7/31/2022 - 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 - Tone 1 (Cross)
O Lord, save Your people, / and bless Your inheritance! / Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians / over their adversaries; / and by virtue of Your Cross,//preserve Your habitation!
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 (St. Eudocimus)
He Who called you from earth to heaven / keeps your body unharmed after death, holy Eudocimus; / for you lived a sober and holy life / and did not defile your flesh;//so with boldness intercede with Christ that we 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 3 (St. Eudocimus))
Today your honored memory / has assembled us at the holy shrine of your sacred relics; / all then who approach and venerate them / are rescued from the evil malice of demons//and are swiftly delivered from various diseases, blessed Eudocimus.
both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
O Lord, save Your people, / and bless Your inheritance! / Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians / over their adversaries; / and by virtue of Your Cross,//preserve Your habitation!
Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 6th Tone: O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance!
Congregation: O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance!
Reader: v: To You, O Lord, will I call. O my God, be not silent to me!
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 Holy Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans (15:1-7)
We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.” For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.
Priest: Peace be to thee that reads.
Reader: And to thy spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: He who dwelleth in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the heavenly God.
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: He will say to the Lord: “My Protector and my Refuge; my God, in Whom I trust.”
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew (9:27-35)
When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!” And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, “See that no one knows it.” But when they had departed, they spread the news about Him in all that country. As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed. And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, “It was never seen like this in Israel!” But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.” Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Sunday Communion Hymn
Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest!
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!