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SUMMARY:Sunday\, May 3\, 2026\; Sunday of the Samaritan Woman\, Octoechos\,
  Tone 4\; ✠ Repose of our Venerable Father Theodosius\, Hegumen of the M
 onastery of the Caves at Kiev and Organizer of the Coenobitic Life in Rus
 ’ (1074)\; Holy Martyrs Timothy and Maura
DESCRIPTION:The Service of Mid-Pentecost is set aside. \n\nLytia is prescri
 bed for this Sunday in the Pentecostarion. Even if omitted\, the order of 
 Troparia remains as given.\nAT GREAT VESPERS ON SATURDAY EVENING\nKathisma
  Reading\n\n“Blessed is the man...” is sung.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 4
 \n\nLead my soul forth from prison* that I may give thanks to Your name.\n
 \nWe 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.\n\nThe just 
 shall gather around me* when You have been good to me.\n\nO 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 o
 ut to You: * almighty Lord\, glory to You!\n\nOut of the depths I cry to 
 You\, O Lord\;* O Lord\, hear my voice!\n\nO Lord\, You have battered down
  the gates of Hades\,* and by Your death You have dissolved the realm of D
 eath.* You have freed mankind from corruption\,* bestowing life\, incorrup
 tion\, and Your great mercy upon the world.\n\nTone 1\n\nLet Your ears be 
 attentive* to the voice of my prayer.\n\nAt the sixth hour\, You came to t
 he well\, O Fountain of Wonders\,* to ensnare the fruit of Eve\;* for at t
 hat very hour\, * she had been driven from Paradise by the guile of the s
 erpent.* 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.\n\nTone 2\n\nIf Y
 ou mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is th
 at You may be revered.\n\nWhen the Lord came to the well of Jacob\,* the S
 amaritan woman entreated Him\, saying:* Give me the water of faith\, O Giv
 er of life\,* that I may obtain the waters of baptism\, joy and salvation.
 * O Lord\, glory to You!\n\nI have waited for You as You have commanded\; 
 my soul patiently relies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord
 .\n\nTruly\, the Son\, Word and God\, co-eternal with the Father\,* the Fo
 untain of Wonders Himself\, came to the fountain\,* where a woman of Samar
 ia came to draw water.* And when the Saviour saw her\, He said to her:* Gi
 ve 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\, th
 at you have no husband\;* for you have had five husbands\,* and the one wh
 om 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 w
 ho grants the world great mercy.\n\nTone 5\n\nFrom the morning watch until
  night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nO 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.* T
 oday you celebrate with the bodiless ones the angels\,* unceasingly glorif
 ying Christ\, the Word of God\, the Redeemer\,* Who died on the cross and 
 delivered the human race from deceit.* Pray to Him\, venerable father\,* t
 hat He grant peace and great mercy to the world.\n\nFor with the Lord ther
 e is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful redemption\;* and He shall re
 deem Israel from all its iniquities.\n\nO venerable father\, God-bearing T
 heodosius!* You laboured greatly during this earthly life:* with hymns\, f
 asting\, and persistent prayer* you became a model for your disciples.* To
 day you celebrate with the bodiless ones the angels\,* unceasingly glorify
 ing Christ\, the Word of God\, the Redeemer\,* Who died on the cross and d
 elivered the human race from deceit.* Pray to Him\, venerable father\,* th
 at He grant peace and great mercy to the world.\n\nPraise the Lord\, all t
 he nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people.\n\nO venerable father\,
  God-bearing Theodosius!* You truly merited the divine life\,* having obta
 ined it through purity and fasting\;* for while still alive you renounced 
 everything\,* and passed over to the true life.* You now are glorifying wi
 th 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 peac
 e and great mercy to the world.\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;
 * eternally will His truth endure.\n\nO venerable father\, God-bearing The
 odosius!* 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 y
 ou.* You now are unceasingly glorifying Christ\, Who is one God in two nat
 ures\,* 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 p
