6/27/2021 - Divine Liturgy
Special Hymns for Today
Troparion - Tone 8 (Resurrection)
You descended from on high, O Merciful One! / You accepted the three day burial to free us from our sufferings!//O Lord, our Life and Resurrection, glory to You!
Troparion of Feast - Tone 4 (All Saints)
As with fine porphyry and royal purple, / Your Church has been adorned with Your martyrs’ blood shed throughout all the world. / She cries to You, O Christ God: / “Send down Your bounties on Your people,//grant peace to Your habitation and great mercy to our souls!”
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 (All Saints)
The universe offers You the God-bearing Martyrs / as the first fruits of creation, O Lord and Creator. / By their prayers keep Your Church, Your habitation, in abiding peace//through the Theotokos, O most Merciful One!
Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 8th Tone: Pray and make your vows before the Lord, our God! (Ps. 75:10a)
Congregation: Pray and make your vows before the Lord, our God!
Reader: v: In Judah God is known; His Name is great in Israel. (Ps. 75:1)
Congregation: Pray and make your vows before the Lord, our God!
Reader: God is wonderful in His saints, the God of Israel. (All Saints Ps. 67:35a)
Congregation: Pray and make your vows before the Lord, our God!
Reader: Pray and make your vows . . .
Congregation: . . . before the Lord, our God!
The Reading is from the Holy Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews (11:33-12:2)
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. The Alleluia in the 4th Tone: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: The righteous cried and the Lord heard them, and delivered them out of all their troubles. (Ps. 33:17)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Many are the afflictions of the righteous; the Lord will deliver them out of them all. (Ps. 33:19) Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew (70:32-33, 37-38; 19:27-30)
Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
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!