AT MATINS

The Anavathmi, the 1st Antiphon of the 4th Tone.

Prokeimenon. Tone 4.

**After the 1st Psalter Reading,

Kathisma. Tone 4. Lifted up on the Cross.**

**Theotokion.**

After the 2nd Psalter Reading,

Chief Captain of the bodiless Ministers, you stand before God and are made radiant with the rays that come from him, make bright, make holy those who faithfully sing your praise, deliver them from every tyranny of the foe, and ask for a peaceful life for our Sovereigns and all the ends of the earth.

**Theotokion. Model melody.**

Glory. Both now.

**The Same.**

**Theotokion.**

Then the Canons are sung, that of the Mother of God to 6, and the following two of the Bodiless Powers to 8.

We your servants, Mother of God, Sovereign Lady, will never cease to hymn your mercies with thanksgiving from the heart, as we cry out and say: All-holy Virgin, come speedily and deliver us from seen and unseen foes; for you always save your servants from evils of every kind.

Kathisma. Tone 4. Lifted up on the Cross.

The Cherubim and many-eyed Seraphim, the hosts of ministering Archangels with the Virtues, Thrones, Dominations, Angels, Powers and Principalities implore you, our Maker and God and Master: Do not despise the supplication of a sinful people, O Christ most merciful.

**The same.**

Come speedily to help, before we are enslaved to foes who blaspheme you and threaten us, Christ our God; by your Cross do away with those who war against us; let them know how strong is the faith of the Orthodox; at the prayers of the Mother of God, O only lover of mankind.

After the Polyeleos . Kathisma.

Tone 8. Taking knowledge.

Princes and Chiefs of the heavenly realms, of the high-throned and dread regions of the divine glory, Michael and Gabriel, Chief Captains and Ministers, with all the Bodiless Powers, who ever intercede with the Master on the world’s behalf, ask forgiveness of offences for us, and that we may find mercy and grace on the day of judgement.

O Pure, O blessed one, filled with God’s grace, with the Powers above, with the Archangels and all the Bodiless ones, on our behalf ceaselessly implore him who through his compassionate pity was born from you, that before the end he may grant us pardon and forgiveness of sins, and amendment of life, that we may find mercy.

Who makes spirits his Angels and a flame of fire his Ministers.

Bless the Lord, O my soul; O Lord, my God, you have been greatly magnified. ****

Gospel according to John. See Monday of Pentecost.

Psalm 50.

At the prayers of the Bodiless Powers, O Merciful One, wipe away the multitude of my offences.

At the prayers of the Mother of God O Merciful One, wipe away the multitude of my offences.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your great mercy; according to the fullness of your compassion blot out my offences.

Idiomel by Arsenios. Tone 2.

As you surround the immaterial throne, O spiritual beings, divine Bodiless ones, you sing the thrice-holy hymn to God the Ruler with lips of flame: Holy God, the Father without beginning; Holy strong, the co-eternal Son; Holy immortal, the consubstantial Spirit, glorified together with the Father and the Son.

First Canon of the Bodiless Powers.

A Composition of Monk John.