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On Friday of the Fourth Week at Vespers

Mode pl. 2. On Friday Evening

Menaion - March 29

Memory of the Holy Martyrs Mark, Bishop of Arethusa, Cyril the Deacon, and Others Martyred in the Reign of Julian the Apostate. The Holy Martyrs Jonas and Barachesius and Those With Them

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THE DIVINE LITURGY OF PRESANCTIFIED GIFTS

On Friday Evening of the Fourth Week 2025

From the Triodion.

Sticheron Idiomelon. Grave Mode.

Bring my soul out of prison to give thanks to Your name, O Lord. [SAAS]

I have subjugated my soul’s honor to the sinful passions. I have become like a beast, and I am unable to look up at You, O Most High. But with my head hanging low, O Christ, like the Publican I pray to You and cry out: O God, be merciful to me, and save me. [SD]

The righteous shall wait for me, until You reward me. [SAAS]

I have subjugated my soul’s honor to the sinful passions. I have become like a beast, and I am unable to look up at You, O Most High. But with my head hanging low, O Christ, like the Publican I pray to You and cry out: O God, be merciful to me, and save me. [SD]

For the Martyrs.

Mode pl. 2.

Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord; O Lord, hear my voice. [SAAS]

Your Martyrs did not renounce You, O Lord, nor did they deviate from Your commandments. By their intercessions, have mercy on us. [SD]

Mode pl. 2.

Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. [SAAS]

They who witnessed for You, O Christ, endured many tortures, and in heaven finally received the crown of glory, that they might intercede on behalf of our souls. [SD]

Mode pl. 2.

If You, O Lord, should mark transgression, O Lord, who would stand? For there is forgiveness with You. [SAAS]

The prize-winning Martyrs and citizens of heaven contended on earth and endured many tortures. By their intercessions and prayers, O Lord, preserve us all. [SD]

Mode pl. 2.

Because of Your law, O Lord, I waited for You; my soul waited for Your word. My soul hopes in the Lord. [SAAS]

Your Cross, O Lord, became for the Martyrs an invincible weapon. For they saw the death awaiting them and yet foresaw the life to come, and thus by their hope in You they were strengthened. By their supplications, have mercy on us. [SD]

Stichera from the Menaion.

From Menaion - - -

Mode 1. (NM)The Cross was planted.

From the morning watch until night; from the morning watch until night, let Israel hope in the Lord. [SAAS]

O Hierarch, with valiant resistance, you cast down the arrays of the enemy, and you rescued people from the deceptive error of the idols. [SD]

For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him is abundant redemption; and He shall redeem Israel from all his transgressions. [SAAS]

O Hierarch, with valiant resistance, you cast down the arrays of the enemy, and you rescued people from the deceptive error of the idols. [SD]

Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; praise Him, all you peoples. [SAAS]

O Hierarch, you stretched out your hands, and strengthened your fellow athletes in their labors, and thus you showed that the power of the enemy was impotent. [SD]

For His mercy rules over us; and the truth of the Lord endures forever. [SAAS]

O Hierarch, as an initiate and Martyr of the Master, and a wise teacher of the Church, unceasingly implore Him on our behalf. [SD]

Glory. For the Dead.

Mode pl. 2.

Your creative command was my beginning and real existence; for wishing to construct me as a living creature from both visible and invisible natures, You fashioned my body from earth, and You gave me a soul by Your divine and life-giving breath. Therefore, O Savior, give rest to Your servants, in the land of the living, where the righteous dwell. [SD]

Both now. Mode pl. 2.

From Octoechos - - -

The First Theotokion of the Mode.

Who can not call you blessed, O all-holy Virgin? Who can not extol your extraordinary childbirth? The Only-begotten Son, who timelessly shone forth from the Father, ineffably became incarnate and was born from you, O pure one. Being divine by nature, for us He became human by nature, not divided into two persons, but acknowledged in two natures without confusion. To Him pray fervently, O noble and all-blessed Lady, and implore Him to have mercy on our souls. [GOASD]

DEACON

Wisdom. Arise.

READER

Gladsome light of holy glory of the holy, blessed, heavenly, immortal Father, O Jesus Christ: arriving at the hour of sunset and having seen the evening light, we praise the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, God. It is worthy for You to be praised at all times with happy voices, O Son of God and Giver of life; * and therefore the world glorifies You.

The Readings

DEACON

The evening…

From Triodion - - -

READER

Prokeimenon. Mode 4.

Psalm 79 (80).

Reveal Yourself, O You who sit upon the cherubim.

Give heed, O You who shepherd Israel. [SAAS]

The reading is from the book of Genesis.

DEACON

Wisdom. Let us be attentive.

READER

Gn 12:1 – 7

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Get out of your country, from your kindred and from your father’s house, to a land I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you; and in you all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed.” Then Abram departed as the Lord said to him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. So Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son and all their possessions and every soul they acquired in Haran, and they departed for the land of Canaan. Thus they came to the land of Canaan. Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your seed I will give this land.” And there Abram built an altar to the Lord, who appeared to him. [SAAS]

Prokeimenon. Mode 2.

Psalm 80 (81).

Rejoice in God our helper.

Take up a psalm and sound a timbrel. [SAAS]

READER (sung)

Command!

The Priest holds a lit candle in his right hand with the censer hanging below it, stands before the holy Table, gestures crosswise and says:

PRIEST

Wisdom. Arise.

Then he turns to face the people, blesses them crosswise with the candle, and says:

The light of Christ shines on all.

Then he hands the candle and the censer to the acolyte.

READER

The reading is from the Proverbs of Solomon.

DEACON

Wisdom. Let us be attentive.

READER

Pr 14:15 – 27

A simple man believes in every word, but an astute man comes to repentance. A wise man fears and turns away from evil, but a man without discernment persuades himself to mingle with a lawless man. A quick-tempered man acts with recklessness, but a man with discernment bears many things. Men without discernment will share in evil, but the astute will take hold of perception. Evil men will slip and fall in the presence of good men, and the ungodly shall serve at the gate of the righteous. Friends will hate poor friends, but the friends of the rich are many. He who dishonors the poor sins, but he who has mercy on the poor is very blessed. Deceivers devise evil things, but good men devise mercy and truth. Devisers of evil things do not understand mercy and faithfulness, but mercies and faithfulness are with devisers of good things. To everyone who is careful there is an abundance, but he who is pleasure-taking and slothful shall be in want. The crown of the wise is astuteness, but the pastime of the undiscerning is evil. A faithful witness will rescue a soul from evil men, but a deceitful man kindles lies. In the fear of the Lord there is hope of strength, and to His children there remains support. [SAAS]

PRIEST

Peace be with you.

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