Sunday Readings

Apostolic Reading – 1 Cor 4:9-16

Gospel – Luke 7:11-16

Hymns: See our Church’s website for Audio Recordings: holycrossmelkite.org/hymns

Troparion of the Resurrection (Tone 3)

Let all in heaven rejoice and all on earth be glad for the Lord has exerted power with His arm: by death He has trampled upon Death and has become the firstborn from the dead. He has delivered us from the bosom of Hades and has granted to the world great mercy.

Troparion of the Holy Cross (Tone 1)

O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance, granting peace to the world. And preserve your community by the power of your Cross.

Kondakion (Tone 2)

O never failing Protectress of Christians and their ever-present intercessor before the Creator, despise not the petitions of us sinners, but in your goodness extend your help to us who call upon you with confidence. Hasten, O Mother of God, to intercede for us, for you have always protected those who honor you.

Prokimenon

Through all the earth, their voice resounds, and to the ends of the world their message.

Stichon

The heavens declare God’s glory and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

Reading from the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (4:9-16)

Brethren, I think God has set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death, so that we would become a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are without honor! To this very hour, we hunger and thirst, and we are naked and buffeted and have no fixed home. And we labor, working with our own hands. We are reviled and we bless, we are persecuted and we bear with it, we are maligned and we console; we have become as the refuse of this world, the scum of all until this present time. I write these things, not to put you to shame, but to admonish you as my dearest children. For although you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you have not many fathers. Therefore, I beg you, be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Alleluia

The heavens shall proclaim your wonders, O Lord, and your truth in the assembly of the saints.

Stichon

God is glorified in the council of his saints, great and awesome to all those around him.

The Holy Gospel According to St. Luke the Evangelist (7:11-16)

At that time it came to pass that Jesus went to a town called Nain; and several of His disciples and a large crowd went with Him. And as He drew near the gate of the town, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large gathering from the town was with her. And the Lord, seeing her, had compassion on her, and said to her, “Do not weep.” And He went up and touched the stretcher; and the bearers stood still. And He said, “Young man, I say to thee, arise.” And he who was dead, sat up, and began to speak. And He gave him to his mother. But fear seized upon all, and they began to glorify God, saying, “A great prophet has risen among us.” and “God has visited His people.”