OCTOECHOS – DAY of the WEEK Tone 1 – 1St Canon – Ode 3
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OCTOECHOS – DAY OF THE WEEK Tone 1 – 1st Canon – Ode 3 – Hymn to the Theotokos You conceived God in your womb through the Holy Spirit, and yet remained unconsumed, O Virgin. The bush unconsumed by the fire clearly foretold you to the lawgiver Moses for you received the Fire that cannot be endured. Monday – Vespers / Tuesday - Matins: Aposticha – Tone 1 O VIRGIN, WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE: MOSES, WITH PROPHETIC EYES, BEHELD THE MYSTERY THAT WAS TO TAKE PLACE IN YOU, AS HE SAW THE BUSH THAT BURNED, YET WAS NOT CONSUMED; FOR, THE FIRE OF DIVINITY DID NOT CONSUME YOUR WOMB, O PURE ONE. THEREFORE, WE PRAY TO YOU AS THE MOTHER OF GOD, // TO ASK PEACE, AND GREAT MERCY FOR THE WORLD. Tone 2 – Saturday Vespers & Friday Vespers (repeated) – Dogmaticon Dogmatic THE SHADOW OF THE LAW PASSED WHEN GRACE CAME. AS THE BUSH BURNED, YET WAS NOT CONSUMED, SO THE VIRGIN GAVE BIRTH, YET REMAINED A VIRGIN. THE RIGHTEOUS SUN HAS RISEN INSTEAD OF A PILLAR OF FLAME.// INSTEAD OF MOSES, CHRIST, THE SALVATION OF OUR SOULS. Tone 3 – Wed Matins – 2nd Aposticha ON THE MOUNTAIN IN THE FORM OF A CROSS, MOSES STRETCHED OUT HIS HANDS TO THE HEIGHTS AND DEFEATED AMALEK. BUT WHEN YOU SPREAD OUT YOUR PALMS ON THE PRECIOUS CROSS, O SAVIOUR, YOU TOOK ME IN YOUR EMBRACE, SAVING ME FROM ENSLAVEMENT TO THE FOE. YOU GAVE ME THE SIGN OF LIFE, TO FLEE FROM THE BOW OF MY ENEMIES. THEREFORE, O WORD, // I BOW DOWN IN WORSHIP TO YOUR PRECIOUS CROSS. Tone 4 – Irmos of the First Canon – for the Resurrection (Sat Night/Sun Morn) ODE ONE: FIRST CANON IRMOS: IN ANCIENT TIMES ISRAEL WALKED DRY-SHOD ACROSS THE RED SEA, AND MOSES, LIFTING HIS HAND IN THE FORM OF THE CROSS, PUT THE POWER OF AMALEK TO FLIGHT IN THE DESERT. R: GLORY, O LORD, TO YOUR HOLY RESURRECTION. Ode 4, Theotokos Hymn: The burning bush unconsumed by fire prefigured you to the God-seer Moses: the all-holy, ever-virgin Theotokos, whom we all glorify. Tone 4 – Thursday Matins – Sessional Hymns (Kathismata) JUST AS MOSES, O MASTER, BY THE STRENGTH OF YOUR RIGHT HAND, LED ISRAEL OUT OF BONDAGE THROUGH THE RED SEA, AND DROWNED PHARAOH IN THE WAVES, SO HAVE YOUR WISE DISCIPLES, BY THEIR MIRACLES, FORCED A PASSAGE THROUGH THE SEA OF BITTER GODLESSNESS, GUIDING THE PEOPLE TO YOU,// WORD WITHOUT BEGINNING, AND THE ONLY LOVER OF MANKIND. Tone 4 – Thursday Vespers – Lord I Call HOW DID THE LAWLESS ASSEMBLY DARE TO CONDEMN YOU, THE IMMORTAL JUDGE WHO GAVE THE LAW TO THE GOD-SEER MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS ? HOW COULD THEY LOOK WITHOUT FEAR AT THE LIFE OF ALL, KILLED ON THE CROSS ? HOW DID IT NOT ENTER THEIR MINDS// THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY GOD, AND MASTER OF CREATION ? Matins Dismissal Theotokion Hymns TUESDAY & SATURDAY MORNINGS: WE CRY OUT AND MAGNIFY YOU, O THEOTOKOS: YOU ARE THE UNCONSUMED BUSH IN WHICH MOSES SAW, AS A FLAME,// THE FIRE OF DIVINITY. Tone 5 – Saturday Vespers - Dogmaticon Theotokos Hymn IN THE RED SEA OF OLD, A TYPE OF THE VIRGIN BRIDE WAS PREFIGURED. THERE, MOSES