Divine Liturgy Specials on
Sunday September 18, 2016
Tone 4 / Eothinon 2, Post
Elevation (Take Up Your Cross and Follow Me)
Eumenios, Bp of Gortyna (†7th
c.); Ariadne, M (†2th
c.); Sophia, Irene, Castor, Mm
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Ἀντίφωνον α´ – Ἦχος β´
1
Ὁ Θεός μου πρόσχες
μοι, ἵνα τὶ ἐγκατέλιπές
με;
2 Mακρὰν ἀπὸ τῆς σωτηρίας μου οἱ λόγοι τῶν παραπτωμάτων μου. Ὁ Θεός μου κεκράξομαι ἡμέρας, καὶ οὐκ εἰσακούσῃ.
3 Σὺ δὲ ἐν Ἁγίῳ κατοικεῖς, ὁ ἔπαινος τοῦ Ἰσραήλ.
Ταῖς πρεσβείαις τῆς Θεοτόκου, Σῶτερ, σῶσον
ἡμᾶς.
Ἀντίφωνον β´ – Ἦχος ὁ αὐτός
1 Ἴνα τὶ ὁ Θεὸς ἀπώσω εἰς τέλος;
2 Mνήσθητι τῆς συναγωγῆς
σου, ἧς ἐκτήσω ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς. Ὄρος Σιὼν
τοῦτο, ὃ κατεσκήνωσας ἐν αὐτῷ.
3 Ὁ δὲ Θεὸς Βασιλεὺς ἡμῶν πρὸ αἰώνων.
Σῶσον ἡμᾶς, Υἱὲ Θεοῦ, ὁ σαρκὶ σταυρωθείς,
ψάλλοντάς σοι· Ἀλληλούϊα.
Δόξα... Καὶ νῦν... Ὁ Μονογενὴς Υἱός...
Ἀντίφωνον γ´ – Ἦχος α'
1 Ὁ Κύριος ἐβασίλευσεν, ὀργιζέσθωσαν λαοί. Κύριος ἐν Σιὼν μέγας καὶ ὑψηλὸς ἐστι.
2 Ἐξομολογησάσθωσαν τῷ ὀνόματί σου τῷ μεγάλῳ.
Ἀπολυτίκιον – Ἦχος α'
Σῶσον Κύριε τὸν λαόν σου καὶ εὐλόγησον τὴν κληρονομίαν σου, νίκας τοῖς
Βασιλεύσι κατὰ βαρβάρων δωρούμενος καὶ τὸ σὸν φυλάττων διὰ τοῦ Σταυροῦ σου
πολίτευμα.
Εἰσοδικόν – Ἦχος β´
Ὑψοῦτε Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν ἡμῶν. καὶ προσκυνεῖτε τῷ ὑποποδίῳ τῶν ποδῶν αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἅγιος ἐστι. Σῶσον ἡμᾶς Υἱὲ Θεοῦ, ὁ σαρκὶ σταυρωθείς, ψάλλοντάς σοι. Ἀλληλούϊα.
Ἀπολυτίκιον – Ἦχος α'
Σῶσον Κύριε τὸν λαόν σου καὶ εὐλόγησον τὴν κληρονομίαν σου, νίκας τοῖς
Βασιλεύσι κατὰ βαρβάρων δωρούμενος καὶ τὸ σὸν φυλάττων διὰ τοῦ Σταυροῦ σου
πολίτευμα.
Ἀπολυτίκιον – Ἦχος δ'
Τὸ φαιδρὸν τῆς Ἀναστάσεως κήρυγμα, ἐκ τοῦ Ἀγγέλου μαθοῦσαι αἱ τοῦ Κυρίου
μαθήτριαι, καὶ τὴν προγονικὴν ἀπόφασιν ἀπορρίψασαι, τοῖς Ἀποστόλοις
καυχώμεναι ἔλεγον· Ἐσκύλευται ὁ θάνατος, ἡγέρθη Χριστὸς ὁ Θεός, δωρούμενος τῷ
κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.
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 δ' Αὐτόμελον
Ὁ ὑψωθεὶς ἐν τῷ Σταυρῷ ἑκουσίως,
τῇ ἐπωνύμῳ σου καινῇ πολιτείᾳ, τοὺς οἰκτιρμούς σου δώρησαι, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, Εὔφρανον
ἐν τῇ δυνάμει σου, τοὺς πιστοὺς Βασιλεῖς ἡμῶν, νίκας χορηγῶν αὐτοῖς, κατὰ τῶν
πολεμίων, τὴν συμμαχίαν ἔχοιεν τὴν σήν, ὅπλον εἰρήνης, ἀήττητον τρόπαιον.
Τρισάγιον.
Εἰς τό ᾽Εξαιρέτως: ῎Αξιόν ἐστιν....
Κοινωνικόν: Αἰνεῖτε....
Εἴδομεν τό φῶς...
Εἴη τό ὄνομα Κυρίου…
Ἀπόλυσις·
Ὁ ἀναστάς ἐκ νεκρῶν....
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Divine Liturgy
Hymnal, p. 16: ANTIPHON I – Tone 2
1
My God, come to me, why have You forsaken me.
[Ps
21:2]
2
Far from my salvation are the pronouncements of my transgressions. My God, I shall call upon You daily, but
You will not hearken to me. [Ps 21:2-3]
3
Still, You dwell in Your holy place, You are the boast of Israel. [Ps 21:4] save us.
Through
the intercessions of the Theotokos, O Savior,
Divine Liturgy
Hymnal, p. 18: ANTIPHON II – Same tone
1
Why, O God, have you denied me to my end?
