AT VESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING
Kathisma Reading
The appointed psalms are chanted.
At Psalm 140
Tone 4, Podoben “You have given a sign…”
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
Having made your abode in the wilderness* in oneness of mind, O blessed ones,* by fasting, prayer, and radiant visions* you manifestly caused the uprisings of the flesh to fall away,* and made your hearts splendid,* rendering them pleasing through spiritual surrender,* O Symeon and John, confirmation of monastics.
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
With foolish behaviour you rendered render foolish the malice of the wise, O blessed father,* working all-glorious miracles, causing signs to show forth,* expelling demons,*and illumining those who are in caught in the night of sin.* And in the midst of tumults you preserved your mind untroubled, O Symeon,* receiving dispassion from God.
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
You were shown to be humble in wisdom and merciful,* God-loving and full of love, O divinely inspired one,* compunctionate and meek, going about the earth like an angel,* possessed of a heavenly life.* Therefore, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit* rested in you, O blessed Symeon, as in a place of purity
Tone 8, Podoben “O all-glorious wonder…”
For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
O divinely blessed and wondrous Ezekiel,* having cleansed soul and body, and your mind with purity,* you noetically beheld the ineffable glory of the Lord* which is more brilliant than the lightning-flash, passing understanding,* for He surpasses and exceeds the divine seraphim,* and is hymned by ten thousand mouths.
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
O God-pleasing Ezekiel,* as an emulator of Christ you endured the oppression of the alien’s debt, cruelly tortured,* prefiguring the salvation and deliverance* which were to come to the world through the precious Cross,* O you who were revealed by God.* Pray that all who hymn you now may partake thereof.
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
O divinely inspired Ezekiel,* receiving a scroll from the hands of the Almighty,* you became a God-seeing theologian,* manifest in sacred manner and godly in appearance, O glorious one,* whose lips were truly sweeter than honey,* imparting wisdom to the enraged synagogue.
Tone 8, Glory…. Now…
Rejoice, enlightenment of souls,* forgiveness of the sinful, correction of the negligent!* Rejoice, consolation, joy ,and helper of the sorrowful!* Rejoice, O blessed one, healing of the souls of the infirm!* Rejoice, mediator and reconciler of men to God,* O pure one who are more holy than all the seraphim!
Aposticha, Tone 7
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 one.
Troparia
Tone 4
O God of our fathers,* You always deal with us according to Your everlasting compassion,* take not Your mercy away from us;* but through the prayers of our fathers,* guide our lives along the ways of peace.
Tone 2, Glory…
O prophet of God, Ezekiel,* through the gift of the Spirit you saw the sealed door of the Word’s entrance.* Beg Him to open the doors of His mercy to us* and save the souls of those who honour your memory.
Now…
O Mother of God and virgin forever,* through you we have been made to share the divine nature;* you have given birth for us to the incarnate God.* Therefore, we all exalt you with great devotion.
AT DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 4: O God of our fathers,* You always deal with us according to Your everlasting compassion,* take not Your mercy away from us;* but through the prayers of our fathers,* guide our lives along the ways of peace.
Troparion, Tone 2: O prophet of God, Ezekiel,* through the gift of the Spirit you saw the sealed door of the Word’s entrance.* Beg Him to open the doors of His mercy to us* and save the souls of those who honour your memory.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Kontakion, Tone 2: Let us praise with love and faith the angelic Simeon.* Acting like an angel in the flesh, he glows with virtue.* Let us remember John along with him,* since they pray together unceasingly to the Lord for us.
Now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kontakion, Tone 4: You were a prophet of God, O wonderful Ezekiel.* You predicted the Lord’s coming in the flesh,* and the Creator has come like a lamb.* The Son of God has been revealed to the ages.
Prokeimenon, Tone 7
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His venerable ones.
verse: What shall I render to the Lord for all the things He has rendered to me? (Psalm 115:15,12)
Epistle
1 Corinthians 12:12-26
Alleluia, Tone 6
verse: Blessed is the man who fears the Lord; he shall delight exceedingly in His commandments.
verse: His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth. (Psalm 111:1,2)
Gospel
Matthew 18:18-22; 19:1-2, 13-15
Communion Hymn
The just man shall be in everlasting remembrance;* of evil hearsay he shall have no fear.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 111:6)