10/03/2021 - Divine Liturgy
Special Hymns for Today
Troparion - Tone 6 (Resurrection)
The Angelic Powers were at Your tomb; / the guards became as dead men. / Mary stood by Your grave, / seeking Your most pure body. / You captured hell, not being tempted by it. / You came to the Virgin, granting life. / O Lord, Who rose from the dead,//glory to You.
Troparion for St. Nikolai — Tone 8
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 priesthood, 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 4 (Saint Dionysius)
Having learned goodness and maintaining continence in all things, / you were arrayed with a good conscience as befits a priest. / From the Chosen Vessel you drew ineffable mysteries; / you kept the Faith, and finished a course equal to his.//Hieromartyr Dionysius, entreat Christ God that our souls may be saved!
Kontakion – Tone 6 (Resurrection)
When Christ God, the Giver of Life, / raised all of the dead from the valleys of misery with His mighty hand, / He bestowed resurrection on the human race.//He is the Savior of all, the Resurrection, the Life, and the God of all.
Kontakion for St. Nikolai — Tone 3
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, / bringing 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 8 (Saint Dionysius)
As a disciple of the Apostle caught up to the third heaven, / you spiritually entered the gate of heaven, O Dionysius. / You were enriched with understanding of ineffable mysteries / and enlighten those who sat in the darkness of ignorance.//Therefore we cry to you: “Rejoice, universal Father!”
. . . both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
Steadfast Protectress of Christians . . .
The Prokeimenon in the 6th Tone (Resurrection):
O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance! Congregation: O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance! (Ps. 27:9a)
Reader: v: To You, O Lord, will I call. O my God, be not silent to me! (Ps. 27:1a)
Congregation: O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance!
Reader: O Lord, save Your people . . .
Congregation: . . . and bless Your inheritance!
The Reading is from the Second Holy Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (4:6-15) (Resurrection)
For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed – always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you. And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
Reader: And to thy spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the heavenly God. (Ps. 90:1)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: He will say to the Lord: “My Protector and my Refuge; my God, in Whom I trust.”(Ps. 90:2)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke (6:31-36) (Resurrection)
And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
Sunday Communion Hymn
Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest! (Ps. 148:1)
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!