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Tue04Feb2025
Our Venerable Father Isidore of Pelusium.
Post-feast of the Encounter.
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.
He who loves mankind, fulfilling the law of the Scriptures,* is now born into the temple;* and the elder Symeon receives Him in his arms, crying:* Now You let me depart to Your blessedness,* for today I have seen clad in mortal flesh* He who has dominion over life* and mastery over death!
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
You showed Yourself to be the Light of revelation,* the Sun of righteousness seated upon a light cloud,* fulfilling the shadow of the law,* and revealing the beginning of the new grace.* Symeon, seeing You, cried out: Set me free of corruption,* for I have seen You today!
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
Without being separated from the bosom of the Father in Your divinity,* incarnate, as You so willed,* You were held in the embrace of the ever-Virgin,* and were given into the arms of Symeon the God-receiver,* O You who hold all things in Your hands.* He cried aloud with joy:* Now You let me, Your servant, depart in peace,* for I have seen You, O Master!
Tone 4
For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Elevating yourself to God by your vision and activity,* you perfected your life, O most wise one;* and, setting the ascent of vision as your activity,* you loved the ultimate Desire, O wise one.* And harbouring desire for Him within yourself,* you have now been counted worthy of a blessed end* and the radiance of the threefold Sun.
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
With the flood of grace and the outpouring of your words* you watered all the divinely wise;* and, placing your mouth to the cup of the uttermost wisdom,* you drew forth in abundance as from a well-spring,* and have shed beams of doctrines in every direction,* sending forth epistles and teaching* and instructing, O right wondrous one.
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
By abstinence you mortified the wisdom of the flesh,* arraying yourself in life-bearing mortality;* and, manifestly expanding the state of your soul, O venerable one,* you made yourself a receptacle of the gifts of the Spirit* and became the habitation of divinely inspired doctrines* and dwelling-place of wisdom which passes understanding.
Tone 2, Glory… Now…
Today Symeon receives in his arms the Lord of glory,* whom Moses beheld before in the darkness, and who gave him the tablets on Mount Sinai.* He is the Creator of the law, who speaks in the prophets.* He it is who fills all with awe, whom David proclaims,* and has great and rich mercy.
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 2
Receive, O Symeon, the Lord of glory* as you were told by the Holy Spirit.* For, lo! He is come.
Now You may dismiss your servant, O Lord, according to your word, in peace.
Bearing the Creator and Master as a Babe in her arms,* the pure and all-pure Virgin* enters the temple.
A light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people, Israel.
Great and awesome and strange is the mystery of God’s dispensation:* He who embraces all things and creates infants* is born in arms as a Babe.
Glory… Now…
The sacred Virgin brought the Sacred One to the high priest in the temple,* and Symeon, stretching forth his hands,* received Him, rejoicing, and cried out:* Now let Your servant depart in peace, O Lord, according to Your word!
Troparia
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 Isidore,* your spirit rejoices with the angels.
Tone 1, Glory… Now…
Rejoice, full of grace, Virgin Mother of God!* From you there dawned the Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God,* who enlightens those who dwell in darkness.* And you, O righteous Elder, be glad!* You received in your embrace* the Liberator of our souls,* who grants us resurrection.
DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 1: Rejoice, full of grace, Virgin Mother of God!* From you there dawned the Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God,* who enlightens those who dwell in darkness.* And you, O righteous Elder, be glad!* You received in your embrace* the Liberator of our souls,* who grants us resurrection.
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 Isidore,* your spirit rejoices with the angels.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Kontakion, Tone 2: Divinely armed with purity of spirit* and mightily wielding the lance of unceasing prayers,* you overcame the powers of demons,* Venerable Isidore, pray without ceasing for all of us.Now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kontakion, Tone 1: By Your birth, You sanctified a virgin womb* and fittingly blessed the hands of Simeon.* You have come also now and saved us, O Christ our God;* give peace to Your community in time of war,* and strengthen its rulers, whom You love,* for You alone,* are the Lover of mankind.
Prokeimenon, Tone 3
My soul magnifies the Lord,* and my spirit has rejoiced in God, My Saviour.
verse: Because he has regarded the humility of His handmaid; for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. (Luke 1:46,48)
Epistle
1 Peter 3:10-22
Alleluia, Tone 8
verse: Now, O Master, You dismiss Your servant in peace according to Your word.
verse: For my eyes have seen Your salvation, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people, Israel. (Luke 2:29,32)
Gospel
Mark 12:18-27
Hymn to the Mother of God
O God-bearing Virgin, hope of Christians, protect and guard and save all those who put their trust in you.
and the Irmos, Tone 3: In the law, the shadow, and the scriptures, we the faithful see a figure: every male child that opens the womb shall be sanctified to God. Therefore do we magnify the first-born Word and Son of the Father who is without beginning, the first-born Child of a Mother who had not known man.
Communion Hymn
I will take the chalice of salvation;* and I will call upon the name of the Lord.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 116:13)