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Event Information:

  • Sat
    02
    Mar
    2024

    All Souls Saturday. Holy Priest-Martyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia (c. 321)

    Great Fast Day 20.

    DIVINE LITURGY

    Troparia and Kontakia

    Troparion, Tone 8: With profound wisdom and love for mankind, You arrange all things* and bestow beneficial things upon all, O only Creator and Lord.* Grant rest to the souls of your servants,* for they have placed their hope in You,* our God Who made and shaped us.

    Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

    Kontakion, Tone 8: To the souls of Your servants, O Christ* grant rest among the saints* where there is no pain,* no sorrow, no mourning,* but only life without end.

    Now and for ever and ever. Amen.

    Theotokion, Tone 8: In you we have a rampart and a haven, and an intercessor* most acceptable to God,* whom you bore, o Virgin Mother of God,* salvation of the faithful

    Prokeimenon, Tone 6

    Their souls shall dwell amidst good things.

    verse: To You, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul. (Psalm 24:13,1)

    Epistle

    Hebrews 10:32-38; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

    Alleluia, Tone 6

    verse: Blessed are they whom You have chosen and taken to Yourself, O Lord.

    verse: And let their memory be from generation to generation. (Psalm 64:5)

    Gospel

    Mark 2:14-17; John 5:24-30

    Communion Hymn

    Blessed are they whom You have chosen and taken to Yourself, O Lord;* and let their memory be from generation to generation.* Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. (Psalm 64:5)