19th Sunday after Pentecost Tone 2; Our Venerable Father Cyriacus the Anchorite (c. 448-556); 2 Corinthians 11:31-12:9; Luke 6:31-36 Troparion (Tone 2): When You went down to death, O Life Immortal,* You struck Hades dead with the blazing light of Your...
18th Sunday after Pentecost; The Priest-Martyr Gregory, Bishop of Great Armenia (284-305) – Sept 30 Text from “The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship”; Pg. 329 (Tone 1) Troparion (Tone 1): Though the stone was sealed by the Judeans* and soldiers guarded Your...
Sunday after the Exaltation of the Cross Tone 8; Holy Great-Martyr Nicetas (374); Jospeh Bishop of Alavert in Georgia (570); Galatians 2:16-20; Mark 8:34-9:1 First Antiphon Verse 1: O God, my God, hear me; why have You forsaken me? The words of my...
Sept 14: The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross Text from “The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship”; Pg. 685 First Antiphon Verse 1: O God, my God, hear me; why have You forsaken me? The words of my transgressions put salvation far from me...
Next year the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church will commemorate the 25th anniversary of its coming out of the underground. The Church is preparing to mark this university with due dignity. The UGCC Father and Head shared this in an interview with the newspaper...
