3/12/2022 - 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 8 (St. Nikolai) 

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 priest hood, 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 8 (St. Gregory Palamas) 

O light of Orthodoxy, teacher of the Church, its confirmation, / O ideal of  monks and invincible champion of theologians, / O wonderworking Grego ry, glory of Thessalonica and preacher of grace,//always intercede before the  Lord that our souls may be saved! 

Kontakion-Tone 3 (St. Nikolai)  

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, / bring ing 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. Gregory Palamas)  

Holy and divine instrument of wisdom, / joyful trumpet of theology, / to gether we sing your praises, O God-inspired Gregory. / Since you now stand before the Original Mind, guide our minds to Him, O Father,//so that we  may sing to you: “Rejoice, preacher of grace!” 

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

Kontakion-Tone 4 (Lenten Triodion) 

Now is the time for action! / Judgment is at the doors! / So let us rise and  fast, / offering alms with tears of compunction and crying: / “Our sins are  more in number than the sands of the sea; / but forgive us, O Master of all,// so that we may receive the incorruptible crowns!” 

The Reading is from the Holy Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews (1:10-2:3)

Reader: And: “You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They  will perish, but You remain; and they will all grow old like a garment; like a  cloak You will fold them up, and they will be changed. But You are the  same, and Your years will not fail.” But to which of the angels has He ever  said: “Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool”? Are  they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit  salvation? Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we  have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels  proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just  reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the  first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who  heard Him  

The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Mark (2:1-12)

And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He  was in the house. Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no  longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the  word to them. Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried  by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the  crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken  through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus  saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”  And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,  “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but  God alone?” But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they  reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason  about these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic,  ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’?  But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive  sins” – He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go  to your house.” Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the  presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We  never saw anything like this!”