DIVIDED THE WATERS; HERE, GABRIEL ASSISTED IN THE MIRACLE. THERE, ISRAEL CROSSED THE SEA WITHOUT GETTING WET, HERE, THE VIRGIN GAVE BIRTH TO CHRIST WITHOUT SEED. AFTER ISRAEL’S PASSAGE, THE SEA REMAINED IMPASSIBLE; AFTER EMMANUEL’S BIRTH, THE VIRGIN REMAINED A VIRGIN. O EVER EXISTING GOD, WHO APPEARED AS MAN,// O LORD: HAVE MERCY ON US. Apostikha – ONCE, IN THE DAYS OF MOSES THE PROPHET, A FIGURE OF YOUR CROSS WAS MADE MANIFEST, CONQUERING YOUR ENEMIES. NOW THAT WE HAVE YOUR CROSS ITSELF, WE BESEECH YOUR HELP: STRENGTHEN YOUR CHURCH, O LOVER OF MANKIND,// FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR GREAT MERCY. Tuesday Vespers - Apostikha ONCE, IN THE DAYS OF MOSES THE PROPHET, A FIGURE OF YOUR CROSS WAS MADE MANIFEST, CONQUERING YOUR ENEMIES. NOW THAT WE HAVE YOUR CROSS ITSELF, WE BESEECH YOUR HELP: STRENGTHEN YOUR CHURCH, O LOVER OF MANKIND,// FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR GREAT MERCY. Sunday Matins - Tone 6 - Canon – Ode 6 IRMOS: BEHOLDING THE RAGING SEA OF LIFE WITH ITS ROUGH WATERS OF TEMPTATION, I RUN TOWARDS YOUR CALM HAVEN AND CRY ALOUD TO YOU: LEAD UP MY LIFE FROM CORRUPTION, O GREATLY MERCIFUL ONE. R: O MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS: SAVE US. Tropars: Moses, great among the prophets, proclaimed you in symbols in days of old as the Tabernacle and the Table, the candlestick and vessel of Gold, signifying the Incarnation of the Most High from you, O Virgin Mother. Death attacked your Child, O Lady, and was put to death, and corruption, Adam’s curse, was abolished, for you brought forth the Life that delivers from corruption all who sing your praises, O Virgin Mother. The shadow of the law passed when the grace of your inconceivable Friday Sessional Hymn YOUR PEOPLE CONDEMNED YOU TO DEATH, O LORD, YET YOU ARE THE LIFE OF ALL: WITH THE ROD OF MOSES YOU LED THEM ON DRY GROUND THROUGH THE RED SEA, YET THEY NAILED YOU TO THE CROSS; YOU FED THEM WITH HONEY FROM THE ROCK, YET THEY GAVE YOU GALL. BUT YOU WILLINGLY ENDURED THESE THINGS TO FREE US FROM THE BONDAGE OF THE ENEMY.// O CHRIST OUR GOD: GLORY TO YOU. Tone 7 – Ode 8 – Irmos ODE EIGHT: May be sung as stikhs on the Song of the Three Children FIRST CANON IRMOS: THE BUSH ON SINAI THAT BURNED, YET WAS NOT CONSUMED, REVEALED GOD TO MOSES, WHO WAS SLOW IN TONGUE AND CLUMSY IN SPEECH. AND IN BURNING ZEAL FOR GOD THE CHILDREN WERE REVEALED UNHARMED, AND THEY CRIED OUT FROM THE MIDST OF THE FIRE: ALL YOU WORKS OF THE LORD: BLESS THE LORD, AND EXALT HIM ABOVE ALL FOREVER. R: GLORY, O LORD, TO YOUR HOLY RESURRECTION. Tone 8 – Canon – Ode 1 – Irmos ODE ONE: FIRST CANON IRMOS: THE ROD OF MOSES WORKED WONDERS IN DAYS OF OLD, MARKING THE SEA WITH A CROSS, STRIKING AND PARTING IT, SINKING PHARAOH AS HE DROVE HIS CHARIOT, WHILE SAVING ISRAEL WHO FLED ON FOOT, AND SANG A SONG TO GOD. R: GLORY, O LORD, TO YOUR HOLY RESURRECTION. Third Canon to the Theotokos ODE ONE: IRMOS: MARKING THE SEA WITH A CROSS, THE ROD OF MOSES WORKED WONDERS IN DAYS OF OLD, STRIKING AND PARTING IT, SINKING PHARAOH AS HE DROVE HIS CHARIOT, WHILE SAVING ISRAEL WHO FLED ON FOOT, SINGING