11th Sunday of Luke

Reading from the Synaxarion:

On the Sunday that occurs on or immediately after the eleventh of
this month, we commemorate Christ's forefathers according to the
flesh, both those that came before the Law, and those that lived after
the giving of the Law.

Special commemoration is made of the Patriarch Abraham, to whom the
promise was first given, when God said to him, "In thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed" (Gen. 22:18). This promise was given
some two thousand years before Christ, when Abraham was seventy-five
years of age. God called him and commanded him to forsake his country,
parents, and kinsmen, and to depart to the land of the Canaanites. When
he arrived there, God told him, "I will give this land to thy seed"
(Gen. 12:7); for this cause, that land was called the "Promised Land,"
which later became the country of the Hebrew people, and which is also
called Palestine by the historians. There, after the passage of
twenty-four years, Abraham received God's law concerning circumcision. In
the one hundredth year of his life, when Sarah was in her ninetieth
year, they became the parents of Isaac. Having lived 175 years
altogether, he reposed in peace, a venerable elder full of days.

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Second Tone
When You descended unto death, O Lord who yourself are immortal Life,
then did You mortify Hades by the lightning flash of Your Divinity.
Also when You raised the dead from the netherworld, all the Powers of
the heavens were crying out: O Giver of life, Christ our God, glory
be to You.

Resurrectional Kontakion in the Second Tone
You rose from the tomb, O Savior all-powerful, * and Hades beheld the
marvel and was struck with fear, * and the dead were rising up, and
creation beholds and rejoices with You, * and Adam is also exultant; O my
Savior, and the world ever sings Your praise.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Tone
On this day the Virgin cometh to the cave to give birth to * God the
Word ineffably, * Who was before all the ages. * Dance for joy, O
earth, on hearing * the gladsome tidings; * with the Angels and the
shepherds now glorify Him * Who is willing to be gazed on * as a young
Child Who * before the ages is God.