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HOURS AND TYPIKA
THIRD HOUR
Priest: Blessed is our God, always, now and
for ever, and to the ages of ages.
Reader: Amen.
Superior [or Reader]: Glory to you, our God. Glory to you.
Heavenly King, Paraclete, Spirit of truth, present everywhere, filling all things,
Treasury of blessings and Giver of life, come and dwell in us, cleanse us from every
stain, and, O Good One, save our souls.
Reader: Holy God, Holy Strong, Holy
Immortal, have mercy on us (three
times).
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, both now and for ever, and
to the ages of ages. Amen.
All-holy Trinity, have mercy on us. Lord, cleanse us from our sins. Master, pardon our
iniquities. Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities for your name’s sake.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, both now and for ever, and
to the ages of ages. Amen.
Our Father in heaven, may your name be hallowed, your kingdom come, your will be done
on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we
forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Priest: For yours is the kingdom, the
power and the glory, of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and to
the ages of ages.
Reader: Amen.
Lord, have mercy, ( x12), Glory. Both now.
Come, let us worship and fall down before the King, our God.
Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, the King, our God.
Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ himself, the King, our God.
With 3 Metanias, then the Psalms.
Psalm 16
Hear my justice, O Lord, attend to my
supplication. Give ear to my prayer from lips which do not deceive. Let my judgement come
from your presence, let my eyes see fair dealings. You have tested my heart, you have
visited me by night; you have tried me by fire and no injustice has been found in me. That
my mouth might not speak of men’s deeds, for the sake of the words of your
lips I have kept hard ways. Direct my steps in your paths, that my steps may not slip. I
have called, for you have heard me, O God; incline your ear to me, and hear my words. Show
the wonder of your mercies, you who save those who hope in you. Guard me, Lord, like the
pupil of the eye, from those who resist your right hand. Shelter me in the shelter of your
wings, from the presence of the impious who afflicted me. My foes have surrounded my soul;
they have shut their hearts, their mouth has spoken proudly. They cast me out and now they
have encircled me, they have set their eyes to bow to the ground. They came on me like a
lion ready for prey, and like a lion cub dwelling in secret places. Arise, Lord, forestall
them and cast them down; deliver my soul from the impious, your sword from the foes of
your hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the land in their life, and their belly was
filled from your hidden things. They have been sated with swine’s flesh and
left the remainder to their infants. But I in righteousness shall be seen in your
presence; I shall be satisfied with the sight of your glory.
Psalm 24
To you, O Lord, I have lifted my soul. My God, I
have trusted in you, do not let me be shamed for ever. Do not let my foes laugh at me; for
all who wait patiently for you shall not be shamed; let those who transgress without cause
be shamed. O Lord, let me know your ways, and teach me your paths. Guide me into your
truth and teach me, for you are God my Saviour, and I have waited patiently on you all the
day. Remember your pity, Lord, and your mercies, for they are eternal. Do not remember the
sins and follies of my youth, according to your mercy remember me, on account of your
goodness, O Lord. The Lord is good and upright, therefore he will give laws to those who
sin in the way. He will guide the meek with judgement, He will teach the meek his ways.
All the Lord’s ways are mercy and truth, for those who seek his covenant and
his testimonies. For your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my sin, for it is great.
Who is a one who fears the Lord? He will give him laws in the way which he has chosen. His
soul will dwell among good things and his seed will inherit the earth. The Lord is the
strength of those who fear him, and his covenant will show them this. My eyes are ever
towards the Lord, for he will draw my feet out of the snare. Look on me and have mercy on
me; for I am alone and poor. The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied; bring me
out of my troubles. See my humiliation and my toil, and forgive all my sins. See my foes,
for they have been multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred. Guard my soul and
deliver me; let me not be shamed, for I have hoped in you. The innocent and upright have
joined themselves to me, because I have waited patiently for you, O Lord. O God, deliver
Israel from all his afflictions.
