19th Sunday after Pentecost / The Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke
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. Shining forth like the sun in thy preaching, O most blessed Luke, thou didst adorn the foundation of the Church, causing the gloom of delusion to vanish with the fervor of faith.
8. Possessing a mason’s hammer in thy godly tongue and divinely inspired mouth, thou didst cut divinely beauteous tablets from the stone of the incarnation of God, O thou who are most rich.
9. Entering into the most luminous cloud, and being covered thereby, O all-wise one, thou didst receive the new law inscribed upon thy heart by the finger of the Spirit.
10. There is none as blameless as thee, O Mistress, and none more pure than thee, O most immaculate one; for thou didst hold God the Word, Who alone is greatly merciful, in thy womb.
Troparia & Kontakia
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
Tone 5: The holy apostle, the all-hymned Luke, /
who is acknowledged by the Church of Christ /
as the recorder of the acts of the apostles /
and the splendid author of the Gospel of Christ, /
let us praise with sacred hymns, /
as a physician who healeth /
the infirmities of man and the ailments of nature, /
who cleanseth spiritual wounds //
and prayeth unceasingly for our souls.
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
Glory... Tone 2: Let us praise the godly Luke: /
the true preacher of
piety, /
the speaker of ineffable
mysteries, the star of the Church; /
for the Word Who alone
knoweth men’s hearts /
chose him to be, with the
wise Paul, //
a teacher of the gentiles.
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 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 Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians:
[II Cor. 11:31-12:9 (§194); Col. 4:5-9,14,18 (§260 mid)]
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 1st
Tone: The heavens shall confess Thy wonders, O Lord, and Thy truth in the
congregation of the saints.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Luke 8:5-15
(§35); Luke 10:16-21 (§51)]
Communion
Verse:
Praise the Lord from 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!