Propers for April 6, 2025

Apr. 6 – Fifth Sunday of the Great Lent. Tone 8

Forefeast of the Annunciation. Venerable Mary of Egypt. Ven. Zacharias the Recluse of Egypt (4th c.). St. Artemon, bishop of Seleucia (1st c.). Ven. James the Confessor, bishop of Catania (811). Ven. Zachariah, faster of the Kyiv Caves (13th c.).

Heb. 9:11-14; Mk. 10:32-45;

Liturgy of St. Basil the Great

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Resurrectional Tropar, Tone 8

You descended from on High, Merciful One. You accepted the three day burial to free us from our passions. Lord, our Life and Resurrection. Glory to You.

Tropar of Forefeast, Tone 4

Today the beginning of universal joy moves us to sing the prefestal hymn; / for Gabriel is coming and will cry to her: / "Rejoice, O Virgin full of grace, the Lord is with you.

Tropar of our church, Tone 4

Prophet and Forerunner of the coming of Christ,/ we who honor you with love can find no manner of praising you worthily./ For the barrenness of one who bore you / and the silence of your father have been ended by your being born of divine grace / and you have proclaimed to the world / the Incarnation of the Son of God.

Resurrectional Kondak, Tone 8

By rising from the tomb, You raised up the dead. Adam is risen and Eve exults in Your Resurrection. The entire world celebrates Your rising from the dead, Greatly Merciful One.

Glory … Kondak of our church, Tone 3

She who was previously barren / now bears the Forerunner of Christ / who is the fulfillment of every prophecy. / For the prophets proclaimed beforehand/ that having laid hands on Him in the Jordan,/ he would be manifest as Prophet,/ Preacher / and Forerunner of the Word of God.

Now and Ever…
Kondak, Tone 8

O Virgin Theotokos, you are the beginning of salvation for all of us on earth;/ for God's servant, the great Archangel Gabriel, was sent from Heaven to stand before you bringing you joy. / Therefore we all cry to you: "Rejoice, O unwedded Bride."

Prokimen

Priest: Let us be attentive! Peace be with you all!

Reader: And with your spirit!

Deacon: Wisdom!

Reader: The Prokimen in Tone 8: Pray and give glory to the Lord our God.

Choir: (repeats the prokimen)

Reader: V. In Judah God is known; His Name is great in Israel.

Choir: (repeats the prokimen)

Reader: Pray and give glory…

Choir: …to the Lord our God.

Epistle

Deacon: Wisdom!

Reader: The reading is from the Letter of St. Paul to the Hebrews.

Deacon: Let us be attentive.

Reader: Brethren, Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Priest: Peace be with you.

Reader: And with your spirit. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Verse: Come let us rejoice in the Lord. Let us shout with jubilation to God our Savior.

Verse: Let us come before His Face with thanksgiving; with psalms let us shout in jubilation to Him.

Instead of "It is right in truth"

All of creation rejoices in you, Lady, Full of Grace, the assembly of angels and the human race, Sanctified Temple and Spiritual Paradise, the Glory of Virgins, from whom God was incarnate and became a Child – our God before the ages. He made your body into a throne, and your womb more spacious than the heavens. All of creation rejoices in You, Lady Full of Grace. Glory to you!

Communion Hymn

Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Апостол

Євр. 9:11-14

Браття, Христос, Первосвященник майбутніх благ, прийшовши з більшою та досконалішою скінією, нерукотворною, тобто не такого спорудження, і не з кров'ю козлів і телят, але зі Своєю Кров'ю, один раз увійшов у святилище і здобув вічне викуплення. Бо якщо кров телят і козлів та попіл телиці через окроплення освячує осквернених, щоб чисте було тіло, то тим більше Кров Христа, Котрий Духом Святим приніс Себе непорочного Богові, очистить совість нашу від мертвих діл для служіння Богу живому і істинному!