3/06/2022 - Divine Liturgy
Hymns and readings
Troparion - Tone 4 (Resurrection)
When the women disciples of the Lord / learned from the angel the joyous message of Your Resurrection, / they cast away the ancestral curse / and elatedly told the apostles: / “Death is overthrown! / Christ God is risen,//granting the world great mercy!”
Troparion - Tone 1 (Holy 40 Martyrs)
Through the sufferings which Your holy Forty Martyrs endured for Your sake, O Lord, / we beseech You, O Lover of ^mankind://“Heal all of our infirmities!”
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit . . .
Kontakion – Tone 6 (Holy 40 Martyrs)
You have abandoned all earthly armies, / cleaving to the heavenly Master, O Forty Martyrs of the Lord. / Having passed through fire and water, O blessed ones,//you have fittingly received heavenly glory and many crowns.
. . . both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
Kontakion – Tone 6 (from the Lenten Triodion)
O Master, Teacher of wisdom, / Bestower of virtue, / Who teach the thoughtless and protect the poor, / strengthen and enlighten my heart! / O Word of the Father, / let me not restrain my mouth from crying to You: / “Have mercy on me, a transgressor,//O merciful Lord!”
Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 8th Tone: Pray and make your vows before the Lord, our God! (Ps. 75:10a)
Congregation: Pray and make your vows before the Lord, our God!
Reader: v: In Judah God is known; His name is great in Israel. (Ps. 75:1)
Congregation: Pray and make your vows before the Lord, our God!
Reader: Pray and make your vows . . .
Congregation: . . . before the Lord, our God!
The Reading is from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Romans (13:11-14:4)
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
Priest: Peace be to thee that reads.
Reader: And to thy spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Your Name, O Most High. (Ps. 91:1)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: To declare Your mercy in the morning, and Your truth by night. (Ps. 91:2a)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew (6:14-21)
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Sunday Communion Hymn
Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest! (Ps. 148:1)
Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the just. (Ps. 32:1)
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!