Small Vespers On Lord, I have cried, four stichera are sung: TONE ONE (to the special melody, O purest Virgin, thou joy of the heavenly hierarchies …) Simeon received in his embrace the Word uncircumscribed and supreme in being, who is borne on high in glory upon heavenly thrones; and he cried aloud: ‘Now lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace according to Thy word,1 O Saviour, salvation and delight of the faithful’ (twice). Beholding
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