3/14/2021 - Divine Liturgy

Special Hymns

Troparion of the Resurrection – Tone 7 

By Your Cross You destroyed death. / To the thief You opened Paradise. / For the Myrrhbearers You changed  weeping into joy. / And You commanded Your disciples, O Christ God, / to proclaim that You are risen,//granting the  world great mercy. 

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.

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

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.

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

Kontakion from the Lenten Triodion – Tone 6 

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!” 

Readings

The Reading is from the First 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. 

The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to Saint 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!  

Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!