BEFORE THY CROSS
(FOR THE HIERARCHICAL LITURGY)
CHOIR: Before Thy Cross, we bow down in worship Master
and Thy Holy Resurrection we glorify
CLERGY: Before Thy Cross, we bow down in worship Master
and Thy Holy Resurrection we glorify
CHOIR: Before Thy Cross, we bow down in worship Master
and Thy Holy Resurrection we glorify
CLERGY: Before Thy Cross, we bow down in worship Master
and Thy Holy Resurrection we glorify
CHOIR: Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
CHOIR: And Thy holy resurrection we glorify.
CHOIR: Before Thy Cross
BISHOP: O LORD, O LORD, LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND BEHOLD
AND VISIST THIS VINE AND PERFECT THAT WHICH
THY RIGHT HAND HAS PLANTED!
CHOIR: MANY YEARS MASTER!
We bow down in worship master
BISHOP: O LORD, O LORD, LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND BEHOLD
AND VISIST THIS VINE AND PERFECT THAT WHICH
THY RIGHT HAND HAS PLANTED!
CHOIR: MANY YEARS MASTER!
And Thy holy resurrection,
BISHOP: O LORD, O LORD, LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND BEHOLD
AND VISIST THIS VINE AND PERFECT THAT WHICH
THY RIGHT HAND HAS PLANTED!
CHOIR: MANY YEARS MASTER!
We glorify!
DEACON: With Strength! (or Dynamis!)
CHOIR: Before Thy Cross, we bow down in worship Master
And Thy Holy Resurrection we glorify
DEACON: O Lord, Save the Pious
CHOIR: O Lord, Save the Pious
DEACON: O Lord, Save the Pious
CHOIR: O Lord, Save the Pious
DEACON: O Lord, Save those of true worship
CHOIR: O Lord, Save those of true worship
DEACON: And hear us.
CHOIR: And hear us
Priest: Let us attend
Reader: Prokeimenon
Priest: Wisdom
Reader: The reading is from __________________________
Priest: Let us attend.
Reader: Reads the appointed Epistles
Meanwhile the Priest censes the Altar