Professional Documents
Culture Documents
marguerite.paizis@gmail.com
OR
www.scribd.com/writers4574
1 February 2015
34th Sunday After Pentecost
1st Sunday of Triodion
16th Sunday of St Luke:
The Publican & the Pharisee
Also the Feast of St Tryphon of Campsada, Near Apamea,
Syria St Perpetua, St Saturos and the Catechumans
St Saturos, St Revocatos, St Feliciata, St Saturninos and
St Secundulos of Carthage St Peter the Hermit of
Galatia, Near Antioch, Syria St Vendemianos, Hermit
of Bithynia St Brigid of Ireland St Tryphon of Rostov
St Seririol of Wales St Basil of Thessalonika St
Anastasiou of Nafplion St Timothy the Confessor
Tone 1
Resurrection Gospel 1: Matthew 28 : 16 - 20
THE GREAT COMMISSION
OF
CHRIST
Eothinon 1
Katavasias of the Meeting/Presentation of Christ
Our Eternal Gratitude to Pater Seraphim Dedes & all the contributing Translators
elsewhere for the original Greek & English texts and for making our Worship a
little easier to understand, to participate and to appreciate.
Glory to God for His Great Mercy!
Source: www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/public/dcs
PREPARING
FOR
GREAT LENT
THEOTOK
ION
FOLLOWED
IMMEDIATELY
The centre of the Liturgical Year in the Orthodox Church is Holy Pascha - the
celebration of Christs Resurrection.
It is extolled in the Services as the Feast of Feasts and Triumph of triumphs.
Justifiably so, for as the Apostle, St Paul, declared: ... if Christ be not risen, then is
our Preaching vain, and your Faith is also vain. (1 CORINTHIANS 15:14).
Through His Redeeming Passion, Christ freed us from the tyranny of Death and
opened for us the Door to Paradise and Eternal Life.
This is the Goal of our life-long Spiritual Journey - a Journey from Death to Life from Darkness to Light.
It is a long Journey and we travellers get weary; we get distracted and wander off
or even lose sight of the road.
To help keep us focussed, the Church every year compresses for us this Journey as
it prepares us to greet the Feast of Christs Resurrection, which is a Foretaste of
that Eternal Pascha.
We usually think of this Preparatory Time as the Period of Great Lent, but in fact it
begins three weeks earlier with the Sundays of the Publican and Pharisee, the
Prodigal Son and the Last Judgment.
Since we are not Fasting yet, we tend to pay less attention to these Preparatory
Sundays than we do to the Sundays of Great Lent, and yet they are very
important, as they give us a map, as it were, of our Lenten Journey.
Already a week before the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee, which opens The
Lenten Triodion, we hear intimations of the approaching period of Lent.
The Gospel Lesson for that Sunday relates the story of St Zacchaeus, who had been
... chief among the Publicans, a rich Tax-collector despised for his extortionist
practices.
He must have been a hard man, but the Voice of his conscience had not been
completely stifled, for he came to realize that he had taken the wrong path in
life.
But what could he do? Perhaps the Great Teacher people were talking about
could help him.
When he heard that our Lord Jesus Christ was to pass by, he climbed up into a
sycamore tree in order to catch sight of Him over the crowd, for Zacchaeus was
short of stature.
Any self-consciousness or concern that he - such a public figure - would be
laughed at and scorned, was overcome by his intense desire to see the Lord his desire to get help in order to set his life aright.
And what happened? Jesus Christ not only acknowledged him, He went to his
house.
Zacchaeus heart expanded in the Presence of this Divine Love and he resolved to
make amends to all those whom he had wronged.
In other words he immediately began his Journey to a New Life in Christ.
As we approach the Fast, we must have this same desire - the same state of mind
as St Zacchaeus.
If we genuinely desire to catch sight of our Lord Jesus Christ amidst the worldly
vanities that surround and overwhelm us, God will visit us. We must simply
have the desire to receive Him in the home of our heart.
