Sunday, June 16, 2024
Readings
Apostolic Reading – Romans 6:18-23
Gospel – Matthew 8:5-13
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 first born of 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 protect your community by the power of your Cross.
Kondakion
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
Sing praise to our God, sing praise! Sing praise to our King, sing praise!
Stichon
All you peoples, clap your hands! Shout to God with cries of gladness!
Reading from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans (6:18-23)
Brethren, now that you have been freed from sin, you have come to serve justification. I speak in a human way because of the weakness of your flesh. For as you yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness and iniquity, so now yield your members as slaves of justification so as to be sanctified. For while you were the slaves of sin, you had nothing to do with justification. But what fruit did you gather then of those deeds of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is death. But now, set free from sin and become slaves to God, you have your fruit resulting in sanctification, and as your end, life everlasting. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Alleluia
In you, 0 Lord, I have hoped: let me never be put to shame.
In your goodness, save me and deliver me; lend your ear and hasten my deliverance.
Stichon
Be for me a protecting God, a sheltering house to save me.
The Holy Gospel According to St. Matthew the Evangelist (8:5-13)
At that time when Jesus had entered Capharnaum, there came to Him a centurion who entreated Him, saying, “Lord, my servant is lying sick in the house, paralyzed, and is grievously afflicted.” Jesus said to him, “I will come and cure him.” But in answer the centurion said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man subject to authority, and have soldiers subject to me; and I say to one, ‘Go’, and he goes; and to another, ‘Come’, and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this’, and he does it.” And when Jesus heard this, He marveled, and said to those who were following Him, “Amen I say to you, I have not found such great faith in Israel. And I tell you that many will come from the east and from the west, and will feast with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, but the children of the kingdom will be put forth into the darkness outside; there will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.” Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; as you have believed, so be it done to you.” And the servant was healed in that hour.