Propers for June 11, 2023
June 11 – 1st Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 8.
ALL SAINTS.
Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (308). Virgin-martyr Theodosia (730).
Heb. 11:33–12:2 ;
Mt. 10:32-33, 37-38–19:27-30;
The Apostolic Fast – June 12 - July 11
Resurrectional Tropar, Tone 8
You descended from on high, Merciful One. You accepted the three day burial to deliver us from our passions. Lord, Our Life and Resurrection: Glory to You.
Tropar for All Saints, Tone 4
As with fine cloth and royal purple, Your Church has been adorned with the blood of the martyrs shed throughout the world. Christ God, She cries out to You: Send Your Goodness to Your People; grant peace to Your world and great mercy to our souls.
Glory ... Now and ever ...
Kondak for All Saints, Tone 8
Lord and Creator, the universe offers You the God-bearing martyrs as the First Fruits of all Creation. Through the Birth-Giver of God and their prayers establish Your Church in peace.
Prokimens
Priest: Let us be attentive! Peace be with you all!
Reader: And with your spirit!
Deacon: Wisdom!
Reader: The Prokimen in Tone 8: Pray and make your vows before the Lord, our God.
Choir: (repeats the prokimen)
Reader: Vs. In Judah God is known; His Name is great in Israel.
Choir: (repeats the prokimen)
Reader: The Second Prokimen in Tone 4: God is wonderful in His saints, the God of Israel.
Choir: God is wonderful in His saints, the God of Israel.
Epistle
Deacon: Wisdom!
Reader: The reading is from the Letter of St. Paul to the Hebrews.
Deacon: Let us be attentive.
Reader: Brethren, who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us. Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Priest: Peace be with you.
Reader: And with your spirit. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Verse: The righteous cried and the Lord heard him, and saved him from all his afflictions.
Verse: Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but He will deliver them from them all.
Communion Verses
Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the Highest. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, praise befits the upright. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
