Variable Portions of the Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts
3rd Friday in Great Lent
“Lord I Call” Stichera
Begin “Lord, I Call” in Tone 7
The following are chanted at the end of Psalm 142:
Reader: Bring my soul out of prison, that I may confess Thy name.
The righteous shall await me for Thou wilt recompense me.
Out of the depths have I cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If Thou, O Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But with Thee, there is forgiveness. Because of Thy name, I have waited for Thee, O Lord; my soul has waited for Thy word; my soul has hoped on the Lord. From the morning watch until night, from the morning watch, let Israel hope on the Lord. For with the Lord there is mercy and with Him is plentious redemption, and He will deliver Israel from all his iniquities.
Tone 7 Like the prodigal, I have turned away from Thy grace.
I have spent the riches of Thy goodness, O Lord.
I now run to Thee, O tender-hearted One, crying:
I have sinned, O God, have mercy on me.
Reader: Praise the Lord, all nations. Praise Him, all peoples.
Tone 2 By the holy martyrs pray for us,
and singing the praises of Christ,
every delusion has come to an end,
and mankind is being saved by faith.
Reader: For His mercy is confirmed on us, and the truth of the Lord endures forever.
Tone 2 The choirs of martyrs faced their torturers, saying:
we fight for the King of hosts.
Even if you deliver us to fire and tortures,
we will not deny the power of the Trinity.
Reader: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
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Theotokion in the tone of the week
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The Readings from Holy Scripture
3rd Friday in Great Lent
Priest: Let us attend! Peace be unto all!
Reader: And to your spirit!
Priest: Wisdom!
Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 4th Tone: O grant us Thy help against the enemy for vain is the help of man.
People: O grant us Thy help against the enemy for vain is the help of man.
Reader: O God, Thou hast rejected us, broken our defenses.
People: O grant us Thy help against the enemy for vain is the help of man.
Reader: O grant us Thy help against the enemy.
People: For vain is the help of man.
Priest: Wisdom!
Reader: The Reading is from Genesis.
Priest: Let us attend!
Genesis 8:4-21
Reader: The ark rested in the seventh month, 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, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had 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 into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself. And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark. Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that 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. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
Then God spoke to Noah, saying, "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
Priest: Wisdom!
Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 6th Tone: Hear my cry, O Lord, listen to my prayer.
People: Hear my cry, O Lord, listen to my prayer.
Reader: From the ends of the earth I call to Thee.
People: Hear my cry, O Lord, listen to my prayer.
Reader: Hear my cry, O Lord.
People: Listen to my prayer.
The priest comes forth with the candle and censer.
All make a prostration or kneel.
Priest: Wisdom! Let us attend!
The Light of Christ illumines all!
Reader: The Reading is from Proverbs.
Priest: Let us attend!
Proverbs 10:31-11:12
Reader: The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut out. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, But the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight.
When pride comes, then comes shame; but with the humble is wisdom.
The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them.
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way aright, but the wicked will fall by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the unfaithful will be caught by their lust.
When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, and the hope of the unjust perishes.
The righteous is delivered from trouble, and it comes to the wicked instead.
The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.
When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked perish, there is jubilation. By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
He who is devoid of wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Priest: Peace be unto you. Wisdom!
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