4/17/2022 - Palm Sunday Liturgy

Special Hymns for Today  

Troparion - Tone 1  

By raising Lazarus from the dead before Your Passion, / You confirmed the universal resurrection, O Christ God. /  Like the children with the palms of victory, / we cry out to You, O Vanquisher of Death: / “Hosanna in the  highest!//Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord.” 

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

Troparion - Tone 4  

When we were buried with You in baptism, O Christ God, / we were made worthy of eternal life by Your Resurrection. / Now we praise You and sing: / “Hosanna in the highest!//Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord!” 

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

Kontakion – Tone 6 (Feast) 

Sitting on Your throne in Heaven, / carried on a foal on earth, O Christ God, / accept the praise of angels and the songs of children, who sing://“Blessed is He Who comes to recall Adam!” 

Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 4th Tone: Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord. God is the Lord and  has revealed Himself to us. (Ps. 117:26b, 27b) 

Congregation: Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord. God is the Lord and has revealed Himself to us.

Reader: v: O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. (Ps. 117:1)

Congregation: Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord. God is the Lord and has revealed Himself to us.

Reader: Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord. . .  

Congregation: . . . God is the Lord and has revealed Himself to us. 

The Reading is from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Philippians (4:4-9) 

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all  men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let  your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts  and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things  are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and  if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and  saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. 

Priest: Peace be to thee that reads.  

Reader: And to thy spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!  

Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!  

Reader: O sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done marvelous things! (Ps. 97:1)) 

Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!  

Reader: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. (Ps. 97:5) 

Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!  

The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. John (12:1-18)  

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised  from the dead. There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table  with Him. Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with  her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son,  who would betray Him, said, Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? This  he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was  put in it. But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial. For the poor you have with you  always, but Me you do not have always.” Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for  Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. But the chief priests plotted  to put Lazarus to death also, because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. The next  day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of  palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’  The King of Israel!” Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written: “Fear not, daughter of  Zion; behold, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.” His disciples did not understand these things at first; but  when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and that they had done these  things to Him. Therefore the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of his tomb and raised him from  the dead, bore witness. For this reason the people also met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign. 

(Instead of “It is truly meet…,” we sing the following)  

God is the Lord and has revealed Himself to us! 

Celebrate the feast and come with gladness! 

Let us magnify Christ with palms and branches, 

singing: “Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord, our Savior!” 

Sunday Communion Hymn  

Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord. God is the Lord and has revealed Himself to us. (Ps. 117:26b, 27b)

Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!