A SONG TO GOD. R: O MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS: SAVE US. Wed Matins APOSTIKHA Of the Cross THE STAFF OF MOSES PREFIGURED YOUR PRECIOUS CROSS, FOR THROUGH YOUR CROSS, O OUR SAVIOUR,// YOU SAVE YOUR PEOPLE AS FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA, O LOVER OF MANKIND. MENAION – Calendar Date SEPTEMBER 4: THE HOLY PROPHET AND GOD-SEER MOSES (16th century B.C.) ICON OF THE BUSH THAT BURNED YET WAS NOT CONSUMED (1680) LORD I CALL TONE 2 To the special melody Joseph of Arimathea COME, FAITHFUL, TO THE HOLY MOUNTAIN WITH LOVE: THERE WE SHALL SEE A DIVINE VISION WHICH THE GOD-SEER MOSES, GREAT AMONG PROPHETS, MYSTICALLY PROCLAIMS, HOW A BUSH BURNS WITH FIRE YET IS NOT CONSUMED! IN A FIGURE REVEALING THE GREAT AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE MYSTERY OF YOUR CHILDBEARING WITHOUT SEED, THEOTOKOS! FOR THE FIRE OF DIVINITY DWELT IN YOUR WOMB WITHOUT CONSUMING IT, AND AFTER YOUR CHILDBEARING PRESERVED THE SEAL OF VIRGINITY UNHARMED. THEREFORE, ALL GENERATIONS BLESS YOU// AS THE MOTHER OF THE SAVIOR AND REDEEMER OF OUR SOULS. (twice) YOU REMAINED A VIRGIN, MOTHER OF GOD, WHILE YOU GAVE BIRTH AND EVER AFTER, PREFIGURED OF OLD TO MOSES BY THE FIRE OF THE BUSH THAT WAS NOT BURNED! YOU GATHER THE ASSEMBLIES OF FAITHFUL TO PRAISE YOUR ICON IN SPIRITUAL SONGS, FOR THROUGH IT YOU HAVE GIVEN A PLEDGE OF YOUR GOOD WILL TOWARDS ALL MANKIND. FROM IT WE RECEIVE GIFTS OF YOUR ABUNDANT GOODNESS, AND WE BLESS YOU AS IS DUE,// AS THE MOTHER OF THE SAVIOR AND REDEEMER OF OUR SOULS! (twice) YOU QUENCH THE FLAME OF OUR PASSIONS BY YOUR PRAYER, VIRGIN THEOTOKOS, AS YOU INTERCEDE UNCEASINGLY FOR US AT THE THRONE OF YOUR SON AND OUR GOD. YOU HAVE GREAT BOLDNESS INDEED TOWARDS HIM: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOUR INTERCESSION! TO YOUR ICON ITSELF HE HAS GRANTED DIVINE POWER. HE ASSURES US THAT NONE WHO TURN TO YOUR PROTECTION WILL DEPART IN SHAME. THERE FORE WE SING THE POWER OF YOUR PRAYERS, AND BLESS YOU, THE HOPE OF CHRISTIANS,// AS THE MOTHER OF THE SAVIOR AND REDEEMER OF OUR SOULS. (twice) GRANT US YOUR SOVEREIGN AID, THEOTOKOS, WHEN WE ARE SUDDENLY OVERCOME WITH BURNING CHASTISEMENT FOR OUR SINS. DEFEND AND DELIVER US THROUGH YOUR HOLY ICON, FOR THE PRAYER OF A MOTHER AVAILS MUCH TOWARDS THE CREATOR, AND YOUR INTERCESSION BEFORE THE FACE OF THE MOST HIGH IS ALL POWERFUL! DO NOT CEASE TO ENTREAT HIM FOR ALL MANKIND WHICH BLESSES YOU IN EVER-SOUNDING HYMNS// AS THE MOTHER OF THE SAVIOR AND REDEEMER OF OUR SOULS! (twice) GLORY...AND NOW...... TONE 2 THE SHADOW OF THE LAW PASSED WHEN GRACE CAME AS THE BUSH BURNED, YET WAS NOT CONSUMED, SO THE VIRGIN GAVE BIRTH, YET REMAINED A VIRGIN. THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS HAS RISEN INSTEAD OF A PILLAR OF FLAME!// INSTEAD OF MOSES, CHRIST, THE SALVATION OF OUR SOULS! APOSTIKHA TONE 6 WE MAGNIFY YOU, VIRGIN THEOTOKOS, FOR YOU HAVE MAGNIFIED MANKIND! FROM YOU THE DELIVERER OF FALLEN MANKIND WAS INCARNATE BY WHOM ADAM AND EVE WERE FREED FROM THE CURSE AND LED FORTH FROM THE GLOOMY DEPTHS OF HELL!// HE IS OUR GOD WHO EVER SAVES THOSE WHO MAGNIFY YOU.