18th
Sunday After Pentecost / Apostle Thomas
Beatitude Verses: Octoechos: 6; Apostle:
4 from Ode 3.
1. Through
food did the enemy lead Adam forth from paradise; but by the Cross hath
Christ led back to it the thief who cried: Remember me when Thou comest in Thy
kingdom!
2. With Adam
and the thief I worship Thy sufferings and glorify Thy resurrection; and I
cry out with a splendid
voice: Remember me, O Lord, when Thou
comest in Thy
kingdom!
3. O Sinless One,
of Thine own will Thou wast crucified and placed in
the Tomb, yet
Thou didst arise as God, raising
up with Thyself Adam who crieth out: Remember me
when Thou comest in Thy
kingdom!
4. Raising up
the temple of Thy body by Thy resurrection on the third day, O Christ God,
Thou didst raise up Adam
and his descendants who cry: Remember me when Thou
comest in Thy kingdom!
5. Very
early, the myrrh-bearing women arrived, weeping, at Thy tomb, O Christ God;
and they found an angel
sitting there, clad in white garments, who said: What seek ye?
Christ is risen! Lament no longer!
6. When Thine
apostles went to the mountain whither Thou hadst commanded them to
go, and saw Thee, O Savior,
they worshipped Thee; and Thou didst send them unto the
nations, to teach and
baptize them.
7. Splendid
in the excellence of virtue and miracles, O thou who didst thyself behold
Christ, and having illumined the ugliness of the Indians
with divine light, thou didst
enlighten
their benighted state with faith.
8. Ablaze
with radiance through the activity of the Spirit Himself, thou wast launched
like a bolt of divine
light, O thou who wast pleasing unto God, and didst enlighten the
world with miracles, O
Thomas.
9. Instructed
in the mysteries of the dogmas of divine wisdom, which surpasseth the
swiftness
of lightning, O Apostle Thomas, thou didst illumine the ends of the earth with
light.
10. O thou
who knewest not wedlock, who gavest birth unto God in the flesh. Make me
steadfast
who am shaken by the assaults of the passions, for I have no other helper save
thee, O all-pure one.
Troparia
& Kontakia
Tone 1: When
the stone had been sealed by the Jews, /
And the soldiers were
guarding Thine immaculate Body, /
Thou didst arise on the third
day, O Savior, /
granting life unto the world. /
Wherefore, the Hosts of the
Heavens cried out to Thee, O Life-giver: /
Glory to
Thy Resurrection, O Christ. /
Glory to
Thy kingdom. //
Glory to
Thy dispensation, O only Lover of mankind.
[Troparion of the
Tone 2: Thou
wast a disciple of Christ, /
a member of the divine assembly of the apostles, /
for thou didst prove the resurrection of Christ by thy
disbelief /
and didst verify His all-pure Passion by thy touch, /
O all-praised Thomas. //
Ask that peace and great
mercy may now be given to us.
Tone 1: As
God, Thou didst arise from the tomb in glory, /
and Thou didst raise the world together with Thyself. /
And mortal nature praiseth
Thee as God, /
and death hath vanished. /
And Adam danceth, O Master, /
and Eve, now freed from fetters, rejoiceth as she crieth
out: /
Thou art He, O Christ, //
that grantest unto all resurrection.
[Kontakion of
the
Glory… Tone 4:
Full of the grace of wisdom, /
the apostle and true servant of Christ cried out to Thee
in repentance: //
“Thou art my Lord and God!”
Both now...
Tone 6: O protection of
Christians that cannot be put to shame, /
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 1st Tone: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according
as we have hoped in Thee.
Choir: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us,
according as we have hoped in Thee.
Reader: Rejoice
in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet for the
upright.
Choir: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according
as we have hoped in Thee.
Reader: In the 8th Tone:
Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words
unto the ends of the world.
Choir: Their sound hath gone forth
into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the
world.
Reader: The
Corinthians: [2nd
Corinthians 9:6-11 & 1st Corinthians 4:9-16]
Reader: Alleluia in the 1st Tone: O God who
givest avengement unto me and hast
subdued people under me.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: It is
He that magnifieth the salvation of His king and worketh mercy for His
anointed, for David and for His seed unto eternity.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the same tone: The heavens shall confess
Thy wonders, O Lord, and Thy truth
in the congregation of the saints.
Choir: Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Luke 7:11-16 & John 20:19-31]
Communion Verse: Praise the Lord in the heavens, praise Him in the
highest! Their
sound hath gone forth into all the earth,
and their words unto the ends of the world.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!