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• Sat

  09

  Mar

  2019

  The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (321-23); First Saturday of the Great Fast: Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit

  DIVINE LITURGY

  Troparia and Kontakia
  Troparion, Tone 1: Be swayed by the pains that the saints have suffered, for You, O Lord,*, and heal all our pains,* O Lover of mankind, for this we pray.

  Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.

  Kontakion, Tone 6: Leaving behind every army on earth,* you cleaved to the Master in heave,* O Forty passion-bearers of the Lord.* For passing through fire and water* you rightly received glory from heaven* and a myriad of crowns, O blessed saints.

  Prokeimenon, Tone 5
  You, O Lord, will guard and will keep us, from this generation and for ever.
  verse: Save me, O Lord, for there is no longer left a just man. (Psalm 11:8, 2)

  Prokeimenon, Tone 7
  The just man shall be glad in the Lord and shall hope in Him.

  Epistle
  Hebrews 12:1-10

  Alleluia, Tone 4
  verse: Shout to the Lord, all the earth, sing now to His name, give glory to His praise. (Psalm 65:2)
  verse: For You, O God, have tested us, You have tried us by fire as silver is tried. (Psalm 65:10)
  verse: The just man shall flourish like the palm tree; and he shall grow like the cedar in Lebanon. (Psalm 91:13)
  verse: They who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish the courts of our God. (Psalm 91:14)

  Gospel
  Matthew 20:1-16

  Communion Hymn
  Rejoice in the Lord, O you just;* praise befits the righteous.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 32:1)