February 3, 2013 Specials

Divine Liturgy Specials on Sunday, February 3, 2013

Tone 2 / Eothinon 2, 15^th Sunday of Matthew (What think ye of Christ?)

     Symeon and Anna (†1^st c.); Ioannes, Nicolaos, Stamatios, Neomartyrs (†1822)

Ἀντίφωνον α´ –  Ἦχος β´ 1 Ἐξηρευξατο ἡ καρδία μου λόγον ἀγαθόν, λέγω ἐγὼ τὰ ἔργα μου τῷ βασιλεῖ. 2 Ἡ γλῶσσά μου κάλαμος γραμματέως ὀξυγράφου· ὡραῖος κάλλει παρὰ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων. 3 Ἐξεχύθη χάρις ἐν χείλεσί σου· διὰ τοῦτο εὐλόγησέ σε ὁ Θεὸς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.         Ταῖς πρεσβείαις τῆς Θεοτόκου, Σῶτερ, σῶσον ἡμᾶς.   Ἀντίφωνον β´ –  Ἦχος ὁ αὐτός 1 Περίζωσαι τὴν ρομφαίαν σου ἐπὶ τὸν μηρόν σου, δυνατέ, τῇ ὡραιότητί σου καὶ τῷ κάλλει σου, καὶ ἔντεινον καὶ κατευοδοῦ καὶ βασίλευε. 2 Τὰ βέλη σου ἠκονημένα, δυνατέ—λαοὶ ὑποκάτω σου πεσοῦνται— ἐν καρδίᾳ τῶν ἐχθρῶν τοῦ βασιλέως. 3 Ράβδος εὐθύτητος ἡ ῥάβδος τῆς βασιλείας σου.     Σῶσον ἡμᾶς, Υἱέ Θεοῦ, ὁ ἐν ἀγκάλαις τοῦ Δικαίου Συμεὼν βασταχθείς, ψάλλοντάς Σοι· Ἀλληλούϊα.   Δόξα... Καὶ νῦν... Ὁ Μονογενὴς Υἱός...   Ἀντίφωνον γ´ –  Ἦχος α´ 1 ῎Ακουσον, θύγατερ, καὶ ἴδε καὶ κλῖνον τὸ οὖς σου καὶ ἐπιλάθου τοῦ λαοῦ σου καὶ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός σου. 2 Τὸ πρόσωπόν σου λιτανεύσουσιν οἱ πλούσιοι τοῦ λαοῦ. 3 Μνησθήσομαι τοῦ ὀνόματός σου ἐν πάσῃ γενεᾷ καὶ γενεᾷ.   Ἀπολυτίκιον –  Ἦχος α' Χαῖρε κεχαριτωμένη Θεοτόκε Παρθένε· ἐκ σοῦ γὰρ ἀνέτειλεν ὁ Ἥλιος τῆς δικαιοσύνης, Χριστὸς ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, φωτίζων τοὺς ἐν σκότει. Εὐφραίνου καὶ σὺ Πρεσβύτα δίκαιε, δεξάμενος ἐν ἀγκάλαις τὸν ἐλευθερωτὴν τῶν ψυχῶν ἡμῶν, χαριζόμενος ἡμῖν καὶ τὴν Ἀνάστασιν.   Εἰσοδικόν – Ἦχος β´ Δεῦτε προσκυνήσωμεν καὶ προσπέσωμεν Χριστῷ. Σῶσον ἡμᾶς, Υἱὲ Θεοῦ, ὁ ἀναστὰς ἐκ νεκρῶν, ψάλλοντάς σοι· Ἀλληλούϊα.   Ἀπολυτίκιον –  Ἦχος β' Ὅτε κατῆλθες πρὸς τὸν θάνατον, ἡ Ζωὴ ἡ ἀθάνατος, τότε τὸν Ἅδην ἐνέκρωσας τῇ ἀστραπῇ τῆς θεότητος, ὅτε δὲ καὶ τοὺς τεθνεῶτας ἐκ τῶν καταχθονίων ἀνέστησας, πᾶσαι αἱ Δυνάμεις τῶν ἐπουρανίων ἐκραύγαζον, Ζωοδότα Χριστὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν δόξα σοι. Ἀπολυτίκιον –  Ἦχος α' Χαῖρε κεχαριτωμένη Θεοτόκε Παρθένε· ἐκ σοῦ γὰρ ἀνέτειλεν ὁ Ἥλιος τῆς δικαιοσύνης, Χριστὸς ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, φωτίζων τοὺς ἐν σκότει. Εὐφραίνου καὶ σὺ Πρεσβύτα δίκαιε, δεξάμενος ἐν ἀγκάλαις τὸν ἐλευθερωτὴν τῶν ψυχῶν ἡμῶν, χαριζόμενος ἡμῖν καὶ τὴν Ἀνάστασιν. Ἀπολυτίκιον – Ἦχος πλ. δ' Εὐλογητὸς εἶ, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὁ πανσόφους τοὺς ἁλιεῖς ἀναδείξας, καταπέμψας αὐτοῖς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, καὶ δι' αὐτῶν τὴν οἰκουμένην σαγηνεύσας, φιλάνθρωπε, δόξα σοι. Ἀπολυτίκιον – Ἦχος δ' Κανόνα πίστεως καὶ εἰκόνα πραότητος, ἐγκρατείας Διδάσκαλον, ἀνέδειξέ σε τῇ ποίμνῃ σου, ἡ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀλήθεια· διὰ τοῦτο ἐκτήσω τῇ ταπεινώσει τὰ ὑψηλά, τῇ πτωχείᾳ τὰ πλούσια, Πάτερ Ἱεράρχα Νικόλαε· πρέσβευε Χριστῷ τῷ Θεῷ, σωθῆναι τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν.   Κοντάκιον – Ἦχος α' Ὁ μήτραν παρθενικὴν ἁγιάσας τῷ τόκῳ σου, καὶ χεῖρας τοῦ Συμεὼν εὐλογήσας ὡς ἔπρεπε, προφθάσας καὶ νῦν ἔσωσας ἡμᾶς Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός. Ἀλλ' εἰρήνευσον ἐν πολέμοις τὸ πολίτευμα, καὶ κραταίωσον Βασιλεῖς οὓς ἠγάπησας, ὁ μόνος φιλάνθρωπος.   