APRIL 30
Holy Apostle James, the brother of St John the Theologian
"Lord I Call..." Tone 8
Lord, I call upon Thee, hear me!
Hear me, O Lord!
Lord, I call upon Thee, hear me!
Receive the voice of my prayer,
when I call upon Thee!//
Hearme, O Lord!
Let my prayer arise
in Thy sight as incense,
and let the lifting up of my hands
be an evening sacrifice!//
Hearme, O Lord!
v. (8) Out of the depths I cry to Thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice!
Tone 8(from the Pentecostarion) (Oh, most glorious wonder)
Oh, most glorious wonder!
The Creator of all became a Pauper,
clothing Himself in our fleshly nature.
In His compassion He wished to live with mankind.
He showed the Hebrews a multitude of wonders:
He healed the paralytic in Bethsaida, saying to him://
“Rise, take up thy bed and walk!”
v. (7) Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
Wishing to raise up fallen mortals,
my Lord, my Savior and God, wandered over the earth.
In His compassion He healed the diseases of all;
He passed by the Sheep’s Pool
and by a word revealed Himself//
to a man paralyzed thirty-eight years.
v. (6) If Thou, O Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with Thee.
O Lord, the Jews were poisoned with envy.
Thy good works became fuel for their madness.
They had always been transgressors of the Law.
Now they seek to kill Thee, the true Life,
because Thou didst made a man whole on the Sabbath,//
who before had been paralyzed.
v. (5) For Thy name’s sake have I waited for Thee, O Lord, my soul has waited for Thy word; my soul has hoped on the Lord.
Tone 4 (for Apostle James) (As one valiant among the martyrs)
Thou didst draw men up from the depths of vanity
with a fisherman’s rod of grace.
Thou didst obey the commands of the Teacher, O worthy James,
Who enlightened all thy thoughts
and revealed thee as an Apostle and holy preacher,//
for thou didst expound His incomprehensible divinity, O
most blessed one.
v. (4) From the morning watch until night, from the morning, watch let Israel hope on the Lord!
(Repeat: “Thou didst draw men up from the depths …” )
v. (3) For with the Lord there is mercy and with Him is plenteous redemption, and He will deliver Israel from all his iniquities.
The illumination of the Spirit descended on thee in the form of fire
and made thee a divine vessel, O blessed one,
dispelling with power the darkness of godlessness;
enlightening the world with the brightness of thy all-wise words,
O preacher of mysteries, O leader of the Apostles,//
James, the eye-witness of Christ.
v. (2) Praise the Lord, all nations! Praise Him, all peoples!
(Repeat: “The illumination of the Spirit …” )
v. (1) For His mercy is abundant towards us; and the truth of the Lord endures for ever.
Thou didst illumine those lying in the darkness of ignorance
with the lightning flash of thy preaching, O glorious James.
Thou didst reveal them to be sons through faith of the Master and God
Whose passion and death thou didst imitate with zeal.
Thou didst become an heir of glory, O wiseone,//
as one speaking from God, and a most faithful disciple.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;
Tone 8(from the Menaion, for Apostle James)
Come, let us praise James with hymns of psalms:
the preacher of heavenly mysteries and expounder of the Gospel;
for he was revealed as a river of the mystical Paradise,
watering spiritual furrows with heavenly streams,
revealing them to bear fruit to ChristGod,//
Who, by his prayers, grants cleansing, enlightenment and great mercy.
now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Tone 5(from the Pentecostarion)
A man lay sick by the Sheep's Pool.
Seeing Thee, O Lord, he cried to Thee:
“There is no man to lower me into the pool when the water is stirred.
Another always goes before me and receives healing,
while I lie here in misery.”
Immediately the Savior was moved to pity, and said to him:
“It was for thee that I didst become Man;
because of thee I wast clothed in mortal flesh.
Yet thou sayest: ‘I have no man!’
I tell thee, take up thy bed and walk!”
All things obey and submit to Thy power, O Lord!//
Remember us all, and have mercy, O holy Lover of mankind!
Readings
James 1:1-12
James 1:13-27
James 2:1-13
Holy Apostle James, the brother of St John the Theologian
Aposticha
Tone 8 (from the Menaion, for Apostle James) (O most glorious wonder)
O blessed God-seer James,
after listening to the voice of the Word,
thou didst pay no heed to the service and customs of thy father,
for thou didst leave behind the life of earthly cares
and didst pass over the spiritual sea.
Thou didst stir its depths with the precepts of godliness
and with thy heavenly thunder,//
O Apostle most blessed of God.
v. Their proclamation has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the universe. (Ps 18/19:4).
All-blessed James, by thy deeds thou didst serve the Word,
the Cause of life and of the future age.
Truly thou didst deprive Israel of its first-born privilege,
when it forsook the worship of the trueGod,//
while recalling it to sonship as the new Israel.
v: The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims His handiwork. (Ps 18/19:1)
Thou art now appointed a prince over all the earth,
as it is written of thee, O glorious one,
since thou didst become a disciple of the Creator of all.
In fervent zeal, thou didst suffer murder by the transgressor’s sword,//
which took thee from the revered company of the twelve Apostles.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;
Tone 1 (from the Menaion, for St James)
Thou didst follow Christ and despise the world,
keeping His teachings in thy treasury, O godly James.
