when possible, the night before the Diving Liturgy we sing the
midnight praise. This is an ancient prayer that was pretty much complete by the 4th century or so. It starts off praising God for delivering Israel from Egypt, is full of prayers, and ends by going through all the types of the Virgin from the Old Testament. I have a Catholic friend who's joined us for it 2 or 3 times, and he found it very helpful for talking to Protestants about Mary from a Scriptural point of view. You can listen to the midnight praise here in mp3 or real here:
http://tasbeha.org/audio/tasbeha.html#stanthony-monastery-tasbeha . The Sunday Theotokia is the part I was talking about, Hail to you Mary also applies. There are prayers to her all through it too. This recording is all in English (usually we do the repetitive parts in Coptic), and is the way it's done during the season from Easter to Pentecost.
During the
raising of the Evening Inscense and the Morning Inscense (in the evening before the Liturgy, before midnight praise, and in the Morning as the start of the Liturgy) we sing doxologies to the saints. Here are the ones for St. Mary:
said: Hail to you! We ask you, O saint full of glory, the ever-virgin Mother of God, the Mother of Christ, offer our prayers unto your beloved Son, that He may forgive us our sins. Hail to the holy Virgin, who has brought forth unto us the True Light, Christ oru God. Ak the Lord on our behalf, that He may have mercy on us and forgive us our sins. O Virgin Mary, the holy Mother of God, the faithful advocate for all mankind, intercede on our behalf before Christ, Whom you have brought forth, that He may forgive us our sins.
Introduction to Doxologies (sung): Hail to you, O virgin,/ The very and true queen./ Hail to the pride of our race,/ Who has borne to us Emanuel.
We ask you, remember us,/ O our faithful advocate,/ Before our Lord Jesus Christ./ That He may forgive us our sins.
First Doxology:
(morning)
Blessed are you, O Mary,
The prudent and the chaste,
The second tabernacle,
The treasure of the spirit,
The pure turtle-dove,
That declared in our land,
And brought unto us,
The Fruit of the Spirit--
The Spirit of Comfort
Which came upon your Son,
In the wters of the Jordan,
As in the type of Noah.
For Noah's dove
Has declared unto us
The peace of God
Towards mankind.
Likewise, you--our hope,
The rational turtle-dove--
Have brought Mercy unto us,
And carried Him in your womb.
To wit Jesus, our Lord,
The Only-Begotten of the Father,
Was born of you unto us,
And set free our race.
Let us all declare
With all our hearts,
And with our tongues too,
Procaliming and saying,
"O our Lord Jesus Christ,
Make in us a sanctuary
For Thine Holy Spirit,
Ever glorifiying Thee."
Hail to you, O Virgin,
The very and true queen.
Hail to the pride of our rce,
Who has borne to us Emmanuel.
We ask you, remember us,
O our faithful advocate,
Before our Lord Jesus Christ,
The He may forgive us our sins.
(Evening Inscense)
The adornment of Mary,
In the highest heaven,
At the right hand of her Beloved,
Asking Him on our behalf.
As David has said,
In the book of hte Psalms,
Upon Thy right hand, O Kind,
Did stand the Queen.
Solomon hsa called her,
In the Song of Songs,
"My sister and my spouse,
My true city Jerusalem."
For he has given a type of her
In diverse high names,
Saying, "Come out of your garden,
O choicest aroma."
Hail to you, O Virgin,
The very and true queen.
Hail to the pride of our race,
Who has borne to us Emmanuel.
We as you, remember us,
O our faithful advocate,
Before our Lord Jesus Christ,
That He may forgive us our sins.
(Then the Doxology of the Heavenly, then the Doxologies for the saints of the Church, and of the day)
(The Ending of the Doxologies)
Be our advocate
In the highest where you are,
O lady of us all, the Mother of God,
The ever-virgin Mary.
Ask of Him Whom you have borne,
Our Good Saviour,
To take away our afflictions
And accord to us His peace.
Hail to you, O Virgin,
The very and true queen.
Hail to the pride of our race,
Who has borne to us Emmanuel.
We ask you, remember us,
O our faithful adovcate,
Before our Lord Jesus Christ,
That He may forgive us our sins.
Every time the creed is recited except during the Liturgy (so 3 times on a typical Sat evening+Sun) the introduction is said:
We exalt you, the Mother of the True Light. We glorify you O saint and Mother of God, for you brought forth unto us the Saviour of the whole world--He came and saved our souls.
Glory to Thee, our Master, our King, Christ--the pride of the Apostles, the crown of the martyrs, the joy of hte righteous, the firmness of the churches, the forgiveness of sins.
