service files 11_january.md

ON THE 11TH OF THE SAME MONTH

We recite the 1st Section of ‘Blessed is the man’ . At Lord I have cried we insert 6 Stichera, and we sing Prosomia of the Saint.

Venerable Father, they rejoice your holy soul like a city of the living God, the torrents of the river, of the water of forgiveness, of the One who passed through Jordan and for all the ends of the earth became a source of the message of true religion, Christ our God. Implore him, most blessed Theodosios that our souls may be saved. [1]

Commemoration of our Venerable Father Theodosios the Koinoviarch.

Tone 5. Venerable Father.

You bowed your head to the Forerunner, you crushed the heads of the dragons, [2] you took your stand in the streams, you enlightened the universe to glorify you, O Saviour, the enlightenment of our souls.

**AT VESPERS**

Venerable Father, God-bearer Theodosios, valiantly you struggled in this temporary life, by hymns and fasts and vigils becoming a model for your disciples, while now you dance with the Bodiless Powers, as you ceaselessly glorify Christ, God from God, Word and Redeemer, who bowed down his to the Forerunner and sanctified the nature of the waters. Entreat him, implore him, Venerable Father, that the Church may be given harmony, peace and great mercy.

Venerable Father, God-bearer Theodosios, the grace of the All-holy Spirit, finding your pure soul, as it desired, dwelt in you as an immaculate light. By its action you became radiantly bright and you ceaselessly glorify Christ, the one Son in two natures, who was baptized by the hand of the Forerunner and witnessed to by the Father’s voice. Entreat him, implore him, Venerable Father, that the inhabited world may be given harmony, peace and great mercy.

Venerable Father, God-bearer Theodosios, rightly you were counted worthy of the blessed life, having found it by purity and ascetic practice; for while living you passed over to the life on high, bidding all things farewell, and with the Bodiless Powers ceaselessly glorifying Christ, who took flesh ineffably from a Virgin and sunk our sins by Baptism in Jordan’s streams. Entreat him, implore him, Venerable Father, that the inhabited world may be given harmony, peace and great mercy.

Glory. Tone 2.

Both now. Same Tone.

Entrance, ‘O Joyful Light’. Prokeimenon of the day and the Readings.