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On Friday of the Third Week at Vespers

Mode pl. 2. On Friday Evening

Menaion - March 14

Memory of our Devout Father Benedict

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THE DIVINE LITURGY OF PRESANCTIFIED GIFTS

On Friday Evening of the Third Week 2026

From the Triodion.

Sticheron Idiomelon. Grave Mode.

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

Like the Prodigal Son, I departed from Your grace, O Lord, and I spent the wealth of Your goodness. Now I have run back to You, O compassionate Father, and I cry out to You: O God, I have sinned; have mercy on me. [SD]

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

Like the Prodigal Son, I departed from Your grace, O Lord, and I spent the wealth of Your goodness. Now I have run back to You, O compassionate Father, and I cry out to You: O God, I have sinned; have mercy on 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 2. Joseph took You down.

Ὅτε ἐκ τοῦ ξύλου.

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

Father, from a very early age, * you renounced the world in obedience and true love for God. * Joyfully you followed Christ who had been crucified. * When by labors you put to death * the flesh, O devout Saint, * you received abundantly the gift of grace to cure. * Therefore you were greatly admired, * for you cured all kinds of diseases, * and by you were evil spirits exorcised. [GOASD]

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

Father, from a very early age, * you renounced the world in obedience and true love for God. * Joyfully you followed Christ who had been crucified. * When by labors you put to death * the flesh, O devout Saint, * you received abundantly the gift of grace to cure. * Therefore you were greatly admired, * for you cured all kinds of diseases, * and by you were evil spirits exorcised. [GOASD]

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

Glory of monastics that you were, * you brought countless people together to sing extolling the Lord, * holy Father, and you guided all to follow the path * into heaven, O Benedict. * And rightly they followed * your inspired teachings and they imitated you, * blessed Saint, in life and in virtue. * And again you brought them together * for your death and transfer to the life on high. [GOASD]

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

Father, by your holy prayers you brought * rain down from the sky, as Elijah that man of God did of old; * and you made an empty vessel fill with oil, O Saint. * You revived someone who had died * and did many other * miracles to glorify the God and Savior of all. * Therefore every year we assemble * on this day with love and with longing * to observe your memory, O Benedict. [GOASD]

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 59 (60).

Give us help from affliction, for the salvation of man is useless.

O God, You drove us off and destroyed us. [SAAS]

The reading is from the book of Genesis.

DEACON

Wisdom. Let us be attentive.

READER

Gn 8:4 – 21

Then the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark he had made. Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters dried up from the earth. He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself in the ark. Then he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark. The dove returned to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew the waters had receded from the earth. So he waited yet another seven days and again sent out the dove; however, she did not return to him any more. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of Noah’s life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed, the surface of the ground was dry. Now in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried. Then the Lord God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and their wives with you. Also, bring out with you every living thing of all flesh: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, so they may abound on the earth, and increase and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, along with his wife and his sons and their wives. Every animal, every bird, and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, according to their kind, went out of the ark. Then Noah built an altar to God, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered whole burnt offerings on the altar. So the Lord God smelled a sweet aroma. [SAAS]

Prokeimenon. Mode pl. 2.

Psalm 60 (61).

Hear my supplication, O God; attend to my prayer.

So I will sing praise to Your name unto ages of ages. [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 10:31 – 32; 11:1 – 10

The mouth of a righteous man distills wisdom, but the tongue of an unrighteous man utterly destroys. The lips of righteous men distill grace, but the mouth of the ungodly is perverse. Deceitful scales are an abomination before the Lord, but a righteous weight is acceptable to Him. Wherever arrogance enters, there also is dishonor, but the mouth of the humble meditates on wisdom. When a righteous man dies, he leaves regret, but the destruction of the ungodly is immediate and brings joy. Righteousness cuts straight and blameless paths, but ungodliness embraces wrongdoing. The righteousness of upright men delivers them, but lawless men are taken to their destruction. When a righteous man dies, his hope does not perish, but the boast of the ungodly perishes. A righteous man escapes from a snare, but the ungodly man is handed over in his place. There is a snare for citizens in the mouth of the ungodly, but the perception of the righteous is prosperous. A city stays upright in the good things of the righteous, but it is razed to the ground by the mouths of the ungodly. A man in need of discernment treats citizens with contempt, but a man of discernment keeps quiet. [SAAS]

PRIEST

Peace be with you.

(Go back to the Presanctified Liturgy booklet.)