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The Procession with the Holy Icons on the First Sunday of the Great Fast

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Procession with the Holy Icons

on the First Sunday of the Great Fast

on the Sunday of Orthodoxy

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THE PROCESSION

WITH THE HOLY ICONS

Preceded by the Acolytes bearing icons andthe censer, the Priest exits from the Holy of

Holies carrying the precious Cross, and aprocession is made around the exterior of the

church stopping at four points. At each stationpetitions are intoned, and the Apolitikion of

the Feast is chanted.

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Troparion

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Your immaculate Icon we venerate, O Good

One, begging for the forgiveness of ouroffenses, O Christ God; for, of Your own

will, You consented in the flesh to ascendunto the Cross, in order to rescue those

whom You created from the bondage of theenemy; wherefore, thankfully we cry out to

You: You filled all things with joy, ourSavior, in coming to save the world.

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Petitions

Stopping at the south side of the Church,

petitions for the living are intoned:

Deacon Have mercy on us, O God,

according to Your great mercy; we beseech

You, hear us and have mercy.

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.Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord,have mercy.

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Deacon Again we pray for pious andOrthodox Christians.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord,have mercy.

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Deacon Again we pray for our Archbishop(Name), and for all our brotherhood in

Christ.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord,

have mercy.

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Priest For You are a merciful God Who

loves mankind, and to You we send upglory: to the Father, and to the Son, and to

the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to theages of ages.

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Amen. .


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One, begging for the forgiveness of our

offenses, O Christ God; for, of Your own

will, You consented in the flesh to ascendunto the Cross, in order to rescue those whom You created from the bondage of the

enemy; wherefore, thankfully we cry out toYou: You filled all things with joy, our

Savior, in coming to save the world.

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Petitions

Stopping at the east side of the Church,

petitions for the deceased are intoned:

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Deacon Have mercy on us, O God,according to Your great mercy ; we beseechYou, hear us and have mercy.

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have mercy.

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Deacon Again we pray for the blessed

memory and eternal repose of all those who

have fallen asleep in the hope for eternallife: the pious Orthodox Christians, kings,

patriarchs, hierarchs, priests, hieromonks,

hierodeacons, and monastics; our fathers,forefathers, grandfathers, ancestors, parents,children, brothers, and relatives; all those

who have lived from ancient times until thepresent and for the forgiveness of all their

offenses, both voluntary and involuntary.

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May their memory be eternal. May their

memory be eternal. May their memory beeternal.

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Priest For You are the Resurrection, the

Life, and the Repose of all pious OrthodoxChristians who have fallen asleep, O Christ

our God, and to You we send up glory, withYour unoriginate Father, and Your all-holy,

good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever,and to the ages of ages.

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Amen. .


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Troparion

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will, You consented in the flesh to ascendunto the Cross, in order to rescue those whom You created from the bondage of the

enemy; wherefore, thankfully we cry out toYou: You filled all things with joy, our

Savior, in coming to save the world.

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Petitions

Stopping at the north side of the Church,

petitions for the living are intoned:

Deacon Have mercy on us, O God,according to Your great mercy ; we beseechYou, hear us and have mercy.

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have mercy.

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Deacon Again we pray for mercy, life,

peace, health, salvation, visitation,

forgiveness, and remission of sins of theservants of God, of all pious and Orthodox

Christians, of those who dwell and are in

this city, and of the members and the councilof this holy church.

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have mercy.

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Priest For You are a merciful God Who

loves mankind, and to You we send up

glory: to the Father, and to the Son, and tothe Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the

ages of ages.

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Amen. .

Troparion

Tone 2 '




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will, You consented in the flesh to ascendunto the Cross, in order to rescue those

whom You created from the bondage of theenemy; wherefore, thankfully we cry out to

You: You filled all things with joy, ourSavior, in coming to save the world.

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Petitions

Stopping at the east side (before the entrance)

of the Church, petitions for the living areintoned:

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Deacon Have mercy on us, O God,

according to Your great mercy ; we beseechYou, hear us and have mercy.

