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Hieratikon

Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

Menaion - September 12

Leave-taking of the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos

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LITURGY OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Antiphon 1. Mode 2. Psalms 131, 86, 45.

Verse 1: Remember David, O Lord, and all his meekness. [SAAS]

Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.

Verse 2: Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found it in the plains of the wood.

Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.

Verse 3: Glorious things were said concerning you, O city of God.

Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.

Verse 4: God is in her midst; she shall not be shaken.

Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.

Glory. Both now.

Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, Savior, save us.

Antiphon 2. Mode 2. Psalm 131.

Verse 1: The Lord swore to David this truth, and He shall not reject it. [SAAS]

Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.

Verse 2: I shall set upon your throne one from the fruit of your loins.

Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.

Verse 3: There I shall cause to spring up a horn for David; there I prepared a lamp for my anointed.

Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.

Verse 4: The Lord has chosen Zion; He chose her for His dwelling.

Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Both now and ever and to the ages of ages. Amen.

Only-begotten Son and Logos of God, being immortal, You condescended for our salvation to take flesh from the holy Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary and, without change, became man. Christ, our God, You were crucified and conquered death by death. Being one of the Holy Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit: Save us.

Antiphon 3. Mode 4. Psalms 131, 45, 64.

Verse 1: Here I shall dwell, for I have chosen her. [SAAS]

Verse 2: The Most High sanctified His tabernacle.

Verse 3: Holy is Your temple, wondrous in righteousness.

Apolytikion of the Feast. Mode 4.

Your Nativity, O Theotokos, imparted joy to the entire earth, for out of you has risen the Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God. He nullified the curse and instead gave His blessing; and causing death to be neutralized, He granted us eternal life. [SD]

Entrance Hymn. Mode 2.

Come, let us worship and bow down before Christ. Save us, O Son of God, who are wondrous in the saints. We sing to You, Alleluia.

Hymns after the Entrance.

Apolytikion of the Feast.

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Mode 4.

Your Nativity, O Theotokos, imparted joy to the entire earth, for out of you has risen the Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God. He nullified the curse and instead gave His blessing; and causing death to be neutralized, He granted us eternal life. [SD]

Kontakion.

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Mode 4.

Both Joachim and Anna from their sterility’s stigma, and Adam and Eve from their mortality’s ruin have been set free, O immaculate Maid, by your holy nativity. For this do your people hold celebration, redeemed from the guilt of transgression as they cry to you, “The barren one bears the Theotokos, the nourisher of our Life.” [GKD]

Trisagios Hymn

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us. (3)

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

Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.

THE READINGS

Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 98.

Exalt the Lord our God and worship at His holy mountain. [SAAS]

Verse: The Lord reigns; let the peoples be angry. [SAAS]

The Epistle

Friday of the 14th Week

The reading is from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians.

Gal. 2:6 – 10

Brethren, from those who were reputed to be something (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) — those, I say, who were of repute added nothing to me; but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised (for he who worked through Peter for the mission to the circumcised worked through me also for the Gentiles), and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised; only they would have us remember the poor, which very thing I was eager to do. [RSV]

Alleluia. Mode pl. 2. Psalm 73.

Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.

Verse 1: Remember Your congregation You acquired from the beginning. [SAAS]

Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.

Verse 2: God is our King before the ages; He worked salvation in the midst of the earth.

Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.

The Gospel

For the Forefeast.

The reading is from the holy Gospel according to John.

Jn. 11:47 – 54

At that time, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on thus, every one will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our place and our nation.” But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all; you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.” He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death. Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and there he stayed with the disciples. [RSV]

Hymn to the Theotokos.

Ode ix. Heirmos.

Mode pl. 4.

Virginity is a state alien to mothers, * and childbirth is foreign to those who are virgins. * But in you, Theotokos, have both of these been accomplished. * Indeed all generations everywhere * now call you blessed evermore. [SD]

Communion Hymn. Psalm 115.

I will take up the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. Alleluia. [SAAS]

Show Selected Verses.

Selected Psalm Verses for the Birth of our Lady Theotokos

1. Remember David, O Lord, and all his meekness. (131:1) [SAAS]

2. How he swore to the Lord, how he vowed to the God of Jacob. (131:2) [SAAS]

3. I shall not enter my dwelling, I shall not recline on my bed. (131:3) [SAAS]

4. I shall not close my eyes in sleep nor my eyelids for dozing, nor give any rest to my temples. (131:4) [SAAS]

5. Until I find a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. (131:5) [SAAS]

6. Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. (131:6) [SAAS]

7. We found it in the plains of the wood. (131:6) [SAAS]

8. This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall go in through it. (117:20) [SAAS]

9. Glorious things were said concerning you, O city of God. (86:3) [SAAS]

10. God is in her midst; she shall not be shaken. (45:6) [SAAS]

11. The Lord swore to David this truth, and He shall not reject it. (131:11) [SAAS]

12. I shall set upon your throne one from the fruit of your loins. (131:11) [SAAS]

13. For the Lord has chosen Zion; He chose her for His dwelling. (131:13) [SAAS]

14. Here I shall dwell, for I have chosen her. (131:14) [SAAS]

15. The Most High sanctified His tabernacle. (45:5) [SAAS]

16. Holiness and majesty are in His holy place. (95:6) [SAAS]

17. Holy is Your temple, wondrous in righteousness. (64:5) [SAAS]

18. Holiness is proper to Your house, O Lord, unto length of days. (92:5) [SAAS]

19. I will remember your name from generation to generation. (44:18) [SAAS]

20. Therefore, peoples shall give thanks to you forever and unto ages of ages. (44:18) [SAAS]

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Hymn after Holy Communion.

Mode 2.

We have seen the true light; we have received the heavenly Spirit; we have found the true faith, worshiping the undivided Trinity, for the Trinity has saved us.

DISMISSAL

Glory to You, our God, glory to You.

May Christ our true God, through the intercessions of His all-pure and all-immaculate holy Mother, the power of the precious and life-giving Cross, the protection of the honorable, bodiless powers of heaven, the supplications of the honorable, glorious prophet and forerunner John the Baptist, of the holy, glorious, and praiseworthy apostles, of the holy, glorious, and triumphant martyrs, of our righteous and God-bearing fathers, (local patron saint); of the holy and righteous ancestors of God Joachim and Anna, and of all the saints, have mercy on us and save us, as He is good, benevolent, and merciful God.

Fasting Rule

Strict: Refrain from meat, fish, oil, dairy, and eggs.

It is a Wednesday or Friday.