INTROIT
Eccli 36:18
Give peace, O Lord, to those who have hoped in You, and let Your Prophets be proved true. Hear the prayers of Your servant, and of Your people Israel.
Ps 121:1
I rejoiced because they said to me, We will go up to the house of the Lord.
Glory Be to the Father…
Give peace, O Lord, to those who have hoped in You, and let Your Prophets be proved true. Hear the prayers of Your servant, and of Your people Israel.
COLLECT
May the working of Your mercy, we beseech You, O Lord, guide our hearts, for without You, we cannot please You.
Through our Lord…
COMMEMORATION COLLECT
*Commemoration Sts. Cyprian & Justina *
May the continual protection of the blessed Martyrs Cyprian and Justina comfort us, O Lord, for You do not cease to behold with favor those whom You have granted the grace of such assistance.
Through our Lord…
EPISTLE
Lesson from the first letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Cor. 1:4-8
Brethren: I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, because in everything you have been enriched in Him, in all utterance and in all knowledge; even as the witness to the Christ has been made so firm in you that you lack no grace, while awaiting the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who will also keep you secure unto the end, unimpeachable in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
GRADUAL
Ps 121:1, 7
I rejoiced because they said to me, We will go up to the house of the Lord.
℣. May peace be within your walls, prosperity in your buildings.
Ps 101:16
℣. The nations shall revere Your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.
GOSPEL
Continuation ☩ of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 9:1-8
At that time, Jesus, getting into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. And behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a pallet. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven you. And behold, some of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemes. And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why do you harbor evil thoughts in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins, – then He said to the paralytic – Arise, take up your pallet and go to your house. And he arose, and went away to his house. But when the crowds saw it, they were struck with fear, and glorified God Who had given such power to men.
OFFERTORY
Ex 24:4-5
Moses consecrated an altar to the Lord, offering upon it holocausts, and sacrificing victims: he made an evening sacrifice to the Lord God for an odor of sweetness, in the sight of the Israelites.
SECRET
O God, Who, through the gifts we have exchanged with You in this sacrament, have made us partakers of the supreme Godhead, grant, we beseech You, that, as we have knowledge of Your truth, so we may fully live up to it.
Through our Lord…
COMMEMORATION SECRET
*Commemoration Sts. Cyprian & Justina *
We offer You, O Lord, the gifts of our devotion; may they by Your mercy, be rendered both pleasing to You in honor of Your just ones and profitable for our salvation.
Through our Lord…
PREFACE
Common
It is truly meet and just, and profitable unto salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks to Thee, O Holy Lord, Father Almighty, eternal God, through Christ, our Lord. Through whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominions adore it, the Powers are in awe. Which the heavens and the hosts of heaven together with the blessed Seraphim joyfully do magnify. And do Thou command that it be permitted us to join with them in confessing Thee, while we say with lowly praise:
COMMUNION
Ps 95:8-9
Bring gifts and enter His courts; worship the Lord in His holy court.
POSTCOMMUNION
Strengthened by Your sacred gift, we thank You, O Lord, beseeching Your mercy to make us receive it worthily.
Through our Lord…
COMMEMORATION POSTCOMMUNION
*Commemoration Sts. Cyprian & Justina *
Grant us, we beseech You, O Lord, through the intercession of Your holy Martyrs, Cyprian and Justina, that what we taste with our lips, we may consume with a pure heart.
Through our Lord…