Τρισάγιον. Εἰς τό ᾽Εξαιρέτως:  ῎Αξιόν ἐστιν.... Κοινωνικόν: Αἰνεῖτε.... Εἴδομεν τό φῶς... Εἴη τό ὄνομα Κυρίου… Ἀπόλυσις· Ὁ ἐν ἀγκάλαις τοῦ Δικαίου Συμεὼν βασταχθῆναι καταδεξάμενος....	DLH, p. 16: ANTIPHON I of Hypapante – Tone 2 1 My heart wells up a joyful utterance, I recite my poems to the King myself.  [Psalm 44:1a] 2 My tongue is turned into the quill of a skillful scribe: You are handsome in beauty beyond the sons of mortal men.  [Psalm 44:1b-2a] 3 Grace gushes forth from your lips; this is why God has blessed you unto the age.   [Psalm 44:2b]     Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us. DLH, p. 18:  ANTIPHON II of Hypapante – Same tone 1 Gird your sword around your thigh, O mighty One, along with your beauty and handsomeness; vigor, victory, and dominion be yours.  [Psalm 44:3-4a] 2 Your sharpened arrows, O mighty One, shall pierce the heart of the adversaries of the King, and peoples shall fall beneath you.  [Psalm 44:5] 3 A rod of righteousness is the rod of your dominion.  [Psalm 44:6]     Save us, O Son of God, Who was held in the arms of the righteous Symeon; who sing to You.  Alleluia. Glory… Both now… O, only begotten Son… DLH, p. 24:  ANTIPHON III of Hypapante – Tone 1 1 Hearken, O daughter, and behold, and incline your ear, and forget your own people and the household of your father.  [Psalm 44:10] 2 Your countenance shall be entreated by the rich among the people of the land.  [Psalm 44:12] 3 I shall recall your name in every generation and generation.  [Psalm 44:17] APOLYTIKION of the feast of Hypapante – Tone 1 Hail, full of Grace Theotokos and Virgin, for from you has now risen the sun of righteousness, Christ who is our God, enlightening those in darkness.  Rejoice also you old and righteous Symeon, receiving in your embraces the liberator of our souls, who does also bestow upon us all the resurrection. EISODIKON –Tone 2 Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ. Save us, O Son of God, Who are risen from the dead; who sing to You. Alleluia. APOLYTIKION resurrectional of the Tone of the day – Tone 2 When You descended to the realm of death You as life immortal, rendered to Hades a mortal blow by Your all radiant divinity.  And when You from infernal depths and the darkness below did raise the dead, all the hosts of heavens’ powers did proclaim and cry out: O life giving Christ and our God we give glory.                          (DLH, p. 81) APOLYTIKION of the feast of Hypapante – Tone 1 Hail, full of Grace Theotokos and Virgin, for from you has now risen the sun of righteousness, Christ who is our God, enlightening those in darkness.  Rejoice also you old and righteous Symeon, receiving in your embraces the liberator of our souls, who does also bestow upon us all the resurrection. APOLYTIKION of our Church (Holy Trinity) – Tone 8 O Blessed are you, O Christ our God, who by sending down the Holy Spirit upon them, made the fishermen wise and through them illumined the world.  And unto you, the universe was ever drawn, all glory to you, O God.   (DLH, p. 115) APOLYTIKION of our Church (St. Nicholas) – Tone 4    (DLH, p. 110) As a yardstick of faith and an icon of gentleness; as a teacher of temperance, your actual deeds have declared you as being among your flock.  