Sep. 27 – 17th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 8

THE UNIVERSAL EXALTATION OF THE PRECIOUS AND LIFE-GIVING CROSS

ВОЗДВИЖЕННЯ ЧЕСНОГО І ЖИВОТВОРЯЩОГО ХРЕСТА ГОСПОДНЬОГО

1 Cor. 1:18-24; Jn. 19, 6-11, 13-20, 25-28, 30-35;

Fast Day

Antiphon One, Tone 2

Verse 1: My God, my God, look upon me; Why have You forsaken Me?

Refrain: Through the prayers of the Birth-Giver of God, Savior, save us.

Verse 2: The words of my transgressions are far from my salvation.

Refrain: Through the prayers...

Verse 3: My God, I cry in the daytime, but You hear not.

Refrain: Through the prayers...

Verse 4: But You, the praise of Israel, dwell in the Sanctuary.

Refrain: Through the prayers...

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

Refrain: Through the prayers...

Antiphon Two, Tone 2

Verse 1: Why, God, have You cast us off forever?

Refrain: Son of God, Crucified in the flesh, save us who sing to you: Alleluia.

Verse 2: Remember Your congregation, which You have gathered up from old.

Refrain: Son of God, Crucified...

Verse 3: This is Mount Zion where You have dwelt.

Refrain: Son of God, Crucified...

Verse 4: God is our King of old; He has fashioned salvation in the midst of the earth.

Refrain: Son of God, Crucified...

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

Only-Begotten Son ….

Antiphon Three, Tone 1

Verse 1: The Lord reigns, let the people exalt. He sits upon the Сherubim, let the earth be moved.

Tropar: O Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance. Grant victory to Orthodox Christians over their adversaries; and by virtue of Your Cross, preserve Your community.

Verse 2: The Lord is great in Zion: He is high above all the people.

Tropar: Lord, save Your people...

Verse 3: Worship the Lord before His holy mountain.

Tropar: Lord, save Your people...

Entrance Hymn

Exult the Lord Our God and worship at His footstool for He is Holy.

Tropar, Tone 1

O Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance. Grant victory to Orthodox Christians over their adversaries; and by virtue of Your Cross, preserve Your community.

Glory … Now and Ever …
Kondak, Tone 4

Christ God, as You were voluntarily raised on the Cross, grant Your bounties to the new Nation bearing Your Name. Make all Your devout faithful glad through Your Power, granting them victory over their enemies through the invincible trophy, Your Weapon of Peace.

Instead of the Thrice-Holy Hymn

Before Your Cross we bow down, Master and Your Holy Resurrection we glorify. (3 times)

Prokimen

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

Reader: And with your spirit!

Deacon: Wisdom!

Reader: The Prokimen in Tone 7: Exalt the Lord our God and worship at His footstool; for He is Holy.

Choir: (repeats the prokimen)

Reader: V. The Lord reigns, let the people tremble.

Choir: (repeats the prokimen)

Reader: Exalt the Lord our God…

Choir: and worship at His footstool; for He is Holy.

Epistle

Deacon: Wisdom!

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

Deacon: Let us be attentive.

Reader: Brethren, the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart." Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Priest: Peace be with you.

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

Verse: Remember Your congregation which You have gathered up from old.

Verse: God is our King of old; He has fashioned salvation in the midst of the earth.

Instead of "It is right in truth"

Magnify, my soul, the Most Precious Cross of the Lord.

Irmos, Tone 8: You are the Mystical Paradise, Birth-Giver of God, in which Christ blossomed. Through Him the life bearing wood of the Cross was planted on the earth. Now at its exaltation, as we venerate it, we magnify You.

Communion Hymn

Illumine us, Lord, with the light of Your Countenance. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Апостол

З Першого Посла́ння до Коринфян Свято́го Апо́стола Павла́ чита́ння (1 Кор. 1:18-24)

Браття, слово про хрест для тих, хто гине, безумство є, а для нас, хто спасаємось,– сила Божа. Бо написано: погублю мудрість мудреців, і розум розумних відкину (Іс. 29,14). Де мудрець? де книжник? де допитливий віку цього? Чи не обернув Бог мудрість світу цього на безумство? Бо коли світ своєю мудрістю не пізнав Бога в премудрості Божій, то благоугодно було Богові безумством проповіді спасти віруючих. Бо й іудеї вимагають чудес, і елліни шукають мудрості; а ми проповідуємо Христа розп'ятого, для іудеїв спокуса, а для еллінів безумство, для самих же покликаних, іудеїв і еллінів,– Христа, Божу силу і Божу премудрість.