Aposticha. Prosomia.

Glory. Both now.

Tone 2. House of Ephratha.

Glory. **Tone 2.**

New Sion, be radiant with children and sing the hymn with palms, ‘See, your King bringing salvation comes to his Passion’.

Verse: From the mouth of babes and sucklings you have made sure of praise.

Adam and Eve, rejoice with Prophets. See, the Lord is hastening to call us back through the Passion.

Verse: Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth.

He who on high with Father and Spirit receives the Angels’ hymn, makes himself strangely a pauper here below, and receives the praise of Children.

**Same melody.**

With fear I praise your dread dispensation. To you I cry, ‘Hosanna!’, for you are coming to save me, blessed Lord.

Assuring us before your Passion of the general resurrection, you raised Lazarus from the dead, O Christ God: therefore, like the Children, we also carry tokens of victory, and we cry to you, the Conqueror of death: Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Another, for Palm Sunday only.

Buried with you through Baptism, Christ our God, we have been granted immortal life by your Resurrection, and we sing your praises, crying: Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Tone 8.

Rejoice and be glad, city of Sion, exult and be joyful, Church of God. For see, your King has come with justice, seated upon a colt, praised by Children, ‘Hosanna in the highest! Blessed are you, who have great compassion. Have mercy on us’.

From the mouth of babes and sucklings you have made sure of praise.

Today the Saviour came to the city of Jerusalem to fulfil the Scripture. And all took palms in their hands, spread their garments before him, knowing that he is our God, to whom the Cherubim cry without ceasing, ‘Hosanna in the highest! Blessed are you, who have great compassion. Have mercy on us’.

Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth!

You, who ride on the Cherubim and are praised by the Seraphim, mounted like David on a colt, O loving Lord. And Children sang your praise in a manner fitting God. Jews unlawfully blasphemed you. Your sitting on a colt prefigured how the untamed nations were being changed from unbelief to faith. Glory to you, O Christ, who alone are merciful and love humankind.

Today the grace of the Holy Spirit has gathered us together, and taking up the Cross we all say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!’

**The same again.**

Assuring us before your Passion of the general resurrection, you raised Lazarus from the dead, O Christ God. Therefore, like the Children, we also carry tokens of victory, and we cry to you, the Conqueror of death: Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. (

**Twice**) ****

Another, for Palm Sunday only.

Buried with you through Baptism, Christ our God, we have been granted immortal life by your Resurrection, and we sing your praises, crying: Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

By Kyprianos. Tone 2.

From palms and branches, as we pass from divine Feast to divine Feast, let us believers make haste together to the solemn and saving celebration of the Sufferings of Christ. Let us look upon him as he undergoes voluntary suffering for our sake, and let us raise a fitting hymn of thanksgiving to him, as we cry out, ‘Source of compassion and harbour of salvation, Lord, glory to you!’

**Verse:** Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things.

By Patriarch Elias. Tone 3.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. He is the Judge of the thoughts and meditations of the heart. Let no one enter putting the unblemished faith on trial. But with meekness and fear let us draw near to Christ that we make receive mercy and find grace for timely help.

**Verse:** All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

By the same. Tone 7.

Evil and adulterous Synagogue, who did not keep faith with your own husband, why do you hold fast to the covenant to which you were not heir? Why do you make the Father your boast since you have rejected the Son? You did not accept the Prophets when they proclaimed the Son. Be ashamed in front of your own children as they shout, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’

From palms and branches, as we pass from divine Feast to divine Feast, let us believers make haste together to the solemn and saving celebration of the Sufferings of Christ. Let us look upon him as he undergoes voluntary suffering for our sake and let us raise a fitting hymn of thanksgiving to him crying out, ‘Source of compassion and harbour of salvation, Lord, glory to you!’

Both now. **Tone 3.**

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. He is the Judge of the thoughts and meditations of the heart. Let no one enter putting the unblemished faith on trial. But with meekness and fear let us draw near to Christ that we make receive mercy and find grace for timely help.

**Apolytikion** Virgin Mother of God**, and all the rest with the prostrations, as on the preceding Sundays at Vespers.**

**Note that** Virgin Mother of God **is chanted with music on all the Sundays of holy Lent as on the present one. But on the other days of Holy Week it is simply recited.**