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Hieratikon
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Menaion - September 10
Memory of the Holy Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora
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LITURGY OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
Antiphon 1. Mode 2. Psalms 131, 86, 45.
Verse 1: Remember David, O Lord, and all his meekness. [SAAS]
Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.
Verse 2: Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found it in the plains of the wood.
Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.
Verse 3: Glorious things were said concerning you, O city of God.
Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.
Verse 4: God is in her midst; she shall not be shaken.
Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.
Glory. Both now.
Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.
Antiphon 2. Mode 2. Psalm 131.
Verse 1: The Lord swore to David this truth, and He shall not reject it. [SAAS]
Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.
Verse 2: I shall set upon your throne one from the fruit of your loins.
Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.
Verse 3: There I shall cause to spring up a horn for David; there I prepared a lamp for my anointed.
Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.
Verse 4: The Lord has chosen Zion; He chose her for His dwelling.
Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Both now and ever and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Only-begotten Son and Logos of God, being immortal, You condescended for our salvation to take flesh from the holy Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary and, without change, became man. Christ, our God, You were crucified and conquered death by death. Being one of the Holy Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit: Save us.
Antiphon 3. Mode 4. Psalms 131, 45, 64.
Verse 1: Here I shall dwell, for I have chosen her. [SAAS]
Verse 2: The Most High sanctified His tabernacle.
Verse 3: Holy is Your temple, wondrous in righteousness.
Apolytikion of the Feast. Mode 4.
Your Nativity, O Theotokos, imparted joy to the entire earth, for out of you has risen the Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God. He nullified the curse and instead gave His blessing; and causing death to be neutralized, He granted us eternal life. [SD]
Entrance Hymn. Mode 2.
Come, let us worship and bow down before Christ. Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.
Hymns after the Entrance.
Apolytikion. For the Martyrs.
From Horologion - - -
Mode pl. 1. As the Father and Spirit.
With our songs let us crown and extol the holy three * virgin sisters, united to each other and to God. * They were manly in the way the defeated the enemy. * And now they guard us and protect us who sing to them and say, * “Rejoice, devout Menodora, * and you, divine Metrodora, * and Nymphodora, godly-minded Saint.” [SD]
The Apolytikion of the parish church is sung. Then:
From Menaion - - -
Kontakion.
Mode 4.
Both Joachim and Anna from their sterility’s stigma, and Adam and Eve from their mortality’s ruin have been set free, O immaculate Maid, by your holy nativity. For this do your people hold celebration, redeemed from the guilt of transgression as they cry to you, “The barren one bears the Theotokos, the nourisher of our Life.” [GKD]
Trisagios Hymn
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us. (3)
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Both now and ever and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.
The Epistle
Tuesday of the 12th Week
Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 63.
The righteous man shall be glad in the Lord, and shall hope in Him. [SAAS]
Verse: Hear my voice, O God, in my supplication. [SAAS]
The reading is from Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians.
2 Cor. 5:15 – 21
Brethren, Christ died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from a human point of view, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. [RSV]
Alleluia. Mode 2. Psalm 91.
Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
Verse 1: The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree; he shall be multiplied like the cedar in Lebanon. [SAAS]
Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
Verse 2: Those planted in the house of the Lord shall blossom forth in the courts of our God.
Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
The Gospel
For the Forefeast.
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to John.
Jn. 3:16 – 21
The Lord said to his disciples, “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that these deeds have been wrought in God.” [RSV]
Hymn to the Theotokos.
It is truly right to bless you, Theotokos, ever blessed, most pure, and Mother of our God. More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, without corruption you gave birth to God the Logos. We magnify you, the true Theotokos.
Communion Hymn. Psalm 111/112.
The righteous will be remembered for ever. [RSV] Alleluia.
Hymn after Holy Communion.
Mode 2.
We have seen the true light; we have received the heavenly Spirit; we have found the true faith, worshiping the undivided Trinity, for the Trinity has saved us.
DISMISSAL
Glory to You, O Christ our God. Glory to You.
May Christ our true God, through the intercessions of His all-pure and all-immaculate holy Mother, the power of the precious and life-giving Cross, the protection of the honorable, bodiless powers of heaven, the supplications of the honorable, glorious prophet and forerunner John the Baptist, of the holy, glorious, and praiseworthy apostles, of the holy, glorious, and triumphant martyrs, of our righteous and God-bearing fathers, (local patron saint); of the holy and righteous ancestors of God Joachim and Anna, and of all the saints, have mercy on us and save us, as He is good, benevolent, and merciful God.
Fasting Rule
Fast Free: All foods allowed.