Thou wast revealed to be His Apostle.
Therefore, going to the nations with the commandments of the Savior,
thou didst enlighten the souls in the darkness of delusion and passion,//
that they might believe in the consubstantial Trinity.
now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Tone 1(from the Pentecostarion)
With Thy pure hand, Thou didst create mankind;
Thou didst come to heal the sick, O compassionate Christ.
By Thy word Thou didst raise the paralytic at the Sheep's Pool.
Thou didst cure the woman of her painful hemorrhage.
Thou hadstmercy on the Canaanite woman's daughter.
Thou did not reject the centurion's request.
Therefore we cry to Thee://
“Glory to Thee O almighty Lord!”
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(at Great Vespers)
Tone 3Troparion(Resurrection)
Let the heavens rejoice!
Let the earth be glad!
For the Lord has shown strength with His arm.
He has trampled down death by death.
He has become the first born of the dead.
He has delivered us from the depths of hell,
and has granted to the world//
greatmercy.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;
Tone 3*Troparion(Apostle James)
O holy Apostle James,
entreat the merciful God//
to grant our souls forgiveness of transgressions!
now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Tone 3ResurrectionalDismissal Theotokion
We praise thee as the mediatrix of our salvation,
O Virgin Theotokos.
For thy Son, our God, Whotook flesh from thee,
accepted the Passion on the Cross,//
delivering us from corruption as the Lover of Man.
Holy Apostle James, the brother of St John the Theologian
(at the Divine Liturgy)
Tone 3Troparion(Resurrection)
Let the heavens rejoice!
Let the earth be glad!
For the Lord has shown strength with His arm.
He has trampled down death by death.
He has become the first born of the dead.
He has delivered us from the depths of hell,
and has granted to the world//
greatmercy.
Tone 3*Troparion(Apostle James)
O holy Apostle James,
entreat the merciful God//
to grant our souls forgiveness of transgressions!
Tone 2 Kontakion(Apostle James)
O James, when thou didst hear the voice of the Word calling thee,
thou didst abandonthy father’s love and ran to Christ, together with thy
brother John.
With himthou wast accounted worthy//
to behold the divine Transfiguration of Christ.
Tone 3 Kontakion(from the Pentecostarion)
By Thy divine intercession, O Lord,
as Thou didst raise up the Paralytic of old,
so raise up my soul, paralyzed by sins and thoughtless acts;
so that being saved I may sing to Thee://
“Glory to Thy power, O compassionate Christ!”
Tone 8Kontakion(Pascha)
Thou didst descend into the tomb, O Immortal,
Thou didst destroy the power of death.
In victory Thou didst arise, O Christ God,
proclaiming,“Rejoice!”to the MyrrhbearingWomen,//
granting peace to Thine Apostles, and bestowing
Resurrection on the fallen.
Tone 1Prokeimenon(Resurrection)
Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us as we have set our hope on Thee!
(Ps 32/33:22)
v: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous! Praise befitteth the just! (Ps 32/33:1)
Tone 8Prokeimenon
Their proclamation has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the
ends of the universe! (Ps 18/19:4)
Epistle
Acts 12:1-11 (St James)
Tone 5
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
v: I will sing of Thy mercies, O Lord, forever; with my mouth will I proclaim Thy truth from generation to generation. (Ps 88/89:1)
v: For Thou hast said: “Mercy will be established forever; Thy truth will be
prepared in the heavens.” (Ps 88/89:2)
Tone 1
v: The heavens will praise Thy wonders, O Lord; and Thy truth in the congregation of the saints. (Ps 88/89:5)
Gospel
Luke 5:1-11 (St James)
(Instead of “It is truly meet …,” we sing:)
The Angel cried to the Lady, full of grace:
“Rejoice, O pure Virgin! Again, I say: Rejoice,
thy Son is risen from His three days in the tomb!
With Himself He has raised all the dead.”
Rejoice, O ye people!
Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem!
The glory of the Lord has shone on thee.
Exult now, and be glad, O Zion!
Be radiant, O pure Theotokos,
in the Resurrection of thy Son!
Communion Hymn
Receive the Body of Christ; taste the fountain of immortality!
Their proclamation has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the
ends of the universe! (Ps 18/19:4)
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
* (Another Troparion for the Holy Apostle James)
Tone 8Troparion(St James)
Thou wastcalled to be a disciple and warrior of Christ, one of the exalted
choir of Apostles.
With thy brother John, thou didst abandon all to follow
the Master, O James;
thou wastfilled with the Holy Spirit and didst proclaim Him to all.
Thou didst bow thy head to the sword, the first of the twelve to shed thy
blood!//
We celebrate thy memory, O blessed one!
Liturgical texts for this service represent modified versions of translations provided by Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery, Otego, New York and St. Tikhon’s Monastery, South Canaan, Pa. The Department of Liturgical Music and Translations of the Orthodox Church in America expresses its gratitude to Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery and St. Tikhon’s Monastery and to those translators whose work has been consulted at times in the course of reviewing and modifying these texts to their present form:Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash), Archimandrite Juvenaly, Father Benedict Churchill, Isaac Lambertson, St. Vladimir’s Seminary, and Holy Transfiguration Monastery, among others.
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