Nov. 27 – 24th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 7
Holy and All-praised Apostle Philip (1st c.). St. Justinian the Emperor of Byzantium (565) and his wife St. Theodora (548). St. Gregory Palamas, archbishop of Thessalonica (1360).
Eph. 2:14-22 ; Lk. 10:25-37
1 Cor. 4:9-16; Jn. 1:43-51
Last day before Philip's Fast-Advant
Tropar Resurrectional, Tone 7
By Your Cross, you destroyed Death. To the Thief, You opened Paradise. For the Myrrh-bearers, You changed weeping into joy. Christ God, You commanded Your disciples to proclaim that You are risen, granting the world great mercy.
Tropar of our church, Tone 4
Prophet and Forerunner of the coming of Christ, we who honor you with love can find no manner of praising you worthily. For the barrenness of one who bore you and the silence of your father have been ended by your being born of divine grace and you have proclaimed to the world the Incarnation of the Son of God.
Tropar to Apostle, Tone 3
O holy Apostle Philip, entreat the merciful God, that He grant our souls forgiveness of transgressions.
Resurrectional Kondak, Tone 7
The dominion of Death can no longer hold humanity captive, for Christ descended shattering and destroying its power. Hades is bound while the prophets rejoice with one voice. The Savior has come to those in faith, saying: "Enter, you faithful, into the Resurrection."
Kondak of our church, Tone 3
She who was previously barren now bears the Forerunner of Christ who is the fulfillment of every prophecy. For the prophets proclaimed beforehand that having laid hands on Him in the Jordan, he would be manifest as Prophet, Preacher and Forerunner of the Word of God.
Glory …
Kondak to Apostle, Tone 8
Your disciple and friend, the imitator of Your suffering, the divinely eloquent Philip, proclaimed You to the world as God. By his prayers and through the Theotokos, keep Your Church and every city from most iniquitous enemies, O most Merciful One.
Now and Ever …
Theotokion, Tone 6
Protection of Christians not put to shame, unwavering Mediation before the Creator; despise not the prayer of sinners, but because you are good, quickly come to help us who call on you in faith. Be swift to intercede and make haste to supplicate, Birth-Giver of God, who always protects those who honor you.
Prokimens
Priest: Let us be attentive! Peace be with you all!
Reader: And with your spirit!
Deacon: Wisdom!
Reader: The Prokimen in Tone 7: The Lord shall give strength to His people. The Lord shall bless His people with peace.
Choir: (repeats the prokimen)
Reader: Verse: Bring to the Lord, you sons of God, bring young rams to the Lord.
Choir: (repeats the prokimen)
Reader: The Second Prokimen in Tone 8: Their proclamation went forth into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
Choir: Their proclamation went forth into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
Epistles
Deacon: Wisdom!
Reader: The reading is from the Letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians.
Deacon: Let us be attentive.
Reader: Brethren, He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Deacon: Wisdom!
Reader: The reading is from the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians.
Deacon: Let us be attentive.
Reader: Brethren, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored! To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now. I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
Priest: Peace be with you.
Reader: And with your spirit. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Verse: It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Your Name, O Most High.
Verse: To declare Your mercy in the morning and Your truth by night.
Verse: The heavens, O Lord, shall declare Your wonders and Your Truth in the assembly of the saints.
Communion Hymns
Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the highest. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Their proclamation has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the universe. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.