The Sacred Lesson for the following Sunday reminds us of the Parable of the
Publican and the Pharisee.
Both men were in the Temple praying. The Pharisee prayed: God, I thank Thee
that I am not as other men are - extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even like that
Publican! .
Meanwhile, the Publican beat his breast, crying out from deep within his soul: O
God, be merciful to me, a sinner!
2. T O N E 1 3 4 A P - 1 T R I O D I O N 1 6 T H L U K E P U B L I C A N & P H A R I S E E - 1 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 5
doreon.
En toutis tis stenagmis
stirixon me, Hriste O Theos, os
Filanthropos.
Enite
Praise
Ripou
Nin
Now
Hristos gar,
en to Nao os vrefos, ipo Mitro
Parthenou, Theo patri prosagete.
Fos
Dehou
The Pharisee did well by Tithing and Fasting; he was undoubtedly an upright,
respectable citizen.
Any Virtue he possessed, however, was poisoned by his proud and arrogant
attitude. He was self-satisfied and expressed no desire to change.
As we enter upon the Lenten Struggle, we must beware of such complacency - of
being satisfied with keeping the Rule of the Fast while judging those who do
not.
Such a prideful attitude can ruin all our good efforts.
Instead, we should imitate the humble, contrite Publican, who was a man who
may have, like St Zacchaeus, led a bad life but finally acknowledged and
Repented the error of his ways.
He was trying now to please God, but found himself constantly falling into his old
habits and giving in to temptations.
The Publican saw that he possessed no Righteousness and that he was a wretched
sinner in desperate need of Gods Great Mercy.
O Lord, he cried, help me! Such Humility invites Gods Grace.
The Publican may not have Fasted according to the requirements of the Law and
he may have neglected other ordinances of the Law, but his Humility raised
him above the legalistic Pharisee, and he returned to his home completely
Justified.
Tes
The
Ke
Now
Amin.
Amen
THE CONGREGATION MUST STAND
14. T O N E 1 3 4 A P - 1 T R I O D I O N 1 6 T H L U K E P U B L I C A N & P H A R I S E E - 1 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 5
PRA
ISE
Theos
Kyrios ke
Evlogimenos O
Onomati Kyriou!
Exomologisthe
to Kyrio, oti
agathos, oti is ton eona to eleos aftou!
S TIHOS
1 :
Theos
Kyrios ke
Evlogimenos O
Onomati Kyriou!
S TIHOS
2:
ke to
aftous.
epefanen imin.
erhomenos en
Panta
Theos
Kyrios ke
Evlogimenos O
Onomati Kyriou!
epefanen imin.
erhomenos en
S TIHOS
Theos
Kyrios ke
Evlogimenos O
Onomati Kyriou!
Epefanen imin.
erhomenos en
1 :
PRA
Enite
Praise
V ERS E
V ERS E
Tou
Having
Praise
Having
Mi
Thy
4. T O N E 1 3 4 A P - 1 T R I O D I O N 1 6 T H L U K E P U B L I C A N & P H A R I S E E - 1 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 5
Tou
praise Him
in the firmament of His Power
Enite
Enite
TONE 1
Enite
To
PSALM 150
LET ALL THINGS PRAISE THE LORD!
Tou
RESURRECTION STICHERA
TO THE
Pasa
He is Good;
forever!
ISES
TONE 1
Praise
Enite
Praise
Tis
Ke
Amin.
Let
Tryphis
katemforoumenos, paradoxou
ke
Thias,
Angelis
omodietos,
ehrimatisas Makar, ke hinas nemon
en napes, pros Theou apilifas, tin
Harin
ton
iamaton,
Tryphon
Megalomartys, therapevin ton vroton,
tas asthenias ke nosous.
Ton
SMALL LITANY
12. T O N E 1 3 4 A P - 1 T R I O D I O N 1 6 T H L U K E P U B L I C A N & P H A R I S E E - 1 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 5
the
Vaults of the Heavens, bends
forward to the Earth and beholds as
an Infant, the First Born of all
Creation being carried in the
embrace of His Holy Virgin Mother
into the Temple. And with us they
sign today a Fore-festal Anthem, in
awe and astonishment.
Stavro
Thou
Amen
Ouranios
Now
Ipsigorian
Ke
Amin
Amen
Sou.
Ginekes
En
Ke
Amin
ODI 5
ODE 5
Os
In
The
6. T O N E 1 3 4 A P - 1 T R I O D I O N 1 6 T H L U K E P U B L I C A N & P H A R I S E E - 1 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 5
ODE 6
Ek Theou
ODI 7
ODE 7
Se
ODI 8
Enoumen,
Evlogoumen
Proskinoumen ton Kyrion
ke
the Lord!
Astekto
Evoise Si, idon O Presvis, tis ofthalmis to The Elder, having seen with his eyes the
ODI 6
Amen
Sarki
MAGNIFICAT
KATAVASIA
OF THE
9TH ODE
OF THE
PRESENTATION
Theotoke,
i
Elpis
panton
ton
Hristianon, Skepe, Frouri, Filatte
tous Elpizontas is Se
En
Ti
Ti
On
STIHI:
VERSES:
TRIODION:
Tes ton Agion panton megalourgon Sou By the Intercessions of all Thy Saints,
presvies, Hriste O Theos
eleison ke Soson imas.
imon,
Amen
Amin.
KATAVASIA
OF THE
MEETING/PRESENTATION - TONE 3
ODI 1
ODE 1
Herson
The
avissotokon,
pedon
ilios,
epepolefse pote. Osi tihos gar epagi,
ekaterothen
idor,
lao
pezopontoporounti, ke thearestos
melponti. Asomen to Kyrou. Endoxos
gar Dedoxaste.
ODI 3
ODE 3
To
ODI 4
ODE 4
Ekalipsen
Thy
10. T O N E 1 3 4 A P - 1 T R I O D I O N 1 6 T H L U K E P U B L I C A N & P H A R I S E E - 1 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 5
En
to thlivesthe me,
isakouson mou ton odinon, Kyrie, si
krazo!.
A N TIFONO N
Tis
A N TIPH ON
Unending
Amin
Agio
B
Is ta ori ton son ipsosas
me nomon, aretes eklamprinon, O
Theos, ina imno Se.
A N TIFONO N
Amen.
Glory and Honour are due to the Holy
A N TIPH ON
Dexia Sou Hiri lavon si Loge, filaxon me, With Thy right Hand, O Logos, keep me
frourison,
amartias.
mi
pir
me
flexi
tis
Doxa
Glory
Amin.
Agio
Amen
All Creation
Pnevmati,
pasa
i
Ktisis
kenourgite, palndromouisa is to
proton, isosthenes gar esti Patri ke
Logo.
A N TIFONO N
A N TIPH ON
Epi
Great
Doxa
Glory
Amin.
Agio
Amen
It is proper to offer honour, worship,
RESURRECTION PROKEIMENON
Nin
STIHOS
Nin
Now
Now
At
Ke
Amin
OF
OF
Let
8. T O N E 1 3 4 A P - 1 T R I O D I O N 1 6 T H L U K E P U B L I C A N & P H A R I S E E - 1 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 5
Sinners, let us
Eaftous
Amen
prosisomen, telonikos to
Kyrio, ke afto prospesomen, amartoli
os Despoti, theli gar tin Sotirian
panton anthropon, afesin parehis
pasi petanoousi, DI IMAS GAR
ESARKOTHI THEOS IPARHON PATRI
SINANARHO.
And
Ton
Stegnagmou
: 16 - 20
VERSE
To
Brethren,
SYNAXARION 1 FEBRUARY
Ti
On
Ti
On
Ti
On
telioute.
Ti
On