Deacon or Priest: The Theotokos and Mother of the Light,
honoring with hymns, we magnify.
The 9th Ode. The Heirmos.
Gome, let us with pure souls and blameless lips magnify the undefiled and All-pure Mother of Emmanuel; offering through her, to Him, Who was born of her, this prayer: ‘Spare our souls, O Christ our God, and save us.’
The Troparia
Verse: Glory to You our God, glory to You.
Sohowing himself ungrateful, envious, and cunning, Judas calculates the God-worthy Gift, by which a debt of sins was forgiven; and as a knave he exploited the Divine favor. Spare our souls, O Christ our God, and save us.
Verse: Glory to You our God, glory to You.
Going to the lawless rulers, he says: ‘What will you give me, and I will deliver to you the Christ, whom you want and seek?’ From the closest bond with Christ, Judas is drawn away by gold. Spare our souls, O Christ our God, and save us.
Verse: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Now and ever and to the Ages of Ages. Amen.
O blind and implacable avarice! How is it that you forgot what You have been taught, that you are a soul, whose worth the world does not equal? For you, O betrayer, in despair hanged yourself by the neck. Spare our souls, O Christ our God, and save us.
The Katavasia
Come, let us with pure souls and blameless lips magnify the undefiled and All-pure Mother of Emmanuel, offering dirough her, to Him, Who was born of her, this prayer: ‘Spare our souls, O Christ our God, and save us.’
Translated by Father Yeorgios L. Papadeas
