At the Aposticha the following Idiomel, with the usual verses, as yesterday.

Glory. Both now.

Tone 8

**Theotokion.**

Let us hurry to be cleansed through fasting from the stain of our faults and through mercy and compassion for the poor to enter the bridal chamber of Christ the Bridegroom, who grants us his great mercy.

To you I lift up my eyes, to you who are enthroned in the heavens. As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master: or as the eyes of a maid toward the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God: until he show us his mercy.

Let us hurry to be cleansed through fasting from the stain of our faults and through mercy and compassion for the poor to enter the bridal chamber of Christ the Bridegroom, who grants us his great mercy.

Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we have our fill of derision; our soul has its fill. Mockery for those at ease: and derision for the proud.

Martyrs of the Lord, we beg you: intercede with our God and ask for our souls a multitude of mercies and pardon of our many transgressions.

Let us devoutly sing the praise of the glorious and immaculate true Bearer of God as Mother of God, greeting her like the Angel, ‘Hail, holy Mother of the incarnate Son of God. Hail, dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, who ever intercede for us that our souls may be saved’.