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Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great Epistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-40 Reader: Blessed are You, O Lord God of our fathers, for You are praiseworthy and exalted beyond measure unto the ages. Deacon: Let us be attentive. Reader: For You are righteous in all You did for us, all You brought on us and on Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers. Deacon: Wisdom. Reader: The reading is from St. Paul’s letter to the Hebrews. Deacon: Let us be attentive. Brethren, by faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets — who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign enemies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated -- of whom the world was not worthy — wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Chanters: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia Reader: Moses and Aaron are among His priests, and Samuel is among those who call upon His name. Chanters: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia Reader: They called upon the Lord, and He heard them. Chanters: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia Holy Gospel according to St. John 1:43-51 At that time, "If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." HYMNS FOR THE LITURGY Resurrection Hymn (Plagal First Tone) Let us worship the Word who is unoriginate * with the Father and the Spirit, and from a Virgin was born * for our salvation, O believers, and let us sing His praise. * For in His goodness He was pleased * to ascend the Cross in the flesh, and to undergo death, * and to raise up those who had died, * by His glorious Resurrection Hymn for the Feast (Second Tone) We venerate Your immaculate icon, O good Lord, and entreat You to forgive our offences, O Christ our God. By Your own choice you were pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh, to deliver us, whom You created, from our slavery to the foe. Therefore we cry to You with gratitude:You have filled all things with joy, O our Savior, by coming to save the world Hymn for the Transfiguration Kontakion of the Akathist (Plagal Second Tone) O Champion General, I your City now inscribe to youTriumphant anthems as the tokens of my gratitude, Being rescued from the terrors, O Theotokos. Inasmuch as you have power unassailable, From all kinds of perils free me, so that unto you I may cry aloud: Rejoice, O unwedded Bride. PARISH NOTICES We warmly welcome everyone who prays with us today, especially our guests. Please join us downstairs after liturgy for the Fellowship Hour. Our weekly Fellowship Hour is a ministry of hospitality offered by faithful members of our parish. Everyone is welcome to participate, whether by offering a meal, or by partaking with gratitude in what is offered. If you wish to receive Holy Communion at the Wednesday Presanctified Liturgy, please fast from all food and drink, if possible, from the night before. If you are unable to fast all day, then fast after a light Lenten noon meal. As is our tradition, we’ll share a Lenten potluck meal after the liturgy. At last week’s special Parish Assembly, the decision was made to purchase approximately 22 acres of land located northeast of the intersection of I-229 and East Benson Road. After receiving the signed minutes of the meeting, His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver, our ruling hierarch, gave us his blessing to proceed with the purchase. The closing of the sale will take place at 11 A.M. on Monday, March 30 th at First Dakota Title, 600 S Main Avenue, Suite 101. Next Sunday during Fellowship Hour, the Drama Club will present a short play, Purple Butterfly and Orange Spider. Our 2020 Parish Council Alexandra Axiotis Peter Barna Patty Carey, Secretary Benjamin Cutler Rodney Fitts, Treasurer Kosta Mirković Chris Pappas,Vice-President Brandon Sherod, President Kathy Theodosopoulos Rev. Fr. Sava Leida, Proistamenos March 8, 2020 The Sunday of Orthodoxy Feasts and Commemorations: Theophylact the Confessor, Bishop of Nicomedia; Hermas the Apostle of the 70; Paul the Confessor; Dometios the Righteous; Felix of Burgundy, Enlightener of East Anglia Plagal First Tone : : Fifth Matins Gospel
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Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great
Epistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-40
Reader: Blessed are You, O Lord God of our fathers, for You are praiseworthy and exalted beyond measure unto the ages.
Deacon: Let us be attentive.Reader: For You are righteous in all You did for us, all You brought on us and on Jerusalem,
the holy city of our fathers.
Deacon: Wisdom.Reader: The reading is from St. Paul’s letter to the Hebrews.
Deacon: Let us be attentive.
Brethren, by faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets — who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign enemies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated -- of whom the world was not worthy —wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Chanters: Alleluia, Alleluia, AlleluiaReader: Moses and Aaron are among His priests, and Samuel is among those who
call upon His name.
Chanters: Alleluia, Alleluia, AlleluiaReader: They called upon the Lord, and He heard them.
