Sunday Readings

Apostolic Reading –  1 Cor 4:9-16

Gospel –  Mt 9:9-13

Troparion of the resurrection (Tone 6)

The angelic powers were around Your tomb, and the guards became as dead, and Mary stood at the tomb, seeking Your spotless body; Then You despoiled Hades without being tried by it, and You met the Virgin O Bestower of life. O Lord, who rose from the dead, glory to You!

Troparion of the Holy Apostle Matthew (Tone 3)

O Holy Apostle Matthew the Evangelist, intercede with God all-merciful that He may grant us the remission of our sins.

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 Presentation of our Lady to the Temple (Tone 4)

The most pure Temple of our Holy Savior, and the most precious and bright bridal chamber, the Virgin, sacred treasury of the glory of God, openly appears today into the temple of the Lord, bringing with her the grace of the most Holy Spirit. Wherefore the angels of God are singing: “This is the heavenly tabernacle!”

Prokimenon

May your kindness O Lord be upon us for we have hoped in You.

Stichon

Exult, you just, in the Lord; praise from the upright is fitting.

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 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 (Tone 1)

O God, you granted me retribution and made peoples subject to me and saved me from my raging enemies.

Stichon

Therefore, I will proclaim you, O Lord, among the nations, and I will sing praise to your name.

The Holy Gospel According to St. Matthew the Evangelist (9:9-13).

At that time as Jesus was passing through, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax-collector’s desk, and said to him, “Follow Me.” And he arose and followed Him. And it came to pass as He was at table in the house, that behold, many publicans and sinners came to the table with Jesus and His disciples. And the Pharisees seeing it, said to His disciples, “Why does your Master eat with publicans and sinners?” But Jesus heard it, and said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick. But go, and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ For I have come to call to repentance, not the just but the sinners.”