The Procession with the Holy Icons on the First Sunday of the Great Fast

Procession with the Holy Icons

on the First Sunday of the Great Fast
on the Sunday of Orthodoxy
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THE PROCESSION
WITH THE HOLY ICONS

Preceded by the Acolytes bearing icons and

the censer, the Priest exits from the Holy of
Holies carrying the precious Cross, and a
procession is made around the exterior of the
church stopping at four points. At each station
petitions are intoned, and the Apolitikion of
the Feast is chanted.

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Troparion

Tone 2

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Your immaculate Icon we venerate, O Good

One, begging for the forgiveness of our
offenses, O Christ God; for, of Your own
will, You consented in the flesh to ascend
unto the Cross, in order to rescue those
whom You created from the bondage of the
enemy; wherefore, thankfully we cry out to
You: You filled all things with joy, our
Savior, in coming to save the world.

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Petitions

Stopping at the south side of the Church,

petitions for the living are intoned:

Deacon Have mercy on us, O God,

according to Your great mercy; we beseech
You, hear us and have mercy.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, .

have mercy.

Deacon Again we pray for pious and

Orthodox Christians.

Amen.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, .

have mercy.

Priest For You are a merciful God Who

loves mankind, and to You we send up
glory: to the Father, and to the Son, and to
the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the
ages of ages.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, .

have mercy.

Deacon Again we pray for our Archbishop

(Name), and for all our brotherhood in
Christ.

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Troparion

Tone 2

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Your immaculate Icon we venerate, O Good

One, begging for the forgiveness of our
offenses, O Christ God; for, of Your own
will, You consented in the flesh to ascend
unto the Cross, in order to rescue those
whom You created from the bondage of the
enemy; wherefore, thankfully we cry out to
You: You filled all things with joy, our
Savior, in coming to save the world.

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Petitions

Stopping at the east side of the Church, ,

petitions for the deceased are intoned:

Deacon Have mercy on us, O God,

according to Your great mercy ; we beseech
You, hear us and have mercy.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, .

have mercy.

Deacon Again we pray for the blessed

memory and eternal repose of all those who
have fallen asleep in the hope for eternal
life: the pious Orthodox Christians, kings,
patriarchs, hierarchs, priests, hieromonks,
hierodeacons, and monastics; our fathers,
forefathers, grandfathers, ancestors, parents,
children, brothers, and relatives; all those
who have lived from ancient times until the
present and for the forgiveness of all their
offenses, both voluntary and involuntary.

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May their memory be eternal. May their .

memory be eternal. May their memory be . .
eternal.
Priest For You are the Resurrection, the
Life, and the Repose of all pious Orthodox
Christians who have fallen asleep, O Christ
our God, and to You we send up glory, with
Your unoriginate Father, and Your all-holy,
good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever,
and to the ages of ages.
Amen.

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Troparion

Tone 2

'

Your immaculate Icon we venerate, O Good

One, begging for the forgiveness of our
offenses, O Christ God; for, of Your own
will, You consented in the flesh to ascend
unto the Cross, in order to rescue those
whom You created from the bondage of the
enemy; wherefore, thankfully we cry out to
You: You filled all things with joy, our
Savior, in coming to save the world.

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Petitions

Stopping at the north side of the Church,

petitions for the living are intoned:

Deacon Have mercy on us, O God,

according to Your great mercy ; we beseech
You, hear us and have mercy.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, .

have mercy.

Deacon Again we pray for mercy, life,

peace,
health,
salvation,
visitation,
forgiveness, and remission of sins of the
servants of God, of all pious and Orthodox
Christians, of those who dwell and are in
this city, and of the members and the council
of this holy church.

Amen.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, .

have mercy.

Priest For You are a merciful God Who

loves mankind, and to You we send up
glory: to the Father, and to the Son, and to
the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the
ages of ages.

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Troparion

Tone 2

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Your immaculate Icon we venerate, O Good

One, begging for the forgiveness of our ,
offenses, O Christ God; for, of Your own ,
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will, You consented in the flesh to ascend
unto the Cross, in order to rescue those ,
whom You created from the bondage of the
enemy; wherefore, thankfully we cry out to ,
You: You filled all things with joy, our ,
Savior, in coming to save the world.
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Petitions

Stopping at the east side (before the entrance) (

of the Church, petitions for the living are )
intoned:

Deacon Have mercy on us, O God,

according to Your great mercy ; we beseech
You, hear us and have mercy.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, .

have mercy.

