19th Sunday After Pentecost / Holy Apostle Thomas

Beatitudes on 10 Octoechos 6; Apostle 4, from Ode 3.
 
1. We offer Thee the cry of the thief, and we pray: Remember us in Thy kingdom, O 
Savior.
 
2. For the forgiveness of transgressions we offer unto Thee the Cross which Thou didst 
accept for our sake, O Thou who lovest mankind.
 
3. We bow down in worship, O Master, before Thy burial and rising, whereby Thou hast 
delivered the world from corruption, O Thou Who lovest mankind.
 
4. By Thy death hath death been slain, O Lord, and by Thy resurrection hast Thou saved 
the world, O Savior.
 
5. Risen from the tomb, Thou didst meet the myrrh-bearing women; and Thou didst tell 
Thy disciples to announce Thine arising.
 
6. Those who slept in darkness, beholding Thee, the Light, in the nethermost parts of 
hades, O Christ, were raised from the dead.
 
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
 
Tone 2: When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, /
then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. /
And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, /
all the Hosts of the heavens cried out: //
O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.
 

[Troparion of the Temple]

Glory… 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.
 
Both now… Tone 2: 
All of thy most glorious mysteries are beyond comprehension, O Theotokos; /
for, thy purity sealed and thy virginity intact, /
thou art known to be a true Mother, /
having given birth unto God. //
Him do thou entreat, that our souls be saved.
 

The Epistle

Reader: The Prokimenon in the 2nd Tone: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He is become my salvation.

Choir: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He is become my salvation.

Reader: With chastisement hath the Lord chastened me, but He hath not given me over

unto death.

Choir: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He is become my salvation.

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 Reading is from the Second Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians:

[II Cor. 11:31-12:9 (§194); I Cor. 4:9-16 (§131)]

Reader: Alleluia in the 2nd Tone: The Lord hear thee in the day of affliction; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.

Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

Reader: O Lord, save the king, and hearken unto us in the day when we call upon Thee.

Choir: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

Reader: In the 1^st 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 (§30); John 20:19-31 (§65)]

Kontakia

Tone 2: Thou didst rise from the tomb, O omnipotent Savior, /
and Hades was terrified on beholding the wonder; /
and the dead arose, /
and creation at the sight thereof rejoiceth with Thee. /
And Adam also is joyful, //
and the world, O my Savior, praiseth Thee for ever.

[Kontakion of the Temple]

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, /

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.

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