The Service of Mid-Pentecost is set aside.

Lytia is prescribed for this Sunday in the Pentecostarion. Even if omitted, the order of Troparia remains as given.

AT GREAT VESPERS ON SATURDAY EVENING

Kathisma Reading

“Blessed is the man…” is sung.

At Psalm 140

Tone 4

Lead my soul forth from prison* that I may give thanks to Your name.

We never cease to adore Your life-giving Cross, O Christ our God,* and we glorify Your Resurrection on the third day.* For You, almighty One, have thereby restored the corrupted nature of all* and reopened the way to heaven,* since You alone are gracious and You love mankind.

The just shall gather around me* when You have been good to me.

O Saviour, You have absolved the penalty of disobedience,* committed through the tree of Eden,* by willingly being nailed to the tree of the Cross.* As almighty God, You descended into Hades* and broke asunder the bonds of Death.* We, therefore, venerate Your Resurrection from the dead* and joyfully cry out to You: * almighty Lord, glory to You!

Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord;* O Lord, hear my voice!

O Lord, You have battered down the gates of Hades,* and by Your death You have dissolved the realm of Death.* You have freed mankind from corruption,* bestowing life, incorruption, and Your great mercy upon the world.

Tone 1

Let Your ears be attentive* to the voice of my prayer.

At the sixth hour, You came to the well, O Fountain of Wonders,* to ensnare the fruit of Eve;* for at that very hour, * she had been driven from Paradise by the guile of the serpent.* When the Samaritan woman came to draw water,* You said to her, O Saviour:* Give Me water to drink, and I will give you waters of eternal life.* And the woman hastened to the city and proclaimed to the people:* Come and see Christ the Lord, the Saviour of our souls.

Tone 2

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

When the Lord came to the well of Jacob,* the Samaritan woman entreated Him, saying:* Give me the water of faith, O Giver of life,* that I may obtain the waters of baptism, joy and salvation.* O Lord, glory to You!

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

Truly, the Son, Word and God, co-eternal with the Father,* the Fountain of Wonders Himself, came to the fountain,* where a woman of Samaria came to draw water.* And when the Saviour saw her, He said to her:* Give me water to drink and go and call your husband.* But she addressed Him as man and not as God;* wishing to conceal the truth from Him,* she said: I have no husband.* And the Master replied: You have said the truth, that you have no husband;* for you have had five husbands,* and the one whom you now have is not your husband.* Amazed by these words, she went to the town* and proclaimed to the crowds, saying:* Come and behold Christ who grants the world great mercy.

Tone 5

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

O venerable father, God-bearing Theodosius!* You laboured greatly during this earthly life:* with hymns, fasting, and persistent prayer* you became a model for your disciples.* Today you celebrate with the bodiless ones the angels,* unceasingly glorifying Christ, the Word of God, the Redeemer,* Who died on the cross and delivered the human race from deceit.* Pray to Him, venerable father,* that He grant peace and great mercy to the world.

For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.

O venerable father, God-bearing Theodosius!* You laboured greatly during this earthly life:* with hymns, fasting, and persistent prayer* you became a model for your disciples.* Today you celebrate with the bodiless ones the angels,* unceasingly glorifying Christ, the Word of God, the Redeemer,* Who died on the cross and delivered the human race from deceit.* Pray to Him, venerable father,* that He grant peace and great mercy to the world.

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

O venerable father, God-bearing Theodosius!* You truly merited the divine life,* having obtained it through purity and fasting;* for while still alive you renounced everything,* and passed over to the true life.* You now are glorifying with the heavenly hosts Him,* Who mystically took flesh from the Virgin and overthrew Hades* and raised those who had fallen asleep from time beyond memory.* Intercede with Him, O venerable father,* that He may grant peace and great mercy to the world.

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

O venerable father, God-bearing Theodosius!* You found life because you loved purity,* and the grace of the Holy Spirit dwelled in within you,* like a most pure light shining upon you.* You now are unceasingly glorifying Christ, Who is one God in two natures,* Who suffered on the cross in the flesh,* but as God was incapable of suffering.* Pray to Him, , O venerable father,* that He may grant peace and great mercy to the world.

