9/25/2022 - 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 (St. Sergius)
A zealot of good deeds / and a true warrior of Christ our God, / you struggled greatly against the passions in this passing life; / in songs and vigils and fasting you were an image and example to your disciples, / thus the most Holy Spirit lived within you, / and you were made beautiful by His working. / Since you have great boldness before the Holy Trinity, / remember the flock which you have wisely gathered,//and do not forget to visit your children as you promised, venerable Sergius, our father!
Kontakion - Tone 6 (Resurrection)
When Christ God, the Giver of Life, / raised all of the dead from the valleys of misery with His mighty hand, / He bestowed resurrection on the human race.//He is the Savior of all, the Resurrection, the Life, and the God of all.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit . . .
Kontakion - Tone 8 (St. Sergius)
Bound by the love of Christ, O venerable one, / and following Him with unwavering desire, / you despised all carnal pleasures, shining like the sun in your land. / Therefore, Christ has enriched you with the gift of miracles. / Remember us, who venerate your most holy memory//and who call out to you: “Rejoice, O Sergius, made wise by God!”
both now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
Steadfast Protectress of Christians . . .
Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 6th Tone: O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance!
Congregation: O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance!
Reader: v: To You, O Lord, will I call. O my God, be not silent to me!
Congregation: O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance!
Reader: O Lord, save Your people . . .
Congregation: . . . and bless Your inheritance!
The Reading is from the Second Holy Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (4:6-15)
For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed – always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you. And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
Priest: Peace be to thee that reads.
Reader: And to thy spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the heavenly God.
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: He will say to the Lord: “My Protector and my Refuge; my God, in Whom I trust.
Congregation: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke (5:1-11)
So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken; and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men.” So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him.
Sunday Communion Hymn
Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest!
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance! He shall not fear evil tidings!
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!