4/02/2023 - Divine Liturgy

Special Hymns for Today  

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Troparion - Tone 1 (Resurrection) 

When the stone had been sealed by the Jews, / while the soldiers were  guarding Your most pure body, / You rose on the third day, O Savior, /  granting life to the world. / The powers of heaven therefore cried to You, O  Giver of Life: / “Glory to Your Resurrection, O Christ! / Glory to Your  Kingdom!//Glory to Your dispensation, O Lover of mankind!” 

Troparion -Tone 8 (St. Nikolai) 

O golden-tongued preacher proclaiming the risen Christ, / everlasting guide  of the cross-bearing Serbian people, / resounding harp of the Holy Spirit,  and dear to monastics who rejoice in you, / pride and boast of the priest hood, teacher of repentance, master for all nations, / guide of those in the  army of Christ as they pray to God, / Holy Nikolai teacher in America and  pride of the Serbian people, / with all the saints, implore the only Lover of  mankind//to grant us peace and joy in his heavenly kingdom! 

Troparion -Tone 8 (St. Mary of Egypt) 

The image of God was truly preserved in you, O Mother, / for you took up the Cross and followed Christ. / By so doing, you taught us to disregard the  flesh for it passes away; / but to care instead for the soul, for it is immortal.// Therefore your spirit, O holy Mother Mary, rejoices with the angels. 

Kontakion-Tone 1 (Resurrection)  

As God, You rose from the tomb in glory, / raising the world with Your self. / Human nature praises You as God, for death has vanished. / Adam  exults, O Master! / Eve rejoices, for she is freed from bondage and cries to  You://“You are the Giver of Resurrection to all, O Christ!” 

Kontakion-Tone 3 (St. Nikolai)  

Born at Lelich in Serbia, / you served as archpastor at the church of Saint  Nahum in Ochrid./ You presided on the throne of Saint Sava at Zhicha,/  teaching the people of God and enlightening them with the Gospel, / bring ing them to repentance and love for Christ. / And for His sake you endured  suffering at Dachau. / Therefore, Nikolai, we glorify you as one newly well  pleasing to God. 

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit . . .  

Kontakion-Tone 3 (St. Mary of Egypt) 

Having been a sinful woman, / you became through repentance a bride of  Christ. / Having attained angelic life, / you defeated demons with the weap on of the Cross.//Therefore, O most glorious Mary, you are a bride of the  Kingdom. 

. . . both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.  

The Reading is from the Holy Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews (9:11-14)

Reader (CHANT SLOWLY): But Christ came as High Priest of the good  things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with  hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves,  but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having  obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the  ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the  flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal  Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from  dead works to serve the living God? 

The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Mark (10:32-45)  

Now they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going be fore them; and they were amazed. And as they followed they were afraid.  Then He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them the things that  would happen to Him: “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son  of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will  condemn Him to death and deliver Him to the Gentiles; and they will mock  Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day  He will rise again.” Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to  Him, saying, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask.” And He  said to them, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They said to Him,  “Grant us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your  left, in Your glory.” But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you ask.  Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized with the baptism  that I am baptized with?” They said to Him, “We are able.” So Jesus said to  them, “You will indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism I am  baptized with you will be baptized; but to sit on My right hand and on My  left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared.” And  when the ten heard it, they began to be greatly displeased with James and  John. But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, “You know that  those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and  their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among  you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.  And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son  of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom  for many.”