Tone 6, Glory…

Jesus met the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well.* The One who covers the earth with clouds asks water of her.* O, what a wonder!* The One who rides on the Cherubim converses with an adulterous woman.* The One who suspended the earth on the waters asks for water.* The One who caused the springs of water and their lakes to overflow seeks water.* He truly desires to save this woman from the snares of the Enemy* and to fill her with living water* to extinguish the flames of her passions;* for He alone is compassionate and the Lover of Mankind.

Tone 4, Now…

O Mother of God, because of You David the Prophet* became an ancestor of God;* he foretold and sang a joyous hymn of praise* and cried out to Him who worked wonders in you:* “The Queen stood at your right hand.”* God revealed you as a life-giving mother,* when He chose to be incarnate of you without a father.* He renewed in man His image which the passions had corrupted.* He found the lost sheep in the mountains, carried it on His shoulders,* offered it to the Father, generously numbered it among the powers of heaven,* and saved the whole world, since He is Christ of great and rich mercy.

Lytia

The sticheron of the Temple, then:

Tone 3, Glory… Now…

Let heaven and earth rejoice with splendor today, for Christ has revealed Himself incarnate as a man, that He might release Adam from the universal curse; and coming to Samaria, He made Himself wondrous through miracles: He Who clothes the clouds with waters stood before a woman, asking for water. Wherefore, all you faithful, let us worship Him Who of His own will impoverished Himself for our sake in His compassionate counsel.

Aposticha

Tone 4

In being lifted upon the Cross, O Lord,* You abolished the curse which we had inherited from our fathers.* By going down into Hades,* You freed from eternal captivity those imprisoned there* and granted incorruption to mankind.* We, therefore praise Your life-giving and redeeming Resurrection.

The Paschal Stichera are now sung in the customary manner:

Let God arise;* let His enemies be scattered!

Today a sacred Pascha is revealed to us.* A new and holy Pascha.* A mystical Pascha.* A Pascha worthy of veneration.* A Pascha which is Christ the Redeemer,* a blameless Pascha.* A great Pascha.* A Pascha of the faithful.* A Pascha which has opened for us the gates of Paradise.* A Pascha which sanctifies all the faithful.

As smoke vanishes,* let them vanish.

Come* from that scene, O women bearers of glad tidings,* and say to Sion:* Receive from us the glad tidings of joy* of Christ’s Resurrection:* Exult and be glad,* and rejoice, O Jerusalem,* seeing Christ the King* who comes forth from the tomb like a Bridegroom in procession!

So let sinners flee from before the face of God;* but let the righteous rejoice!

The myrrh-bearing women* at the break of dawn* drew near to the tomb of the LifeGiver.* There they found an angel* sitting upon the stone,* he greeted them with these words:* Why do you seek the living among the dead?* Why do you mourn the incorrupt amid corruption?* Go: proclaim the glad tidings to His disciples.

This is the day which the Lord has made:* Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Pascha of beauty!* The Pascha of the Lord!* Pascha!* A Pascha worthy of all honour* has dawned on us.* Pascha! Let us embrace each other joyously!* Pascha, ransom from affliction!* For today as from a bridal chamber* Christ has shown forth from the Tomb,* and filled the women with joy saying:* “Proclaim the glad tidings to the Apostles!”

Tone 8, Glory…

Countless monks honour you, father Theodosius, as their teacher,* following in your footsteps,* we have truly learned to live righteously.* Blessed are you who have toiled for Christ and have brought low the power of the enemy,* O friend of the angels and companion of the venerable ascetics.* pray with them to the Lord,* that He may have mercy on our souls.

Now…

This is the day of Resurrection,* let us be illumined by the Feast!* Let us embrace each other!* Let us call “Brothers!”* even those that hate us* and forgive all by the Resurrection,* and so let us cry:

Christ is risen from the dead,* trampling death by death,* and to those in the tombs* giving life!

Troparia, Tone 4

When the disciples of the Lord learned from the angel* the glorious news of the resurrection* and cast off the ancestral condemnation,* they proudly told the apostles:* “Death has been plundered!* Christ our God is risen,* granting to the world great mercy.”

Tone 8, Glory…

Raised in virtue, O father Theodosius,* from childhood you loved the monastic life* and attained your desire courageously.* You lived in a cave adorning your life with fasting and radiance* and abided in prayer like the bodiless powers.* You shone like a beacon in the land of Rus’.* Entreat Christ God to save our souls.