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have mercy.

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Deacon Again we pray for the protection of

this holy church, this cityand every city and

land, from wrath, famine, pestilence,earthquake, flood, fire, sword, foreign

invasions, civil strife, and accidental death;that our good God Who loves mankind may

be merciful, gracious and favorable to us byturning and diverting from us all wrath and

sickness impending against us, and deliverus from His just rebuke, and have mercy on

us.

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have mercy.

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Deacon Again we pray that the Lord our

God will hear the voice of the petition of ussinners, and have mercy on us.

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have mercy.

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Deacon Hear us, O God our Savior, the

hope of all those who live everywhere onearth and those far out at sea. Be gracious

toward our sins, Master, and have mercy onus. For You are a merciful God Who loves

mankind, and to You we send up glory, tothe Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

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now, and ever, and to the ages of ages. , .

Amen. .

Synodikon

The Senior Priest (or the Hierarch) recites the

following pericope from the Synodikon of theSeventh Ecumenical Council:

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Priest As the prophets beheld, as theapostles have taught, as the Church has

received, as the teachers have dogmatized,as the universe has agreed, as grace has

illumined, as truth has revealed, as falsehoodhas been dispelled, as wisdom has presented,

as Christ has triumphed; this we believe, thiswe declare, this we preach: Christ our true

God, and His saints we honor in words, in

writings, in thoughts, in sacrifices, intemples, in icons, on the one hand bowingdown and worshipping Christ as God and

Master, on the other hand honoring thesaints as true servants of the Master of all,

and offering to them due veneration.

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This is the faith of the Apostles, ,

This is the faith of the Fathers, ,

This is the faith of the Orthodox, ,

This is the faith which has established theUniverse.

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Therefore with fraternal and filial love wepraise the heralds of the faith, those who with

glory and honor have struggled for the faith,and we say: for the champions of Orthodoxy,

faithful emperors, most-holy patriarchs,hierarchs, teachers, martyrs and confessors:

may their memory be eternal.

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May their memory be eternal. May theirmemory be eternal. May their memory be

eternal.

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Priest Let us beseech God that we may be

instructed and strengthened by the trials andstruggles of these saints, which they endured

for the Faith even unto death, and by their

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teachings, entreating that we may to the endimitate their godly life. May we be deemed

worthy of obtaining our requests through themercy and grace of the great and First

Hierarch, Christ our God, through theintercessions of our glorious Lady, the

Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary, the divineangels and all the saints. Amen.

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Amen. .

Great Prokeimenon

As we reenter the Temple the Great

Prokeimenon is sung:

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What god is so great as our God? You are

God, Who alone works wonders.

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Dismissal

Deacon Let us pray to the Lord. . .

Lord, have mercy. , .

Priest The blessing of the Lord and Hismercy come upon you, through His divine

grace and love for mankind, always; now

and ever, and to the ages of ages.

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Priest Glory to You, O God, glory toYou.

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Priest May (He Who is risen from thedead,) Christ our true God, through theintercessions of His all-pure and all-

blameless holy Mother; by the power of theprecious and life-giving Cross; through the

protection of the honorable heavenly

bodiless powers; through the supplicationsof the honorable, glorious, prophet,forerunner, and baptist John; of the holy,

glorious, and all-praiseworthy Apostles; ofour father among the saints, Basil the Great

Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadociawhose liturgy we celebrate; of the holy,

glorious and victorious martyrs; of ourvenerable and God-bearing fathers; of (the

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patron saint); of the holy and righteousancestors of God, Joachim and Anna; of

Saints (the saints of the day) whom wecommemorate; and of all the saints: have

mercy and save us, for He is good and lovesmankind.

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Unto the one who blesses us and sanctifiesus with Gods grace: Lord keep him in Your

care, many years unto him.

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Through the prayers of our holy fathers, OLord Jesus Christ our God have mercy on

us and save us.

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Amen. .

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