A joyful mother of children. On the Memorial of the Apostles, lo, the glorious and holy Church rejoices, for they stood in her in the place of pillars, to be teachers of her children. In every generation their teaching is celebrated, and their true faith, for they rebuked kings and were not overcome by the menace of their evil.
Young women sound the timbrels in the congregation.
On the Memorial of the Apostles, lo, the glorious . . . . . . I the God of Israel will not forsake them. Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And on the sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.