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Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos

anonymous tr., 1919

Chapter 14

On the Friday of the first week of the Great Fast (when the first stasis of the hymn is read) the following Gospel is used.

Deacon. Let us supplicate the Lord our God, that we may be deemed worthy to hearken unto the Holy Gospel.

Wisdom: stand and attend. Let us hear the Holy Gospel.

Priest. Peace be to all.

Choir. And to thy spirit.

Priest. The reading is from the Holy Gospel according to John.

Deacon. Let us attend.

Chap. XV. 1–8

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.