Post-feast of Pentecost.
VESPERS ON MONDAY NIGHT
Kathisma Reading
The appointed psalms are chanted.
At Psalm 140
Tone 1
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
Now all peoples have been renewed by God’s exalted deeds,* for by means of tongues in the likeness of fire,* all those who dwell on earth have been brought to the faith,* and that this sign to the nations,* has declared that salvation is truly in our midst.
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
Having fulfilled Your promise to send down power from on high* to Your disciples, O Christ,* You sent Your Holy Spirit,* thereby showing us that You are Truth,* and that those who hope in You, O Good One,* shall in no wise ever be ashamed.
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
At the time that was appointed, You sent into the world the Holy Spirit,* who came in the form of tongues of fire.* All our sins are cleansed by this heavenly fire.* Thereby, You have granted us a true communion with Him,* for in pious faith we proclaim Him* to be perfect God.
Tone 4
For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Elevated above earthly things by your active purifications* like an animate cloud, O most blessed one,* you cast down the perverse serpent with the thunder-claps of your miracles* and the awesome lightning flashes of your words,* and you received the grace to burn up the bowels of the adverse carnal serpents* with the divine covering of the sacred Gifts.
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
O holy hierarch Timothy, boast of the people of Prussia,* universal champion and beacon of the world,* adornment of the Church, sacred sacrifice of faith,* and precious and lustrous ornament of the martyrs:* pray that those who celebrate your most honoured memory with faith* may be delivered from corruption and misfortunes.
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
With your pangs, O Timothy,* you wove an all-comely garment dyed in your blood,* and have ineffably received from on high* heavenly vesture of incorrupt purity and immutable life.* Wearing this immaterial robe in the highest,* pray in behalf of all who praise you with piety, O athlete.
Tone 1, Glory… Now…
We celebrate Pentecost and the coming of the Spirit,* and the time appointed for the promise, and the fulfillment of hope.* How great is this mystery:* it is both exceeding great and most venerable.* Wherefore, we cry to You:* O Creator of all, Lord, glory be to You.
Prokeimenon, Tone 4
The Lord hears me* when I cry out to Him.
verse: Whenever I called, the God of my justice heard me.
Aposticha
Tone 2
O Word, You sent forth, according to Your promise, the Spirit, who is true God,* that He might dwell among Your disciples* and enlighten them.
Create in me a clean heart, O God,* and renew a right spirit within me.
Suddenly, from on high, the Comforter’s great power* showed forth the Words of the Apostles’ as all-wise theologians* who spoke of things divine.
Cast me not away from Your presence,* and take not Your Holy Spirit from me
Foreigners stood amazed,* upon hearing the Apostles speak in every tongue,* glorifying and magnifying God the Trinity.
Tone 1, Glory… Now…
You have renewed Your disciples with foreign tongues, O Christ,* that they might therewith proclaim You, the immortal Word and God,* who grants our souls great mercy.
Troparion
Tone 4
Having shared the way of life of the apostles,* and having become a successor to their thrones,* labouring you found the divinely inspired way to contemplation.* Therefore, forthrightly ministering the word of truth,* you shed your blood for the faith, O hieromartyr, Timothy.* Intercede with Christ our God for the salvation of our souls.
Tone 8, Glory… Now…
Blessed are You, O Christ our God who revealed the fishermen as most wise* by sending them the Holy Spirit;* through them You caught the entire world.* Loving Master, glory to You.
DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING
At the beginning of the Liturgy, immediately after Blessed be the Kingdom… and Amen we all kneel and sing the following in Tone 6, samohlasnyj:
Heavenly King, Advocate, Spirit of Truth, Who are everywhere present and fill all things, Treasury of Blessings, Bestower of Life: come, and dwell within us; cleanse us of all that defiles us, O Good One, save our souls.
Antiphon 1
The heavens tell the glory of God, and the firmament declares the work of his hand.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God,* O Saviour, save us.
Day to day pours forth the message and night proclaims this knowledge to night.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God,* O Saviour, save us.
Their utterance has gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God,* O Saviour, save us.
Glory… Now… Only-begotten Son…
Third Antiphon
Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord,* let us acclaim God, our Saviour.
O good Advocate,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
Let us come before His face with praise,* and acclaim Him in psalms.
O good Advocate,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
For God is the great Lord,* the great king over all the earth.
O good Advocate,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
Entrance
Come, let us worship* and fall down before Christ.
O good Advocate,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 8: Blessed are You, O Christ our God who revealed the fishermen as most wise* by sending them the Holy Spirit;* through them You caught the entire world.* Loving Master, glory to You.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kontakion, Tone 8: When the Most high descended and confused the tongues,* He parted the nations.* He called all to unity;* and with one voice* we glorify the all-Holy Spirit.
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 hand. (Psalm 19:5,2)
Epistle
Romans 1:1-7, 13-17
Alleluia, Tone 1
verse: By the Lord’s words the heavens were established, and by the Breath of His mouth all their host.
verse: The Lord has looked down from heaven and beheld the whole human race.
Gospel
Matthew 4:25-5:13
Hymn to the Mother of God
O my soul, magnify the one Divinity in three Persons.
And the Irmos: Rejoice, O Queen, boast of the virgins and mothers, for every tongue, though capable and eloquent, cannot hymn you as is your due, and every mind is confounded in seeking to comprehend the way in which you gave birth. Therefore with one accord we glorify you.
Communion Hymn
Your good Spirit will lead me* to the land of righteousness.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 142:10)