Glory…, Now & ever…: O only-begotten Son and Word of God, Who art immortal, yet didst deign for our salvation to be incarnate of the holy Theotokos and Ever-virgin Mary, and without change didst become man, and wast crucified, O Christ God, trampling down death by death, Thou Who art One of the Holy Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit, save us.

¶27

Stichos: The Lord is King, let the peoples rage.

¶28

O Lord, save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance. Grant victory unto Orthodox Christians over their adversaries, preserving Thy community by Thy Cross.

¶29

Stichos: The Lord is King, let the peoples rage; He sitteth on the cherubim, let the earth be shaken.

¶30

O Lord, save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance. Grant victory unto Orthodox Christians over their adversaries, preserving Thy community by Thy Cross.

¶31

Stichos: The Lord is great in Sion, and He is high above all peoples.

¶32

O Lord, save Thy people…

¶33

Stichos: Worship the Lord in His holy court.

¶34

O Lord, save Thy people…

¶35

Then, the Entrance. And the deacon saith: Wisdom! Stand aright!

¶36

Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship the footstool of His feet, for it is holy.

¶37

O Lord, save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance. Grant victory unto Orthodox Christians over their adversaries, preserving Thy community by Thy Cross.

¶38

O Thou Who wast lifted up willingly on the Cross, bestow Thy compassions upon the new community called after Thee, O Christ God; gladden by Thy power Orthodox Christians, granting them victory over all adversaries. May they have as an ally the invincible trophy, Thy weapon of peace.

¶39

Before Thy Cross we bow down, O Master, and Thy holy resurrection do we glorify!

¶40

Prokimenon, in Tone VII-

¶41

Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship the footstool of His feet, for it is holy. [Ps 98:5]

¶42

Stichos: The Lord is king; let the peoples rage.

¶43

Epistle to the Corinthians, §125

¶44

[I Cor. 1: 18-24]

¶45

Brethren: The preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

¶46

Alleluia, in Tone I—

¶47

Stichos: Remember Thy congregation which Thou hast purchased from the beginning.

¶48

Stichos: God is our King before the ages, He hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

¶49

Gospel according to John, §60

¶50

[Jn. 19: 6-11, 13-20, 25-28, 30-35]

¶51

At that time, the high priests and elders took council against Jesus to put Him to death. And they delivered Him to Pilate saying: “Away with Him! away with Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate said unto them: “Take ye Him, and crucify Him: for I find no fault in Him. The Jews answered him: “We have a law, and by our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God.” When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid; and went again into the judgment hall, and said unto Jesus: “Whence art Thou?” But Jesus gave him no answer. Then said Pilate unto Him: “Speakest Thou not unto me? Knowest Thou not that I have power to crucify Thee, and have power to release Thee?” Jesus answered: “Thou couldst have no power at all against Me, except it were given thee from above.” When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he said unto the Jews: “Behold your King!” But they cried out: “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate said unto them: “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered: “We have no king but Cæsar.” Then delivered he Him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led Him away. And He bearing His Cross went forth into a place called the place of the skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, on either side, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the Cross. And the writing was: “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews”. This title then read many of the Jews; for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Now there stood by the Cross of Jesus His Mother, and His Mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw His Mother, and the disciple standing by, whom He loved, He said unto His Mother: “Woman, behold thy son!” Then said He to the disciple: “Behold thy Mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, bowed His head, and gave up the ghost. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with Him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead already, they broke not His legs: but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bore record, and his record is true.

¶52

Communion Verse—

¶53

The light of Thy countenance, O Lord, hath been signed upon us.

Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.