AT VESPERS

**At** Lord, I have cried **we sing the 3 following Prosomia.**

Glory. Both now.

**Theotokion.**

Tone 4. As noble among Martyrs.

Or Cross-Theotokion.

As eye witnesses and ones who testified to the incarnation of the Word, O truly happy disciples, you are called blessed, for shining like flashes of lightning, you appeared to the world, and like spiritual mountains you dripped sweetness; divided like ever-flowing rivers of Paradise, you water the churches of the nations with divine streams.

Like thunderbolts, blazing with the beams of the Spirit, you were sent out through all the world, granting ungrudgingly the force of wonders, ministers of the mysteries of Christ and written tablets of God’s grace, inscribed by God with the law taught by God, all-blessed initiates.

The rod of the fishermen troubled the arrogance of philosophers and the eloquence of rhetors; for they clearly set out the teachings of divine wisdom, the doctrines of graces and the Gospel of ten thousand blessings, the participation in eternal delight, the pleasures of angels and enduring glory.

We, who are much storm-tossed on the sea of the troubles and harsh difficulties of life, have you as the most sheltered haven of salvation, and as gentle calm; and so we all have recourse to you as we cry out: Never cease to stand by your servants.

O all-immaculate Ewe-lamb, you bore the unblemished Lamb, who came to heal the sin of the whole world by his own blood, who was slaughtered for our sake and gave life to the universe; clothe me, who have been stripped naked of divine incorruption, with the cloak of divine grace from the wool of your Offspring.