Lord God, teach us your righteousness, your commands and your statutes. Illumine the eyes of our minds. Keep every darkness away from our hearts. Bestow upon us the sun of justice. Protect our lives from every evil by the seal of your Holy Spirit, so that we may give a good defense before the judgment seat of your Christ, for yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever. Amen.
Reader: The Lord reigns. He is clothed in majesty; robed is the Lord and girt about with strength.
All: Through the prayers of Your saints, O Lord, save us!
Reader: For He has made the world firm, which shall not be moved.
All: Through the prayers of Your saints, O Lord, save us!
Reader: Holiness befits Your house, O Lord, for length of days.
All: Through the prayers of Your saints, O Lord, save us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever. Amen.
O Only-Begotten Son and Word of God, immortal as You are, You condescended for our salvation to be incarnate of the holy Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary, and without undergoing change, You became man; You were crucified, O Christ God, and You crushed death by Your death; You who are One of the Holy Trinity, equal in glory with the Father and the Holy Spirit, save us.
ISODHIKON: Come let us worship and bow down before Christ. O Son of God, who are wonderful in Your saints, save us who sing to You: Alleluia!
TROPARION OF ANDREW (TONE 8)
Guide of Orthodoxy, teacher of piety and holiness, star of the universe, glory of hierarchs, wise Andrew, inspired by God. By your teachings you enlightened us all, O Harp of the Spirit. Intercede with Christ God for the salvation of our souls.
TROPARION OF THE PATRON(ESS) OF THE PARISH
O Never Failing Protectress of Christians and their ever-present intercessor before the Creator, despise not the petitions of us sinners, but in your goodness extend your help to us who call upon you with confidence. Hasten, O Theotokos, to intercede for us, for you have always protected those who honor you.
TRISAGION: Reader: Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us. (Twice)
Clergy: Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us.
Reader: Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever. Amen.
Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us.
Deacon: Dy-na-mis
All: Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us.
Arabic: Qud-doo-son-il-laah, Qud-doo-son-il-qa-wee, Qud-dooson-il-la-thee, laa ya-moo-tur-ham-na.
Greek: A-gi-os o The-os, A-gi-os is-khi-ros, A-gi-os a-tha-na-tos, e-le-i-son i-mas
EPISTLE: FIRST CORINTHIANS 1:1-9 * (6TH WEEK AFTER PENTECOST)
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind— just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you— so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 13:24-30 * (6TH WEEK AFTER PENTECOST)
Jesus told this parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, “Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?” He answered, “An enemy has done this.” The slaves said to him, “Then do you want us to go and gather them?” But he replied, “No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’
HIRMOS: It is truly right to call you blessed, O Theotokos. You are ever-blessed and all-blameless, and the Mother of our God. Higher in honor than the Cherubim and more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim, you gave birth to God the Word in virginity. You are truly Theotokos, you do we exalt.
KINONIKON: The just man shall be remembered forever; and bad report he shall not fear. Alleluia!
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APOLYSIS: May Christ our True God through the prayers of His spotless and all-pure Mother, and through the intercession of the glorious Prophet the Forerunner, John the Baptist, and of His glorious Apostles who are worthy of all praise, and of our father among the saints John Chrysostom Archbishop of Constantinople, and through the intercession of St. N., patron of this holy church (or monastery) and of St. N. whose memory we celebrate today, and of the holy and just ancestors of Christ God, Joachim and Ann, and of all the saints, may this same Christ have mercy on us and save us, for He is good and loves mankind.
Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us. Amen.