Common Chant
Forglvaness Sunday Vespers: APOSflCHA - I
The Vespers of Gheesefare Sunday Evening
STICHERA APOSTICHA
Common Chant
arr.'rom LVOV.BAKHMETEV
Stlcheron 1: Tone 4
Soprano
Alto
Your grace has shown forth, O [ord,
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Tenor
the grace
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which il- lu - mines
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Bass
This is the ac- cept - a- ble time!
our soul.
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ance!
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Common Chant
Forglveness Sunday Vespers: APOSTICHA - 2
the Fast as through a great sea,
Resurrection on the
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we may reach our
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lord fesus Christ,s
for He is the Sav - ror of our souls.
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VERSE: To You I lift up my eyes, O You who are enthroned in the heavens! Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord
our God, tillHe have mercy upon us.
Repeat: "Your grace has shown forth, O Lord..."
VERSE: Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, lorwe have had more than enough of contempt.
Too long our soul has been sated with the scom of those who are at ease, the contempt ol the proud,
Stlcheron 2: In the same Tone
You are glo
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ri - fied
in the memory of Your saints, O Christ Cod.
At their supplications, send down upon us your great mer
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Forglveness Sunday Vespers: APOSICHA - 3
VERSE: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to lhe Holy Spirit, now and ever (in the same Tone); now and
ever, and unto
ages olages. Amen.
Theotoklon: Tone 4
The angelic hosts glorify You,
birth
to
God, co-eternal
who cre - a
to
souls
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O Moth - er of
with the
Father and
the
Spir
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deliver from corruption and to
of
God,
those who rightly praise you,
en - light
O all pure_
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one!