The Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke
Beatitudes
on 8: Apostle 4, from Ode 3; 4, from Ode 6.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Having drained the cup of wisdom, with the knowledge of
Christ God thou gavest drink unto all, O Luke most wise.
6. Chosen as the companion of Paul, O most blessed and
divinely eloquent Luke, thou didst fish for the nations with the net of thy
dogmas.
7. Thou wast shown to be a cloud which raineth down upon us a shower of life, O apostle, and which floweth forth from springs of salvation.
8. Thine Offspring, the Destroyer of idols, O Mary Bride of God, is worshipped with the Father and the Spirit.
Troparia & Kontakia
[Troparion of the Temple]
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.
[Kontakion of the Temple]
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 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 heavens declare the glory of God, and
the firmament proclaimeth the work of His hands.
Choir: Their sound
hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Reader: In the Same Tone: Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous.
Choir: Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous.
Reader:
The Reading is from the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Colossians:
[Col. 4:5-9, 14, 18 (§260 mid); II Cor. 3:12-18 (§174)]
Reader: Alleluia
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!
Reader: God
is glorified in the council of the saints.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Reader: In the 4th
Tone: The righteous cried, and the Lord heard them, and He delivered them
out of all their tribulations.
Choir:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel [Luke 10:16-21
(§51); Luke 6:1-10 (§22)]
Communion Verse: Their sound
hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet for the upright. Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia!