6/13/2021 - 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 4 (Ascension) 

You ascended in glory, O Christ our God, / granting joy to Your Disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit. / Through  the blessing, they were assured / that You are the Son of God,//the Redeemer of the world! 

Troparion - Tone 8 (Fathers) 

You are most glorious, O Christ our God! / You have established the Holy Fathers as lights on the earth. / Through  them You have guided us to the true Faith.//O greatly compassionate One, glory to You! 

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

Kontakion - Tone 8 (Fathers) 

The Apostles’ preaching and the Fathers’ doctrines have established one Faith for the Church. / Adorned with the robe of truth, woven from heavenly theology,//It defines and glorifies the great mystery of piety.   

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

Kontakion - Tone 6 (Ascension) 

When You had fulfilled the dispensation for our sake, / and united earth to heaven: / You ascended in glory, O Christ our God, / not being parted from those who love You, / but remaining with them and crying://“I am with you, and there  is no one against you!” 

Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 4th Tone: (Song of the Three Holy Children) Blessed are You, O Lord God of our  fathers, and praised and glorified is Your Name forever!  

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! 

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 Book of Acts (20:16-18, 28-36) 

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in  Asia; for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost. From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and  called for the elders of the church. And when they had come to him, he said to them: “You know, from the first day that  I came to Asia, in what manner I always lived among you, Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among  which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among  yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. Therefore watch, and  remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears. So now, brethren, I commend  you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who  are sanctified. I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel. Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided  for my necessities, and for those who were with me. I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must  support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. 

The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to Saint John (17:1-13)  

Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your  Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as  You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You  have sent. I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, O  Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. I have manifested  Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they  have kept Your word. Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. For I have given to  them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from  You; and they have believed that You sent Me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You  have given Me, for they are Yours. And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. Now I am  no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those  whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your  name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in  themselves. 

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

Magnify, O my soul, Christ the Giver of Life, 

Who has ascended from earth to heaven! 

We magnify you, O Mother of God, 

who beyond reason and understanding 

gave birth in time to the Timeless One.  

Sunday Communion Hymn  

Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest! 

Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous; praise befits the just! 

Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

(instead of “We have seen the True Light… we sing the Troparion of Ascension)