Pentecost Monday 2016
An 18th-century Russian icon of Pentecost. (public domain image from Wikipedia.) |
The Holy Spirit ever was, and is, and will be; he had no beginning, and shall have no end, but is ever ranked together with the Father and the Son, and numbered with them; Life, and the maker of life, Light that leadeth unto light, wholly good, and the source of goodness, through whom the Father is made known, the Son is glorified, and known by all: one power, one unity, one adoration of the Holy Trinity. (Second sticheron.)
The Holy Spirit, light, and life, and the living font of reason, the Spirit of wisdom, and the Spirit of understanding, good, righteous, rational, ruling us, and purifying our faults; God, that maketh us like God, fire, that comes forth from fire, speaking, acting, dividing graces, through whom all the Prophets, and the Apostles of God, together with the Martyrs were crowned. Wholly new is this which we have heard and seen, a fire divided unto distributions of graces. (Third sticheron.)
Since it is a long-standing custom of the Rite never to kneel in Eastertide, a custom which goes back to a decree of the First Council of Nicea, this Vespers also includes the ritual known as the “gonyklisia – the bending of the knee.” This consists of the recitation of a number of prayers interpolated between the regular Litanies (some of them extraordinarily long, even by Byzantine standards), which the priest says while kneeling down before the iconostasis, facing the people. Every Vespers in the Byzantine Rite belongs to the day following it; there is no such thing as Second Vespers, even for a Sunday or a major feast like Pentecost. There, although this Vespers is sung on the evening of Pentecost Sunday, it is liturgically part of Monday, and therefore outside the 50 day period in which kneeling is prohibited in the liturgy. Here is the shortest of the kneeling prayers; the full texts are included in the links given above.
“Lord, Lord, who are wont to save us from every arrow that flieth by day, deliver us from everything that goeth about in darkness. Accept as an evening sacrifice the lifting up of our hands, and make us worthy to pass the course of the night blamelessly, untempted by evil, and release us from every disturbance and fear that cometh to us from the devil. Grant contrition to our souls, and to our thoughts due care for our trial in Thy fearful and just judgment. Transfix our bodies with the fear of Thee, and mortify our earthly members, so that even in the silence of sleep, we may be cheered by the contemplation of Thy judgments. Put far from us every improper imagining and harmful desire, and raise us up at the hour of prayer strengthened in faith, and advancing in Thy commandments.”
Source: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2016/05/pentecost-monday-2016.html
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