We porclaim the Holy Trinity in One Godhead. We worship Him. We glorify Him. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord bless. Amen (Creed)
There are verses in the Verses of the Cymbols, and in the Hymn of the Intercessions, and in most seasonal Gospel and Epistle responses for the Virgin.
In the 7 Canonical Hours (the
Agpeya), each hour has a Gospel reading, and after the reading there are vereses. Every 3rd verse is a prayer to or concerning the Virgin. You can read the prayers in context at
www.agpeya.org . Here they are:
(prime)
" You are the honored Mother of the Light; from the risings of the sun to its settings praises are offered to you, O Theotokos, the second heaven, as you are the bright and unchanging flower, and the ever virgin mother; for the Father chose you, and the Holy Spirit overshadowed you, and the Son condescended and took flesh from you. Wherefore, ask Him to give salvation to the world which He created, and to deliver it from all tribulations. Let us [that we may] praise Him a new praise, and bless Him, now and forever and unto the ages of all ages. Amen."
(3rd = 9:00)
"O Theotokos, you are the true vine who bore the Cluster of Life, we ask you, O full of grace, with the apostles, for the salvation of our souls. Blessed is the Lord our God. Blessed is the Lord day by day. He prepares our way, for He is God of our salvation."
"Whenever we stand in Your holy sanctuary, we are considered standing in heaven. O Theotokos, you are the gate of heaven, open for us the gate of mercy."
(6th = noon)
"Since we have no favor, nor excuse, nor justification because of our many sins, we, through you, implore to Him who was born of you, O Theotokos, the Virgin, for abundant and acceptable is your intercession with our Savior. O pure mother, do not exclude sinners from your intercession with Him whom you bore, for He is merciful and able to save us, because He suffered for us to deliver us. Let your compassion speedily reach us, for we are exceedingly humbled. Help us, O God, our Savior, for the glory of Your name. O Lord, deliver us and forgive us our sins for the sake of Your holy name."
"You are she who is full of grace. O Theotokos, the Virgin, we praise you, for, through the cross of your Son, Hades fell down and death was abolished. We were dead but we are raised and became worthy of eternal life, and gained the delight of the first Paradise. Therefore, we thankfully glorify the immortal Christ our God."
(9th = 3:00)
" O, You who was born of the Virgin for our sake, and endured crucifixion, O Good One, and abolished death by Your death, and manifested resurrection by Your resurrection, O God, do not turn away from those whom You have created with Your own hands, but manifest, O Good One, Your love for mankind. Accept from Your mother an intercession on our behalf. Deliver, O Savior, a humble people. Do not leave us to the end, and do not forsake us forever. Do not break Your covenant, and do not take away from us your mercy, for the sake of Abraham, Your beloved, Isaac, Your servant, and Israel, Your saint."
" When the mother saw the Lamb and Shepherd, the Savior of the world, hung on the Cross, she said while weeping, The world rejoices in receiving salvation, while my heart burns as I look at Your crucifixion which You are enduring for the sake of all, my Son and my God."
(Vespers = 5:00)
"Every iniquity I did with prudence and activity, and every sin I committed with eagerness and diligence, and of all torment and judgement I am worthy. Therefore, prepare for me the ways of repentance, O Lady the Virgin; for to you I appeal, and through you I seek intercession, and upon you I call to help me, lest I might be put to shame. And when my soul departs my body attend to me, and defeat the conspiracy of the enemies, and shut the gates of Hades, lest they might swallow my soul, O you, blameless bride of the true Bridegroom. "
(Compline = 6:00)
"O pure Virgin, overshadow your servant with your instant help, and keep the waves of evil thoughts away from me, and raise up my ailing soul for prayer and vigil, for it has gone into a deep sleep. For you are a capable, compassionate and helpful mother, the bearer of the Fountain of Life, my King and my God, Jesus Christ, my hope."
(Midnight)
(First watch)
"You are the rampart of our salvation, O Theotokos the Virgin, the mighty and impregnable fortress. Abolish the counsel of the adversaries, and transform the sorrow of your servants into joy. Fortify our city, defend our governors, and intercede for the peace of the world; for you are our hope, O Theotokos."
(2nd watch)
"The Heavens bless you, O full of grace, the Bride who was never married. And we, too, glorify your incomprehensible giving birth. O Theotokos, the mother of mercy and salvation, intercede for the salvation of our souls."
(3rd watch)
"O the reasonable gate of life, the honored Theotokos, deliver from hardships those who, in faith, take refuge in you, so that we might glorify your immaculate birth of Christ for the salvation of our souls."
There are also Communion hymns sung during Communion. I'll try to find one frome the Kiak (~Advent) Midnight praises next week.
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