Troparion of the Sunday, Tone VII —
By Thy Cross, Thou didst destroy death! / To the thief, Thou didst open Paradise! / For the myrrhbearers,
Thou didst change weeping into joy! / And Thou didst command Thy disciples, O Christ
God, / to proclaim that Thou art risen, / granting the world great mercy!
Hymn to the Theotokos, Tone VII —
Since you are the treasure of our resurrection, / we put our hope in you, O all-praised one. /
Lead us from the abyss of transgressions, / for you have saved those guilty of sin, / O evervirgin
Mother of our salvation.
Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone VII —
The dominion of death / can no longer hold men captive, / for Christ descended, shattering
and destroying its powers! / Hell is bound, while the prophets rejoice and cry: /”The Savior
has come to those in faith! / Enter, you faithful, into the Resurrection!
Apostles Erastus, Olympus, Rodion, and those with them, Troparion,
Tone III —
O holy apostles/ entreat the merciful God// that He grant to our souls
remission of transgressions.
Kontakion, Tone IV "Thou hast appeared" —
Today hath dawned the honored festival of the apostles/ which doth manifestly
bestow the remission of sins// upon all that keep their memory.
Kontakion, Tone II "Seeking the highest" —
Having illumined your minds with divine light,/ ye did wisely destroy the
wiles of the orators;/ and having fished for all the pagans, O glorious
apostles,/ ye brought them to the Master,// teaching them to glorify the divine
Trinity.
Apostles Erastus, Olympas, Herodion, Sosipater, Quartus, and Tertius of the Seventy (1st c.).
New Hieromartyr Niphont and Martyr Alexander (1931).
Martyr Orestes of Cappadocia (304).