Apostolic Reading – 2 Timothy 3:10-15

Gospel – Luke 18:10-14

Troparion of the Resurrection (Tone 5)

Let us, O faithful, praise and worship the word, coeternal with the Father and the Spirit, born of the Virgin for our Salvation, for He was pleased to be lifted in the flesh upon the cross, and to endure death, and to raise the dead by His glorious resurrection.

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 of the Pharisee and the Publican (Tone 3)

Let us shun the boastful words of the Pharisee and learn from the Publican humility with sighing; let us cry out to our Savior: “Have mercy on us, O You who alone are merciful!”

Prokimenon

Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them;

Let all round about bring gifts to the awesome God.

Stichon

God is renowned in Judah; is Israel, great is his name.

Reading from the Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy (3:10-15)

My son Timothy, you have followed my teaching, my behavior, my faith, my long-suffering, my love, my patience, my persecutions, my afflictions – such as befell me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, such persecutions as I suffered: and out of them all, the Lord delivered me. And all who want to live piously in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But the wicked and impostors will go from bad to worse, erring and leading into error. As for you, keep on with the things you have learned and which have been entrusted to you, and remember from whom you have learned them. For you have known from infancy the Sacred Scriptures which are able to give you instruction for your salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Alleluia

Come, let us rejoice in the Lord!

Let us sing joyfully to God our Savior!

Stichon

Let us greet his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

The Holy Gospel According to St. Luke the Evangelist (18:10-14)

The Lord told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and began to pray thus within himself: ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, robbers, dishonest, adulterers, or even like this publican. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all I possess.’ But the publican, standing far off, would not so much as lift up his eyes to heaven, but kept striking his breast, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ I tell you; this man went back to his home justified rather than the other; for anyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself shall be exalted.