Psalm 50
Have mercy on me O God, in your great mercy;
according to the fullness of your compassion blot out my offence. Wash me thoroughly from
my wickedness, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my wickedness, and my sin is
ever before me. Against you only I have sinned and done what is evil in your sight, that
you may be justified in your words, and win when you are judged. For see, in wickedness I
was conceived, and in sin my mother bore me. For see, you have loved truth: you have shown
me the hidden and secret things of your wisdom. You will sprinkle me with hyssop and I
shall be cleansed; you will wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow. You will make
me hear of joy and gladness; the bones which have been humbled will rejoice. Turn away
your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create a clean heart in me, O God,
and renew a right Spirit within me. Do not cast me out from your presence, and do not take
your Holy Spirit from me. Give me back the joy of your salvation, and establish me with a
sovereign Spirit. I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn to you
again. O God, the God of my salvation, deliver me from bloodshed, and my tongue will
rejoice at your righteousness. Lord, you will open my lips: and my mouth will declare your
praise. For if you had wanted a sacrifice, I would have given it; you will not take
pleasure in burnt offerings. A sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a humbled
heart God will not despise. Do good to Sion, Lord, in your good pleasure; and let the
walls of Jerusalem be rebuilt. Then you will be well pleased with a sacrifice of
righteousness, oblation and whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer calves upon your
altar.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Both now and for ever, and
to the ages of ages. Amen.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Glory to you, O God. ( x3)
Glory. Apolytikion.
Tone 8
When the glorious disciples were enlightened at the washing of the feet, then Judas the
ungodly was stricken and darkened with the love of money; and to lawless judges he
delivered you, the just judge. O lover of money, look upon him who for its sake hanged
himself; flee from the insatiable soul, which dared such things against the Teacher. O you
who are good to all, Lord, glory to you.
Both now. Theotokion.
Mother of God, you are the true vine, who gave bud to the fruit of life; we implore
you, Sovereign Lady, intercede together with the Apostles and all the Saints that you have
mercy on our souls.
Blessed is the Lord God, blessed is the Lord day by day; may the God of our salvation
give us prosperity.
Then Trisagion, All-holy Trinity. Our Father.
For yours.
Kontakion. Tone 2.
After taking the bread into his hands the traitor secretly stretches them out and takes
the price of the One who fashioned mankind with his own hands; and he remained
unrepentant, Judas the slave and deceiver.
Then: Lord, have mercy.
(x40)
At every time and at every hour, in heaven and on earth worshipped and glorified,
Christ God, long-suffering, great in mercy, great in compassion, loving the just and
merciful to sinners, calling all to salvation by the promise of the good things to come;
do you, Lord, yourself accept our entreaties at this hour, and direct our lives to your
commandments. Sanctify our souls, purify our bodies, correct our thoughts, cleanse our
ideas and deliver us from every distress, evil, and pain. Wall us about with your holy
Angels, that protected and guided by their host we may reach the unity of the faith and
the knowledge of your unapproachable glory; for you are blessed to the ages of ages. Amen.
Lord, have mercy (x3), Glory. Both now. Greater in honour
than the Cherubim and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, without corruption
you gave birth to God the Word. Truly the Mother of God, we magnify you. In the name of
the Lord, bless, Father.
Priest: Through the prayers of our
holy fathers Lord Jesus Christ our God have mercy on us.
Superior: God and Master, Father
almighty, Lord, only begotten Son, Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit, one godhead, one power,
have mercy on me a sinner; and by the judgements which you know, save me your unworthy
servant; for you are blessed to the ages of ages. Amen.
And at once we start the Sixth Hour.
SIXTH HOUR
Come, let us worship and fall down before the King, our God.
Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, the King, our God.
Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ himself, the King, our God.
With 3 Metanias, then the Psalms.
Psalm 53
O God, save my by your name, and you will judge
me by your power. O God, hear my prayer, give ear to the words of my mouth. For strangers
have risen up against me, and mighty ones have sought my soul, and have not put God before
them. For see, God will help me, and the Lord is the protector of my soul. He will turn
evils upon my foes, in your truth wipe them out. Willingly I shall sacrifice to you, I
shall give thanks to your name, O Lord, for it is good. For you have delivered me from
every tribulation, and my eye has looked down on my foes.
