6/04/2023 - Divine Liturgy
Special Hymns for Today
Tone 8 Troparion (Pentecost)
Blessed are You, O Christ our God, / You have revealed the fishermen as most wise / by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit, / and through them You drew the world into Your net.//O Lover of Man, glory to You!
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
Tone 8 Kontakion (Pentecost)
When the Most High came down and confused the tongues, / He divid ed the nations; / but when He distributed the tongues of fire, He called all to unity.//Therefore, with one voice we glorify the All-holy Spirit.
(Instead of the Trisagion, we sing:)
As many as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. Alleluia.
The Reading is from the The Reading is from the Book of Acts 2:1-11
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one ac cord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sit ting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every na tion under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? Parthi ans and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs – we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.”
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. John 7:37-52; 8:12
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.