Variable Portions of The Hours and Typika
14 February 2010
Sunday of the Expulsion of Adam
Forgiveness Sunday
Cheesefare Sunday
Troparion for pages 5, 8, & 11
Troparion Let the heavens rejoice!
Resurrection Let the earth be glad!
(Tone 3) For the Lord has shown strength with His arm!
He has trampled down death by death!
He has become the first-born of the dead!
He has delivered us from the depths of hell,
and has granted the world great mercy!
Kontakion for pages 6, 9 & 15
Kontakion O Master, Teacher of Wisdom, Bestower of virtue,
Triodion who teaches the thoughtless and remembers the poor:
(Tone 6) Strengthen and enlighten my heart.
O Word of the Father,
let me not restrain my mouth from crying to Thee:
Have mercy on me, a transgressor, O Merciful Lord.
Prokeimenon
(Tone 8) Pray and make your vows before the Lord, our God!
Holy Scriptures
Romans 13:11-14:4 Matthew 6:14-21
Tomorrow is the first day of Great Lent!
Epistle
Reader: The Prokeimenon in the 8th Tone: Pray and make your vows before the Lord our God!
People: Pray and make your vows before the Lord our God!
Reader: In Judah God is known; His name is great in Israel.
People: Pray and make your vows before the Lord our God!
Reader: Pray and make your vows.
People: Before the Lord our God!
Reader: The Reading is from the Epistle of the holy Apostle Paul to the Romans.
(Romans 13:11-14:4)
Brethren, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
People: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Reader: It is good to give praise to the Lord, to sing praises to Thy name, O Most High.
People: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Reader: To declare Thy mercy in the morning and Thy truth by night.
People: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Gospel
(page 12)
If you are a tonsured Sub-deacon, Reader or Cantor,
chant the Gospel from the center of the chapel
facing the altar according to custom.
If you are not of such rank, do not chant or intone the Gospel
but read it in a normal speaking-voice at your place in the following manner:
Reader: The Reading is from the holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, Chapter 6, Verse 14 to 21.
(Matthew 6:14-21)
The Lord said: "if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
"Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
This content has been generously provided by Fr. Jerome Cwiklinski, CAPT, CHC, USN