AT VESPERS:

Glory..., Now and ever...: Theotokion, in the same tone and melody—

On “Lord, I have cried...,” these stichera, in Tone IV: Spec. Mel: “Called from on high....”—

Troparion, in Tone IV—

Having appeared in the latter times, as unwaning stars in the honored firmament of the Church, O right victorious martyrs, ye illumined all the earth with the splendor of your suffering and destroyed the darkness of deception, O most laudable ones; and now ye have passed over to the eternal effulgence. Wherefore, with faith we celebrate your radiant and sacred suffering, enriched by your intercession.

O martyrs of Christ, ye were bound after summary arrest, and were all incarcerated in prison durance vile, being divine keepers of the Faith; therefore, the infamous beast, enraged, slew with the sword you who declined to submit to his evil commands. And now, ye have joyously inherited the heavens, having joined yourselves to the kingdom, O ye forty-two all-glorious ones.

Let us all praise aloud Constantine, Basoës and Callistus, Theodore and Theophilus, and the rest of the godly company of athletes; for, sacrificing themselves joyfully, they chose to die for the Life of all. And now they rest in the city of the living God, and ask that we may find remission of offenses on the day of judgement and complete deliverance.

O most immaculate Theotokos, from every attack of the enemy do thou save those who with piety worship thine Offspring, as thou art the intercessor for our whole race; for thee have we all now acquired as our help, refuge and confirmation, and a mediatress before Christ, the Master and Lord. Him do thou entreat, we pray, that He grant peace to the world and forgiveness of sins unto those who have recourse to thy protection.

Or this Stavrotheotokion—

“Lament Me not, O Mother, beholding thy Son and God hanging upon the Tree, Who suspended the earth upon the waters without support and fashioned all creation: for I shall arise and be glorified, and shall crush the kingdom of hades with might, and destroy the power thereof, in that I am compassionate; and I shall lead them to My Father, in that I love mankind!”

But if it be Saturday or Sunday, the following doxasticon is chanted, the composition of Methodius: Glory..., idiomelon in Tone II —

Today the Church, arrayed in a new garment, the blood of the new athletes, as in purple and fine linen, doth mystically celebrate: for, nurtured in piety, she hath offered them up as an unblemished sacrifice, acceptable and well-pleasing to Thee, O Christ. Wherefore, O Thou Who didst show them to be victors over the most iniquitous and hast crowned and glorified them, by their supplications send down upon us great mercy.

On the Aposticha: Glory..., the composition of the Sykeote, in Tone VI —

Come, ye who love the martyrs, and, spiritually celebrating the most sacred memory of the divinely crowned regiment of newly manifest martyrs, the unblemished immolation sacrificed zealously for Christ, the holy army of the elect, forty-two strong, let us cry out to them: Subdue ye the savagery of the godless Hagarenes, and deliver the people of Orthodox mind from every evil circumstance, by your supplications.

In their sufferings, O Lord, Thy martyrs received imperishable crowns from Thee, our God; for, possessed of Thy might, they cast down tyrants and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons. By their supplications, save Thou our souls.