The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Tone Three
Resurrectional Tropar’, Tone 3.
Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad, for the Lord hath created a realm by His power, by death He conquered death, because, first born of the dead, He delivered us from the depths of hell and granted great mercy to the world.
Glory.
Resurrectional Kondak, Tone 3.
Thou hast this day arisen from the grave, O Bountiful One, and hast lead us up from the gates of death; Adam rejoices today and Eve is delighted, and the Prophets together with the Patriarchs ceaselessly proclaim the divine might of Thy kingdom.
Now and ever.
Bohorodičen, Tone 3.
We praise thee, O Virgin Mother of God, who dost mediate the salvation of our race; for thy Son and our God, by the flesh received from thee, endured the passion and as Lover of mankind delivered us from corruption.
Prokimen, Tone 3. Psalm 46:7, 2.
Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our King, sing ye.
Verse: O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of joy.
The Lesson of the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Romans.
Romans §93 (6:18-23).
Brethren: Being freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice. I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice. What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Alleluia, Tone 3. Psalm 30:2, 3.
In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped: let me never be confounded.
Verse: Be Thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.
The Lesson of the Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew.
Saint Matthew §25 (8:5-13).
At that time: when Jesus had entered into Capharnaum, there came to Him a centurion, beseeching Him, and saying: Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and is grieviously tormented. And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal him. And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another, Come, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed Him: Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven: but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee. And the servant was healed at the same hour.
Communion. Psalm 148:1.
Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye Him in the high places. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
5 July 2025