In this manner you gained by humility, things most sublime, and through poverty earned true wealth.  Father and our hierarch St. Nicholas intercede with Christ our God that our souls may be saved. KONTAKION of the feast of Hypapante – Tone 1 The womb of a virgin you did hallow at your birth, and as it befitted you blessed elder Symeon’s arms.  You also reached out and saved us all, O Christ our God.  Now, bring peace to our nation tangled in a war, and make firm our leaders whom you dearly love, for you are the only lover of man. Divine Liturgy Hymnal, p. 26:  TRISAGION. DLH, p. 54: AT THE Especially…,  It is truly meet… DLH, p. 66: KOINONIKON:  Praise the Lord… DLH, p. 70: After Communion, We have seen the true light… DLH, p. 74: Blessed be the Name of the Lord… DLH, p. 78:  THE DISMISSAL: May He Who condescended to be borne in the arms of Righteous Symeon …
Righteous Simeon the God-Receiver, according to the testimony of St. Luke, was promised by God that he would not die until that time when Christ would be come into the world. Ancient historians relate that he was among the 72 scholars sent to Alexandria by the Sanhedrin for the translation of the Sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament into the Greek language. Righteous Simeon translated the Book of Isaiah, having read in the original the words: "Behold, a Virgin shalt conceive and give birth to a Son" (Is 7: 14). He decided, that the word "Virgin" was incorrectly used here in place of the word "Young Woman", and he wanted to correct the text. At that moment an Angel appeared to him and held back his hand saying: "Have faith in the words written down; thou thyself shalt be persuaded that they will be fulfilled, whereof thou shalt not taste of death until thou behold Christ the Lord, Who shall	be born of a Pure and Immaculate Virgin". One day, Righteous Simeon was come to the Jerusalem Temple. It was the fortieth after the Birth of Christ, when the All-Pure Virgin Mary and Her Betrothed Joseph had come there in order to perform the ritual set down by Jewish Law: to present before the Lord His Own Divine First-Born and to offer the established sacrifice. When righteous Simeon beheld their arrival, the Holy Spirit revealed to him that this was the Promised Messiah, and the elder pronounced his prophetic words: "Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart, O Lord, with peace according to Thy word…” Simeon died in extreme old age. In the 6th c., his holy relics were transferred to Constantinople. In the year 1200 his grave was seen by the Russian pilgrim Saint Antonii, future archbishop of Novgorod (†1232, Comm. 8 October).                                         Prologue from Ochrid; Translated by Fr S. Janos
This insert is a gift from our Byzantine School.  We invite you to join us on the last Wednesday of each month at 6 pm, as we explore the selection of liturgy “specials” for each week, and other issues related to the liturgical services of our Church. Next mtg–2/27/13. Please consult the Sunday Bulletin for our regular announcements, or contact Tasos Ioannides, ioanniam@uc.edu or (513)556-3137.  Translation Sources: DLH= Divine Liturgy Hymnal; FSD=Fr Seraphim Dedes; KL=Kevin Lawrence; FEH =Fr Edward Hughes; FEL=Fr Ephraim Lash.