Sunday Readings

Apostolic Reading – Hebrews 12:1-10

Gospel – John 1:43-51

Troparion of the Resurrection (Tone 1)

After the stone was sealed by the Jews and the while the soldiers were watching Your spotless body, You rose, O Savior, on the third day, giving life to the world. Wherefore, the heavenly powers cried out to you, O Giver of life: “Glory to Your resurrection, O Christ! Glory to Your kingdom! Glory to Your economy, O You who alone are the lover of mankind!”

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 Annunciation (Tone 8)

Triumphant leader to you belongs our prize of victory! And since you saved us from adversity, we offer you our thanks. We are your people O mother of God! So as you have that invincible power, continue to deliver us from danger that we may cry out to you Hail, O Virgin and bride ever pure.

Prokimenon

You, O Lord, will keep us and preserve us always from this generation.

Stichon

Save me, O Lord, for there is no longer any holy man, for truthfulness has vanished from among the children of men.

Reading from the Epistle of St. Paul to  the Hebrews (12:1-10)

Brethren, let us also, having such a cloud of witnesses over us, put away every encumbrance and the sin entangling us, and run with patience to the fight set before us; looking towards the author and the fulfiller of faith, Jesus, who, instead of the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and sits at the right hand of God ‘s throne. Consider, then, the one who suffered such opposition from sinners against him, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.

For you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in the struggle against sin; and you have forgotten the extortion addressed to you as sons, which says, “ my son, neglect not the Lords discipline, neither be weary when you are rebuked by him for when the Lord loves he chastises; and he scourges every son he receives (Prv. 3:11, 12).”

Continue under discipline. God deals with you as with sons; For is there any son his father does not, correct? But if you are without discipline, in which all have had a share, then you are illegitimate children, and not sons. Furthermore, we had fathers of our flesh to correct us, and we respected them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and have life? They indeed corrected us for a few days, as they saw fit; but he, for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

Alleluia (Tone 4)

Shall joyfully to God, all you earth, sing praise to the glory of his name, proclaim his glorious praise.

Stichon

For, you have tested us, O God, you have tried us as silver is tried by fire.

The Holy Gospel According to St. John the Evangelist (1:43-51)

At that time Jesus was about to leave for Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found the one of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.” And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no guile!” Nathanael said to him, “Where do you know me from?” Jesus answered him and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Nathanael answered him and said, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel.” Answering, Jesus said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, you believe. Greater things than these shall you see.” And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”