3/13/2022 - Divine Liturgy
Special Hymns for Today
Troparion - Tone 5 (Resurrection)
Let us, the faithful, praise and worship the Word, / co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, / born for our salvation from the Virgin; / for He willed to be lifted up on the Cross in the flesh, / to endure death, / and to raise the dead//by His glorious Resurrection.
Troparion - Tone 2 (Sunday of Orthodoxy)
We venerate Your most pure image, O Good One; / and ask forgiveness of our transgressions, O Christ our God. / Of Your own will You were pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh / and deliver Your creatures from bondage to the Enemy. / Therefore with thankfulness we cry aloud to You: / “You have filled all with joy, O our Savior,//by coming to save the world.”
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
Kontakion – Tone 8 (Sunday of Orthodoxy)
No one could describe the Word of the Father; / but when He took flesh from you, O Theotokos, He accepted to be described, / and restored the fallen image to its former state by uniting it to divine beauty.//We confess and proclaim our salvation in words and images.
The Prokeimenon in the 4th Tone (Song of the Fathers):
Blessed are You, O Lord God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is Your Name forever! (Song of the three Holy Children, v. 3)
Congregation: Blessed are You, O Lord God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is Your Name forever!
Reader: v: For You are just in all that You have done for us! (v. 4)
Congregation: Blessed are You, O Lord God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is Your Name forever!
Reader: Blessed are You, O Lord God of our fathers . . .
Congregation: . . . and praised and glorified is Your Name forever!
The Reading is from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Hebrews (11:24-26, 32-12:2)
By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward. And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented – of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us. Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Priest: Peace be to thee that reads.
Reader: And to thy spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel also was among those who called on His Name. (Ps. 98:6)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: They called to the Lord and He answered them. (Ps. 98:7a)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. John (1:43-51)
The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote – Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!” Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Nathanael answered and said to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”
(Instead of “It is truly meet…,” we sing the following)
Hymn to the Theotokos
All of creation rejoices in you, O Full of Grace:
the assembly of angels and the race of men.
O sanctified temple and spiritual paradise,
the glory of virgins,
from whom God was incarnate and became a Child –
our God before the ages.
He made your body into a throne,
and your womb He made more spacious than the heavens.
All of creation rejoices in you, O Full of Grace.
Glory to you!
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!