance;* but the enemy deceives me and fights against my soul.* Save me, O Lord, before the end and I utterly perish.
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.
Who, among the tempest-tossed, having taking refuge in Your harbour,* will not be saved O Lord?* Or who, that ails and falling down in Your infirmary, will not be healed?* O Maker of all that is, and Physician of the ailing,* save me, O Lord, before the end and I utterly perish
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 Lover of mankind,* as One who has accepted the patience of the holy martyrs,* by their prayers, grant us great mercy.
Tone 4, Glory… Now…
Deliver us from our needs, O Mother of Christ God,* you who have given birth to the Creator of all,* that we all may cry out to you:* Rejoice, O you who alone are the intercessor for our souls!
Troparia
Tone 8
Through mortification and penance, * the holy martyrs of Christ have overcome the disorder of their burning passions. * During their lifetime they received the grace of healing the sick. * after their death they have the power of performing miracles. * It is indeed a great marvel that healing should come forth from mere bones. * glory to the Creator, to God alone.
Glory… Now…
O Mother of God, we honour you,* for you were seen to be higher than the angels* when you carried God in your womb.
DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 1: Be swayed by the pains that the saints have suffered for You, O Lord,* and heal all our pains,* O Lover of mankind, for this we pray.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kontakion, Tone 2: Appearing as radiant lights, O godly martyrs,* you illumine all creation with the brilliance of your miracles,* healing infirmities, always dispelling deep darkness* and praying unceasingly to Christ our God for all of us.
Prokeimenon, Tone 4
To the saints who are in His land, the Lord has made wonderful all His desires in them.
verse: I foresaw the Lord in my sight, for He is at my right hand that I may not be shaken. (Psalm 15:3,8)
Epistle
Hebrews 9:8-10,15-23
Alleluia, Tone 4
verse: The just cried out and the Lord heard them, and delivered them out of their afflictions.
verse: The afflictions of the just are many, and out of them all will the Lord deliver them. (Psalm 33:18,20)
Gospel
Mark 8:22-26
Communion Hymn
Rejoice in the Lord, O you just;* praise befits the righteous.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 32:1)