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• Sat

  01

  Apr

  2023

  Lazarus Saturday; Our Venerable Mother Mary of Egypt (527-65)

  DIVINE LITURGY

  Troparia and Kontakia

  Troparion, Tone1: Assuring us before Your Passion of the general resurrection,* You raised Lazarus from the dead, o Christ God:* and so, like the children we also carry signs of victory* and cry to You, the conqueror of death:* Hosanna in the highest!* Blessed is He who comes* in the name of the Lord.

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

  Kontakion, Tone 2: Christ, the joy of all, the truth, the light,* the life, the resurrection of the universe,* in His goodness has revealed Himself to those on earth;* He Himself has become the pattern of the Resurrection,* granting divine forgiveness to all.

  Instead of “Holy God,” we sing:

  All you who have been baptized into Christ, you have put on Christ. Alleluia.

  Prokeimenon, Tone 3

  The Lord is my light and my Saviour;* whom shall I fear?

  verse: The Lord is the protector of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalm 26:1)

  Epistle

  Hebrews 12:28-13:8

  Alleluia, Tone 5

  verse: The Lord is King; He is robed in majesty.

  verse: For He has established the world which shall not be shaken. (Psalm 92:1)

  Gospel

  John 11:1-45

  Hymn to the Mother of God

  Irmos, Tone 8: Let us honour with glory the pure Mother of God;* though she received the Divine Fire within her womb she was not consumed.* With never ceasing hymns, O people,* we magnify her.

  Communion Hymn

  Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies* You have perfected praise.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 8:3)