Mar. 19 – 3rd Sunday of the Great Lent. Adoration of Cross. Tone 7
The 42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia, including: Constantine, Aetius, Callistus, Basoes, and others (845). Monk-martyrs Conon and his son Conon (270-275). The uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by Empress St. Helen (326). St. Arcadius, monk, of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Bulius.
Heb. 4:14–5:6; Mk. 8:34–9:1;
Liturgy of St. Basil the Great.
Resurrectional Tropar, Tone 7
By Your Cross, you destroyed Death. To the Thief, You opened Paradise. For the Myrrh-bearers, You changed weeping into joy. Christ God, You commanded Your disciples to proclaim that You are risen, granting the world great mercy.
Tropar of the Cross, 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 of the Cross, Tone 7
The flaming sword no longer guards the gates of Paradise. It has been mysteriously extinguished by the Wood of the Cross. The sting of death and the victory of Hades have been vanquished. For You, O my Savior, came and cried to those in Hades; enter again, into Paradise.
Instead of the Thrice-Holy Hymn
Before Your Cross we bow down, O Master and Your Holy Resurrection we glorify. (3 times)
Замість трисвятого
Хресту Твоєму поклоняємось, Владико, і святеє воскресіння Твоє славимо. (3 рази)
Prokimen
Priest: Let us be attentive! Peace be with you all!
Reader: And with your spirit!
Deacon: Wisdom!
Reader: The Prokimen in Tone 6: O Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance.
Choir: (repeats the prokimen)
Reader: Vs: To You, Lord, will I call: "My God, be not silent to me."
Choir: (repeats the prokimen)
Reader: O Lord, save Your people
Choir: and bless Your inheritance.
Epistle
Deacon: Wisdom!
Reader: The reading is from the Letter of St. Paul to the Hebrews.
Deacon: Let us be attentive.
Reader: Brethren, seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness. Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins. And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: "You are My Son, Today I have begotten You." As He also says in another place: "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek".
Priest: Peace be with you.
Reader: And with your spirit. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Alleluia Verses
Verse: Remember Your congregation You acquired from the beginning.
Verse: God is our King before the ages; He worked salvation in the midst of the earth.
Instead of "It is right in truth"
All of creation rejoices in you, Lady, Full of Grace, the assembly of angels and the human race, Sanctified Temple and Spiritual Paradise, the Glory of Virgins, from whom God was incarnate and became a Child – our God before the ages. He made your body into a throne, and your womb more spacious than the heavens. All of creation rejoices in You, Lady Full of Grace. Glory to you!
Communion Hymn
The light of Your Countenance, O Lord, has been signed upon us. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.