AT VESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING
Kathisma Reading
The appointed psalms are chanted.
At Psalm 140
Tone 7 Samohlasnyy [optional: Podoben “Today Judas keeps vigil…”]
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
O most compassionate Master and God, by the judgments which You know* grant that I may have the fear of You in my heart,* that I may spurn the works of the evil one,* love You with all my soul, and do Your saving will;* for You are our God, who said: Ask, and you shall receive.
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
I have become a mockery for the demons and contemptable for men,* lamentation for the righteous and weeping for the angels,* polluting the air, the earth, and the waters;* for I have defiled my body* and sullied my soul and mind with countless evil acts,* and have become an enemy to God.* Woe is me, О Lord! I have sinned, I have sinned against You!* Forgive me!
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
I pray: Be patient with me, who am devoid of fruits, О Master,* and cut me not down like the barren tree with the axe of death,* dispatching me to the fire;* but be entreated to make me fruitful,* giving me time for repentance, in that You love mankind,* that I may wash away my many sins, О Christ my Saviour.
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.
O sacred preachers, who like winged eagles* most splendidly traversed the fullness of the world:* them that were pursued by the evil-doer you led to the inviolate Faith,* therefore, pray that our souls* be given peace and great mercy.
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
With sacred voices let us honour Tertius and Sosipater, Olympus and Rodion,* and with them Erastus, the initiate of the mysteries, and the divine Quartus,* who glorify Christ our God and beseech Him* to grant our souls peace and great mercy.
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
You have led the gentiles to Christ God, O blessed one,* delivered by the blood of Him who was well pleased to be born on earth* and who willingly endured the Cross and death, O most wise ones.* Entreat Him now that He grant our souls* peace and great mercy.
Glory… Now…
O all-hymned Mistress, hope and confirmation, refuge and help of the faithful, we beseech you:* keep your servants from all misfortunes who worship your Offspring with faith.* Entreat Him now that He grant our souls* peace and great mercy.
Aposticha
Tone 7
I have come, О Compassionate One, like the prodigal son.* As one of Your hirelings accept me who fall down before You, О God,* and have mercy on me, О Lover of mankind.
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.
Like the one who fell among thieves and was wounded,* so have I fallen through many sins, and my soul hath been wounded.* To whom shall I who am guilty flee?* If not to You alone, the Physician of our souls.* О God, pour forth upon me Your great mercy!
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 holy martyrs, you who have fought the good fight and received crowns:* Entreat the Lord, that He have mercy upon our souls.
Tone 7, Glory… Now…
Rejoice, O Sovereign Lady, O cloud of the noetic and ineffable Sun!* Rejoice, all-luminous lantern: Rejoice all-golden candle-stand.* Through you, O most holy one, has Eve been delivered from the curse.* But as you possess boldness before your Son and God* who is readily moved to compassion,* fail not to entreat Him by your maternal supplication, O most pure
Troparia
Tone 3
Holy apostles, intercede with the merciful God* to grant to our souls forgiveness of sins.
Glory… Now…
O Mother of God,* powerful protectress of the world,* you are our shelter and you are our strength.* Through your intercession, protect your servants against all dangers,* for you are the only blessed One!
AT DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 3: Holy apostles, intercede with the merciful God* to grant to our souls forgiveness of sins.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kontakion, Tone 4: You became branches of Christ’s vineyard, O wise ones,* bearing the grapes of good works,* and pouring forth for us* the wine of salvation.* Receiving it and filled with gladness,* we celebrate your precious memorial.* Therefore pray that we may be granted great mercy and forgiveness of sins,* O apostles of the Lord.
Prokeimenon, Tone 8
Their utterance has gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
verse: The heavens tell the glory of God, and the firmament declares the work of His hands. (Psalm 18:5,2)
Epistle
2 Thessalonians 1:10-2:2
Alleluia, Tone 1
verse: The heavens shall confess our wonders, O Lord, and Your truth in the church of the saints.
verse: God is glorified in the assembly of the saints. (Psalm 88:6,8)
Gospel
Luke 12:42-48
Communion Hymn
Their utterance has gone forth into all the earth,* and their words unto the ends of the world.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 18:5)