Ode 9. Irmos.

No Exapostilarion is sung, but only

At Lauds we insert 6 Stichera, and sing the following Idiomels, doubling the first two.

‘The Lord is God and has appeared to us. Together celebrate a feast, and rejoicing, come, let us magnify Christ with palms and branches as we cry out in hymns, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, our Saviour’’.

Glory. Both now.

Idiomel Stichera. Tone 4.

Nations, why did you rage? Scribes and Priests, why did you meditate vain things, saying, ‘Who is this, to whom Children with palms and branches shout aloud with hymns, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, our Saviour’?’

A very great crowd, Lord, spread their garments in the way, while others cut down branches from the trees and carried them. Those who went ahead and those who followed cried out, saying, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed are you who came and who are coming again in the name of the Lord’. (

This is our God and there is none like him. He has found out every just way and given it to Israel his beloved. But after this he appeared and lived among mankind. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, our Saviour.

**Twice**) ****

Disobedient people, why do put stumbling blocks for us on the path? Your feet are swift to shed the blood of the Master. But he will arise to save all those who cry, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, our Saviour’.

The same Tone.

The Lord is God. ****

As you were about to enter the Holy City, Lord, the peoples were carrying branches of plants as they hymned you, the Master of all things, seeing you seated on the colt, as though they beheld you on the Cherubim. And therefore they cried out , ‘Hosanna in the highest! Blessed are you who came and who are coming again in the name of the Lord’. (

Holy is the Lord our God. **We sing the same, and no other, 3 times.**

**Twice**) ****

The same Tone.

Come forth, you nations, and come forth you peoples, and look today on the King of Heaven on a humble colt as on a lofty throne treading the path to Jerusalem. Faithless and adulterous generation of the Jews, look on the one whom Isaias saw who has come for our sake in flesh. see, how he weds the new Sion, for she is chaste, and rejects the synagogue that is condemned. As at a marriage that is incorrupt and undefiled, the undefiled and innocent Children run together as they sing his praise. As we raise the song with them, let us cry aloud the Angels’ song, ‘Hosanna in the highest to him who has great mercy!’

The same Tone.

Before your voluntary Passion, Christ God, foreshadowing the general Resurrection for the assurance of all, in Bethany you raised Lazarus, dead for four days, by your mighty power, and as giver of light gave sight to the blind, O Saviour. And with your Disciples you entered the Holy City, seated, as though riding on the Cherubim, on the colt of an ass, so fulfilling the preaching of the Prophets. And the Children of the Hebrews with branches and palms went out to meet you. Therefore we also, carrying branches of olive and palms, cry out to you with thanksgiving, ‘Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany and his Disciples approached him, saying, ‘Lord, where do you wish us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?’ But he sent them, saying, ‘Go to the village opposite and you will find a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him and say to the master of the household, ‘The Teacher says, ‘I am celebrating Passover with you along with my Disciples’’’.

Great Doxology and Dismissal.

The Liti takes place outside the monastery, and the Instruction.