On Lord, I have cried…, 6 stichera: 3 of the fathers, in Tone VI: Special Melody: The despairing…—

Before the ages Thou wast begotten of the womb of the Father without mother before the morning star; yet Arius calleth Thee a creature, refusing to glorify Thee as God, with audacity mindlessly confusing Thee, the Creator, with a creature, laying up for himself fuel for the everlasting fire. But the Council in Nicæa proclaimed Thee to be the Son of God, Who art equally enthroned with the Father and the Spirit.

Who hath rent Thy garment, O Savior? It was Arius, Thou hast said, who separated the Trinity’s authority of equal honor into divisions.

He hath denied Thee to be One of the Trinity. He hath taught Nestorius not to say “Theotokos.” But the Council in Nicæa proclaimed Thee to be the Son of God, Who art equally enthroned with the Father and the Spirit.

Arius, who hated to see the Light, falleth into the pit of sin, and his bowels are rent asunder by the hook of God, so that they violently rendered up his being and soul, for he was another Judas in character and image. But the Council in Nicæa proclaimed Thee to be the Son of God, Who art equally enthroned with the Father and the Spirit.

And 3 from the Menaion.

Glory…, in Tone VI—

Let us praise the God-bearing fathers, the mystical clarions of the Spirit, which in the midst of the Church sound forth the melodious hymn of theology unto the one Trinity, the immutable Essence and Godhead. It is they, the champions of the Orthodox, who cast down Arius, and ever pray to the Lord that our souls find mercy.

Now & ever…, in the same tone—

Beholding Thine ascension upon the holy mountain, O Christ, Thou Effulgence of the glory of the Father, we hymn the radiant form of Thy countenance, we worship Thy sufferings, and we honor Thy resurrection, glorifying Thy glorious ascension. Have mercy on us!

Aposticha stichera, Special Melody: Having set all aside…, in Tone VI—

Having shared their spiritual skills, and reviewed the heavenly and precious Symbol of Faith through the divine Spirit, the honored fathers inscribed it with a divine writing, wherein the right glorious, most rich and truly divine wise ones teach most clearly that the Word is equally without beginning and everlasting with Him Who begot Him, thus following most carefully the teachings of the apostles.

Stichos: Blessed art Thou, O Lord God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is Thy name unto the ages.

Having received all the noetic radiance of the Holy Spirit, as preachers of Christ, the divine defenders of the teachings of the Gospel and the traditions of the pious, inspired by God, proclaimed their most supernatural decision; and having manifestly received from on high the revelation thereof, being illumined, they expounded the Faith taught by God.

Stichos: Gather together unto Him His holy ones who have established His covenant upon sacrifices.

Having mustered all their pastoral skill and then being moved to wrath most just, as champions, as most true servants of Christ and most sacred keepers of the mysteries of divine preaching, the divine pastors drove forth the savage and pernicious wolves, casting them out of the fullness of the Church; and they fell, as it were, to their deaths as ones afflicted incurably.

Glory…, in Tone III—

Ye were diligent keepers of the Traditions of the apostles, O holy fathers; for teaching in Orthodox manner the consubstantiality of the Holy Trinity, as a council ye cast down the blasphemy of Arius, with him denouncing Macedonius, who denied the Spirit; and ye condemned Nestorius, Eutyches and Dioscorus, Sabellius and Severus the mindless. Pray ye that we be delivered from their delusion, and that our life be kept undefiled in the Faith, we beseech you.

Now & ever…, in Tone VI—

God hath gone up with jubilation, the Lord at the sound of the trumpet, to raise up the fallen form of Adam, and to send the Comforting Spirit to sanctify our souls.

Troparion of the fathers, in Tone VIII—

Most glorious art Thou, O Christ our God, Who hast established our fathers upon the earth as beacons, and hast thereby guided us all to the true Faith! O greatly Compassionate One, glory be to Thee! Twice

Glory…: Troparion of the saint, if there be one; if not, Glory…, Now & ever…: Troparion of the ascension, in Tone IV—

Thou didst ascend in glory, O Christ our God, Who by the promise of the Holy Spirit didst fill the disciples with joy, when they had been assured by Thy blessing that Thou art the Son of God, the Deliverer of the world.

And thus do we take leave of the holy fathers.

After the first chanting of the Psalter, this sessional hymn, in Tone I: Special Melody: When the stone had been sealed…—

As the angels marveled at Thy strange ascent, and the disciples were filled with awe at Thy strange uplifting, Thou didst ascend with glory as God, and the gates were lifted up for Thee, O Savior; wherefore, the hosts of heaven were amazed, crying out: Glory to Thy condescension, O Savior! Glory to Thy kingdom! Glory to Thine ascension, O Thou Who alone lovest mankind! Twice

After the second chanting of the Psalter, this sessional hymn, in the same melody—

When hades had been made captive by Thee, O Bestower of life, and the world had been enlightened in Thy resurrection, Thou didst ascend with glory, O Savior Who holdest all things in Thy hand; wherefore, with the angels we glorify Thee, O Lord Almighty: Glory to Thine ascension, O Christ! Glory to Thy kingdom! Glory to Thy lovingkindness, O Thou Who alone lovest mankind! Twice

Psalm 50.

Canon of the ascension, in Tone IV, with 8 troparia, including the irmos; and that from the Menaion, with 4 troparia. Kontakion and exapostilarion of the feast.

Aposticha stichera, in Tone II: Special Melody: O house of Ephratha…—

O ye faithful, let us go up together to the mountains of virtue with the disciples of the Word, that we may be vouchsafed to behold the glory of Christ.

Stichos: Clap your hands, all ye nations; shout unto God with a voice of rejoicing.

The ideas of the Manichæans have been manifestly shamed, at which the noetic intelligences were perplexed, who manifestly speak of the ascension of Christ in the flesh.

Stichos: God is gone up in jubilation, the Lord with the voice of the trumpet.

Be thou jubilant, O David, rejoicing with thy harp; for Christ Who hath ascended confirmeth the words of thy prophecy with deeds.

Glory…, Now & ever…, in Tone II—

Thou didst ascend in glory on the Mount of Olives, O Christ God, in the presence of Thy disciples, and didst sit at the right hand of the Father, O Thou Who fillest all things with Thy divinity; and Thou didst send them the Holy Spirit, Who enlighteneth, confirmeth and doth hallow our souls.

On the Beatitudes, 6 troparia, from Ode V.