Now…

O gracious Lord, for the sake of mankind You were born of a virgin;* through Your death on the cross You conquered death;* and through Your resurrection You revealed yourself as God.* O merciful Lord, do not disdain those whom You have created with Your own hands,* but show forth Your love for mankind.* Accept the intercession which the Mother, who bore You, makes in our behalf.* O Saviour, save Your despairing people!

GREAT MATINS ON SUNDAY MORNING

Usual Beginning

Hexapsalm

Great Litany

God the Lord, Tone 4

Troparia, Tone 4

When the disciples of the Lord learned from the angel* the glorious news of the resurrection* and cast off the ancestral condemnation,* they proudly told the apostles:* “Death has been plundered!* Christ our God is risen,* granting to the world great mercy.” (2)

Tone 8, Glory…

Raised in virtue, O father Theodosius,* from childhood you loved the monastic life* and attained your desire courageously.* You lived in a cave adorning your life with fasting and radiance* and abided in prayer like the bodiless powers.* You shone like a beacon in the land of Rus’.* Entreat Christ God to save our souls.

Now…

O gracious Lord, for the sake of mankind You were born of a virgin;* through Your death on the cross You conquered death;* and through Your resurrection You revealed yourself as God.* O merciful Lord, do not disdain those whom You have created with Your own hands,* but show forth Your love for mankind.* Accept the intercession which the Mother, who bore You, makes in our behalf.* O Saviour, save Your despairing people!

Psalter Reading

Stasis I: Psalms 9, 10
Stasis II: Psalms 11, 12, 13
Stasis III: Psalms 14, 15, 16

Small Litany

Sessional Hymn, Tone 4

Looking into the entrance of the tomb,* the Myrrh-bearing women were unable to endure the bright radiance of the Angel,* trembling in awe they said;* How is it that He who has opened Paradise to the Thief has been stolen?* How is it that He who before His passion proclaimed His Arising has been raised?* Truly Christ God has arisen, granting those in Hades life and resurrection.

Arise, O Lord my God, let Your hands be lifted on high;* forget not Your poor to the end.

Since You are immortal God, You arose from the grave,* and by Your might You raised up with Yourself the world, O Christ our God:* You destroyed death’s dominion,* and show forth, O merciful One, Your Resurrection to all mankind.* Therefore we glorify You, O only Lover of mankind.

Glory… Now…

The mystery hidden from all ages and unknown to the ranks of angels,* has been revealed to those on earth through you, O Theotokos:* God incarnate in an uncommingled union,* who willingly accepted the Cross for our sake,* and through it has raised up the first-formed man,* and saved our souls from death.

Psalter Reading

Stasis I: Psalm 17
Stasis II: Psalms 18, 19, 20
Stasis III: Psalms 21, 22, 23

Small Litany

Sessional Hymn, Tone 4

Gabriel radiant in white vestments descended from the heights above,* and approaching the rock upon which the Rock of life was lying,* cried to the weeping women saying:* Cease your cries of lamentation;* for you have now obtained merciful compassion.* Take courage, for the One you seek is truly risen.* Therefore, cry to the Apostles telling them that the Lord has arisen,* to worship the risen One;* and having received gladness, to take courage, together with Eve.

I will confess You, O Lord, with my whole heart,* I will tell of all Your wonders.

You who by Your word established the ends of the world,* willingly endured the Cross, O Saviour,* and mortal men laid You in a new tomb,* and thereby You bound the stranger, and despoil bitter death,* and all those in Hades cried aloud, at Your life-bearing Resurrection:* “Christ, the Giver of life has arisen, and shall abide throughout the ages.”

Glory… Now…

As he contemplated that which was beyond nature* Joseph was struck with wonder, O Theotokos, at your conception without seed.* He contemplated the mysterious dew upon the fleece,* the bush unburned by fire, Aaron’s rod which budded.* Thus your Betrothed and guardian bore witness and cried to the priests, saying:* A Virgin bears a child,* and after child-birth remains yet a virgin.

Polyeleos

Magnification

We bless you,* O Venerable Father Theodosius,* and we honour you holy memory,* O instructor of monks and converser with the angels.