Psalm 54
Give ear to my prayer, O God, and do not despise
my supplication; attend to me, and hear me. I was grieved in my meditation, and troubled
by the voice of the foe and the tribulation of the sinner. Because they cast iniquity upon
me, and in anger they were indignant with me. My heart was troubled within me, and fear of
death fell on me. Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me. And I said:
Who will give me wings like a dove’s, and I shall fly away and find rest. See,
I have gone far away in my flight, and have encamped in the wilderness. I waited for God
who saves me from faint-heartedness and from storm. O Lord, drown and divide their
tongues; because I have seen iniquity and wrangling in the city. Day and night it will go
round upon its walls, and lawlessness and toil are in its midst, and injustice. Usury and
fraud have not left its streets. For if an enemy had reviled me, I would have endured it.
And if one who hated me had boasted against me, I would have hidden from him. But it was
you, a man my equal, my guide and my friend. Who made sweet the food we ate together; we
walked in harmony in God’s house. Let death come upon them, and let them go
down alive into hell. For evil is in their dwellings and in their midst. But I cried to
God and the Lord heard me. At evening and morning and at midday I shall speak and declare,
and you will listen to my voice. He will redeem my soul in peace from those who draw near
me, for in crowds they were about me. God will hear and he who is before the ages will
humble them. For there is no change with them, because they have not feared God. He has
stretched out his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant; they have been divided by
the wrath from his presence, and their have drawn near. Their words were smoother than
oil, yet they are javelins. Cast your care on the Lord, and he will support you; he will
not let the just waver for ever. But you, O God, will bring them down to the pit of
destruction. Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days; but I, Lord,
shall hope in you.
Psalm 90
One who dwells in the help of the Most High will
live under the protection of the of the God of heaven; will say to the Lord: you are my
protector and my refuge, my God, and I shall hope in him. For he will deliver you from the
snare of hunters, and from the word which troubles. He will overshadow you with his wings,
and beneath his feathers you will hope; his truth will encircle you with a shield. You
will not be afraid of terror by night, of the arrow that flies by day; of the thing that
prowls in the darkness, of mishap and the noonday devil. A thousand may fall at your side,
and ten thousand at your right, but it will not come near you. But with your eyes you will
observe, and see the reward of sinners. For you, Lord, are my hope: you have made the Most
High your refuge. Evils will not approach you, nor a scourge draw near your dwelling.
Because he has given orders to his Angels about you, to guard you in all your ways. They
will bear you on their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. You will walk on
asp and basilisk, and trample down lion and dragon. Because he hoped in me, I shall
deliver him; I shall shelter him, because he knew my name. He will cry to me, and I shall
hear him, I am with him in trouble; I shall rescue him and glorify him. I shall fill him
with length of days, and show him my salvation.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Both now and for ever, and
to the ages of ages. Amen.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Glory to you, O God. ( x3)
Glory.
Apolytikion. Tone 8
When the glorious disciples were enlightened at the washing of the feet, then Judas the
ungodly was stricken and darkened with the love of money; and to lawless judges he
delivered you, the just judge. O lover of money, look upon him who for its sake hanged
himself; flee from the insatiable soul, which dared such things against the Teacher. O you
who are good to all, Lord, glory to you.
Both now. Theotokion.
Because we have no boldness because of our many sins, entreat the One born of you, O
Virgin Mother of God; for a Mother’s plea has great force for the kindness of
the Master. Do not despise the supplications of sinners, O all-holy, for you is merciful,
and able to save, you who even accepted to suffer for us.
Reader: Let your mercies, O Lord, come
quickly to our aid, for we are utterly poor; help us, O God our Saviour, for the glory of
your name. O Lord, deliver us, and have mercy on our sins, for your name’s
sake.
Trisagion. All-holy Trinity. Our Father. For
yours.
Kontakion. Tone 2.
After taking the bread into his hands the traitor secretly stretches them out and takes
the price of the One who fashioned mankind with his own hands; and he remained
unrepentant, Judas the slave and deceiver.
Then: Lord, have mercy (x40).
At every time and at every hour, in heaven and on earth worshipped and glorified,
Christ God, long-suffering, great in mercy, great in compassion, loving the just and
merciful to sinners, calling all to salvation by the promise of the good things to come;
do you, Lord, yourself accept our entreaties at this hour, and direct our lives to your
commandments. Sanctify our souls, purify our bodies, correct our thoughts, cleanse our
ideas and deliver us from every distress, evil, and pain. Wall us about with your holy
Angels, that protected and guided by their host we may reach the unity of the faith and
the knowledge of your unapproachable glory; for you are blessed to the ages of ages. Amen.
