MIDNIGHT OF THE LORD'S DAY. B The Priest gives the Blessing, saying: LESSED is our God, always, now, and ever, and to the ages of the ages. Choir. Amene. Glory to Thee, our God; Glory to Thee. ¶ When this Service is immediately preceded by that of AFTER-VESPERS, what follows on the present page is omitted. Reader. O Heavenly King, O Comforter, the SPIRIT of the Truth, Who art everywhere present, and fillest everything; Who art the Treasury of the Good-things, and Supplier-of-the-means of life: come, and tabernacle in us, and cleanse us from all impurity, and save, O Good, our souls. The Trisagion. Holy GoD, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy upon us. LORD, have mercy. LORD, have mercy. LORD, have mercy. Our FATHER, Who art in the Heavens: Hallowed be Thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done, as in Heaven, so on the earth; Give us this day our Bread for subsistence; And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from the evil-one. Priest. For of Thee is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, of the FATHER, and of the Son, and of the Holy GHOST, now, and ever, and to the ages of the ages. Choir. Amene. Glory to the FATHER, and to the SON, and to the Holy GHOST: Both now, and ever, and to the ages of the ages. Amene. Reader. O come, let us worship, and bow down to our King, GOD. O come, let us worship, and bow down to CHRIST our King, GOD. O come, let us worship, and bow down to CHRIST Himself, our King and GOD. Psalm 50. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy great mercy; and according to the fulness of Thy compassions blot out my transgression. Wash me throughly from my transgression, and cleanse me from my sin. For I have knowledge of my transgression, and my sin is ever before me. To Thee, alone, have I sinned, and done this evil before Thee: that Thou mightest be righteous in Thy words, and overcome when Thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in transgressions, and in sins did my mother conceive me. Behold, Thou hast loved truth; Thou hast manifested to me the secret and hidden things of Thy wisdom. Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Thou shalt cause me to hear exultation and gladness, that the humbled bones may rejoice. Turn-away Thy Face from my sins; and blot out all my transgressions. Create in me a clean heart, O GOD; and renew an upright spirit within me. Cast me not away from Thy Presence; and take not Thy Holy SPIRIT from me. Restore unto me the exultation of Thy Salvation; and stablish me with the directing SPIRIT. Then shall I teach Thy ways unto transgressors: and the impious shall be converted unto Thee. Deliver me from bloods, O GOD, the GoD of my Salvation: and my tongue shall exult in Thy Righteousness. Thou shalt open my lips, O LORD, and my mouth shall shew-forth Thy Praise. For if Thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would have given it: Thou wilt not be well-pleased with burnt-offerings. Sacrifice to GOD is a troubled spirit; a broken and humbled heart GOD will not despise. Do Good, O LORD, in Thy good-pleasure unto Sion; and let the walls of Jerusalem be built. Then shalt Thou be well-pleased with a sacrifice of righteousness, with oblations and burnt-offerings. Then shall they offer calves upon Thine Altar. CANON TO THE HOLY AND LIFE-ORIGINATING TRINITY. Poem of Metrophanes, of which the Acrostich is: We sing Thee, One: Nature Triple-Sun ! All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our GOD. ITHOUT-Beginning, Everlasting, Incomprehensible, the Maker of ceasingly Glorify: all tongues also faithfully Honour with songs. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our God. VEN before man was, the Triple-Lustre of Thy Divinity, his mind, sed by Thee, as Lover-of-men: in order that to men may be the victory. Glory to the FATHER, and to the Sox, and to the Holy GHOST. SHEWED-Forth from above One-Order, the Divine-Rulers in Turce Persons: the Strength of the FATHER testifying to Thine Equalworking Son, and to the SPIRIT. O come, descend, let Their tongues flow together. Both now, and ever, and to the ages of the ages. Amene. Ν Theotokion. IN the sayings of the wise was imaged forth the Mind of the Unbegot ten FATHER: but the Co-unoriginate WORD, Who is the Co-equal SON, and the Holy GHOST, in the Virgin, of the WORD, created the Flesh. Ode 3. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our God. ATURE of Divinity, One-in-Order, Thou, of old, to Abraham, wast unmixed Divine Words: we also faithfully Hymn Thee, the One-Originate and Thrice-Beaming GOD. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our GOD. from Thee, as befitteth, was flowing from the Lustre of the FATHER, Light, from Light; and the Divine SPIRIT, as Light, Proceedeth: One Divinity, in Splendour Tripersonal, we also faithfully Worship and Glorify. Glory to the FATHER, and to the SON, and to the Holy GHOST. THE THE One, Who, mysteriously above thought, is supernaturally Three, the intellectual Essences Glorify; the Thrice-Holy Voices cryingaloud unceasingly Praise; and We harmoniously Hymn the Tripersonal LORD. Both now, and ever, and to the ages of the ages. Amene. H1 Theotokion. E Who is above time, late in time, without seed, in form made like unto us, came-forth from thee, taught of the FATHER, and of the SON, and SPIRIT, One in Nature and Sovereignty: wherefore, O Theotokos, we glorify thee. LORD, have mercy. LORD, have mercy. LORD, have mercy. Cathisma. Let us all worship the FATHER, and SON, and the Rightly-directing SPIRIT, the Radiant TRINITY, equal in Honour and Glory, and of superDivine Power: Who is Glorified by the orders of the Bodiless, and this day is faithfully Praised with fear by the earth-born. Glory to the FATHER, and to the SON, and to the Holy GHOST: Theotokion. Inclining ever upward from evil, to the most-Good and offended LORD, guide us in the way of penitence, O chaste, blessed Mary, our Refuge; unknown of men; Dwelling-place of God. Ode 4. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our GOD. E YES of the heart, to them my Brightness, the Thrice-Beaming Brightness of the Divine-Rule, the Sparkling-lustre of Thy DivineWorks, manifests Beauty above thought, sharing in the Brilliancy of Thy Divine-Royalty, and Works of light and sweetness. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our GOD. EXISTED-Together, of the before te e Herons were established, and all the power of them, Thine all-Working WORD and the SPIRIT'S Mouth, with Thee, the MASTER of all, in Triple-Brightness, OneRuling Divinity. Glory to the FATHER, and to the SON, and to the Holy GHOST. ALL-Working Divine-Ruler, Three, and yet unceasingly One: as formed after Thine Image and Likeness, enlighten mine understanding, that I may work Thy Good and Holy Will in might and perfectness. Both now, and ever, and to the ages of the ages. Amene. Theotokion. NURTUREDST thou, of the TRINITY, the One all-Spotless Divine Ruling SoN, Incarnate, for us, of thee: and we discern in the Earth-Born the Thrice-Beaming Divinity, above the evening lights and their brightness. Ode 5. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our GOD. E INLIGHTEN with the Radiance of the Brightness of Thy Beauty, O Sole-Ruling TRINITY, which with unapproachable Beams immeasurably Shone through the world before the Angels, those who sing to Thee melodiously, as the Orthodox. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our GOD. N OW victorious Nature Hymns Thee, O Triply-Beaming DivineRuler, for Thou hast Hallowed it through Goodness, by deliverance from stumblings; and hast released it from temptations, and from terrors, and from afflictions. Glory to the FATHER, and to the Son, and to the Holy GHOST. ALL we, in faith, Glorify the FATHER, an USON, and the Holy SPIRIT, One Nature and Divinity, Divided yet Undivided; One GOD of the invisible and Word-made creation. Both now, and ever, and to the ages of the ages. Amene. TH Theotokion. HY Bringing-forth, mystical, and without the assent of man, all the words of the Prophets marked out aforetime, O spotless-one: which mystery of the One-Heating and Tri-Beaming Divinity we have known. Ode 6. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our God. UNITY, Simple and Undivided, Thon, with an equipoised Power, O Supremely-Holy TRINITY, in Oneness of Will hast produced. Thou then, in Thy Power, on all sides guard us. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our GOD. Unity, Simple and Undivided, &c. As immediately above. Glory to the FATHER, and to the Son, and to the Holy GHOST. man. EASONING in Thy Will, Thou didst call into existence all the ages Incomprehensible TRIMIT, and But now, also, do Thou deliver me from all which stand around. Both now, and ever, and to the ages of the ages. Amene. Theotokion. INTIRELY-Spotless Virgin, Bride-of-God, thou art become the House Eof the Sun of the Sanctuary, Which all-powerfully createth and appointeth the great Luminaries. But now, also, do thou deliver me from the darkness of suffering. LORD, have mercy. LORD, have mercy. LORD, have mercy. Cathisma. Let us, the earth-born, Worship with fear the August TRINITY, and Undivided Nature in Three Persons, Severed, yet Unsevered, and remaining Undivided, a Holy Divinity; and let us Glorify as Maker and MASTER, GOD, Supremely-Good. Glory to the FATHER, and to the Son, and to the Holy GHOST: Theotokion. Amene. Guide, O Pure-one, my feeble soul, and compassionate it, lest through the multitude of stumblings it slip into the pit of destruction, O allblameless; and do thou rescue me, in the fearful hour of death, from accusing demons, and from every punishment. Ode 7. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our GOD. HOU, WORD of God, Co-equal Effulgence of the Almighty God, Who T hast appointed a Divinely wrought Habitation nigh unto thyself: be unto me as Tender-hearted, with Thy FATHER, and the SPIRIT; and shew Thyself to me who am fearful from the demons and from sufferings. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our God. Thou, WORD of God, &c. As immediately above. Glory to the FATHER, and to the SON, and to the Holy GHOST. RESOLVED in Thy Might to sl in unto us, 10 in ASTER; Tay Tender heartedness, Thou didst send Thy Son to us in humility, and again didst transform Him to the original Brightness. But now, also, do Thou instruct me with the Divine SPIRIT. Both now, and ever, and to the ages of the ages. Amene. Theotokion. IN at, maced, and Ransoned all N thy Virginal Womb, O all-spotless, He, Who is borne upon a Che from corruption, as Lover-of-men. But now, also, by thine intercessions, on all sides guard us. Ode 8. All-Holy TRINITY: Glory to Thee, our God. PR RONOUNCING Thy Divine-working Command, O LORD of all, TriPersonal and Almighty, Thou stretchedst out the Heavens as a curtain; and then, in suspending the Earth in the height, Thy great |