At the Aposticha, Prosomia. Tone 5. Hail, of ascetics.

Then the following Idiomel.

Grace was poured out on your lips in a fiery tongue, Apostle Luke, and you were revealed as a tongue of fire as you sent forth words of light by your preaching for those worthy of light, but bolts of shame for those who longed for the darkness, as you wrote and taught the honoured Gospel; and you appeared as a fragrance of life for those who truly wished for life, as Paul said, whom you had as teacher; but again as the odour of death for those who did not love life. But grant us peace and life and light and God’s great mercy.

**Theotokion.**

Glory. Both now.

His sound has gone out into all the earth; and his words to the ends of the world.

**Theotokion.**

From your words we have come to know, as you said, the sureness of the words which you set forth, inspired Initiate, since you undertook to write for us about the things of which you had been informed and as they had handed on to you, those who before had been the eye-witnesses. Whose equal you became and a servant of the incarnation of the Word, whom you saw after the resurrection at Emmaus, and ate with him with heart aflame along with Cleopas. Fill too with his divine fervour the souls of us who honour you.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

Hail, who alone wrote down for us the ‘Hail’ as you hailed the good tidings of the Pure Virgin, and the Baptist who called her ‘Mother of the Lord’ from the womb, of whose conception too you wrote, and the incarnation of the Word, his temptations, marvels, words and sufferings, his cross and death and rising, which you saw, and his ascension and the descent of the Spirit, and the acts of the heralds and especially those of Paul, companion of whose journeys you were named, healer and Initiate and beacon of the Church. Watch over her always.

Grace was poured out on your lips, therefore God has blessed you for ever. ****

Tone 4. By Basil.

As you searched the depth of the spiritual sea with the fishing rod of Wisdom, all-blessed Luke, you caught from the death-bearing deep the souls of the faithful. Therefore, having become Paul’s disciple, you cleansed your whole heart by the radiance of the Spirit; and having enlightened the nations by your doctrines and healed by your wonders all the diseases of the passions, you ever implore Christ God for us that our souls may be saved.

All-wise Fisherman, holy Disciple, workman of the Saviour and proclaimer of his sufferings, when you had sped through creation by faith, gathered all the nations from error and offered them as incense to God you took the fair way to heaven. And so as you stand before the Judge intercede that we may be delivered from our iniquities and rescued from eternal punishment on the day of judgement.

My Maker and Redeemer, Christ the Lord, came forth from your womb, O all-pure, clothed himself in me and freed Adam from the former curse. And so, All-pure, as to God’s Mother and truly Virgin, we cry to you without ceasing the Angel’s ‘Hail’. Hail, Sovereign Lady, protection and shelter and salvation of our souls.

Apolytikion. Tone 3.

Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke, intercede with the merciful God to grant our souls forgiveness of sins.

Virgin Mother of God, we hymn you as the means of the salvation of our race; for your Son and our God, who through the Cross accepted suffering in the flesh which had been taken from you, has redeemed us from corruption as he loves mankind.

And Dismissal.