Lord, have mercy ( x3), Glory. Both now. Greater in honour than the Cherubim, and
beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, without corruption you gave birth to God
the Word. Truly Mother of God you we magnify. In the name of the Lord, bless, Father.
Priest: Through the prayers of our holy
fathers Lord Jesus Christ our God have mercy on us.
Then the Superior says the following
Prayer of Saint Basil the Great
O God and Lord of powers, and Maker of all
creation, who through the compassion of your incomprehensible mercy sent down your
only-begotten Son, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, for the salvation of our race, and
through his precious Cross tore up the record of our sins, and by it triumphed over the
principalities and powers of darkness; do you yourself, O Master who loves mankind, accept
also our supplications of thanksgiving and entreaty; and deliver us from destroying and
dark transgression, and from all our foes, visible and invisible, who seek to harm us.
Nail down our flesh through fear of you, and do not let our hearts incline to words or
thoughts of evil, but wound our souls with longing for you; that ever gazing upon you and
guided by the light that comes from you, seeing you the unapproachable and everlasting
light, we may give thanks to you, the Father without beginning, with your only-begotten
Son and your all-holy, good and life-giving Spirit, now and ever and to the ages of ages.
Amen.
[ According to the Typica of
the Holy Mountain the Reader at once adds:
It is truly right to call you blessed, who gave birth to God, ever-blessed and most
pure and the Mother of our God. Greater in honour than the Cherubim and beyond compare
more glorious than the Seraphim, without corruption you gave birth to God the Word. Truly
the Mother of God, we magnify you.]
NINTH HOUR
Come, let us worship and fall down before the King, our God.
Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, the King, our God.
Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ himself, the King, our God.
With 3 Metanias, then the Psalms.
Psalm 83
How beloved are your dwellings, O Lord of hosts;
my soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced
in the living God. For the sparrow has found itself a house, and the dove a nest for
herself, where she may place her nestlings. your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my
God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, they will praise you for ever and ever.
Blessed the man whose help is from you; he has placed ascents in his heart, to the valley
of weeping, to the place he has set. For the lawgiver will give blessings; they will go
from strength to strength, the God of gods will appear in Sion. O Lord God of hosts hear
my prayer, give ear, O God of Jacob. O God our shield see; and look on the face of your
Christ. For one day in your courts is far better than thousands. I have chosen to be cast
aside in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tents of sinners. O Lord God of
hosts, blessed the man who hopes in you.
Psalm 84
You have been well pleased with your land, O
Lord, you have turned away the captivity of Jacob. You have forgiven your people their
iniquities, you have covered all their sins. You have made all your anger cease, you have
turned away from the anger of your rage. Turn us back again, O God of our salvation, and
turn away your rage from us. Will you be angry with us for ever? Or will you prolong your
wrath from generation to generation? O God, when you have turned us back you will make us
live, and your people will rejoice in you. O Lord, show us your mercy, and grant us your
salvation. I shall hear what the Lord will say in me; for he will speak peace to his
people, to his holy ones, to those who turn their hearts back to him. But his salvation is
near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth have met,
justice and peace have kissed. Truth has dawned from the earth, and justice has leaned
down from heaven. For the Lord will give goodness, and our earth will give its fruit.
Justice will walk before him, and set his steps in the way.
Psalm 85
Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear me, for I am
poor and needy. Guard my soul, for I am holy; O my God, save your servant who hopes in
you. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I shall cry to you all the day; give joy to the soul of
your servant, for I have lifted up my soul to you. For you, O Lord, are good and gentle,
and full of mercy to all who call on you. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; and attend to
the voice of my supplication. In the day of my trouble I called to you, for you heard me.
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord; none whose works are as yours. All the
nations whom you made will come and worship before you, O Lord, and call upon your name.
For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God. Guide me, O Lord, in your
way, and I shall walk in your truth; make my heart glad to fear your name. I shall give
you thanks, O Lord, my God, with my whole heart; and I shall glorify your name for ever.
