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Thursday after First Sunday after Pentecost: The Feast of the Divine Body of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ

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The Office and the Divine Liturgy of the Feast of the Divine Body of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ commemorates the passion and death of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Most Reverend Joseph Raya, Archbishop of Aka, Haifa, Nazareth, and All Galilee explains this feast in Byzantine Daily Worship

"The Holy Table is the continuation of Calvary and the Liturgy announces the death of Christ, present as a Victim, under the appearances of bread and wine. His Body nailed to the cross and his Blood drained out of Him, are offered to the Father, by Him, by the priest and by the attendance. If we wish to share in the sacrifice, we should also consume the Victim the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist."

History

Pope Urban IV insitutited this Feast in 1264. The Feast of the Divine Body of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ became popular among Melkites, particularly in the eighteenth century, during the time of His Beatitude, Maximos II, Patriarch / Batriyark of the cities of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, of Cilicia, Syria, Iberia, Arabia Mesopotamia, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, of all of Egypt and the entire East, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Bishop of Bishops, the Thirteenth of The Holy Apostles. In the eighteenth century (1737), the Feast of the Divine Body of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ was added to the Pentecostarion.

The office of this Feast was composed by a monk of the Basilian Order.

The Latin Catholic Church calls this Feast "Corpus Christi", which is Latin for "Body of Christ".

Kontakion, Troparion, Exapostilarion, and Vespers Sticheron or Doxastikon

TROPARION (TONE 1)
Christ, having loved His own, loved them until the end and gave them His body and blood as food and drink. Wherefore let us offer them our veneration and say with fear: "O Christ, glory to your condescension: for You alone are the Lover of Mankind."

Epistle

1 Corinthians 11:23-32 The Epistle contained in the text was chosen when the feast was created in 1737. The original Epistle was that of the regular cycle, i.e., Romans 5:10-16.

Gospel

John 6:48-54 The original Gospel was that of the regular cycle, i.e., Matthew 8:23-27.

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O God of all spirits and of all flesh, who have destroyed death, overcome the devil, and given life to the world: grant, O Lord, to the souls of your servants Bucky and Shirley, who has departed from this life, that it may rest in a place of light, in a place of happiness, in a place of peace, where there is no pain, no grief, no sighing. And since You are a gracious God and the Lover of Mankind, forgive him/her every sin he/she has committed by thought, or word, or deed, for there is not a man who lives and does not sin : You alone are without sin, your righteousness is everlasting, and your word is true. You are the Resurrection and the Life, and the repose of your departed servants Bucky and Shirley. O Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, together with your eternal Father and your all-holy, good and life-giving Spirit, now and always and for ages upon ages. Amen.

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