 eace and great mercy to the world.\n\nTone 6\, Glory…\n\nJesus met the S
 amaritan woman at Jacob’s well.* The One who covers the earth with cloud
 s asks water of her.* O\, what a wonder!* The One who rides on the Cherubi
 m 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 th
 eir lakes to overflow seeks water.* He truly desires to save this woman fr
 om the snares of the Enemy* and to fill her with living water* to extingui
 sh the flames of her passions\;* for He alone is compassionate and the Lov
 er of Mankind.\n\nTone 4\, Now…\n\nO Mother of God\, because of You Davi
 d 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 Qu
 een 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 i
 n 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.\n\nLytia\n\nThe stich
 eron of the Temple\, then:\n\nTone 3\, Glory... Now…\n\nLet heaven and e
 arth rejoice with splendor today\, for Christ has revealed Himself incarna
 te as a man\, that He might release Adam from the universal curse\; and co
 ming to Samaria\, He made Himself wondrous through miracles: He Who clothe
 s the clouds with waters stood before a woman\, asking for water. Wherefor
 e\, all you faithful\, let us worship Him Who of His own will impoverished
  Himself for our sake in His compassionate counsel.\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 4
 \n\nIn being lifted upon the Cross\, O Lord\,* You abolished the curse whi
 ch we had inherited from our fathers.* By going down into Hades\,* You fre
 ed from eternal captivity those imprisoned there* and granted incorruption
  to mankind.* We\, therefore praise Your life-giving and redeeming Resurre
 ction.\n\nThe Paschal Stichera are now sung in the customary manner:\n\nLe
 t God arise\;* let His enemies be scattered!\n\nToday a sacred Pascha is r
 evealed to us.* A new and holy Pascha.* A mystical Pascha.* A Pascha worth
 y of veneration.* A Pascha which is Christ the Redeemer\,* a blameless Pas
 cha.* A great Pascha.* A Pascha of the faithful.* A Pascha which has opene
 d for us the gates of Paradise.* A Pascha which sanctifies all the faithfu
 l.\n\nAs smoke vanishes\,* let them vanish.\n\nCome* from that scene\, O w
 omen 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 rej
 oice\, O Jerusalem\,* seeing Christ the King* who comes forth from the tom
 b like a Bridegroom in procession!\n\nSo let sinners flee from before the 
 face of God\;* but let the righteous rejoice!\n\nThe 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 incorr
 upt amid corruption?* Go: proclaim the glad tidings to His disciples.\n\nT
 his is the day which the Lord has made:* Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
 \n\nPascha of beauty!* The Pascha of the Lord!* Pascha!* A Pascha worthy o
 f all honour* has dawned on us.* Pascha! Let us embrace each other joyousl
 y!* Pascha\, ransom from affliction!* For today as from a bridal chamber* 
 Christ has shown forth from the Tomb\,* and filled the women with joy sayi
 ng:* “Proclaim the glad tidings to the Apostles!”\n\nTone 8\, Glory…
 \n\nCountless monks honour you\, father Theodosius\, as their teacher\,* f
 ollowing 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 asce
 tics.* pray with them to the Lord\,* that He may have mercy on our souls.\
 n\nNow…\n\nThis is the day of Resurrection\,* let us be illumined by the
  Feast!* Let us embrace each other!* Let us call “Brothers!”* even tho
 se that hate us* and forgive all by the Resurrection\,* and so let us cry:
 \n\nChrist is risen from the dead\,* trampling death by death\,* and to th
 ose in the tombs* giving life!\n\nTroparia\, Tone 4\n\nWhen 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 th
 e world great mercy.”\n\nTone 8\, Glory…\n\nRaised in virtue\, O fathe
 r Theodosius\,* from childhood you loved the monastic life* and attained y
 our desire courageously.* You lived in a cave adorning your life with fast
 ing and radiance* and abided in prayer like the bodiless powers.* You shon
 e like a beacon in the land of Rus’.* Entreat Christ God to save our sou
 ls.\n\nNow…\n\nO gracious Lord\, for the sake of mankind You were born o
 f a virgin\;* through Your death on the cross You conquered death\;* and t
 hrough 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 peop
