12/05/2021 - Divine Liturgy
Special Hymns for Today
Troparion - Tone 7 (Resurrection)
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!
Troparion - Tone 8 (Venerable Sabbas)
By a flood of tears you made the desert fertile, / and your longing for God brought forth fruits in abundance. / By the radiance of miracles you illumined the whole universe.//Our Father Sabbas, pray to Christ God to save our souls!
Kontakion – Tone 7 (Resurrection)
The dominion of death can no longer hold men captive, / for Christ descended, shattering and destroying its powers./ Hell is bound, while the Prophets rejoice and cry: / “The Savior has come to those in faith;//enter, you faithful, into the Resurrection!”
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.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit . . .
Kontakion - Tone 8 (Venerable Sabbas)
From your youth you offered yourself to God as a blameless sacrifice, / having been dedicated to Him before your birth, O blessed Sabbas. / You were an adornment of the righteous and a praiseworthy citizen of the desert.//Therefore, we cry to you: “Rejoice, O ever-glorious Father!”
. . . both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
Steadfast Protectress of Christians . . .
The Prokeimenon in the 7th Tone: The Lord shall give strength to His people. The Lord shall bless His people with peace. (Ps. 28:11)
Congregation: The Lord shall give strength to His people. The Lord shall bless His people with peace.
Reader: v: Offer to the Lord, O you sons of God! Offer young rams to the Lord! (Ps. 28:1a)
Congregation: The Lord shall give strength to His people. The Lord shall bless His people with peace.
Reader: The Lord shall give strength to His people. . .
Congregation: . . . The Lord shall bless His people with peace.
The Reading is from the Holy Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians (2:14-22)
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Reader: And to thy spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Your Name, O Most High. (Ps. 91:1)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: To declare Your mercy in the morning, and Your truth by night. (Ps. 91:2a)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke (17:12-19)
Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” So when He saw them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner? And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
Sunday Communion Hymn
Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest! (Ps. 148:1)
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. He shall not fear evil tidings. (Ps. 111:6)
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!