Verse: I waited patiently for the Lord;* he inclined to me and heard my cry.

Evoglitaria

Small Litany

Hypakoe, Tone 4

The Myrrh-bearing women hastened to proclaim to the Apostles* the news of Your wondrous Rising, O Christ:* that as God You have arisen,* granting the world great mercy.

Sessional Hymn, Tone 4

Following the calling of your Lord, you forsook the world and all its beauties, O most blessed Theodosius, enduring bodily affliction, diligently strengthening yourself in a cave, in a grievous and narrow place, you manfully expelled hordes of demons. Therefore, with faith we ever praise your memory with hymns.

Tone 8

Abundantly watering your soul with streams of tears, O wise father, you reaped the most fertile grain of the virtues; and as a shepherd of sheep, O venerable one, you nurtured them on the grass of abstinence. Therefore, departing gloriously from this life, you have joined the choirs of the fathers, O Theodosius. For this we cry out to you: Entreat Christ God, that He grant forgiveness of sins to those who with love honor your holy memory.

Glory… Now…

Truly sanctified from your mother’s womb, O blessed Theodosius, you lived on earth like an angel; for, having mortified the flesh, in the cave you fittingly emulated the life of Anthony, and were shown to be a favorite of the Trinity, O blessed one. Wherefore, by the zeal of your godly life you have united the choirs of monastics, O glorious one. O our God-bearing father, entreat Christ God, that He grant forgiveness of sins to those who with love celebrate your holy memory.

Gradual Hymns, Tone 4

Antiphon 1

From my youth do many passions war against me;* but do You Yourself defend* and save me, O my Saviour.

You haters of Sion shall be shamed by the Lord;* for like grass, by the fire* shall you be withered.

Glory… Now…

In the Holy Spirit, every soul is quickened,* and, through cleansing, is exalted* and made radiant* by the Triple Unity in a hidden sacred manner.

Antiphon 2

From the depths of my soul* I have cried to You fervently, O Lord;* let Your divine ears be attentive to me.

Everyone who has set their hope in the Lord,* is higher than all those* who mourn.

Glory… Now…

By the Holy Spirit* the streams of grace swell up;* watering all creation* engendering life.

Antiphon 3

Let my heart be raised to You, O Lord;* and let none of the pleasures of the world lure me* to weakness.

As one that has tender love for one’s mother;* so should we have even more fervent love* for the Lord.

Glory… Now…

By the Holy Spirit comes an abundance of divine knowledge,* contemplation and wisdom;* for by Him the Word unveils* all the Father’s teachings.

Prokeimenon, Tone 4

Arise, O Lord: help us,* and redeem us for Your name’s sake.

verse: We heard with our own ears, O God, our fathers have told us the story of the things You did in days long ago.

Let everything that lives, Tone 4

Gospel

John 20:1-10

Hymn of Resurrection

Psalm 50

Verses at Psalm 50

Canon

Ordinarily, the Paschal Canon is taken in full, given below;

The full Canon prescribed for today is provided here

Ode 1

Irmos: It is the Day of Resurrection, let us be radiant, O people; Pascha, the Lord’s Pascha: for from death to life, and from earth to heaven, Christ God has brought us, as we sing the song of victory.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Let us purify our senses, and we shall behold Christ, radiant with the unapproachable light of the Resurrection, and we shall clearly hear Him say, Rejoice! as we sing the hymn of victory.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Let the heavens be glad as is meet, and let the earth rejoice, and let the whole world, both visible and invisible, keep festival: for Christ is risen, O gladness eternal.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

You have broken through the barrier of death, by giving birth to Christ, the eternal Life, who today has shone forth from the tomb, O all-immaculate Virgin, and Who has enlightened the world.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Having beheld your resurrected Son and God, rejoice with the apostles, O Pure One who are full of the grace of God, and be the first to rejoice, as you have received the Cause of joy for all, O all-immaculate Mother of God.

Katavasia: It is the Day of Resurrection, let us be radiant, O people; Pascha, the Lord’s Pascha: for from death to life, and from earth to heaven, Christ God has brought us, as we sing the song of victory.