[Psalm
73:1]
2
Be mindful of Your congregation that You established since the
beginning. The mountain of Sion
itself, upon which You have dwelled. [Ps 73:2]
3
For our God has been Sovereign before all time. [Ps 73:12]
Save
us, O Son of God, Who was crucified in the flesh; who sing to You. Alleluia.
Glory…
Both now… O, only begotten Son…
Divine Liturgy
Hymnal, p. 24: ANTIPHON III – Tone 1
1
The Lord has reigned, let the nations be frustrated. The Lord in Sion is great and lofty. [Ps 98:1-2]
2 Let them sing praises to Your name that is
majestic. [Ps
98:3]
APOLYTIKION of the
Holy Cross – Tone 1
Save, O Lord, save Your
people, and bless Your inheritance.
Give vict’ry to those who battle evil, and protect us all by Your holy
Cross. (KL)
EISODIKON –Tone 2
Elevate,
exalt our Lord and God, and worship at the footstool of His feet, for He is
the Holy One [Ps
98:5]. Save us, O Son of God, Who was crucified in
the flesh; who sing to You. Alleluia.
APOLYTIKION of the
Holy Cross – Tone 1
Save, O Lord, O
Lord, Your people, and bless Your inheritance. Give vict’ry to the faithful against the
adversaries of the faith. And protect
Your people through Your Holy Cross, Your Holy Cross. (DLH, p. 107)
APOLYTIKION resurrectional of the Tone of the
day – Tone 4
When the tidings of
the resurrection from the glorious angel was proclaimed unto the women
disciples, and our ancestral sentence also had been abolished, to the
Apostles with boasting did they proclaim that death is vanquished ever more
and Christ our God has risen from the dead, and granted to the world the
great mercy. (DLH,
p. 84)
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 the Elevation – Tone 4
You who were lifted on the Cross voluntarily, O Christ our God,
bestow Your tender compassion upon Your new community to which You gave Your
name. Make our faithful governors to
be glad in Your power, granting them the victories against their
adversaries. May they have that
alliance which is Yours, the shield of peace, the trophy invincible. (FSD)
Divine Liturgy
Hymnal, p. 26: TRISAGION.
DLH, p. 54: AT THE
Especially…, It is truly meet…
DLH, p. 66: KOINONIKON: Praise
the Lord…[Ps 148:1]
DLH, p. 70: After Communion, We have seen the true light…
DLH, p. 74: Blessed be the Name
of the Lord…
Divine Liturgy
Hymnal, p. 78: THE DISMISSAL:
May
He Who is risen from the dead, Christ...
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During
the time of Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry, no one was inspired by the
cross, for it was a feared instrument of execution. No one honored the cross and certainly no
one thought that God’s Messiah would die on one. So it was profoundly
shocking when the Savior told His disciples that He would be rejected, suffer,
die, and rise again. When St. Peter
tried to correct Him, Christ called him “Satan” and said that he was thinking
in human terms, not God’s. Then the
Lord told the disciples what they didn’t want to hear. They too must take up their crosses and lose their lives; that’s the way to
enter into the blessed salvation of the Kingdom of Heaven.
The hard truth that Jesus Christ broke to His disciples was that we too must
die in order to rise again. And the unpopular truth is that every last one of
us needs to die to our sinfulness, to how we have distorted ourselves, our
relationships, and our world. The Son
of God offered Himself in free obedience to the Father, taking upon Himself
the full consequences of sin and death to the point of a horrible execution;
He did so out of love for us. And thus
He opened the way to the Kingdom of heaven, to life eternal, for you, me, and
all humankind; indeed, for the entire creation. And that way is the cross, for
if we want to share in the joy of His resurrection, of His victory over
death, we must first participate in the struggle, pain, and sacrifice of
crucifixion. We must crucify the
habits of thought, word, and deed that lead us to worship and serve ourselves
instead of God and neighbor. We must
kill our
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pride,
our selfishness, and our slavery to pleasure. If we don’t crucify these
passions, our souls will be too sick, dark, and weak to share in the glory of
the resurrection. Like St. Peter, we
will think in human terms, not God’s, no matter how religious or moral we
appear to others. And the reality is that we have no shortage of
opportunities to take up our crosses.
When we struggle to resist a temptation, when we battle angry thoughts
against those who have wronged or somehow irritated us, and when we endure
deep sorrows and disappointments with trust in God’s faithfulness and mercy,
we take up the cross. Fortunately, we do not go to the cross alone. No matter what we are tempted to think at
times, our Savior is no stranger to temptation, suffering, pain, and death.
He sympathizes with our struggles because He endured them. He was literally nailed to a cross, died,
was buried, and descended into Hades in order to bring the joy of life
eternal to corrupt, weak, imperfect people like you and me through His
glorious third-day resurrection. And
in order to follow Him, we must likewise take up our cross, through prayer,
fasting, forgiveness, mending broken relationships, and showing generosity to
those in need. No matter what burdens we may bear, no matter our frustrations
and failures, let us let us keep our eyes on the prize, looking to the great
trophy of our Savior’s victory over sin and death, the cross, through which
joy has come into all the world.
FR. PHILIP LEMASTERS (2013) Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese
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This insert is a
gift from our Byzantine
School. We invite you to join us on the last Thursday
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: 9/29/16. Please
consult the Sunday Bulletin for our regular announcements, or contact Tasos, ioanniam@yahoo.com or (937)232-9665. Translation Sources:
DLH= Divine Liturgy Hymnal; FSD=Fr Seraphim Dedes; KL=Kevin Lawrence; FEH =Fr Edward Hughes; FEL=Fr Ephraim Lash.
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