The First Sunday of Lent – The Sunday of Orthodoxy

Resurrectional Troparion of the Tone.

Troparion, Tone 2.
We venerate Thy most pure image, O Good One, and ask forgiveness for our transgressions, O Christ God. For of Thine own will Thou wast pleased to ascend the Cross, that Thou mightest deliver from the bondage of the enemy them that Thou didst fashion. Wherefore, we cry to Thee thankfully: Thou didst fill all things with joy, O Saviour, when Thou didst come to save the world.

Glory. Now and ever.

Kontakion, Tone 8.
The undepictable Word of the Father became depictable when He took flesh of thee, O Mother of God, and He combined divine beauty with the defiled image, restoring its ancient dignity; and, in confessing our salvation, we express it in word and work.

Prokeimenon, Tone 4.
Daniel 3:26, 27a.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers: and Thy name is worthy of praise, and glorious for ever.
Verse: For Thou art just: in all that Thou hast done to us.

The Lesson of the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Hebrews.
Hebrews §329b (11:24-26, 32-12:2a).
Brethren: By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin for a time, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward. And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets: who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners: women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection. And others had trial of mockeries and stripes, moreover also of bands and prisons. They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caves of the earth. And all these being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise; God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us. And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us: looking on Jesus.

Alleluia, Tone 8.
Psalm 98:6.
Alleluia.
Verse 1: Moses and Aaron among His priests: and Samuel among them that call upon His name.
Alleluia.
Verse 2: They called upon the Lord: and He heard them.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

The Lesson of the Holy Gospel according to Saint John.
Saint John §5 (1:43-51).
At that time: Jesus went forth into Galilee, and He findeth Philip. And Jesus saith to him: Follow Me. Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him: We have found Him of Whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth. And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him: and He saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. Nathanael saith to Him: Whence knowest Thou me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. Nathanael answered Him, and said: Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God, Thou art the King of Israel. Jesus answered, and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these shalt thou see. And He saith to him: Amen, amen I say to you, you shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Communion.
Psalm 148:1.
Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye Him in the high places.
Psalm 32:1.
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise becometh the upright.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.