11/14/2021 - Divine Liturgy
Special Hymns for Today
Troparion - Tone 4 (Resurrection)
When the women disciples of the Lord / learned from the angel the joyous message of Your Resurrection, / they cast away the ancestral curse / and elatedly told the apostles: / “Death is overthrown! / Christ God is 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 3 (St. Philip)
Holy Apostle Philip, / entreat the merciful God//to grant our souls forgiveness of transgressions!
Kontakion – Tone 4 (Resurrection)
My Savior and Redeemer / as God rose from the tomb and delivered the earth-born from their chains. / He has shattered the gates of hell, / and as Master,//He has risen on the third day!
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit . . .
Kontakion - Tone 8 (St. Philip)
Your disciple, friend and imitator of Your passion, / the God-preaching Philip, proclaimed You to the universe. / By his prayers deliver Your Church from her enemies;//through the Theotokos protect every city, O most merciful Christ!
. . . both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
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.
Steadfast Protectress of Christians . . .
The Prokeimenon in the 4th Tone:
O Lord, how manifold are Your works; in wisdom have You made them all. (Ps. 103:26)
Congregation: O Lord, how manifold are Your works; in wisdom have You made them all.
Reader: v: Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord, my God, You are very great! (Ps. 103:1)
Congregation: O Lord, how manifold are Your works; in wisdom have You made them all.
Reader: O Lord, how manifold are Your works . . .
Congregation: . . . in wisdom have You made them all.
The Reading is from the Holy Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians (2:16-20)
knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Reader: And to thy spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: Go forth, prosper and reign, for the sake of meekness, righteousness and truth! (Ps. 44:3b)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: For You love righteousness, and hate iniquity. (Ps. 44:6)
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke (10:25-37)
And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?” So he answered and said, “’You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’” And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.” But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Then Jesus answered and said: “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you.’ So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?” And he said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Sunday Communion Hymn
Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest! (Ps. 148:1)
Their proclamation has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the universe. (Ps. 18:4)
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!