Ode 3

Irmos: Come, let us drink a new drink, not one miraculously brought forth from a barren rock but the Fountain of Incorruption, springing forth from the tomb of Christ, in Whom we are strengthened.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Now all things are filled with light; heaven and earth, and the nethermost pares of the earth; let all creation, therefore, celebrate the arising of Christ whereby it is strengthened.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Yesterday I was buried with You, O Christ; today I rise with Your arising. Yesterday I was crucified with You; glorify me with You, O Saviour, in Your kingdom.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Into incorruptible life have I entered today, through the goodness of Him who was born of you, O Pure One, and who makes all the ends of the earth radiant with joy.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Having beheld God, whom you bore in the flesh, risen from the dead, as He said, O pure one; dance, and magnify Him as Go* O most pure one.

Katavasia: Come, let us drink a new drink, not one miraculously brought forth from a barren rock but the Fountain of Incorruption, springing forth from the tomb of Christ, in Whom we are strengthened.

Small Litany

Kontakion, Tone 3

Today we revere the star of Rus’,* blessed Theodosius,* who shone from the East and came to the West; * for he enriched this whole land and all of us * with gentleness and miraculous wonders* by the practice and the grace of the monastic rule.

Ikos

Who can describe your struggles, O father? Who can recall the multitudes of your labours and wondrous miracles? For while still in the flesh you beheld one of the incorporeal beings conversing with you in fleshly form, offering you a gift: gold sent by God. You were revealed to surpass all in humility and a meek demeanour, and to be filled to overflowing of spiritual wisdom. Wherefore, receiving the Spirit within you, you were seen to be in the light, shining like the sun. With the brilliance of your monastic rule, O venerable and godly Theodosius, enlighten me who hymn you.

Ode 4

Irmos: On divine watch let the God-inspired Habakkuk stand with us and show forth the light-bearing angel clearly saying: Today salvation is come to the world, for Christ is risen as Almighty.

Christ is risen from the dead.

As a man-child did Christ appear when He came forth from the Virgin’s womb, and as a mortal He was called the Lamb. Without blemish also, is our Pascha for He tasted no defilement; and as true God, perfect was He proclaimed.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Like a yearling lamb,*Christ, our blessed Crown,*of His own will was sacrificed for all,*a Pascha of purification;*and from the tomb the beautiful Sun of Righteousness*shone forth again upon us.

Christ is risen from the dead.

David, the ancestor of God,*danced with leaping before the symbolical Ark;*let us also, the holy people of God, beholding the fulfilment of the symbols, be divinely glad; for Christ is risen as Almighty.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

He Who created Adam your forefather, O Pure One, took form from you, and the habitation of the dead has He demolished today through His death, and shone upon all things with the divine radiance of the Resurrection.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Beholding Christ, whom you have borne, shining forth splendidly from the dead, O Pure One, who are good and spotless among women, and comely today, rejoicing with the apostles in the salvation of all, Him do you glorify.

Katavasia: On divine watch let the God-inspired Habakkuk stand with us and show forth the light-bearing angel clearly saying: Today salvation is come to the world, for Christ is risen as Almighty.

Ode 5

Irmos: Let us awake in the deep dawn, and instead of myrrh, offer a hymn to the Master, and we shall see Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, who causes life to dawn for all.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Seeing Your boundless compassion they who were held in the bonds of hades hastened to the light, O Christ, with gladsome feet, praising the Pascha eternal.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Bearing lights, let us approach Christ, who comes forth from the tomb like a bridegroom, and with the feast-loving ranks of angels let us celebrate the saving Pascha of God.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Enlightened by the divine rays and the life-bearing Resurrection of your Son, O most pure Mother of God, the gathering of the pious is filled with joy.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

You did not open the gates of virginity in the Incarnation, nor the seal upon the tomb did You destroy, O King of creation; from whence seeing You risen, Your Mother rejoices.

Katavasia: Let us awake in the deep dawn, and instead of myrrh, offer a hymn to the Master, and we shall see Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, Who causes life to dawn for all.

Ode 6

Irmos: You descended into the nethermost pares of the earth, and shattered the eternal bars that held the fettered, O Christ, and on the third day* like Jonah from the whale, You arose from the tomb.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Having kept the seals intact, O Christ, You arose from the tomb* O You Who did not break the seal of the Virgin by Your birth, and You have opened for us the doors of Paradise.

