VESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING

Kathisma Reading

The appointed psalms are chanted.

At Psalm 140

Tone 5, Podoben “Rejoice…”

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

Woe to me who have angered You, my merciful God and Lord!* How many times have I promised to repent, О Christ,* and have been found to be a senseless liar?* I have soiled my first baptismal raiment, and have forsaken my covenant with You,* and this second commandment, which I confessed before You in the presence of men and angels,* have I also abandoned, clad in a lamentable form.* Setting this aside, О Saviour, leave me not to perish utterly.

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

What answer shalt you find on the day of judgment, О wretched soul?* Who will deliver you from condemnation to everlasting fire and other torments?* No one, if you yourself do not placate the Compassionate One,* forsaking your evil deeds and acquiring a right pleasing life,* every day weeping over your countless transgressions,* which you commit at every hour in deed, word, and thought,* and beseeching Christ to grant you the complete forgiveness of them.

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

Let sinful habit not seize me, dragging me down, О Saviour,* nor let the demon, which ever wages war on me and subjects me to his will, gain dominance over me;* but rescue me from his dominion with Your mighty hand,* О Almighty One who loves mankind, and reign within me.* Grant that I may be wholly Yours,* and living according to Your will, О Word, may find rest in You,* and cleansing, salvation, and great mercy for myself.

Tone 8

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

O wondrous sufferer Nestor,* you arrayed yourself in all the armour of Christ;* and, locked in mortal combat with Lyaeus, you destroyed him,* and with invisible arrows you brought down the invisible Belial and slayed him.* Therefore, the Bountiful One has crowned you with a wreath of victory.

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

Strengthened with divine words, O wise Nestor,* with true courage you slayed the proud tormentor of the martyr, Demetrius;* and confessing the immortal God who died and harrowed hell,* you received an unjust death, O glorious one.* Rejoicing, you have inherited life everlasting.

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

You were a godly youth, shining forth in comeliness of body* and adorned with grace divine, O wise one, and invested with power.* Having cast down the power of Lyaeus by the power of the Almighty,* you suffered, rejoicing, and have been numbered among the choirs of sufferers.* Rejoicing with them, remember us.

Glory… Now…

We entreat you, our intercessor, O all-pure one:* Do not overlook us, your servants,* who are troubled amid grief, that we utterly perish;* but make haste to remove us from this present wrath and grief,* O divinely joyous, all-holy and pure one,* for you are our rampart  and our unassailable assistance.

Aposticha

Tone 5

O Lord, I cease not to sin,* nor do I perceive Your love for mankind which You have granted me.* Vanquish my lack of discernment, O You who alone are good,* and have mercy upon me.

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.

O Lord, from reverent fear of You I tremble,* yet I cease not from committing sins.* Who, when called to trial, does not fear the judge?* Or who, desiring to be healed, angers the physician, as I do?* O longsuffering Lord, have compassion upon my weakness,* and have mercy upon me.

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.

Having put on the breastplate of faith and armed themselves with the image of the Cross,* Your saints, О Lord, manfully gave themselves over to torments* and cast down the pride and deception of the devil.* As God almighty, send down peace upon the world through their entreaties,* and great mercy upon our souls.

Glory… Now…

Assuage the sufferings of my much-sighing soul,* O you that wipe every tear from the face of the earth;* for you banish the sufferings of mankind,* and dispel the sorrows of the sinful.* For in you do we all have our hope and confirmation,* O most holy Virgin Mother.

Troparia

Tone 4

Your martyr, Nestor, O Lord,* by his passion acquired the crown of incorruptibility from You, our God.* For possessing Your power he overcame the torturers* and shattered the feeble insolence of demons.* By his supplications, save our souls.

Glory… Now…

Let us poor sinners hasten with fervour to the Mother of God;* let us humbly kneel before her and say from the depth of our hearts:* O Lady, be kind to us and help us.* Hasten, for we are perishing under a multitude of sins.* Do not turn away your servants empty-handed,* for you are their only hope and protection.

AT DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING

Troparia and Kontakia

Troparion, Tone 4: Your martyr, Nestor, O Lord,* by his passion acquired the crown of incorruptibility from You, our God.* For possessing Your power he overcame the torturers* and shattered the feeble insolence of demons.* By his supplications, save our souls.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.

Kontakion, Tone 2: As a bright and unerring star you appeared to the world* proclaiming with your rays the Sun, that is, Christ, O martyr, Nestor,* and you have extinguished all error.* But to us you give light, praying without ceasing for all of us.

Prokeimenon, Tone 7

The just man shall be glad in the Lord and shall hope in Him.

verse: Hear, O God, my voice when I make my petition to You. (Psalm 63:11,2)

Epistle

1 Thessalonians 1:6-10

Alleluia, Tone 4

verse: The just man shall flourish like the palm tree; and he shall grow like the cedar in Lebanon.

verse: They who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish the courts of our God. (Psalm 91:13,14)

Gospel

Luke 11:1-10

Communion Hymn

The just man shall be in everlasting remembrance;* of evil hearsay he shall have no fear.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 111:6)