by user | Mar 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
GREAT VESPERS Kathisma Reading “Blessed is the man…” is sung. At Psalm 140 In Tone 6 Lead my soul forth from prison* that I may give thanks to Your name. Today the grace of the Holy Spirit has gathered us together, and we all take up Your Cross and say: “Blessed is He...
by user | Mar 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
DIVINE LITURGY Troparion and Kontakion Troparion, Tone 1: 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:*...
by user | Mar 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
God always loves us unconditionally because mercy is his very nature. Said another way, because God is love, God is mercy. We almost know the words by heart because we have so often heard John’s story of the woman caught in adultery [JN 8:1-11]: “Has no one condemned...
by user | Feb 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
GREAT VESPERS Before the beginning of the service, the Precious Cross is brought from the table of the Prothesis or the sacristy and placed on the Holy Table. A candle is lit and left burning in front of it. Kathisma Reading “Blessed is the man…” is sung. At Psalm 140...
by user | Feb 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
At Psalm 140 In Tone 7 Lead my soul forth from prison* that I may give thanks to Your name. Like the prodigal, I have turned away from Your grace; I have wasted the riches of Your goodness, O Lord. I now run to You and cry out: I have sinned , O Lord, have mercy on...