Chanters: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Holy Gospel according to St. John 1:43-51
At that time, "If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
HYMNS FOR THE LITURGY Resurrection Hymn (Plagal First Tone)
Let us worship the Word who is unoriginate * with the Father and the Spirit, and from a Virgin was born * for our salvation, O believers, and let us sing His praise. * For in His goodness He was pleased * to ascend the Cross in the flesh, and to undergo death, * and to raise up those who had died, * by His glorious ResurrectionHymn for the Feast (Second Tone) We venerate Your immaculate icon, O good Lord, and entreat You to forgive our offences, O Christ our God. By Your own choice you were pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh, to deliver us, whom You created, from our slavery to the foe. Therefore we cry to You with gratitude: You have filled all things with joy, O our Savior, by coming to save the worldHymn for the Transfiguration Kontakion of the Akathist (Plagal Second Tone)
O Champion General, I your City now inscribe to youTriumphant anthems as the tokens of my gratitude, Being rescued from the terrors, O Theotokos. Inasmuch as you have power unassailable, From all kinds of perils free me, so that unto you I may cry aloud: Rejoice, O unwedded Bride.
PARISH NOTICES We warmly welcome everyone who prays with us today, especially our guests. Please join us downstairs after liturgy for the Fellowship Hour. Our weekly Fellowship Hour is a ministry of hospitality offered by faithful members of our parish. Everyone is welcome to participate, whether by offering a meal, or by partaking with gratitude in what is offered.If you wish to receive Holy Communion at the Wednesday Presanctified Liturgy, please fast from all food and drink, if possible, from the night before. If you are unable to fast all day, then fast after a light Lenten noon meal. As is our tradition, we’ll share a Lenten potluck meal after the liturgy.
At last week’s special Parish Assembly, the decision was made to purchase approximately 22 acres of land located northeast of the intersection of I-229 and East Benson Road. After receiving the signed minutes of the meeting, His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver, our ruling hierarch, gave us his blessing to proceed with the purchase. The closing of the sale will take place at 11 A.M. on Monday, March 30th at First Dakota Title, 600 S Main Avenue, Suite 101.
Next Sunday during Fellowship Hour, the Drama Club will present a short play, Purple Butterfly and Orange Spider.
Our 2020 Parish Council Alexandra AxiotisPeter BarnaPatty Carey, SecretaryBenjamin CutlerRodney Fitts, TreasurerKosta MirkovićChris Pappas, Vice-PresidentBrandon Sherod, PresidentKathy TheodosopoulosRev. Fr. Sava Leida, Proistamenos
March 8, 2020 The Sunday of Orthodoxy
Feasts and Commemorations: Theophylact the Confessor, Bishop of Nicomedia; Hermas the Apostle of the 70;
Paul the Confessor; Dometios the Righteous; Felix of Burgundy, Enlightener of East Anglia
Plagal First Tone : : Fifth Matins Gospel
THIS WEEK AT TRANSFIGURATION CHURCH THE SECOND WEEK OF THE GREAT FAST
Today Lenten Vespers at 5 P.M.
Wednesday Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts at 6 P.M. Potluck Lenten supper follows the Liturgy.
Friday Small Compline with Salutations to the Mother of God at 6 P.M.
Saturday Catechism Class at 1:00 P.M. Great Vespers at 5 P.M. Confessions following.
Next Sunday March 15th — Sunday of Saint Gregory Palamas Matins at 9 A.M., followed by Divine Liturgy at 10 A.M. Sunday School Drama Club presentation Lenten Vespers at 5 P.M.
L👀 KING AHEAD March 21 Game NightMarch 28 Sunday of the CrossMarch 24 Parish Council meetingApril 12 Latin Pascha (“American Easter”)April 19 Great and Holy Pascha
SYNAXARION FOR THE SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY
For more than one hundred years the Church of Christ was troubled by the persecution of the Iconoclasts of evil belief, beginning in the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741) and ending in the reign of Theophilus (829-842). After Theophilus's death, his widow the Empress Theodora (celebrated Feb. 11), together with the Patriarch Methodius (June 14), established Orthodoxy anew. This ever-memorable Queen venerated the icon of the Mother of God in the presence of the Patriarch Methodius and the other confessors and righteous men, and openly cried out these holy words: "If anyone does not offer relative worship to the holy icons, not adoring them as though they were gods, but venerating them out of love as images of the archetype, let him be anathema." Then with common prayer and fasting during the whole first week of the Forty-day Fast, she asked God's forgiveness for her husband. After this, on the first Sunday of the Fast, she and her son, Michael the Emperor, made a procession with all the clergy and people and restored the holy icons, and again adorned the Church of Christ with them. This is the holy deed that all we the Orthodox commemorate today, and we call this radiant and venerable day the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is, the triumph of true doctrine over heresy.
TRANSFIGURATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
METROPOLIS OF DENVER GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA
1936 S. Summit Ave. Sioux Falls, SD 57105Protopresbyter Sava Leida, Pastor
Web: transfigurationgoc.org Email: [email protected]: Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church of Sioux Falls
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