 le!\nGREAT MATINS ON SUNDAY MORNING\nUsual Beginning\n\nHexapsalm\n\nGreat
  Litany\n\nGod the Lord\, Tone 4\n\nTroparia\, Tone 4\n\nWhen the disciple
 s of the Lord learned from the angel* the glorious news of the resurrectio
 n* and cast off the ancestral condemnation\,* they proudly told the apostl
 es:* “Death has been plundered!* Christ our God is risen\,* granting to 
 the world great mercy.” (2)\n\nTone 8\, Glory…\n\nRaised in virtue\, O
  father Theodosius\,* from childhood you loved the monastic life* and atta
 ined your desire courageously.* You lived in a cave adorning your life wit
 h fasting and radiance* and abided in prayer like the bodiless powers.* Yo
 u shone like a beacon in the land of Rus’.* Entreat Christ God to save o
 ur souls.\n\nNow…\n\nO 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 L
 ord\, do not disdain those whom You have created with Your own hands\,* bu
 t show forth Your love for mankind.* Accept the intercession which the Mot
 her\, who bore You\, makes in our behalf.* O Saviour\, save Your despairin
 g people!\n\nPsalter Reading\n\nStasis I: Psalms 9\, 10\nStasis II: Psalms
  11\, 12\, 13\nStasis III: Psalms 14\, 15\, 16\n\nSmall Litany\n\nSessiona
 l Hymn\, Tone 4\n\nLooking into the entrance of the tomb\,* the Myrrh-bear
 ing women were unable to endure the bright radiance of the Angel\,* trembl
 ing in awe they said\;* How is it that He who has opened Paradise to the T
 hief has been stolen?* How is it that He who before His passion proclaimed
  His Arising has been raised?* Truly Christ God has arisen\, granting thos
 e in Hades life and resurrection.\n\nArise\, O Lord my God\, let Your hand
 s be lifted on high\;* forget not Your poor to the end.\n\nSince You are i
 mmortal 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 domin
 ion\,* and show forth\, O merciful One\, Your Resurrection to all mankind.
 * Therefore we glorify You\, O only Lover of mankind.\n\nGlory… Now…\n
 \nThe mystery hidden from all ages and unknown to the ranks of angels\,* h
 as been revealed to those on earth through you\, O Theotokos:* God incarna
 te in an uncommingled union\,* who willingly accepted the Cross for our sa
 ke\,* and through it has raised up the first-formed man\,* and saved our s
 ouls from death.\n\nPsalter Reading\n\nStasis I: Psalm 17\nStasis II: Psal
 ms 18\, 19\, 20\nStasis III: Psalms 21\, 22\, 23\n\nSmall Litany\n\nSessio
 nal Hymn\, Tone 4\n\nGabriel 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 lamentat
 ion\;* 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 re
 ceived gladness\, to take courage\, together with Eve.\n\nI will confess Y
 ou\, O Lord\, with my whole heart\,* I will tell of all Your wonders.\n\nY
 ou 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 the
 reby You bound the stranger\, and despoil bitter death\,* and all those in
  Hades cried aloud\, at Your life-bearing Resurrection:* “Christ\, the G
 iver of life has arisen\, and shall abide throughout the ages.”\n\nGlory
 … Now…\n\nAs he contemplated that which was beyond nature* Joseph was 
 struck with wonder\, O Theotokos\, at your conception without seed.* He co
 ntemplated the mysterious dew upon the fleece\,* the bush unburned by fire
 \, Aaron’s rod which budded.* Thus your Betrothed and guardian bore witn
 ess and cried to the priests\, saying:* A Virgin bears a child\,* and afte
 r child-birth remains yet a virgin.\n\nPolyeleos\n\nMagnification\n\nWe bl
 ess you\,* O Venerable Father Theodosius\,* and we honour you holy memory\
 ,* O instructor of monks and converser with the angels.\n\nVerse: I waited
  patiently for the Lord\;* he inclined to me and heard my cry.\n\nEvoglita
 ria\n\nSmall Litany\n\nHypakoe\, Tone 4\n\nThe Myrrh-bearing women hastene
 d to proclaim to the Apostles* the news of Your wondrous Rising\, O Christ
 :* that as God You have arisen\,* granting the world great mercy.\n\nSessi
 onal Hymn\, Tone 4\n\nFollowing 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 a
 nd narrow place\, you manfully expelled hordes of demons. Therefore\, with
  faith we ever praise your memory with hymns.\n\nTone 8\n\nAbundantly wate
 ring 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 o
 ne\, you nurtured them on the grass of abstinence. Therefore\, departing g
 loriously from this life\, you have joined the choirs of the fathers\, O T
 heodosius. 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.\n\nGlor
 y… Now…\n\nTruly sanctified from your mother’s womb\, O blessed Theo
 dosius\, you lived on earth like an angel\; for\, having mortified the fle
 sh\, in the cave you fittingly emulated the life of Anthony\, and were sho
 wn to be a favorite of the Trinity\, O blessed one. Wherefore\, by the zea
 l 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 forgive
 ness of sins to those who with love celebrate your holy memory.\n\nGradual
  Hymns\, Tone 4\n\nAntiphon 1\n\nFrom my youth do many passions war agains
 t me\;* but do You Yourself defend* and save me\, O my Saviour.\n\nYou hat
 ers of Sion shall be shamed by the Lord\;* for like grass\, by the fire* s
 hall you be withered.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nIn the Holy Spirit\, every sou
 l is quickened\,* and\, through cleansing\, is exalted* and made radiant* 
 by the Triple Unity in a hidden sacred manner.\n\nAntiphon 2\n\nFrom the d
 epths of my soul* I have cried to You fervently\, O Lord\;* let Your divin
 e ears be attentive to me.\n\nEveryone who has set their hope in the Lord\
 ,* is higher than all those* who mourn.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nBy the Holy 
 Spirit* the streams of grace swell up\;* watering all creation* engenderin
 g life.\n\nAntiphon 3\n\nLet my heart be raised to You\, O Lord\;* and let
  none of the pleasures of the world lure me* to weakness.\n\nAs one that h
 as tender love for one’s mother\;* so should we have even more fervent l
 ove* for the Lord.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nBy the Holy Spirit comes an abund
 ance of divine knowledge\,* contemplation and wisdom\;* for by Him the Wor
 d unveils* all the Father’s teachings.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 4\n\nArise\
 , O Lord: help us\,* and redeem us for Your name’s sake.\n\nverse: We he
 ard with our own ears\, O God\, our fathers have told us the story of the 
 things You did in days long ago.\n\nLet everything that lives\, Tone 4\n\n
 Gospel\n\nJohn 20:1-10\n\nHymn of Resurrection\n\nPsalm 50\n\nVerses at Ps
 alm 50\n\nCanon\n\nOrdinarily\, the Paschal Canon is taken in full\, given
  below\; \n\nThe full Canon prescribed for today is provided here\n\nOde 1
 \n\nIrmos: 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 h
 eaven\, Christ God has brought us\, as we sing the song of victory.\n\nChr
 ist is risen from the dead.\n\nLet us purify our senses\, and we shall beh
 old Christ\, radiant with the unapproachable light of the Resurrection\, a
 nd we shall clearly hear Him say\, Rejoice! as we sing the hymn of victory
 .\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nLet the heavens be glad as is meet\
 , and let the earth rejoice\, and let the whole world\, both visible and i
 nvisible\, keep festival: for Christ is risen\, O gladness eternal.\n\nO m
 ost Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nYou have broken through the barrier of de
 ath\, by giving birth to Christ\, the eternal Life\, who today has shone f
 orth from the tomb\, O all-immaculate Virgin\, and Who has enlightened the
  world.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nHaving beheld your resurrec
 ted Son and God\, rejoice with the apostles\, O Pure One who are full of t
 he grace of God\, and be the first to rejoice\, as you have received the C
 ause of joy for all\, O all-immaculate Mother of God.\n\nKatavasia: 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 Go
 d has brought us\, as we sing the song of victory.\n\nOde 3\n\nIrmos: Come
 \, let us drink a new drink\, not one miraculously brought forth from a ba
 rren rock but the Fountain of Incorruption\, springing forth from the tomb
  of Christ\, in Whom we are strengthened.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead
 .\n\nNow all things are filled with light\; heaven and earth\, and the net
 hermost pares of the earth\; let all creation\, therefore\, celebrate the 
 arising of Christ whereby it is strengthened.\n\nChrist is risen from the 
 dead.\n\nYesterday I was buried with You\, O Christ\; today I rise with Yo
 ur arising. Yesterday I was crucified with You\; glorify me with You\, O S
 aviour\, in Your kingdom.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nInto inco
 rruptible 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.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nHaving beheld God\, whom
  you bore in the flesh\, risen from the dead\, as He said\, O pure one\; d
 ance\, and magnify Him as Go* O most pure one.\n\nKatavasia: 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 Chris
 t\, in Whom we are strengthened.\n\nSmall Litany\n\nKontakion\, Tone 3\n\n
 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 g
 race of the monastic rule.\n\nIkos\n\nWho can describe your struggles\, O 
 father? Who can recall the multitudes of your labours and wondrous miracle
 s? For while still in the flesh you beheld one of the incorporeal beings c
 onversing 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 s
 un. With the brilliance of your monastic rule\, O venerable and godly Theo
 dosius\, enlighten me who hymn you.\n\nOde 4\n\nIrmos: 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.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nAs a man-child di
 d Christ appear when He came forth from the Virgin’s womb\, and as a mor
 tal He was called the Lamb. Without blemish also\, is our Pascha for He ta
 sted no defilement\; and as true God\, perfect was He proclaimed.\n\nChris
 t is risen from the dead.\n\nLike a yearling lamb\,*Christ\, our blessed C
 rown\,*of His own will was sacrificed for all\,*a Pascha of purification\;
 *and from the tomb the beautiful Sun of Righteousness*shone forth again up
 on us.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nDavid\, the ancestor of God\,*
 danced with leaping before the symbolical Ark\;*let us also\, the holy peo
 ple of God\, beholding the fulfilment of the symbols\, be divinely glad\; 
 for Christ is risen as Almighty.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nHe
  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.\n\nO 
 most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nBeholding Christ\, whom you have borne\,
  shining forth splendidly from the dead\, O Pure One\, who are good and sp
 otless among women\, and comely today\, rejoicing with the apostles in the
  salvation of all\, Him do you glorify.\n\nKatavasia: On divine watch let 
 the God-inspired Habakkuk stand with us and show forth the light-bearing a
 ngel clearly saying: Today salvation is come to the world\, for Christ is 
 risen as Almighty.\n\nOde 5\n\nIrmos: 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.\n\nChrist is r
 isen from the dead.\n\nSeeing Your boundless compassion they who were held
  in the bonds of hades hastened to the light\, O Christ\, with gladsome fe
 et\, praising the Pascha eternal.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nBea
 ring 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.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nEnlighten
 ed by the divine rays and the life-bearing Resurrection of your Son\, O mo
 st pure Mother of God\, the gathering of the pious is filled with joy.\n\n
 O most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nYou did not open the gates of virginit
 y in the Incarnation\, nor the seal upon the tomb did You destroy\, O King
  of creation\; from whence seeing You risen\, Your Mother rejoices.\n\nKat
 avasia: Let us awake in the deep dawn\, and instead of myrrh\, offer a hym
 n to the Master\, and we shall see Christ\, the Sun of Righteousness\, Who
  causes life to dawn for all.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nOde 6\n\nIrmos: You descended 
 into the nethermost pares of the earth\, and shattered the eternal bars th
 at held the fettered\, O Christ\, and on the third day* like Jonah from th
 e whale\, You arose from the tomb.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nHa
 ving 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.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nO my Sa
 viour\, the living and unslain Sacrifice\, when\, as God\, You\, of Your O
 wn will\, had offered up Yourself to the Father\, You raised up with Yours
 elf the whole race of Adam\, when You arose from the tomb.\n\nO most Holy 
 Theotokos\, save us!\n\nHe that of old was held by death and corruption is
  raised up by Him who was incarnate of your most pure womb\, O Theotokos V
 irgin\, unto incorruption and everlasting life.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\,
  save us!\n\nHe Who went down into the nethermost pares of the earth\, and
  came into your womb\, O Pure One\, and dwelt and past understanding was i
 ncarnate\, has also raised up Adam with Himself when He rose from the tomb
 .\n\nKatavasia: 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.\n\nSmall 
 Litany\n\nKontakion\, Tone 8\n\nDrawn to the well by faith\,* the Samarita
 n woman beheld You\, the Water of Wisdom\,* and drinking abundantly of You
 \,* she inherited the heavenly Kingdom for ever\,* becoming everlastingly 
 glorious.\n\nIkos\n\nLet 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 the
 y 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.\n\n&nbs
 p\;\n\nOde 7\n\nIrmos: He who delivered the Children from the furnace\, be
 came man\, suffers as a mortal\, and through His Passion clothes mortality
  with the beauty of incorruption\, He is the only blessed and most gloriou
 s God of our fathers.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nThe godly-wise 
 women with myrrh followed after You in haste\; but Him Whom they sought wi
 th tears as dead\, they worshipped joyfully as the living God\, and they b
 rought to Your disciples\, O Christ\, the good tidings of the mystical Pas
 cha.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nWe celebrate the death of death\
 , the destruction of hades\, the beginning of another life eternal\, and l
 eaping for joy\, we hymn the Cause\, the only blessed and supremely glorio
 us God of our fathers.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nFor truly sacr
 ed and all-festive is this saving night\, and this shining\, light-bearing
  day\, the harbinger of the Resurrection\, whereon the Timeless Light bodi
 ly from the tomb upon all has shined.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\
 n\nYour 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 onl
 y blessed and supremely glorious God of our fathers.\n\nO most Holy Theoto
 kos\, save us!\n\nHe Who reigns over all creation\, became man\, dwelling 
 in your God-graced womb\, and having endured crucifixion and death\, is ri
 sen in a God-befitting manner\, raising us up with Himself\, for He is Alm
 ighty.\n\nKatavasia: He who delivered the Children from the furnace\, beca
 me man\, suffers as a mortal\, and through His Passion clothes mortality w
 ith the beauty of incorruption\, He is the only blessed and most glorious 
 God of our fathers.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nOde 8\n\nIrmos: 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 ag
 es.\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nCome\, on this auspicious day of 
 the Resurrection\, let us partake of the fruit of the new vine of divine g
 ladness of the kingdom of Christ\, praising Him as God throughout the ages
 .\n\nChrist is risen from the dead.\n\nLift up your eyes about you\, O Sio
 n\,* and see\, for behold\, there comes to you\, like God-illumined beacon
 s\, from the west\, and from the north\, and from the sea\, and from the e
 ast\, your children\, in you blessing Christ throughout the ages.\n\nO Mos
 t Holy Trinity\, our God\, glory be to You.\n\nO Father Almighty\, and Wor
 d\, and Spirit\, one Nature united in three Hypostases\, transcendent and 
 most divine! Into You have we been baptized\, and You will we bless throug
 hout all ages.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nThrough you the Lord
  came into the world\, O Virgin Theotokos\, and the womb of hades did He t
 ear open\, granting to us mortals resurrection\; Therefore\, we bless Him 
 throughout the ages.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nLaying 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 s
 ing His praise throughout the ages.\n\nWe praise\, we bless\, and we worsh
 ip the Lord\, hymning and supremely exalting Him throughout all ages!\n\nK
 atavasia: This chosen and holy day is the first of the Sabbaths\, the quee
 n and lady\, the feast of feasts\, and the festival of festivals\, wherein
  we bless Christ throughout the ages.\n\nThe Magnificat is not sung.\n\nOd
 e 9\n\nIrmos: 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 Mot
 her of God\, take delight in the resurrection of your Son.\n\nChrist is ri
 sen from the dead.\n\nO 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 Chris
 t\; having this foundation of hope\, we the faithful rejoice.\n\nChrist is
  risen from the dead.\n\nO Christ\, You great and most sacred Pascha! O Wi
 sdom\, Word\, and Power of God! Grant us to partake of You more fully in t
 he unwaning day of Your kingdom.\n\nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nWi
 th one voice\, O Virgin\, the faithful bless you. Rejoice\, O Portal of th
 e 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.\n\
 nO most Holy Theotokos\, save us!\n\nBe glad and rejoice\, O Portal of the
  Divine Light: for Jesus set into the grave\, has dawned forth shining mor
 e brightly than the sun\, and has illumined all the faithful\, O divinely 
 joyous Lady.\n\nKatavasia: 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.\n\
 nSmall Litany\n\nHoly is the Lord\n\nHymn of Light\n\nHaving 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 o
 f incorruption\, Salvation of the world!\n\nGlory…\n\nReceiving the ligh
 t of the consubstantial Trinity within your heart\, O Theodosius\, you fat
 her of fathers\, strengthening yourself in the cave with the great Anthony
 \, you illumined the pious\, O dweller with the angels. With them be you m
 indful of those who with faith hymn you.\n\nNow…\n\nOn coming to Samaria
 \, O Saviour\, Almighty One\, spoke there with a woman and ask of her wate
 r\, though for the Jews You have of old brought forth springs from a clove
 n rock\, You brought her to faith in You\, and now she ever enjoys eternal
  life in the Heavens.\n\nPraises\n\nStichera on the Praises\, Tone 4\n\nTo
  carry out the sentence pre-ordained:* this honour is for all His faithful
 .\n\nO all-powerful Lord\,* Who endured the Cross and death\,* and arose f
 rom the dead\,* we glorify Your Holy Resurrection.\n\nPraise God in His ho
 ly place\, praise Him in His mighty heavens.\n\nBy Your Cross\, O Christ\,
  You have delivered us from the ancient curse\,* and by Your death You hav
 e 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!\n\nPraise Him for His powerful deeds\,* prais
 e His surpassing greatness.\n\nO Christ the Saviour\,* with Your Cross\, g
 uide 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 pr
 ayers of Your Saints.\n\nO praise Him with sound of trumpet\,* praise Him 
 with lute and harp\;\n\nWithout departing from Your Father’s bosom\,* in
  Your tender compassion\, You descended to earth\,* O Only-begotten Word o
 f God\,* without change becoming man.* While You are impassable in Your di
 vinity\,* 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 al
 one are all-powerful.\n\nTone 2\n\nPraise Him with timbrel and dance\,* pr
 aise Him with strings and pipes.\n\nWholly wounded by faith and the love o
 f Christ\, O blessed one\, * following after Him you rejected the world\, 
 your homeland and family\, * hastening to the venerable Anthony\, * from w
 hom you learned ineffable things: * that which ear has not heard entered i
 nto your heart. * With him do we hymn you\,* honoring you in sacred manner
 \, O Theodosius.\n\nO praise Him with resounding cymbals\, praise Him with
  clashing of cymbals.* Let everything that lives and that breathes give pr
 aise to the Lord.\n\nYou desired an undefiled life\, * patience\, love and
  humility\, * all-night vigil and abstinence\, * thereby mortifying the lu
 sts of the flesh. * Wherefore\, receiving divine knowledge\, * you  now r
 ejoice 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 mee
 t.\n\nPrecious in the sight of the Lord * is the death of His saints.\n\nW
 hen the enemy\, the author of evil * set brigands upon your flock\, O vene
 rable one\, * desiring to destroy those therein\, * seeing the church susp
 ended aloft\, they departed\, * terrified by the grace given you by God\, 
 O saint. * For they heard in the church the sound of ineffable angelic hym
 nody. * Rejoicing now with them\, * be you mindful of us who with faith **
  hymn your radiant and honoured memory.\n\nTone 6\n\nBlessed is the man wh
 o fears the Lord\; * he shall rejoice exceedingly in His commandments.\n\n
 O venerable father\,* the sound of your corrections has gone forth into al
 l 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 boldne
 ss before Christ God\,* ask peace for our souls.\n\nTone 6\, Glory…\n\nT
 he Well-spring of the principle of life\, Jesus\, our Saviour\,* came to t
 he 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 th
 e Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans\,* the wise Creator diverted he
 r by the sweetness of His words\,* so that she would seek from Him everlas
 ting water\,* which\, when she received it\, she proclaimed to all\, sayin
 g:* Come and see the Knower of things hidden\,* God who is come in the fle
 sh to save mankind.\n\nTone 2\, Now…\n\nYou are truly most blessed\, O v
 irgin Mother of God.* Through the One who was incarnate of you\,* Hades wa
 s 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 c
 ry out in praise\;* Blessed are You\, O Christ our God\,* who finds in thi
 s your good pleasure. Glory to You!\n\nGreat Doxology\n\nTrisagion Prayers
 \n\nTroparion\, Tone 2\n\nYou came forth from death\, destroying the etern
 al bonds of Hades\, O Lord.* You broke the curse of Death* and thus delive
 red us from the snares of the Evil One.* Then You appeared to your apostle
 s 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.\n\nInsistent
  Litany\n\nLitany of Supplication\n\nGreat Dismissal\n\nAt the Conclusion 
 of Matins\, the Gospel Sticheron\n\nTone 7\, Glory… Now…\n\nBehold 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 Jes
 us been placed?* Behold\, the disciples who hastened to the tomb* saw a si
 gn of His resurrection in the burial wrappings and the cloth* and remember
 ed what was said about Him in the Scriptures.* Therefore\, we who believe 
 through them* praise You\, O Christ\, the Giver of life.\nAT DIVINE LITURG
 Y ON SUNDAY MORNING\nAfter Blessed is the kingdom we sing Christ is risen 
 from the dead\, trampling death by death\, and to those in the tombs\, giv
 ing life\, thrice.\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\nTroparion\, Tone 4: When the 
 disciples of the Lord learned from the angel the glorious news of the resu
 rrection and cast off the ancestral condemnation\, they proudly told the a
 postles: “Death has been plundered! Christ our God is risen\, granting t
 o the world great mercy.”\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: Raised in virtue\, O fa
 ther Theodosius\,* from childhood you loved the monastic life* and attaine
 d your desire courageously.* You lived in a cave adorning your life with f
 asting and radiance* and abided in prayer like the bodiless powers.* You s
 hone like a beacon in the land of Rus’.* Entreat Christ God to save our 
 souls.\n\nGlory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.\n\
 nKontakion\, Tone 3: Today we revere the star of Rus’\,* blessed Theodos
 ius\,* who shone from the East and came to the West\; * for he enriched th
 is whole land and all of us * with gentleness and miraculous wonders* by t
 he practice and the grace of the monastic rule.\n\nNow and for ever and ev
 er. Amen.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 8 - Drawn to the well by faith\, the Samarit
 an woman beheld You\, the Water of wisdom\, and drinking abundantly of You
 \, she inherited the heavenly Kingdom for ever\, becoming everlastingly gl
 orious.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 3\nSing to our God\, sing\; sing to our King
 \, sing\nverse: Clap your hands\, all you nations\; shout unto God with th
 e voice of joy.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 7\n\nPrecious in the sight of the Lo
 rd* is the death of His venerable ones.\n\nEpistle\nActs 11:19-26\, 29-30\
 ; Hebrews 13:7-16\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 4\nverse: Poise yourself and advance 
 in triumph and reign in the cause of truth\, and meekness and justice.\nve
 rse: You have loved justice and hated iniquity.\n\nverse: Your priests sha
 ll clothe themselves with justice\, and your venerable ones shall rejoice.
 \n\nverse: For the Lord has chosen Sion\; He has chosen it for His dwellin
 g.\n\nGospel\nJohn 4:5-42\; Matthew 11:27-30\n\nHymn to the Mother of God\
 nVirginity is alien to mothers and childbearing is foreign to virgins\; ye
 t in you\, O Mother of God\, both of them came together. Therefore\, we an
 d all the nations of the earth without ceasing magnify you.\n\nCommunion H
 ymn\nReceive 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.
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