For your mercy is great towards me, and you have delivered my soul from the lowest hell. O
God, the lawless rose up against me, and an assembly of mighty ones sought my soul, and
did not set you before them. And you, Lord, are pitying and merciful, long-suffering and
full of mercy and true. Look on me and have mercy on me; give your might to your servant
and save the son of your maidservant. Make with me a sign for good, and let those who hate
me see it and be shamed; for you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
And again:
Make with me a sign for good, and let those who hate me see it and be shamed; for you,
Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Both now and for ever, and
to the ages of ages. Amen.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Glory to you, O God. ( x3)
Glory. Apolytikion.
Tone 8
When the glorious disciples were enlightened at the washing of the feet, then Judas the
ungodly was stricken and darkened with the love of money; and to lawless judges he
delivered you, the just judge. O lover of money, look upon him who for its sake hanged
himself; flee from the insatiable soul, which dared such things against the Teacher. O you
who are good to all, Lord, glory to you.
Both now. Theotokion.
O Good One, who was born of a Virgin for our sakes and endured crucifixion; who
despoiled death by death and as God revealed resurrection, do not despise those whom you
fashioned with your own hand; show your love for mankind, O Merciful, accept the Mother of
God who bore you, as she intercedes for us, and save, O Saviour, a people in despair.
Reader: For your holy name’s
sake do not finally reject us, do not annul your covenant, do not take your mercy from us
for the sake of Abraham, your beloved, and for the sake of Isaac, your servant, and
Israel, your holy one.
Trisagion, All-holy Trinity. Our Father. For
yours.
Kontakion. Tone 2.
After taking the bread into his hands the traitor secretly stretches them out and takes
the price of the One who fashioned mankind with his own hands; and he remained
unrepentant, Judas the slave and deceiver.
Then: Lord, have mercy. (x40)
At every time and at every hour, in heaven and on earth worshipped and glorified,
Christ God, long-suffering, great in mercy, great in compassion, loving the just and
merciful to sinners, calling all to salvation by the promise of the good things to come;
do you, Lord, yourself accept our entreaties at this hour, and direct our lives to your
commandments. Sanctify our souls, purify our bodies, correct our thoughts, cleanse our
ideas and deliver us from every distress, evil, and pain. Wall us about with your holy
Angels, that protected and guided by their host we may reach the unity of the faith and
the knowledge of your unapproachable glory; for you are blessed to the ages of ages. Amen.
Glory. Both now. Greater in honour than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious
than the Seraphim, without corruption you gave birth to God the Word, true Mother of God
you we magnify. In the name of the Lord, bless, Father.
Priest: May God take pity on us and
bless us and show the light of his countenance on us and have mercy on us.
The Superior says the following
Prayer of Saint Basil the Great
Master, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, who have
long endured our transgressions, and brought us to this hour in which hanging on the
life-giving tree you showed the good Thief the way into Paradise and destroyed death by
death, have mercy also on us sinners and your unworthy servants. For we have sinned and
trespassed and are not worthy to raise our eyes and look on the height of heaven; because
we have abandoned the way of your justice and walked in the will of our hearts. But we
implore your unbounded goodness: spare us, O Lord, according to the multitude of your
mercy, and save us for your holy name’s sake, for our days have been wasted in
vanity. Rescue us from the hand of our opponent, forgive us our sins, slay our carnal
will, that we, having put off the old man, may put on the new, and live for you, our
Master and benefactor; and that thus following your precepts we may reach eternal rest,
where those who rejoice have their dwelling. For you are the true joy and gladness of
those who love you, Christ our God, and to you we give glory, together with your Father
who has no beginning, and your all-holy, good and life-giving Spirit, now and always and
to ages of ages. Amen.
