4/09/2023 - Divine Liturgy

Special Hymns for Today  

Troparion - Tone 1 (Palm Sunday) 

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 (Palm Sunday) 

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 (Palm Sunday)  

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!” 

TRISAGION  

The Reading is from the Holy Epistle of St. Paul to the (Philippians 4:4-9) Reader (CHANT SLOWLY):  

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 eve rything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be  made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understand ing, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, breth ren, 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. 

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 fra grant 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 mul titude 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 com ing, 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. There fore 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.