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7 June 2015
1ST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
1ST SUNDAY OF ST MATTHEW
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OUR
THEOTOKOS
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!
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we profess to Love God and His creatures, we cannot wish for anyone to be left
out of His Divine Kingdom of Love and all Goodness and Blessings.
Christ Judges by discerning our heart and soul, and not by examining our deeds.
So also the Apostles were shaped to exercise Spiritual Judgement concerning
Faith, and in rebuking error with Virtue.
Good deeds alone cannot gain us Divine Blessings unless our heart and soul is
pure, as good and faithful as our deeds and vice versa.
The Apostles will not Judge with Earthly judgement but by the Witness of their own
Lives in Christ.
Since Gods Divine and Holy Kingdom began with the Resurrection of Christ, the
Authority of Judgement has already been granted to the Holy Apostles and
their worthy Successors in the Journey of His Holy Church on Earth.
Thus the Holy Mystery of Confession whereby Repentant sinners are forgiven their
sins is truly by means of Divine Authority bestowed upon the Apostles and those
of the unbroken Apostolic Succession throughout the ages by Almighty God.
Through the Holy Mystery of Confession all our Repented and Confesses sins are
completely removed from the pages of our Book of Life wherein every word,
thought and deed is recorded by our Holy Guardian Angel who defends us
against the accusations of the demons after our physical death, thereby
assisting us towards Eternal Life with God both in this life and immediately
after our Repose.
All our unrepented sins are also gleefully recorded by demons who will shrilly and
loudly accuse us and try to claim our soul for Eternal Condemnation and
Spiritual Death in Outer Darkness (as Christ said) which is extreme and
permanent Eternal Exile from God and all His Goodness, Light and Love.
Whatever good we fulfil in this temporary life due to our Love of God and our
fellow mankind, brings us abundant Blessings and helps us to make good
Spiritual Progress toward that Blessed, Blissful Eternal Life in Christ.
God is not only Just but also Greatly Merciful and Loving, and thus He grants to
even the very last Repentant sinner His Great Blessings.
The very last Repentant sinner will receive as many Blessings and Love as the first
soul to enter Eternal Life with God.
We are all equal before the Lord our God, but it is entirely up to our own efforts and
decisions the choices of our own free will whether we will Live Eternally in
the Very Presence or Sight and Love of Almighty God, or whether we decide to
reject Him and all His Abundant, Infinite Love and Goodness.
We cannot blame anyone else for the decisions we make now that will Eternally
affect our immortal soul!!
Therefore, as long as we draw breath in this short lifespan, let us ceaselessly seek
out and eradicate our sins through Repentance-Confession, and the partaking
of all the necessary Holy Mysteries that God has so generously granted us for
our Spiritual Renewal that returns us to the state in which He so Lovingly
created us.
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NOTES
By taking up our Crosses and following Christ our Lord and Saviour, we must
always ensure that nothing prevents us with absolute Humility and
Obedience from being His Faithful Disciples.
True and Faithful Disciples of Christ are always ready to obey God even if
necessity calls for the sacrifice of relationships that are Spiritually Destructive,
Deceptive or Misleading.
Holy Martyrdom for the sake of our Faith in our Triune, Almighty God, is a fulfilment
of the Prophecy of Michah 7: 5-7: ... do not trust in friends, nor put your hope
in those who govern. Beware of your Wife and do not tell her anything. For a
Son will dishonour his Father, a Daughter will rise up against her Mother, a
Daughter-in-law against her Mother-in-law! A mans enemies are all the
people of his own house, but I look to the Lord...
Our Lord Jesus Christ, being the Divine and thus All Knowing Son of God, knows
everything that His Faithful Disciples and Apostles would have to endure in the
time to come, and throughout all the ages.
Nevertheless, our Lord Encourages us through all our difficulties and Spiritual
Struggles.
Even if we are not confronted by terrifying Martyrdom, we are constantly
threatened by destructive, fatal ungodliness and Spiritual Adversity.
We must do everything according to our Love of God and His Eternal Kingdom of
Love.
We must not follow the destructive norms of social life but rather take up our Cross
and faithfully follow in His Footsteps, for He is our only True Divine Judge and
Master.
We must never concern ourselves with the sins of others and by means of our own
healthy, happy and peaceful Life in Christ, show them the Way of Divine
Agape.
The dull and stubbornly ignorant will remain in Spiritual Darkness through their
own choices but there are some who will follow us into the Divine Light and Life
in Christ, whom we must teach and guide correctly and always with
unconditional Love Agape.
