24th Sunday After Pentecost / Apostle Erastus and others of the Seventy
Beatitude
Verses: Octoechos: 8
1.
The fruit which slew me was beautiful and good to eat; but Christ is the
Tree of life,
and eating
of Him I do not die, but cry out with the thief: Remember me, O Lord, in Thy
kingdom!
2.
O Compassionate One, Who wast lifted up upon
the Cross, Thou hast erased the
record of
Adam’s ancient sin, and hast saved the whole human race from deception.
Wherefore, we hymn Thee, O Lord and
Benefactor.
3.
Thou didst nail our sins to the Cross, O compassionate Christ, and by
Thy death Thou
didst slay
death, O Thou who didst raise up the dead from among the dead. Wherefore,
we worship
Thy holy resurrection.
4. The serpent once poured its
venom into the ears of Eve; but on the tree of the Cross,
Christ poured forth the sweetness
of life upon the world. Wherefore, we
cry out:
Remember us, O Lord, in Thy
kingdom!
5.
Thou wast laid in the tomb as one dead, O Christ, Thou Life of all; and
Thou didst
break down
the gates of hades; and having risen again in glory on the third day as One
mighty,
Thou hast illumined all. Glory to Thine arising!
6.
Having risen from the dead on the third day,
the Lord bestowed His peace upon His
disciples;
and having blessed them, He sent them forth saying: Lead all into My
kingdom!
7.
The Father is light; the Son and Word is light;
and the Holy Spirit is light. Yet the
Three are one Light, for they are
one God in three Persons, One in nature and origin,
indivisible,
unconfused and preeternal.
8.
For our sake thou gavest birth in the flesh to the Son and Word of the
Father, as thou
thyself
hast declared, O Theotokos. Wherefore, O
Virgin Mother, we who are deified
through thee cry out to thee: Rejoice, O hope of Christians!
Troparia & Kontakia
Tone 7:
Thou didst destroy death by Thy Cross, /
Thou
didst open paradise to the thief. /
Thou
didst change the lamentation of the Myrrh-bearers, /
and Thou didst
command Thine Apostles to proclaim /
that Thou didst
arise, O Christ God, //
and grantest to the
world great mercy.
[Troparion of the Temple]
Tone 3: O holy Apostles, /
intercede with the merciful God, //
that He grant unto our souls forgiveness of offenses.
Tone 7: No longer will the dominion of death be able
to keep men captive; /
for Christ hath
descended, demolishing and destroying the powers thereof. /
Hades is
bound; /
the prophets
rejoice with one voice, saying: /
A Savior
hath come for them that have faith. //
Come
forth, ye faithful, for the Resurrection.
[Kontakion
of the Temple]
Glory... Tone 2: Having illumined your minds with divine
light, /
ye wisely destroyed
the wiles of the orators; /
and having fished
for all the pagans, O glorious apostles, /
ye brought them to
the Master, //
teaching them to
glorify the divine Trinity.
Both now... Tone 6:
O
protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, /
O mediation
unto the Creator unfailing, /
disdain not the
suppliant voices of sinners, /
but be thou quick,
O good one, to help us who in faith cry unto thee; /
hasten to
intercession and speed thou to make supplication, //
thou who dost ever
protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.
The Epistle
Reader: The Prokimenon in the 7th Tone: The Lord will give strength unto His people;
the Lord will bless
His people with peace.
Choir:
The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with
peace.
Reader: Bring
unto the Lord, ye sons of God, bring unto the Lord the sons of rams.
Choir:
The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people
with
peace.
Reader: The
Lord will give strength unto His people.
Choir:
the Lord will bless His people with
peace.
Reader:
The Reading is from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Ephesians:
[Eph. 2:14-22 (§221)]
Reader: Alleluia in the 7th Tone.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: It is good to give praise unto the Lord, and
to chant unto Thy name, O Most
High.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: To proclaim in the morning Thy mercy, and Thy truth by night.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Luke 10:25-37
(§53)]
Communion
Verse:
Praise the Lord in the heavens, praise Him in the highest! Alleluia,
Alleluia,
Alleluia!