MATINS

For Fasting Days
    Make fall, O Lord, the dew of thy beneficent mercy upon our sinful souls. Quench the flame of the furnance of our transgressions and deliver us from the everlasting fire.
    Make us worthy, together with the three holy children and with the blessed holy martyrs, to bless and to praise thee saying : O God, be gracious unto me, a sinner ; O God, be gracious unto me, a sinner ; O God, be gracious unto me, a sinner and expiate me of my sins and save me.

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The Clerks, in antiphon :
MAGNIFICAT
Luke 1:46-55
 medzatsoustsee sharagan

My soul doth magnify the Lord,

And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

For he hath looked upon the low estate of his handmaid: For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; And holy is his name.

And his mercy is unto generations and generations On them that fear him.

He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.

He hath put down princes from their thrones, And hath exalted them of low degree.

The hungry he hath filled with good things; And the rich he hath sent empty away.

He hath given help to Israel his servant, That he might remember mercy

As he spake unto our fathers Toward Abraham and his seed for ever.

BENEDICTUS
Luke 1:69-79
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Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; For he hath visited and wrought redemption for his people,

And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of his servant David

(As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old),

Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;