Propers for June 9, 2024

June 9 – Sixth Sunday of Pascha. Tone 5

The Blind Man. Hieromartyr Therapon, bishop of Sardis (259). Virgin-martyr Theodora and Martyr Didymus the Soldier of Alexandria (304)

Acts 16:16-34; Jn. 9:1-38;

Resurrectional Tropar, Tone 5

Let us, the faithful, praise and worship the Word, Co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, born for our salvation of the Virgin. In His Good Will He was lifted up on the Cross in the flesh to suffer death and to raise the dead by His glorious Resurrection.

Glory …
Kondak, Tone 4

I came to You, my Christ, blind from birth in my spiritual eyes and call to You in repentance; You are the most radiant light for those in darkness.

Now & Ever …
Kondak, Tone 8

You descended into the tomb, Immortal One and destroyed the power of Death. In victory You arose, Christ God. Proclaiming, "Rejoice!" to the Myrrh-bearing women, you granted peace to Your apostles and bestowed resurrection on the fallen.

Prokimen

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:  Pray and make your vows …

Choir: … before the Lord our God.

Epistle

Deacon: Wisdom!

Reader: The reading is from the Acts of the Apostles.

Deacon: Let us be attentive.

Reader: Brethren, now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, "These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation." And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And he came out that very hour. But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, "These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city; and they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe." Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods. And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed. And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, "Do yourself no harm, for we are all here." Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. And he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" So they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household." Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized. Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household.

Priest: Peace be with you.

Reader: And with your spirit. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Verse: T8: Verse: Look upon me and have mercy on me.

Verse: Lead my steps according to Your word.

Instead of "It is right in truth"

The angel cried to the Lady Full of Grace: Rejoice, Pure Virgin. Again I say: Rejoice. Your Son is risen from His three days in the tomb. With Himself He has raised up all the dead: Rejoice, all peoples.

Irmos: Shine, Shine, O New Jerusalem, for the Glory of the Lord has shone on you. Exult now and be glad, O Zion and rejoice, Pure Birth-Giver of God, in the Resurrection of Your Son.

Communion Hymns

Receive the Body of Christ; taste the Fountain of Immortality. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the Highest. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Instead of "We have seen the True light:"

Paschal Tropar: Christ is risen...

Instead of
"Glory to the Father and to the Son …"

Paschal Tropar: Christ is risen... (3 times)