Text: Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Sunday Tropar, Tone 2
Tropar Sunday, Tone 2:
When You went down to death, O Life Immortal,*
You struck Hades dead with the blazing light of Your divinity.*
When You raised the dead from the nether world,*
all the powers of heaven cried out:*
“O Giver of life, Christ our God, glory be to You!”
Audio - 01- Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Sunday Tropar, Tone 2
Text: Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Tropar of the Cross, Tone 1
Tropar of the Cross tone 1:
Save Your people, O Lord, and bless Your inheritance.*
Grant victory to Your faithful people against enemies,*
and protect Your community by Your cross.
Audio - 02- Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Tropar of the Cross, Tone 1
Text: Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Glory Be & Kondak, 3rd Sunday of Lent, Tone 7
Glory Be … tone 7:
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,*
now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kondak, 3rd Sunday of Lent, tone 7:
The gates of Eden are no more guarded by a blazing sword,*
for the tree of the cross has gloriously extinguished it,*
destroying the sting of death and the victory of hell.*
O my Saviour, You went to those in Limbo crying aloud, “Return to paradise!”
Audio - 03- Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Glory Be & Kondak, 3rd Sunday of Lent, Tone 7
Text: Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, To Your cross, O Master . . .
To Your cross, O Master, we bow in veneration, and we glorify Your holy Resurrection. (3x)
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,* now and for ever and ever. Amen.
… and we glorify Your holy Resurrection.
To Your cross, O Master, we bow in veneration, and we glorify Your holy Resurrection.
Audio - 04- Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, To Your cross, O Master . . .
Text: Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Prokimen, Tone 6
Prokimen, tone 6:
Save Your people, O Lord, and bless Your inheritance.
verse: Unto You I will cry, O Lord my God, lest You turn from me in silence.
Save Your people, O Lord, and bless Your inheritance.
Audio - 05- Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Prokimen, Tone 6
Text: Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Alleluia Verses
Alleluia Verses:
Remember the people you long since made your own.
Yet, God, my king from the first, author of saving acts throughout the earth.
Audio - 06- Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Alleluia Verses
Text: Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, In you, Lady full of grace ...
Instead of ‘Indeed, it is fitting’:
In you,* Lady, full of grace,* all creation rejoices,*
the world of angels* and the human race.*
Sanctified temple spiritual paradise,*
boast* of virgins,* God* took flesh from you*
and became a child;* He was God* before* the ages.*
He made your womb* a throne* and made it*
more encompassing* than the heavens.*
In you*, Lady full of grace,* all creation* rejoices,* glory be to you.
Audio - 07- Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, In you, Lady full of grace ...
Text: Third Sunday of Lent, Tone 2 - Veneration of the Holy Cross, Communion Hymn (Verse)
Communion Hymn (Verse):
The Light of Your face, O Lord, is raised over us. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!