Καλλιτεχνικός Σύλλογος Δημοτικής Μουσικής Δόμνα Σαμίου

THE KONTAKION (To be read, not chanted)

4th Mode

I have transgressed, O Master, more than the harlot, but I have not offered You a shower of tears; praying though, in silence, I fall down before You with fervor, kissing Your sacred feet, that as Lord You will forgive my debts, as I cry out to You, ‘O Saviour, deliver me from the filth of my evil deeds.’

THE OIKOS (To be read, not chanted)

The woman, who was once a prodigal, showed herself suddenly wise, despising her shameful sins and carnal pleasure; she reflected on the magni­tude of her shame, and the judgment of hell, which harlots and prodigals suffer. Of these I am the first, and I am terrified; but, fool that I am, I persist in my perverse habits.
The harlot also was in terror, but she hastened, and came to the Redeemer, crying out: ‘O Loving and Merciful Master, deliver me from the filth of my evil deeds.’

THE SYNAXARION
(The Synaxarion, list of Saints of the Day, is read from the Menaion (Calendar of the Month), followed by the Synaxarion of Holy Wednesday, fom the ‘Triodion’).

On Holy and Great Wednesday the Holy Fathers ordained that commem­oration should be made of the anointing of the Lord with myrrh by the woman who was a sinner; for this occurred shordy before the Passion of the Saviour.

Verses: The woman pouring out myrrh on the Body of Christ, anticipates the myrrh and aloes of Nicodemus. Anointed with the perceptible myrrh, O Christ, God, set us free from overwhelming passions, and have mercy on us, as the only Merciful and Loving God. Amen.

Translated by Father Yeorgios L. Papadeas