BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/Winnipeg X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Winnipeg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:474@liturgy.royaldoors.net DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton;VALUE=DATE:20260529 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton;VALUE=DATE:20260530 DTSTAMP:20260519T141801Z URL:https://liturgy.royaldoors.net/events/friday-may-29-2026-the-venerable -martyr-theodosia-the-virgin/ SUMMARY:Friday\, May 29\, 2026\; The Venerable-Martyr Theodosia the Virgin. DESCRIPTION:Post-feast of Pentecost. Fast-free.\n\nKathisma Reading\n\nThe appointed psalms are chanted.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 4\n\nIf You mark ini quities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.\n\nOn this day the working of Your Holy Spirit came down upon Your Apostles\,* showing them to be supremely wise\, and seers of divine t hings\,* filling them with Your blessed teaching.* Wherefore\, we glorify Your saving dispensation\,* O Jesus Almighty\, the Saviour of our souls.\n \nI have waited for You as You have commanded\; my soul patiently relies o n Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord.\n\nOn this day Your Spir it\, O All-powerful Lord\,* has been sent forth from the Father\,* He who is consubstantial with You\,* was distributed among the Apostles in the fo rm of fiery tongues\;* thus He prepared them to preach Your mighty deeds.* Wherefore we glorify Your saving dispensation\,* O Jesus\, Almighty\, the Savior of our souls.\n\nFrom the morning watch until night* let Israel tr ust in the Lord.\n\nOn this day\, O Saviour\, You have poured forth the gi fts of Your Comforting Spirit\,* granting mortal-mankind to prophesy\, as You once promised\, O Word\,* whereby You taught all to worship and adore the undivided Trinity.* Wherefore we glorify Your saving dispensation\,* O Jesus Almighty\, the Saviour of our souls.\n\nTone x\n\nFor with the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful redemption\;* and He sha ll redeem Israel from all its iniquities.\n\nShining with the radiance of virginity\, O honoured Theodosia\, * and splendidly adorned with a royal r obe dyed in the blood of martyrdom\, O all-wise one\, * you made your abod e in the heavenly bridal-chamber of Christ\, * rejoicing with the angelic ranks in perpetual chorus\,* O glorious and all-immaculate maiden.\n\nPrai se the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people.\n\nO virgin martyr\, * all-praised Theodosia\, * desiring Christ with all your soul\, * you endured the wounds of martyrdom\, * courageously enduring la cerations for Him Whom you loved\, * thy sides raked with iron claws. * O the steadfast opposition of your struggles\,* whereby you truly cast down the prideful one to the ground!\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\; * eternally will His truth endure.\n\nSplendidly adorned with beauty of bo dy and soul\, * you brought yourself to Christ\, desiring to be crowned by Him with a wreath of glory\, * O all-glorious martyr Theodosia\, * manife stly receiving upon your brow\, as is meet\, * the truly priceless diadem of the kingdom\, * having been shown to be an incorrupt bride\, ** O you w ho are divinely wise.\n\nTone 2\, Glory… Now…\n\nLet us praise in hymn s the Trinity one in essence\,* the Father\, and the Son\, with the Holy S pirit:* who has been declared by all the prophets\, apostles\, and martyrs .\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 6\n\nMy help is from the Lord\,* Who made heaven a nd earth.\n\nverse: I lifted up my eyes to the mountains\, from where my h elp shall come.\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 1\n\nOn the mountain\, Moses beheld i n the fire\, He Who Is.* And now the Spirit has come in the form of fire t o the wise Apostles\, the beholders of God.* Thus clearly enlightening the m\,* that it is One God who spoke both then and now\,* of the same essence .\n\nCreate in me a clean heart\, O God\,* and renew a right spirit within me.\n\nWith fiery tongues God’s rhetoricians\,* call all to the waters of divine Baptism\;* and with the fire of the Spirit* they burn the babbli ngs of ungodly rhetoricians.