Divine Liturgy Specials on
Sunday, January 29, 2017 (32nd
Sunday after Pentecost)
Tone 7 / Eothinon 10, 17th
Sunday of Matthew (Canaanitess)
Ignatius
Godbearer, Relics (637); Lawrence of Kiev Caves
(†1194)
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Ἀντίφωνον α´ – Ἦχος
β´
1
Εὐλόγει ἡ ψυχή μου τὸν Κύριον, καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐντός μου τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἅγιον
αὐτοῦ.
2
Εὐλόγει ἡ ψυχή
μου τὸν Κύριον,
καὶ μὴ ἐπιλανθάνου
πάσας τὰς ἀνταποδόσεις αὐτοῦ.
3
Κύριος ἐν τῷ
οὐρανῷ ἡτοίμασε τὸν
θρόνον αὐτοῦ, καὶ
ἡ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ
πάντων δεσπόζει.
Ταῖς πρεσβείαις τῆς Θεοτόκου, Σῶτερ, σῶσον ἡμᾶς.
Ἀντίφωνον β´ – Ἦχος
ὁ αὐτός
1
Αἴνει ἡ
ψυχή
μου τὸν Κύριον,
αἰνέσω Κύριον ἐν τῇ ζωῇ μου,
ψαλῶ
τῷ
Θεῷ
μου ἕως ὑπάρχω.
2
Μακάριος οὗ ὁ
Θεὸς Ἰακὼβ βοηθὸς αὐτοῦ, ἡ ἐλπὶς αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ
Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν
αὐτοῦ.
3
Βασιλεύσει Κύριος εἰς
τὸν αἰῶνα, ὁ
Θεός σου, Σιών,
εἰς γενεὰν καὶ
γενεάν.
Σῶσον ἡμᾶς, Υἱὲ Θεοῦ, ὁ ἀναστὰς ἐκ νεκρῶν, ψάλλοντάς σοι· Ἀλληλούϊα.
Δόξα... Καὶ νῦν...
Ὁ Μονογενὴς Υἱός...
Ἀντίφωνον γ´ – Ἦχος βαρὺς
1
Αὕτη ἡ ἡμέρα,
ἣν ἐποίησεν ὁ
Κύριος, ἀγαλλιασώμεθα, καὶ
εὐφρανθῶμεν ἐν αὐτῇ.
2
Αἰνεσάτωσαν αὐτὸν οἱ
οὐρανοὶ καὶ ἡ
γῆ, θάλασσα καὶ
πάντα τὰ ἕρποντα
ἐν αὐτῇ.
Ἀπολυτίκιον – Ἦχος βαρὺς
Κατέλυσας τῷ Σταυρῷ σου τὸν θάνατον, ἠνέωξας τῷ Ληστῇ τὸν Παράδεισον, τῶν Μυροφόρων τὸν θρῆνον μετέβαλες, καὶ τοῖς σοῖς Ἀποστόλοις κηρύττειν ἐπέταξας, ὅτι ἀνέστης Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, παρέχων τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.
Εἰσοδικόν – Ἦχος β´
Δεῦτε προσκυνήσωμεν καὶ
προσπέσωμεν Χριστῷ. Σῶσον
ἡμᾶς, Υἱὲ Θεοῦ,
ὁ ἀναστὰς ἐκ
νεκρῶν, ψάλλοντάς σοι·
Ἀλληλούϊα.
Ἀπολυτίκιον – Ἦχος βαρὺς
Κατέλυσας τῷ Σταυρῷ σου τὸν θάνατον, ἠνέωξας τῷ Ληστῇ τὸν Παράδεισον, τῶν Μυροφόρων τὸν θρῆνον μετέβαλες, καὶ τοῖς σοῖς Ἀποστόλοις κηρύττειν ἐπέταξας, ὅτι ἀνέστης Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, παρέχων τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.
Ἀπολυτίκιον – Ἦχος δ'
Καὶ
τρόπων μέτοχος, καὶ θρόνων διάδοχος, τῶν
Ἀποστόλων γενόμενος, τὴν
πρᾶξιν εὗρες θεόπνευστε,
εἰς θεωρίας ἐπίβασιν·
διὰ τοῦτο τὸν
λόγον
τῆς ἀληθείας ὀρθοτομῶν, καὶ τῇ πίστει
ἐνήθλησας μέχρις αἵματος,
Ἱερομάρτυς Ἰγνάτιε· πρέσβευε
Χριστῷ τῷ Θεῷ,
σωθῆναι τὰς ψυχὰς
ἡμῶν.
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 ἀναστάς ἐκ νεκρῶν....
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Divine Liturgy
Hymnal, p. 16: ANTIPHON I – Tone 2
1
Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me bless His holy
name. [Psalm 102:1]
[Psalm 102:2]
2
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.
3
The Lord has prepared His throne in the heavens; and His kingdom rules over
all. [Psalm 102:19] save us.
Through
the intercessions of the Theotokos, O Savior,
Divine Liturgy
Hymnal, p. 18: ANTIPHON II – Same tone
1
Praise the Lord, O my soul, I shall praise the Lord all my life, I shall sing
to my Lord as long as I exist. [Psalm 145:1-2]
2
Happy is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is upon the Lord his
God. [Psalm 145:5]
3
The Lord will reign unto the age, your God, O Zion, unto generation and
generation. [Psalm 145:10]
Save
us, O Son of God, Who is risen from the dead; who sing to You. Alleluia.
Glory…
Both now… O, only begotten Son…
Divine Liturgy
Hymnal, p. 24: ANTIPHON III – Tone 7
1
This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad therein. [Psalm 117:24]
2
Let the heavens and the earth praise Him, the sea and every creature crawling
in it. [Psalm 68:35]
APOLYTIKION resurrectional of the tone of the
day – Tone 7
By means of Your
Cross, O Lord, You abolished death. To the robber You opened Paradise. The lamentation of the myrrh-bearing women
You transformed, and You gave Your Apostles the order to proclaim to all that
You had risen, O Christ our God, and granted the world Your great mercy. (FSD)
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 7
O Lord by Your
sacred Cross You abolished death, and granted unto the thief blessed
paradise. The myrrh- bearers ceased
lamenting and turned to joy. The
apostles did preach the Good News at your command, that You had risen from
the dead O Christ our God, bestowing Your mercy upon the world ever
more. (DLH, p. 87)
APOLYTIKION
of St. Ignatius the God-bearer – Tone 4
Becoming a partner with the Apostles in way of
life and successor to their thrones, O God‐inspired Saint, in the
active life you found an entrance to contemplation.
Hence you rightly expounded the word of truth, and you shed your blood in
struggling for the faith, O Hieromartyr Ignatius. Intercede with Christ our
God, entreating Him to save our souls.
(FSD)
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.
DLH, 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 is risen…
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This
Canaanitess came in agony of mind,
with a broken heart, because her child was ill. She asked for healing, for the mercy of God,
but Christ seemed not to hear her. When she insisted, He said to her, ‘I have
come first and foremost to bring grace, and healing, and salvation to the
children of Israel’ The Canaanitess probably saw no harshness in His face, no
cruel indifference in His eyes. What she saw probably was a smile of
affection, which said to her: ‘Insist! Do what you are doing, because you are
right!’ So, she insisted, saying: ‘Yes, indeed, it is the masters who eat at
the table—but little dogs eat the crumbs!’ This conversation is so warm, so
human, that it shows us the true love
for humanity of God. God is able to hear, to respond with His heart,
always to turn to us with a smile, saying, ‘Are you sure that you are asking with conviction?’ And when we say, ‘Yes,
Lord, I am sure!’ that self-same Christ responds. In answering her prayer, He
teaches something important to the disciples, and to all of us, something
very direct. We turn to God with our needs, with the desire to be helped, to
have our burden relieved. Yet, after a short while we desist, we shrug our
shoulders and we say, ‘What is the point of turning to God? What is the point
of praying? He seems to be so indifferent! He does not answer; there is no
response, nothing is echoing; I am crying into the void of the empty
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sky—where
is He? Is it worth praying at all?’ The Canaanitess will say to us, ‘Indeed
it is worth praying! He is not testing you in cruelty. He is just asking you,
through His silence: Are you in earnest? Do you really want healing? Is it
really to Me that you come? Have you come to Me in the last resort? Are you prepared
to receive what you ask—humbly, not as your due, not as your right, but simply as an act of grace, of mercy, of
Divine tenderness?’ In this manner, don't we learn something very important?
Our soul is sick, our life is waning; something is dying in us, and we should
learn from David the King to cry out of the depth of our despair,
disillusionment, and misery, out of the depth of our sin, of all the things
that destroy us, to cry and cry, and say, ‘I trust you, Lord! I trust your
silence, as I would trust your word.’ If we only abandon ourselves to that confidence, we will hear the Lord
saying, ‘Be healed! Go home, worry no more!’ Home is the very depth of your being, the place where you are
alive, because your child is alive, your soul is alive, life has come back! Let
us enter into these weeks of preparation before Lent with God’s glorious
encouragement, with hope and certainty; let us start the journey, and go from
strength to strength, from sickness to healing, to the Resurrection. Amen.
METROPOLITAN ANTHONY BLOOM OF SOUROZH (1989)
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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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How
familiar is to us today's story of the Canaaenian woman whom Christ heard when
she insistently prayed for the healing of her child; and how much we can learn
from it! This woman came in agony of mind, with broken heart because her child
was ill; and she asked for healing, for the mercy of God; and then Christ seems
not to hear her; and when she insisted, asking for help, again, and again, He
said to her, ‘I have come first and (foremost) to bring grace, and healing, and
salvation to the children of Israel’... And this woman looked at Him, and she
probably saw no harshness in His face, no cruel indifference in His eyes; what
she saw probably was a smile, a smile of affection, a smile that said to her:
Insist! Do what you are doing, because you are right... And she insisted,
saying: Yes, indeed, it is the masters who eat at the table — but little dogs
eat the crumbs... And this conversation is so warm, so human, and it shows us
once more, but in a new way (a, the) humanity
of God, the true humanity, His
ability to hear always, always to respond with His heart, always to turn to us
with a smile, saying, Are you sure that you are asking with conviction — are
you sure? And when we say, Yes, Lord,
I am sure! It is from all the depth of my need, all the depth of my conviction
that I am turning to You, not to anyone else, but to You, my Lord, my God,
(that) Christ answers. But He doesn't answer only her prayer; He answers more
than her prayer; He teaches something so important to the disciples, and beyond
the disciples, to all of us; through centuries and centuries we have heard this
story, and if we think of ourselves, and think in the terms in which many writers
of old have spoken of a human being, of his soul, of his (all, own) self —
can't we learn something very direct? We turn to God with our needs, we turn to
God with the desire to be helped to have our burden to be taken off our
shoulders — yes. But don't we after a short while desist, shake (?) our
shoulders and say, What is the point of turning to God? What is the point of
praying? He seems to be so indifferent! He does not answer; there is no
response, nothing is echoing; I am crying into the void of an empty sky — where
is He? Is it worth praying at all?? And the (Canaaenian) woman will say to us,
Indeed it is worth praying because He is not testing you in cruelty, He is just
asking you, through His silence, Are you in earnest? Do you really want
healing? Is it really to Me (?) that you come? Have you come to Me in the last
resort? Are you prepared to receive what you ask — humbly, not as your due, not as your right, but simply as an act
of grace, of mercy, of Divine tenderness?..
Looking at these two stories don't we learn something very important?
Our soul is sick, our life is (waning) — I am speaking of eternal life, perhaps
not the life of our body; something is dying in us, and we should learn from
David the King to cry out of the deep, the deep of our despair, the deep of our
disillusionment, the deep of our misery, the deep of our sin, the deep of all
the things that destroy us, cry a cry, and say, I trust you, Lord! I trust your
silence, as I would trust your word... And then, if we only abandon ourselves to that confidence, we will hear the Lord
saying, See again! Go home, worry no more — “home” meaning the very depth of
your being, the place where you are alive, because your child is alive, your
soul is alive, life has come back!.. Let us enter into these weeks of preparation
with this glorious encouragement from God Himself, with this hope He gives us,
this certainty, indeed He gives us; let us start on this journey, and be ready
when Lent comes to have gone from blindness to sight. And then go on, from
strength to strength, from brokenheartedness to brokenheartedness, and from
sickness to healing, until we come to the Resurrection. Amen.
METROPOLITAN ANTHONY BLOOM OF SOUROZH (1989)
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