At the Aposticha. Idiomel Stichera of the Indiction.

By Monk John. Tone 1.

The entrance of the year is here, summoning all the shining ones to honour it, Kallisti, Evodos and Hermogenes, brethren and champions; Symeon the equal of the angels; Jesus son of Navi; the Seven Youths of Ephesus, and the choir of Holy Women, beacon of forty fires. As we celebrate their memories together, lovers of festivals, let us eagerly cry out: O Lord, bless the works of your hands, and grant that we may pass profitably through the course of the year.

The same tone.

A hymn is due to you, O God, in Sion, and vows shall be paid you in Jerusalem. ****

By the same.

Christ our God, who created all things with wisdom and brought them from non-being into being, bless the crown of the year and preserve our city unbesieged; make glad our faithful Sovereigns by your power, giving them victories against enemies, through the Mother of God granting the world your great mercy.

Tone 2.

We shall be filled with the good things of your house: holy is your temple, wonderful in righteousness. ****

By Kyprianos.

Wonderful are you, O God, and wonderful are your works, and your ways are unsearchable; for you are the Wisdom of God and perfect substance and power, co-operation like him without beginning and without end; therefore by your all-powerful authority you came inexpressibly, unchanged in your Godhead, from a Mother who did not know man, to visit the world, seeking the creature you had beautified, setting bounds and times, O Unchangeable, for our salvation. Therefore we cry out to you: Loving Lord, glory to you!

Verse 3: You will bless the crown of the year with your goodness, and our fields will be filled with fatness.

By Monk John.

You who created all things with wisdom, Word of the Father before the ages, and established the whole creation by your all-powerful word, bless the crown of the year with your goodness, and overthrow heresies, through the Mother of God, for you are good and love mankind.

**Tone 5. Venerable Father.**

Venerable Father, you found a fair ladder, by which you went up on high, the ladder which Elias found as a chariot of fire. He though did not leave his mount to others, but you keep your pillar even after death. Man of heaven, angel of earth, unsleeping beacon of the inhabited world, Venerable Symeon, intercede that our souls may be saved.

**The same. By Monk John.**

You, O King, Who Are and who abide even to ages without end, accept the supplication of sinners who beg salvation; and grant, O Lover of mankind, abundance to your land, giving it temperate weather; as once with David, fight alongside our faithful King against godless barbarians, for they have entered your tabernacles and defiled your all-holy place, O Saviour. But grant victories, Christ God, at the intercession of the Mother of God; for you are the victory and boast of the Orthodox.

Apolytikion of the Indiction. Tone 2.

Fashioner of all creation, who fix times and seasons by your own authority, bless the crown of the year with your goodness, Lord, preserving the Kings and your city in peace, at the prayers of the Mother of God, and save us.

**Of the Saint. Tone 1.**

You became a pillar of endurance, Venerable Father, rivalling the forefathers: Job in sufferings and Joseph in trials, and, while still in the body, the life of the Bodiless Powers. Our Venerable Father Symeon, intercede with Christ God that our souls may be saved.

**Of the Mother of God. Tone 7.**

Hail full of grace, Virgin Mother of God, harbour and protection of the human race; for from you the Redeemer of the world became incarnate; for you alone are Mother and Virgin, ever blessed and glorified. Intercede with Christ God to grant peace to the whole inhabited world.

And Dismissal.