* But\, O Comforter\, come and enlighten us* w ho faithfully proclaim You as God.\n\nCast me not away from Your presence\ ,* and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.\n\nAs You consecrated all the fi ery bodiless ones\,* so with the Spirit’s fire consecrate all* who in ma terial bodies now serve You\, O God\, who ineffably assumed flesh.* O\, ho w abundantly praised are You\,* and how wondrous are You in Your works* O Lover of mankind!\n\nTone 7\, Glory… Now…\n\nThe Comforter\, having co me from the Father through Christ God\,* has come to us on earth today\,* therefore with faith we worship the Holy Spirit.\n\nTroparion\n\nTone 8\n\ nBlessed are You\, O Christ our God who revealed the fishermen as most wis e* by sending them the Holy Spirit\;* through them You caught the entire w orld.* Loving Master\, glory to You.\n\n \;\nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON FRID AY MORNING\nAt the beginning of the Liturgy\, immediately after Blessed be the Kingdom… and Amen we all kneel and sing the following in Tone 6\, s amohlasnyj:\n\nHeavenly King\, Advocate\, Spirit of Truth\, Who are everyw here present and fill all things\, Treasury of Blessings\, Bestower of Lif e: come\, and dwell within us\; cleanse us of all that defiles us\, O Good One\, save our souls.\n\nAntiphon 1\n\nThe heavens tell the glory of God\ , and the firmament declares the work of his hand.\n\nThrough the prayers of the Mother of God\,* O Saviour\, save us.\n\nDay to day pours forth the message and night proclaims this knowledge to night.\n\nThrough the praye rs of the Mother of God\,* O Saviour\, save us.\n\nTheir utterance has gon e forth into all the earth\, and their words unto the ends of the world.\n \nThrough the prayers of the Mother of God\,* O Saviour\, save us.\n\nGlor y… Now… Only-begotten Son…\n\nThird Antiphon\n\nCome\, let us sing j oyfully to the Lord\,* let us acclaim God\, our Saviour.\n\nO good Advocat e\,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.\n\nLet us come before His face wit h praise\,* and acclaim Him in psalms.\n\nO good Advocate\,* save us who s ing to You: Alleluia.\n\nFor God is the great Lord\,* the great king over all the earth.\n\nO good Advocate\,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.\n\ nEntrance\n\nCome\, let us worship and fall down before Christ.\n\nO good Advocate\,* save us who sing to You: Alleluia.\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\ nTroparion\, Tone 8: Blessed are You\, O Christ our God who revealed the f ishermen as most wise* by sending them the Holy Spirit\;* through them You caught the entire world.* Loving Master\, glory to You.\n\nGlory be to th e Father\, and to the Son\, and to the Holy Spirit\, now and for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 8: When the Most high descended and confus ed the tongues\,* He parted the nations.* He called all to unity\;* and wi th one voice* we glorify the all-Holy Spirit.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 8\n\nT heir utterance has gone forth into all the earth\,* and their words unto t he ends of the world.\n\nverse: The heavens tell the glory of God\, and th e firmament declares the work of His hand. (Psalm 19:5\,2)\n\nEpistle\n\nR omans 2:14-29\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 1\n\nverse: By the Lord’s words the hea vens were established\, and by the Breath of His mouth all their host.\n\n verse: The Lord has looked down from heaven and beheld the whole human rac e.\n\nGospel\n\nMatthew 5:33-41\n\nHymn to the Theotokos\n\nO my soul\, ma gnify the one Divinity in three Persons.\n\nand the Irmos: Rejoice\, O Que en\, boast of the virgins and mothers\, for every tongue\, though capable and eloquent\, cannot hymn you as is your due\, and every mind is confound ed in seeking to comprehend the way in which you gave birth. Wherefore wit h one accord we glorify you.\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nYour good Spirit will le ad me* to the land of righteousness.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. (Ps alm 142:10) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Edmonton X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Edmonton BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR