AT VESPERS

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

Now & ever…: Theotokion: Spec. Mel.: “O all-glorious wonder…” —

Troparion, in Tone IV —

O divinely wise martyr Callinicus, piously desiring to die rather than live, thou didst truly present an image of the death of Christ; wherefore thou hast received immortality and unfading blessedness; and, rejoicing, thou hast made thine abode, O glorious one, where the ranks of the angels and athletes dwell.

A light emitting healing, a river full of true gifts, a treatment which costeth nought, a vessel of sanctity hath the shrine of thy relics been shown to us; wherefore let us who approach with faith draw forth ever-living health, O glorious martyr, for whose sake we glorify our wondrous God.

O all-blessed martyr Callinicus, possessing the invisible God as an invincible aid against the invisible foe, thou didst raise the standard of immortality; and having felled him who boasted that he would destroy the earth, thou didst drown him in the streams of thy blood by the throes of thy sufferings.

Glory…, in the same tone —

With hymns let us honor today the wondrous Callinicus, the champion of piety and destroyer of the enemy, the converser with martyrs, who was a temple of the Holy Spirit, the warrior of Christ God, the truly inexhaustible treasury of healings, the confirmation of the faithful.

The preëternal God Who took flesh of thy blood showed thee forth, O pure one, as an intercessor for men. Wherefore, deliver thy servants from every misfortune and evil circumstance, and from the snares of the wicked foe; and vouchsafe that all who glorify and bow down to thee may partake of the splendor of the elect.

Stavrotheotokion —

“What is this sight which mine eyes behold, O Master? Lifted up upon the Tree, Thou diest, granting life unto all, O Thou Who sustainest all creation!” weeping, the Theotokos said when she beheld suspended upon the Cross the God and man Who had shone forth from her ineffably.

In his suffering, O Lord, Thy martyr Callinicus received an imperishable crown from Thee, our God; for, possessed of Thy might, he cast down the tormenters and set at nought the feeble audacity of the demons. By his supplications save Thou our souls.