Universal Exaltation (Elevation) of the Precious and Life-giving Cross
[Music for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross from the Department of Liturgical Music and Translations can be downloaded at www.oca.org]
( at the Divine Liturgy)
The First Antiphon
God, my God, attend to me! Why have You forsaken me? (Ps.21/22:1)
Refrain: Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us!
Why are You so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
(Ps 21/22:1b)
Refrain: Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us!
O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer; and by night, but find no
rest. (Ps 21/22:2)
Refrain: Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us!
You dwell in the sanctuary, the praise of Israel. (Ps 21/22:3))
Refrain: Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us!
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever,
and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Refrain: Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us!
The Second Antiphon
O God, why have You cast us off forever? (Ps 73/74:1)
Refrain: O Son of God, crucified in the flesh, save us who sing to You: Alleluia!
Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old! (Ps 73/74:2)
Refrain: O Son of God, crucified in the flesh, save us who sing to You: Alleluia!
Remember Mount Zion, where You have dwelt! (Ps 73/74:2b)
Refrain: O Son of God, crucified in the flesh, save us who sing to You: Alleluia!
God is our King before the ages; He has worked salvation in the midst of the earth. (Ps 73/74:12)
Refrain: O Son of God, crucified in the flesh, save us who sing to You: Alleluia!
The Third Antiphon
The Lord reigns, let the people tremble! (Ps 98/99:1)
Tone 1 Troparion of the Feast
O Lord, save Your people
and bless Your inheritance!
Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians
over their adversaries;
and by virtue of Your Cross,//
preserve Your habitation!
The Lord reigns, let the people tremble! He sits enthroned upon the Cherubim; let the earth quake! (Ps 98/99:1)
Troparion of the Feast
The Lord is great in Zion; He is exalted over all the people. (Ps 98/99:2)
Troparion of the Feast
Bow down in worship to the Lord in His holy court! (Ps 98/99:9)
Troparion of the Feast
Entrance Verse
Extol the Lord our God: worship at His footstool for He is holy! (Ps 98/99:5)
Tone 1 Troparion
O Lord, save Your people
and bless Your inheritance!
Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians
over their adversaries;
and by virtue of Your Cross,//
preserve Your habitation!
Tone 4 Kontakion
As You were voluntarily raised upon the Cross for our sake,
grant mercy to those who are called by Your Name, O Christ God;
make all Orthodox Christians glad by your power,
granting them victories over their adversaries//
by bestowing on them the invincible trophy, Your weapon of peace!
(Instead of the Trisagion)
Before Your Cross, we bow down in worship, O Master,
and Your holy Resurrection, we glorify.
Tone 7 Prokeimenon
Extol the Lord our God: worship at His footstool for He is holy! (Ps 98/99:5)
v: The Lord reigns, let the people tremble! (Ps 98/99:1)
Epistle
1 Corinthians 1:18-24
Tone 1
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
v. Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old!
(Ps 73/74:2)
v: God is our King before the ages; He has worked salvation in the midst of the earth. (Ps 73/74:12)
Gospel
John 19:6-11, 13-20, 25-28, 30-35
Instead of “It is truly meet …,” we sing:)
Tone 8
Magnify, O my soul, the most precious Cross of the Lord!
You are a mystical Paradise, O Theotokos,
who, though untilled, have brought forth Christ;
through Him the life-bearing wood of the Cross was planted on earth.
Now at its Elevation,
as we bow in worship before it, we magnify you.
Communion Hymn
The light of Your countenance has shone on us, O Lord. (Ps 4/5:6)
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
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