AT VESPERS

On “Lord, I have cried…”, these stichera, in Tone VIII: Spec. Mel.: “O all-glorious wonder…”—

Glory…, Now & ever…: Theotokion—

O Titus, our divinely wise father, bearing thy cross thou didst follow after Christ and didst make all the passions subject to thy soul; wherefore, thou hast received the grace from on high to heal the sufferings and put down the afflictions of those who have recourse unto thee, and to cast out evil spirits. Wherefore, we celebrate and bless thy memory.

O Titus, our most blessed father, having learned sacred things by ascetic living, and illumined thy mind by divine communion, at the behest of the divine Spirit thou didst truly receive the most holy anointing of the priesthood, and, like an angel, thou didst serve God thy Master well upon the earth.

O venerable and divinely inspired Titus, illumining thy soul with the light of Orthodoxy, thou didst diminish the gloomy darkness of heresy; and, shining like a most splendid star, thou dost ever enlighten the ends of the world with thy luminous miracles. Wherefore, holding festival, we celebrate thy memory.

My thoughts are impure, my lips false, and all my works defiled. What, then, shall I do? How can I meet the Judge? O Virgin Mistress, entreat the Lord, thy Son and Creator, that He accept my soul in repentance, in that He alone is compassionate.

Stavrotheotokion—

The unblemished heifer, beholding her Calf nailed of His own will to the Tree, cried out, lamenting piteously: “Woe is me, O my Child most beloved! How hath the thankless assembly of the Jews rewarded Thee, desiring to leave me bereft of Thee, my Child most beloved?”