1/09/2021 - Divine Liturgy
Special Hymns for Today
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 (Feast)
When You, O Lord, were baptized in the Jordan, / the worship of the Trinity was made manifest. / For the voice of the Father bore witness to You, / and called You His beloved Son; / and the Spirit in the form of a dove / confirmed the truthfulness of His word. / O Christ our God, You have revealed Yourself//and have enlightened the world, 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 (St. Polyeuctus)
Your holy martyr Polyeuctus, O Lord, / through his sufferings has received an incorruptible crown from You, our God. / For having Your strength, he laid low his adversaries, / and shattered the powerless boldness of demons.//Through his intercession, save our souls!
Kontakion – Tone 3 (Resurrection)
My Savior and Redeemer / as God rose from the tomb and delivered the earth-born from their chains. / He has shattered the gates of hell, / and as Master,//He has risen on the third day!
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 4 (St. Polyeuctus)
When the Savior bowed His head in the Jordan, / the heads of the dragons were crushed;//when Polyeuctus was beheaded, the deceiver was put to shame.
. . . both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
Kontakion – Tone 4 (Feast)
Today You have shone forth to the world, O Lord, / and the light of Your countenance has been marked on us. / Knowing You, we sing Your praises: / “You have come and revealed Yourself,//O unapproachable Light.”
Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 1st Tone: Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us as we have set our hope on You!
Congregation: Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us as we have set our hope on You! (Ps. 32:22)
Reader: v: Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the just! (Ps. 32:1)
Congregation: Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us as we have set our hope on You!
Reader: : Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us . . .
Congregation: . . . as we have set our hope on You!
The Reading is from the Holy Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians (4:7-13)
But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” (Now this, “He ascended” – what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Reader: And to thy spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: I will sing of Your mercies, O Lord, forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your truth from generation to generation. (Ps. 88:1-2)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: For You have said: Mercy will be established forever; Your truth will be prepared in the heavens. (Ps. 88:3)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew (4:12-17)
Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, He departed to Galilee. And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.” From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
(Instead of “It is truly meet…,” we sing:)
Magnify, O my soul, the most pure Virgin Theotokos,
more honorable than the heavenly hosts!
No tongue knows how to praise you worthily, O Theotokos;
even angels are overcome with awe praising you.
But since you are good, accept our faith;
for you know our love inspired by God!
You are the defender of Christians, and we magnify you.
Sunday Communion Hymn
Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest! (Ps. 148:1)
The grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all men. (Titus 2:11)
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!