VESPERS ON TUESDAY EVENING
Kathisma Reading
The appointed psalms are chanted.
At Psalm 140
Tone 8
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
When You were nailed to the Cross, Your hands and feet run through,* Your holy side was pierced, pouring forth drops of blood and water,* divine salvation, supremely good One,* that You might wash away my defilement and pollution.* Glory to Your goodness, О all-Compassionate One!
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
You endured suffering, О Master,* that You might bestow dispassion upon all who worship Your sufferings and voluntary sacrifice:* the spear, nails and reed, which You willingly endured with long-suffering:* that for the sake of Your sufferings, О Lord, You might win dispassion for me.
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
The unblemished heifer, beholding her Bullock willingly lifted up upon the Tree,* cried out with compunction, lamenting:* “Woe is me, О my most beloved Child!* How have the ungrateful assembly of the Jews rewarded You,* desiring to leave me bereft of You, О all-Beloved!”
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.
Godly minded martyr Callinicus,* you devoutly preferred death above life:* you revealed a faithful image of the death of Christ!* Therefore you obtained immortality and unending joy!* You have made your dwelling with the ranks of angels, glorious one,* where all the champions rejoice!
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
All-blessed martyr Callinicus, you obtained the unseen Lord* as an invincible ally against unseen enemies!* You raised up great trophies of immortality!* By the first of your contests you overthrew him* who boasts that he would blot out the earth and the sea.* You drowned him in the streams of your blood!
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
Let us honour Callinicus in hymns today!* He is the foremost fighter for piety;* a destroyer of the enemy, the constant companion of the martyrs!* He is a temple of the Holy Spirit who became a soldier of Christ the King!* He is truly the inexhaustible treasury of healings,* and the wonderful support of the faithful!
Tone 7, Glory… Now…
О all-holy Virgin Lady, who has given birth to the Lord* who in His tender compassion was nailed to the Cross,* pouring forth a stream of life upon the world:* Entreat Him, that our souls may be saved;* for we, the faithful, have you alone as a refuge, bulwark, and aid.* Wherefore, we flee to your protection.
Prokeimenon, Tone 1
Your mercy, O Lord, shall follow me* all the days of my life.
verse: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. In green pastures He gives me repose.
Aposticha
Tone 8
О Christ God who was lifted up upon the Cross,* You saved the race of mankind.* We glorify Your sufferings!
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.
You were nailed to the Cross, О Christ God,* opening the gates of paradise.* We glorify Your divinity!
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.
Your martyrs, О Lord, were no longer mindful of the things of life,* but ignored their tortures for the sake of the life which is to come,* and were shown to be inheritors thereof;* therefore, they rejoice with the angels.* By their supplications grant great mercy to Your people.
Glory… Now…
O Lord, when the sun beheld You the Sun of righteousness, hanging upon the Tree,* it hid its rays, and the light of the moon was changed to darkness;* and Your all-immaculate Mother was pierced in the depths of her soul.
Troparia
Tone 4
Your holy martyr Callinicus, O Lord, through his sufferings* has received an incorruptible crown from You, our God!* For having Your strength, he laid low his adversaries,* and shattered the powerless boldness of demons.** Through his intercessions, save our souls!
Glory… Now…
O Virgin, all immaculate Mother of Christ God,* a sword pierced your all-holy soul* when you saw your Son and God willingly crucified.* Therefore, O blessed One,* never cease to pray to Him* that He may grant us forgiveness of our sins.
AT DIVINE LITURGY ON WEDNESDAY MORNING
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 4: Your martyr, Callinicus, 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, Callinicus,* 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 Corinthians 16:4-12
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
Matthew 21:28-32
Communion Hymn
He makes spirits His angels,* and flaming fire His ministers.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 103:4)