The Spiritually Stubborn and Dead will always have excuses for their disobedience
and Spiritual Rebellion against God, and they will try to prevent others from
obeying and fulfilling Gods Divine Will, Commandments and Teachings by
their words, their deeds and/or their attitudes (thoughts).
These are the type of sinners whom our Lord cautions us to ignore although we
must continue to pray for their Spiritual Enlightenment and Deliverance, for, if
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3.
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Theos
Kyrios ke
Evlogimenos O
Onomati Kyriou!
Epefanen imin.
erhomenos en
1:
Exomologisthe to Kyrio, oti
agathos, oti is ton eona to Eleos
Aftou!
STIHOS
Theos
Kyrios ke
Evlogimenos O
Onomati Kyriou!
Epefanen imin.
erhomenos en
STIHOS 2:
Theos
Kyrios ke
Evlogimenos O
Onomati Kyriou!
Epefanen imin.
erhomenos en
STIHOS 3:
Theos
Kyrios ke
Evlogimenos O
Onomati Kyriou!
Epefanen imin.
erhomenos en
STING
MERC
to
us. Blessed is He Who comes in the
Name of the Lord!
VERSE 1:
VERSE 2:
VERSE 3:
Ex
Thou
Glory
Ton
Thy
Amin
Amen
THEOTOKION
To
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According to the New Covenant that God has granted us, we can Ascend to that
Heaven Place through the correct, Faithful Worship, Prayer and Life in Christ.
Furthermore, we are able to experience this Heavenly Dimension fundamentally in
the Divine Liturgy.
We are able to ascend to that Heavenly State where we are surrounded by a Great
Cloud of Witnesses. (The Heavenly Hosts and all the Saints, Martyrs and
Righteous in Heaven)
Heaven is not a physical place but a Spiritual Condition that is in the Very Presence
of Almighty God, His Heavenly Hosts (all His Angels) and the spirits of Just
mankind made Perfect (the Saints, Martyrs and Righteous)
It is in this Spiritual Mystery that the Holy Communion of Saints is established in the
New Covenant of God.
The Cloud of Witnesses includes not only the Old Covenant Saints but all the Saints,
Martyrs and Righteous of our Lord from all the ages, and forever.
All the Holy Martyrs and Saints fulfilled their Sacred Tasks, thereby achieving
Spiritual Perfection or Theosis which shows us that we, too, can do so if we
choose!!
We must persevere by
Ceaseless Repentance getting rid of our sins, the weight of which prevents
us from hearing, heeding and fulfilling all Divine Truth
Setting the Heavenly City as our ultimate Destination by running the Race
of Faith.
Steadfastly focussing on our Lord Jesus Christ and with Humility and
Obedience, following in His Footsteps.
The Good Race is not a sprint but a Spiritual Marathon of Endurance, which ends
when we enter Eternity ... the Age to come. (1 Corinthians 9: 24-27)
Our Lord Jesus Christ is both the Divine Author - the Initiator and the Finisher the
Perfector of our Faith.
His Joy was to fulfil God the Fathers Divine Will in all things.
He endured the Cross because He had voluntarily accepted Humiliation and Death.
Consequently, we too, should imitate and follow His Determination and
Perseverance striving ceaselessly to fulfil the Will of God the Father, through
Christ, His Eternal Word and Only Begotten Son, by the Power and Energy of
God the Holy Spirit.
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Anthropi
to
Mnima
Sou
Sotir
efragisanto. Angelos ton lithon ek tis
thiras apekilise. Ginekes etheasanto
egigermenon ek nekron, ke afte
evingelisanto tis Mathites Sou en
Sion. Oti anestis i Zoi ton apanton, ke
dielithi ta desma tou Thanatou.
Kyrie: Doxa Si!
Human
Ke
NOTES
By living with Almighty God, by obeying all His Commandments and Teachings,
and by Loving Him with all ones being, anything and everything becomes
possible for us human beings.
Anything and everything becomes possible because God, through His infinite
Divine Love for all mankind, grants us the necessary Spiritual Strength and
abilities to endure all difficulties even the inhumane, hideous tortures that are
inflicted by others as experienced by the Martyrdom of innumerable Saints and
Holy Martyrs throughout the ages which continues even in these days!
The unsurpassed Spiritual Strength and depth of Faith of the Saints is to be
marvelled at and imitated by us both in the good times and in the worst of
times.
Nothing forced them from their profound Faith in and Love of Almighty God not
even the contrived promises of leniency in the midst of such horrific torture
could persuade them to renounce the One, True, Living and Almighty God.
The extraordinary Strength to endure the cruelties of mankind and the
consequences of this fallen Spiritually Darkened world, is exclusively due to
Divine Grace and Mercy, which is based upon our complete Trust/Faith in God,
Who provides us with everything necessary for our Spiritual Welfare and
Progress.
God is Glorified through the Sufferings of His Beloved Faithful Disciples who
depend entirely on Him to Deliver us from all the machinations of the evil one.
Only through the Power, Energy, Mercy and Grace of Almighty God our Triune
God is anything and everything possible.
The Incarnation of the Eternal, Only Begotten Word and Son of God, our Lord Jesus
Christ and all that He accomplished for our Eternal Benefit also
Redeemed/Saved the Old Covenant Saints, who by amazing Faith, participated
in His Glorious Resurrection and Eternal Kingdom.
This particular Sacred Lesson is a progressive discourse whereby St Paul implores
us all to seek first Gods Eternal Kingdom. This means that we should put our
quest for ceaseless Repentance, which leads to Everlasting Life in Gods
Heavenly Kingdom, before anything else in this short, temporary, preparatory
life.
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APOLYTIKION OF
ALL SAINTS -
KONTAKION
Os
Amen
THEOTOKION
Epi
OF
Like
FA
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Lord
OF
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Tous
Ekekraxan
i Dikei,
isikousen afton.
ke
Kyrios
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Let
Amen
Life is in the Holy Spirit for all.
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Ek neotitos mou O ehthros me pirazi, tes From my youth, the enemy has beguiled
Amin
Agio
With
By
A NTIP HO N
Glory
Aftou.
Doxa
A NTIP HO N
The
Thavmastos
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A NTIP HO N
He is
Light of Light, a Great God. Let us
praise Him with the Father and the
Logos.
A NTIP HO N
Epi
He
Doxa
Glory
Amin
Agio
Amen
Every
A NTIP HO N
A NTIP HO N
Ekekraxa
Doxa
Glory
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Amen
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Agio
A NTIP HO N
A NTIP HO N
Tou
The
Doxa
Praise
Kyrie,
Vasilefsi
Kyrie,
STIHOS
VERSE
Vasilefsi
The
Enite
Praise
Thine
The
Praise
Amen
Amin
Agio Pnevmati enoidi etia, panta ehete Contained within the Holy Spirit is the
irinovravevtos. Thos touto gar esti,
Patri te ke Io Omoousion Kyrios
Enite
Glory
Enite
Idou
By
To
OF
CHRIST
Then
edistasan.
Ke
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Enite
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13.
Tis
the age.
Amin
Ta
THEOTOKION
ISES
He
- PSALM 148
ALL C
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Pasa
Let
Enite
Os
Tou
Kyrie,
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SYNAXARION - 7 JUNE
Theodotou
tou
en
Ti afti imera, mnimi tis Agias Martyros On this day we Commemorate the Holy
Zinaidos tis Thavmatourgou.
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Martyr, St Zinaida
Wonderworker.
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(Zenais)
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Ti afti imera, mnimi ton Agion Gynekon, On this day we also Commemorate the
Aisias
ke
Sosannis,
Mathirion
Pagkratiou Episkopou Tavromeniou.
Telite de i afton sinaxis en to Agiotato
afton Martyrio, en tis Vasiliskou.
Ti afti mera, mnimi tou Agiou Martyros On this day we Commemorate the Holy
Likarionos.
Ti
Martyr, St Lykarion.
OD I
OD I
telioute.
Ti
On
Ti
On
By
Amin.
the
Intercessions
of
Thine
Immaculate Mother, O Christ our
God, and of all Thy Saints from every
age, have Mercy on us and Save us,
as Thou alone art Good and Lovest
mankind.
Amen
KATAVASIA
OF THE
OD E
Anixo
OD I
OD E
TAFTIS TA THAVMATA.
OD E
Tous
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OD E
Enoumen,
Evlogoumen
Proskinoumen ton Kyrios.
ke
OF THE
Pedas
THE MAGNIFICAT
KATAVASIA
The
OD E
VERSES:
Tes
10. T O N E
OD E
The
OD I
OD I
telioute.
Exesti
STIHI:
OD E
On
Tin anexihniaston Thian Voulin tis ek tis Perceiving the Unsearchable Purpose of
Apas
9TH ODE
Let
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