day 29

Third Sunday after Pentecost: New Martyrs of Christ, Who Have Suffered since the Fall of Constantinople

On “Lord, I have cried…”, 4 stichera of the Resurrection, in Tone II; and Glory…, in the same tone —

Now & ever…: theotokion, in the same tone —

THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

Now doth the Church celebrate, adorned with the blood of the new martyrs as with new raiment of purple and fine linen; and, offering it to Christ as a pure and right acceptable sacrifice, she crieth out to Him with boldness: O Thou Who hast crowned and glorified them, send down rich mercy upon those who keep their honored memory with love!

Commemoration of All the New Martyrs of Christ,

Now & ever…: dogmaticon of Little Vespers, in Tone II

Who Have Suffered since the Fall of Constantinople

At the aposticha, 1 sticheron of the Resurrection, in Tone II; and these stichera, in Tone VI —

AT LITTLE VESPERS

Stichos: Wondrous is God in His saints, the God of Israel.

September 29: Venerable Father Cyriacus the Anchorite

O right victorious martyrs, new confirmation of the Church, boast of the faithful, confounding of the Moslems, who fulfilled the words of the Savior in your deeds and manifestly portrayed His sufferings in yourselves by undergoing multifarious tortures for His sake: Pray ye for the salvation of our souls.

The 29th Day of the Month of September

Stichos: In the saints that are in His earth hath the Lord been wondrous; He hath wrought all His desires in them.

Commemoration of Our Venerable Father

Following in the footsteps of the martyrs of old, ye struggled steadfastly for the sake of the Faith in these latter days, O glorious passion-bearers, and move all to glorify and praise God, Who strengthened your weak nature and enriched you with the gifts of the Spirit, unto the salvation of our souls.

Cyriacus the Anchorite

Glory…, in the same tone —

O Master Most High, Who art glorified and worshipped in the Trinity: take pity on us through the right acceptable entreaties of Thy new martyrs, who in the presence of the tyrants boldly proclaimed Thee to be the one true God of all, O Son of God, and Thine ineffable incarnation from the Virgin Mother, which saveth those who confess it.

After “Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart…”, Trisagion through Our Father, and the troparion of the Resurrection; Glory…, that of the new martyrs, in Tone III —

The new martyrs, who with unremitting battle have cast down the ancient deception, have exalted the Faith of the Orthodox; for, having abolished the worship of the iniquitous and professed Christ boldly, they now unceasingly entreat Him as perfect God, that He grant us great mercy.

We hymn thee who hast mediated the salvation of our race, O Virgin Theotokos; for thy Son and our God, accepting suffering on the Cross in the flesh He had received of thee, hath delivered us from corruption, in that He loveth mankind.