Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Second Week of Great Lent - Page of 24
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 32, in the 1st Tone:
Let
Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we have
hoped in Thee.
Stichos:
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet
for the upright.
Deacon: Command:
Priest: Wisdom! Aright! The Light of Christ
Á-¬
(Prostration by all as Priest exclaims, holding the candle and censer in between the Royal
doors, facing the people)
Deacon:
Wisdom!
Reader:
The reading
is from Proverbs.
Deacon:
Let us
attend!
Prov 5:15 - 6:3
15.
Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine
own springing wells.
16.
Let not waters out of thy fountain
be spilt by thee, but let thy waters go into thy streets.
17.
Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake
with thee.
18.
Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own;
and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19.
Let thy loving hart
and thy graceful colt company with thee, and let her be
considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; for
ravished with her love thou shalt be greatly increased.
20.
Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself
in the arms of a woman not thine own.
21.
For the ways of a
man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his
paths.
22.
Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound
in the chains of his own sins.
23.
Such a man dies with the
uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of
his own substance, and has perished through folly.
1.
My
son, if thou become surety for thy friend, thou shalt deliver
thine hand to an enemy.
2.
For a man's own lips become a