AT VESPERS

On “Lord, I have cried…”, these stichera, in Tone IV: Spec. Mel.: “As one valiant among the martyrs…” —

Soaring above earthly things through thine active purifications like an animate cloud, O most blessed one, thou didst cast down the perverse serpent with the thunder-claps of thy miracles and the awesome lightning-flashes of thy words, and thou didst receive the grace to burn up the bowels of the adverse carnal serpents with the divine covering of the sacred Gifts.

O holy hierarch Timothy, boast of the people of Prussa, universal champion and beacon of the world, adornment of the Church, sacred sacrifice of faith, and precious and lustrous ornament of the martyrs: pray thou that those who celebrate thy most honored memory with faith may be delivered from corruption and misfortunes.

With thy pangs, O Timothy, thou didst weave an all-comely garment dyed in thy blood, and hast ineffably received from on high heavenly vesture of incorrupt purity and immutable life. Wearing this immaterial robe in the highest, pray thou in behalf of all who praise thee with piety, O athlete.

But if Alleluia is to be chanted at matins instead of “God is the Lord…”, the following stichera of the Theotokos are chanted before the foregoing stichera of the saint, in the same tone & melody —

Deliver my lowly soul from condemnation and grievous transgressions, O all-holy Bride of God, and by thy supplications rescue it from death; grant that, on the day of trial, it may obtain the justification which the assemblies of the saints have received, and, before the end, show it forth to be purified by outpourings of tears.

With the showers of the all-holy Spirit bedew thou my mind, O all-pure one who gavest birth unto Christ, the Drop of rain, Who by His compassions hath washed away the immeasurably boundless iniquities of men; dry up the source of my passions, and ever vouchsafe unto me a torrent of living sustenance by thy supplications.

O Virgin who gavest birth to my Savior, by thy supplications grant me thorough repentance, the healing of salvation, torrents of tears, remembrance of the dread and awesome hour and the impartial Judge, that I may escape terrifying torment and receive grace divine.

Glory…, Now & ever… —

Ten thousand time have I promised repentance for mine offenses, O all-pure one, yet I do not forsake the way of evil which I have come to love; wherefore, I cry out to thee and fall down in supplication: Rescue me, O Mistress, from such tyranny, guiding me to the higher things which lead to salvation.

Stavrotheotokion —

When she beheld Thee, the Lamb and Shepherd, upon the Tree, the ewe-lamb who gave Thee birth lamented and cried out to Thee maternally: “O my Son most desired, how is it that Thou art suspended upon the Tree, O Long-suffering One? How is it that Thy feet and hands have been pierced with nails by the iniquitous, O Word, and Thou hast shed Thy blood, O Master?”