Christ is risen from the dead.

O my Saviour, the living and unslain Sacrifice, when, as God, You, of Your Own will, had offered up Yourself to the Father, You raised up with Yourself the whole race of Adam, when You arose from the tomb.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

He that of old was held by death and corruption is raised up by Him who was incarnate of your most pure womb, O Theotokos Virgin, unto incorruption and everlasting life.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

He Who went down into the nethermost pares of the earth, and came into your womb, O Pure One, and dwelt and past understanding was incarnate, has also raised up Adam with Himself when He rose from the tomb.

Katavasia: You descended into the nethermost pares of the earth, and shattered the eternal bars that held the fettered, O Christ, and on the third day* like Jonah from the whale, You arose from the tomb.

Small Litany

Kontakion, Tone 8

Drawn to the well by faith,* the Samaritan woman beheld You, the Water of Wisdom,* and drinking abundantly of You,* she inherited the heavenly Kingdom for ever,* becoming everlastingly glorious.

Ikos

Let us hear of the noble mysteries, as John teaches us what comes to pass in Samaria, how the Lord speaks to a woman, asking water of her, even He that gathered the waters into the places where they are gathered, and who is of one throne with the Father and the Spirit; for He, the renowned One, came, seeking out His image forever.

Ode 7

Irmos: He who delivered the Children from the furnace, became man, suffers as a mortal, and through His Passion clothes mortality with the beauty of incorruption, He is the only blessed and most glorious God of our fathers.

Christ is risen from the dead.

The godly-wise women with myrrh followed after You in haste; but Him Whom they sought with tears as dead, they worshipped joyfully as the living God, and they brought to Your disciples, O Christ, the good tidings of the mystical Pascha.

Christ is risen from the dead.

We celebrate the death of death, the destruction of hades, the beginning of another life eternal, and leaping for joy, we hymn the Cause, the only blessed and supremely glorious God of our fathers.

Christ is risen from the dead.

For truly sacred and all-festive is this saving night, and this shining, light-bearing day, the harbinger of the Resurrection, whereon the Timeless Light bodily from the tomb upon all has shined.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Your Son, having put death to death, O all-immaculate one, today has granted to all mortals the life that abides to the ages of ages, the only blessed and supremely glorious God of our fathers.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

He Who reigns over all creation, became man, dwelling in your God-graced womb, and having endured crucifixion and death, is risen in a God-befitting manner, raising us up with Himself, for He is Almighty.

Katavasia: He who delivered the Children from the furnace, became man, suffers as a mortal, and through His Passion clothes mortality with the beauty of incorruption, He is the only blessed and most glorious God of our fathers.

Ode 8

Irmos: This chosen and holy day is the first of the Sabbaths, the queen and lady, the feast of feasts, and the festival of festivals, wherein we bless Christ throughout the ages.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Come, on this auspicious day of the Resurrection, let us partake of the fruit of the new vine of divine gladness of the kingdom of Christ, praising Him as God throughout the ages.

Christ is risen from the dead.

Lift up your eyes about you, O Sion,* and see, for behold, there comes to you, like God-illumined beacons, from the west, and from the north, and from the sea, and from the east, your children, in you blessing Christ throughout the ages.

O Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory be to You.

O Father Almighty, and Word, and Spirit, one Nature united in three Hypostases, transcendent and most divine! Into You have we been baptized, and You will we bless throughout all ages.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Through you the Lord came into the world, O Virgin Theotokos, and the womb of hades did He tear open, granting to us mortals resurrection; Therefore, we bless Him throughout the ages.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Laying low all the dominion of death by His Resurrection, your Son, O Virgin, as the mighty God, has raised us up with Himself and deified us; Therefore we sing His praise throughout the ages.

We praise, we bless, and we worship the Lord, hymning and supremely exalting Him throughout all ages!

Katavasia: This chosen and holy day is the first of the Sabbaths, the queen and lady, the feast of feasts, and the festival of festivals, wherein we bless Christ throughout the ages.

The Magnificat is not sung.

Ode 9

Irmos: Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! Exult now and be glad, O Sion! And you, O chaste Mother of God, take delight in the resurrection of your Son.

Christ is risen from the dead.

O how divine, how loving, how sweet is Your voice! For You have truly promised to be with us to the end of the age, O Christ; having this foundation of hope, we the faithful rejoice.

Christ is risen from the dead.

O Christ, You great and most sacred Pascha! O Wisdom, Word, and Power of God! Grant us to partake of You more fully in the unwaning day of Your kingdom.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

With one voice, O Virgin, the faithful bless you. Rejoice, O Portal of the Lord; rejoice, O living City; rejoice, through whom for our sake the Light has shone, Who, born of you, is the Resurrection of the dead.

O most Holy Theotokos, save us!

Be glad and rejoice, O Portal of the Divine Light: for Jesus set into the grave, has dawned forth shining more brightly than the sun, and has illumined all the faithful, O divinely joyous Lady.

Katavasia: Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! Exult now and be glad, O Sion! And you, O chaste Mother of God, take delight in the resurrection of your Son.

Small Litany

Holy is the Lord

Hymn of Light

Having fallen asleep in the flesh, as a mortal, O King and Lord, on the third day You rose again, raising up Adam from corruption, and abolishing death: O Pascha of incorruption, Salvation of the world!

Glory…

Receiving the light of the consubstantial Trinity within your heart, O Theodosius, you father of fathers, strengthening yourself in the cave with the great Anthony, you illumined the pious, O dweller with the angels. With them be you mindful of those who with faith hymn you.

Now…

On coming to Samaria, O Saviour, Almighty One, spoke there with a woman and ask of her water, though for the Jews You have of old brought forth springs from a cloven rock, You brought her to faith in You, and now she ever enjoys eternal life in the Heavens.

Praises

Stichera on the Praises, Tone 4

To carry out the sentence pre-ordained:* this honour is for all His faithful.

O all-powerful Lord,* Who endured the Cross and death,* and arose from the dead,* we glorify Your Holy Resurrection.

Praise God in His holy place, praise Him in His mighty heavens.

By Your Cross, O Christ, You have delivered us from the ancient curse,* and by Your death You have conquered the devil who tyrannized our nature.* By Your arising You have filled all things with joy,* therefore we cry to You:* O Lord risen from the dead, glory be to You!

Praise Him for His powerful deeds,* praise His surpassing greatness.

O Christ the Saviour,* with Your Cross, guide us to Your truth,* and deliver us from the snares of the enemy;* O You who are risen from the dead* raise us also who have fallen through sin,* by the stretching out of Your hand,* O Lord, at the behest of the prayers of Your Saints.

O praise Him with sound of trumpet,* praise Him with lute and harp;

Without departing from Your Father’s bosom,* in Your tender compassion, You descended to earth,* O Only-begotten Word of God,* without change becoming man.* While You are impassable in Your divinity,* You suffered the Cross and death in the flesh;* and rising from the dead You have granted immortality to the race of mankind,* as You alone are all-powerful.

Tone 2

Praise Him with timbrel and dance,* praise Him with strings and pipes.

Wholly wounded by faith and the love of Christ, O blessed one, * following after Him you rejected the world, your homeland and family, * hastening to the venerable Anthony, * from whom you learned ineffable things: * that which ear has not heard entered into your heart. * With him do we hymn you,* honoring you in sacred manner, O Theodosius.

O praise Him with resounding cymbals, praise Him with clashing of cymbals.* Let everything that lives and that breathes give praise to the Lord.

You desired an undefiled life, * patience, love and humility, * all-night vigil and abstinence, * thereby mortifying the lusts of the flesh. * Wherefore, receiving divine knowledge, * you  now rejoice with the choirs of the venerable. * Forget us not, O blessed one, * asking forgiveness of sins on behalf of those ** who hymn you as is meet.

Precious in the sight of the Lord * is the death of His saints.

When the enemy, the author of evil * set brigands upon your flock, O venerable one, * desiring to destroy those therein, * seeing the church suspended aloft, they departed, * terrified by the grace given you by God, O saint. * For they heard in the church the sound of ineffable angelic hymnody. * Rejoicing now with them, * be you mindful of us who with faith ** hymn your radiant and honoured memory.

Tone 6

Blessed is the man who fears the Lord; * he shall rejoice exceedingly in His commandments.