Deacon Again we pray for the protection of

this holy church, this city and every city and
land, from wrath, famine, pestilence,
earthquake, flood, fire, sword, foreign
invasions, civil strife, and accidental death;
that our good God Who loves mankind may
be merciful, gracious and favorable to us by
turning and diverting from us all wrath and
sickness impending against us, and deliver
us from His just rebuke, and have mercy on
us.

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, .

have mercy.

Deacon Hear us, O God our Savior, the

hope of all those who live everywhere on
earth and those far out at sea. Be gracious
toward our sins, Master, and have mercy on
us. For You are a merciful God Who loves
mankind, and to You we send up glory, to
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

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Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, .

have mercy.

Deacon Again we pray that the Lord our

God will hear the voice of the petition of us
sinners, and have mercy on us.

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now, and ever, and to the ages of ages.
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Amen.

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Synodikon

The Senior Priest (or the Hierarch) recites the

following pericope from the Synodikon of the '
Seventh Ecumenical Council:

Priest As the prophets beheld, as the
apostles have taught, as the Church has
received, as the teachers have dogmatized,
as the universe has agreed, as grace has
illumined, as truth has revealed, as falsehood
has been dispelled, as wisdom has presented,
as Christ has triumphed; this we believe, this
we declare, this we preach: Christ our true
God, and His saints we honor in words, in
writings, in thoughts, in sacrifices, in
temples, in icons, on the one hand bowing
down and worshipping Christ as God and
Master, on the other hand honoring the
saints as true servants of the Master of all,
and offering to them due veneration.

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This is the faith of the Apostles,

This is the faith of the Fathers,

This is the faith of the Orthodox,

This is the faith which has established the .

Universe.
Therefore with fraternal and filial love we
praise the heralds of the faith, those who with
glory and honor have struggled for the faith,
and we say: for the champions of Orthodoxy,
faithful emperors, most-holy patriarchs,
hierarchs, teachers, martyrs and confessors:
may their memory be eternal.

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May their memory be eternal. May their .

memory be eternal. May their memory be . .
eternal.
Priest Let us beseech God that we may be
instructed and strengthened by the trials and
struggles of these saints, which they endured
for the Faith even unto death, and by their

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teachings, entreating that we may to the end
imitate their godly life. May we be deemed ,
worthy of obtaining our requests through the ,
mercy and grace of the great and First
Hierarch, Christ our God, through the
intercessions of our glorious Lady, the ,

Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary, the divine

angels and all the saints. Amen.
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Amen.

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Great Prokeimenon

As we reenter the
Prokeimenon is sung:

Temple

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Great ,

What god is so great as our God? You are ;

God, Who alone works wonders.
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What god is so great as our God? You are ;
God, Who alone works wonders.
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What god is so great as our God? You are ;
God, Who alone works wonders.
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Dismissal

Deacon Let us pray to the Lord.

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Lord, have mercy.
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Priest The blessing of the Lord and His

mercy come upon you, through His divine
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grace and love for mankind, always; now
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and ever, and to the ages of ages.
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Amen.
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Priest Glory to You, O God, glory to
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You.
Priest May (He Who is risen from the
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dead,) Christ our true God, through the
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intercessions of His all-pure and all
blameless holy Mother; by the power of the

precious and life-giving Cross; through the

protection of the honorable heavenly

bodiless powers; through the supplications
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of the honorable, glorious, prophet,
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forerunner, and baptist John; of the holy,

glorious, and all-praiseworthy Apostles; of

our father among the saints, Basil the Great
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Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia

whose liturgy we celebrate; of the holy,

glorious and victorious martyrs; of our

venerable and God-bearing fathers; of (the
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patron saint); of the holy and righteous
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ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna; of
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Saints (the saints of the day) whom we
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commemorate; and of all the saints: have
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mercy and save us, for He is good and loves
mankind.
Unto the one who blesses us and sanctifies , ,
us with Gods grace: Lord keep him in Your .
care, many years unto him.
Through the prayers of our holy fathers, O
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Lord Jesus Christ our God have mercy on
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us and save us.
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Amen.
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