TYPIKA
Psalm 102
Bless the Lord, O my soul. Blessed are you, O
Lord. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the
Lord, O my soul, and forget none of his benefits. Who forgives all your iniquities who
heals all your diseases; who redeems your life from corruption, who crowns you with mercy
and compassion; who satisfies your desire with good things; your youth will be renewed
like an eagle’s. The Lord performs deeds of mercy, and judgement for all who are
oppressed. He made known his ways to Moses, his wishes to the children of Israel. The Lord
is compassionate and merciful, slow to anger and full of mercy. He will not always be
wrathful, nor will he be enraged for ever. He has not dealt with us according to our
iniquities, nor rewarded us according to our sins. For like the height of heaven above the
earth, the Lord has made his mercy prevail over those that fear him. As far as the East is
from the West, so far has he taken our sins from us. As a father takes pity on his
children, the Lord has taken pity on those who fear him. For he knows of what we are made,
has remembered that we are but dust. As for man, his days are but as grass; he will
flourish like a flower of the field. For when the wind has passed over it, it will be no
more, and will know its place no longer. But the mercy of the Lord is for ever and ever
upon those who fear him. And his justice upon their children’s children; upon those
who keep his covenant, and remember his commandments to do them. The Lord has prepared his
throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all. Bless the Lord, all you his angels,
powerful in strength, who perform his word, and listen to the voice of his words. Bless
the Lord, all you his Powers, his ministers who do his will. Bless the Lord, all you his
works, in every place of his dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!
Glory.
Psalm 145
Praise the Lord, O my soul, while I live I will
praise the Lord; while I have any being: I will praise my God. Put not your trust in
rulers, nor in the sons of men, who cannot save. For their breath will go from them, they
will return again to the earth. On that day all their thoughts will perish. Blessed is the
one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God, the God who
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps truth for ever, who
deals justice to those that are oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the
captives free; the Lord gives sight to the blind; the Lord lifts up those who are bowed
down; the Lord loves the righteous; the Lord cares for the stranger in the land. He will
help the orphan and the widow; the way of the wicked he will utterly destroy. The Lord
will be king for ever; your God, O Zion, shall reign throughout all generations.
Both now.
Only-begotten Son and Word of God, who being immortal accepted for our salvation to
take flesh from the holy Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, and without change became
man; you were crucified, Christ God, by death trampling on death, being one of the Holy
Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit: save us!
Then we begin the Beatitudes
In your kingdom remember us, O Lord, when you come in your kingdom.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after justice, for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for justice’s sake, for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil
against you falsely for my sake.
Rejoice and be glad, for great is your reward in heaven.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Both now and ever and to ages of ages. Amen.
Remember us, O Lord, when you come in your kingdom.
Remember us, O Master, when you come in your kingdom.
Remember us, O Holy One, when you come in your kingdom.
The heavenly choir hymns you and says: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord Sabaoth, heaven and earth
are full of your glory.
Verse: Come to him and be enlightened, and
your faces shall not be ashamed.
The heavenly choir hymns you and says: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord Sabaoth, heaven and earth
are full of your glory.
Glory.
The choir of holy Angels and Archangels with all the heavenly Powers hymns you and
says: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord Sabaoth, heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Both now.
Remit, forgive, pardon, O God, our offences, willing and unwilling, in deed and in
word, in knowledge and in ignorance, of the day and of the night, in mind and in thought;
pardon them all, as you are good and love mankind.
Kontakion. Tone 2.
After taking the bread into his hands the traitor secretly stretches them out and takes
the price of the One who fashioned mankind with his own hands; and he remained
unrepentant, Judas the slave and deceiver.
Lord, have mercy ( 40).
All-Holy Trinity, consubstantial Might, indivisible Kingship, Cause of all blessings,
be favourable even to me a sinner; strengthen and give understanding to my heart and rid
me of every defilement; enlighten my mind, that I may ever glorify, praise, worship and
say: One is Holy, one is Lord, Jesus Christ, to the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Priest: Wisdom.
Reader: It is truly right to call you
blessed, who gave birth to God, ever-blessed and most pure and the Mother of our God.
Priest: Most Holy Mother of God, save
us.
Reader: Greater in honour than the Cherubim
and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, without corruption you gave birth to
God the Word. Truly the Mother of God, we magnify you.
Priest: Glory to you, Christ God our
hope, glory to you.
Reader: Glory. Both now. Lord, have
mercy (x3). Give the blessing, Father.
And the Dismissal.
Priest: May he who comes to his voluntary
passion, Christ our true God, through the prayers of his all-pure and holy Mother, by the
power of the precious and life-giving Cross, of the holy, glorious and all-praised
Apostles, [of Saint N. (to
whom the Church is dedicated), of Saint N.,
whose memory we keep today,] and of all the Saints, have mercy on us and save us, for he
is good and loves mankind.
Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, have mercy on us.
People: Amen.
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