O venerable father,* the sound of your corrections has gone forth into all the earth.* Therefore, you have found the reward of your labours in the heavens,* having destroyed hordes of demons* and attained unto the ranks of the angels,* whose life you blamelessly emulated.* As you have boldness before Christ God,* ask peace for our souls.

Tone 6, Glory…

The Well-spring of the principle of life, Jesus, our Saviour,* came to the well of the Patriarch Jacob,* and sought water from a Samaritan woman that He might drink thereof.* And when she addressed Him* and said that the Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans,* the wise Creator diverted her by the sweetness of His words,* so that she would seek from Him everlasting water,* which, when she received it, she proclaimed to all, saying:* Come and see the Knower of things hidden,* God who is come in the flesh to save mankind.

Tone 2, Now…

You are truly most blessed, O virgin Mother of God.* Through the One who was incarnate of you,* Hades was chained, Adam revived, the curse wiped out,* Eve set free, Death put to death,* and we ourselves were brought back to life.* That is why we cry out in praise;* Blessed are You, O Christ our God,* who finds in this your good pleasure. Glory to You!

Great Doxology

Trisagion Prayers

Troparion, Tone 2

You came forth from death, destroying the eternal bonds of Hades, O Lord.* You broke the curse of Death* and thus delivered us from the snares of the Evil One.* Then You appeared to your apostles and sent them forth to preach,* and through them You have bestowed your peace upon all the world,* for You alone are rich in mercy.

Insistent Litany

Litany of Supplication

Great Dismissal

At the Conclusion of Matins, the Gospel Sticheron

Tone 7, Glory… Now…

Behold the end of night and dawn of day.* Why have you stood at the grave, O Mary?* Great darkness covered your mind, so you asked the angel:* Where has Jesus been placed?* Behold, the disciples who hastened to the tomb* saw a sign of His resurrection in the burial wrappings and the cloth* and remembered what was said about Him in the Scriptures.* Therefore, we who believe through them* praise You, O Christ, the Giver of life.

AT DIVINE LITURGY ON SUNDAY MORNING

After Blessed is the kingdom we sing Christ is risen from the dead, trampling death by death, and to those in the tombs, giving life, thrice.

Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 4: When the disciples of the Lord learned from the angel the glorious news of the resurrection and cast off the ancestral condemnation, they proudly told the apostles: “Death has been plundered! Christ our God is risen, granting to the world great mercy.”

Troparion, Tone 4: Raised in virtue, O father Theodosius,* from childhood you loved the monastic life* and attained your desire courageously.* You lived in a cave adorning your life with fasting and radiance* and abided in prayer like the bodiless powers.* You shone like a beacon in the land of Rus’.* Entreat Christ God to save our souls.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

Kontakion, Tone 3: Today we revere the star of Rus’,* blessed Theodosius,* who shone from the East and came to the West; * for he enriched this whole land and all of us * with gentleness and miraculous wonders* by the practice and the grace of the monastic rule.

Now and for ever and ever. Amen.

Kontakion, Tone 8 – Drawn to the well by faith, the Samaritan woman beheld You, the Water of wisdom, and drinking abundantly of You, she inherited the heavenly Kingdom for ever, becoming everlastingly glorious.

Prokeimenon, Tone 3
Sing to our God, sing; sing to our King, sing
verse: Clap your hands, all you nations; shout unto God with the voice of joy.

Prokeimenon, Tone 7

Precious in the sight of the Lord* is the death of His venerable ones.

Epistle
Acts 11:19-26, 29-30; Hebrews 13:7-16

Alleluia, Tone 4
verse: Poise yourself and advance in triumph and reign in the cause of truth, and meekness and justice.
verse: You have loved justice and hated iniquity.

verse: Your priests shall clothe themselves with justice, and your venerable ones shall rejoice.

verse: For the Lord has chosen Sion; He has chosen it for His dwelling.

Gospel
John 4:5-42; Matthew 11:27-30

Hymn to the Mother of God
Virginity is alien to mothers and childbearing is foreign to virgins; yet in you, O Mother of God, both of them came together. Therefore, we and all the nations of the earth without ceasing magnify you.

Communion Hymn
Receive the Body of Christ;* taste the fountain of immortality.* The just man shall be in everlasting remembrance,* of evil hearsay he shall have no fear.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia.