13/02/2021
Sunday February 14, 2021 / February 1, 2021
36th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone three.
0Synaxis of All Saints of Perm Metropolia (movable holiday on the Sunday after January 29th).
2Forefeast of the Meeting of Our Lord
1Martyr Tryphon of Campsada near Apamea in Syria (250).
oNew Hieromartyr Archpriest Peter Skipetrov, of Petrograd (1918).
oNew Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1938).
0Martyrs Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus, and Felicitas (202-203).
0Venerable Peter of Galatia, hermit near Antioch in Syria (429).
0Venerable Vendemianus (Bendemianus), hermit of Bithynia (512).
oVenerable Tryphon, bishop of Rostov (1468).
oSt. Brigid of Ireland (523) (Celtic & British).
oSt. Seiriol, abbot of Penmon (Anglesey) (6th c.) (Celtic & British) .
oSt. Basil, archbishop of Thessalonica (895) (Greek).
oVenerable Timothy the Confessor (Greek).
oNew Martyr Anastasius at Nauplion (1655) (Greek).
oMartyrs Theion with 2 children at Kariona (Greek).
oMartyr Elias the New of Damascus (779).
oSts. David (784), Symeon (843), and George (844), confessors of Mitylene.
The Scripture Readings
Mark 16:9-20 (3rd Matins Gospel)
1 Timothy 4:9-15
Luke 19:1-10
Troparion
Troparion of the Sunday, Tone III —
Let the heavens rejoice, / let the earth be glad! / For the Lord has shown might 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!
Hymn to the Theotokos, Tone III —
We praise you as the mediatrix of our salvation, / O Virgin Theotokos. / For your Son, our God, Who took flesh from you, / accepted the passion of the cross, / delivering us from corruption as the Lover of man.
Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone III —
On this day Thou didst rise from the tomb, O Merciful One, / leading us from the gates of death. / On this day Adam exults as Eve rejoices; / with the prophets and patriarchs they unceasingly praise / the divine majesty of Thy power!
Holy Martyr Tryphon, Tone IV —
In his suffering, O Lord,/ Thy martyr Tryphon received an imperishable crown from Thee our God;/ for, possessed of Thy might,/ he set at nought the tormentors and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons.// By his supplications save Thou our souls.
Forefeast of the Meeting of our Lord, God & Savior Jesus Christ, Tone I —
The celestial choir of the angels of heaven,/ coming to earth, behold the Firstborn of all creation Who is come,/ borne into the temple as a Babe/ in the arms of the Mother who knew not man.// Wherefore, with us they chant hymns of the forefeast, rejoicing.
Kontakion of the Martyr, Tone VIII —
With the steadfastness of the Trinity thou didst uproot polytheism from the ends of the earth, O most glorious one;/ and, honored in Christ, thou didst vanquish the tyrants in Christ the Savior// and receive a crown for thy martyrdom and gifts of divine healings, in that thou art invincible.
Kontakion of the Forefeast, Tone VI —
The Word Who is invisibly with the Father/ is now seen in the flesh, ineffably born of the Virgin,/ and He is given to the high priest on the arm of the elder.// Let us worship Him as our true God!
St. Brigid of Ireland, Troparion, in Tone IV —
Instructed by the discourse of the holy Patrick,/ thou didst arrive at the uttermost west,/ heralding the Orient which hath visited us from on high./ Wherefore, we bless thee, O venerable mother Bridget,/ and cry out to thee:// Pray thou in behalf of our souls.
Kontakion of St. Brigid, in Tone VI —
Rejecting thy noble rank, and loving the godly monastic life, from the wood of the oak didst thou raise up a convent, the first in thy land; and having there united a multitude of nuns to God, thou didst teach the surrounding lands to cry to the Lord: Have mercy on us!