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DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20261009
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SUMMARY:Friday\, October 9\, 2026\; The Holy Apostle James\, Son of Alpheus
 \; Our Venerable Father Andronika and his wife Anastasia.
DESCRIPTION:Polyeleos Feast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain th
 ese ingredients\n\nGREAT VESPERS\n\nKathisma Reading\n\nBlessed is the man
 ... is sung.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 4\, Podoben “You have given a sign
 …”\n\nOut of the depths I cry to You\, O Lord\;* O Lord\, hear my voic
 e!\n\nAs radiant as the sun you shone forth\, O apostle\, with the beams o
 f the Spirit\,* and have illumined the whole world with divine knowledge\,
  O blessed one\,* and driven away the darkness of polytheism with your div
 ine preaching.* Wherefore\, celebrating your all-splendid and right laudab
 le festival today\,* we glorify you with piety.\n\nLet Your ears be attent
 ive* to the voice of my prayer.\n\nAs radiant as the sun you shone forth\,
  O apostle\, with the beams of the Spirit\,* and have illumined the whole 
 world with divine knowledge\, O blessed one\,* and driven away the darknes
 s of polytheism with your divine preaching.* Wherefore\, celebrating your 
 all-splendid and right laudable festival today\,* we glorify you with piet
 y.\n\nIf You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgive
 ness is that You may be revered.\n\nAs radiant as the sun you shone forth\
 , O apostle\, with the beams of the Spirit\,* and have illumined the whole
  world with divine knowledge\, O blessed one\,* and driven away the darkne
 ss of polytheism with your divine preaching.* Wherefore\, celebrating your
  all-splendid and right laudable festival today\,* we glorify you with pie
 ty.\n\nI have waited for You as You have commanded\; my soul patiently rel
 ies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord.\n\nYou have thunder
 ed forth sacred and saving doctrines upon the whole world\, O all-wise one
 \,* have cleansed all creation of the madness of idolatry\, O divinely wis
 e one\,* and have enlightened the people with the radiance of the knowledg
 e of God.* And\, demolishing the temples of the idols through grace\,* you
  raised up churches to the praise of our God.\n\nFrom the morning watch un
 til night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nYou have thundered forth sacre
 d and saving doctrines upon the whole world\, O all-wise one\,* have clean
 sed all creation of the madness of idolatry\, O divinely wise one\,* and h
 ave enlightened the people with the radiance of the knowledge of God.* And
 \, demolishing the temples of the idols through grace\,* you raised up chu
 rches to the praise of our God.\n\nFor with the Lord there is mercy\, and 
 with Him there is plentiful redemption\;* and He shall redeem Israel from 
 all its iniquities.\n\nYou have thundered forth sacred and saving doctrine
 s upon the whole world\, O all-wise one\,* have cleansed all creation of t
 he madness of idolatry\, O divinely wise one\,* and have enlightened the p
 eople with the radiance of the knowledge of God.* And\, demolishing the te
 mples of the idols through grace\,* you raised up churches to the praise o
 f our God.\n\nPraise the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, al
 l you people.\n\nSeated in the heights of divine knowledge\, O James\,* yo
 u received the grace of the Spirit\,* which appeared to you in the guise o
 f fire* and manifestly consumed all the idolatrous filth of impiety with a
  tongue of fire.* Wherefore\, we praise you as an apostle and herald of Go
 d\,* celebrating today your holy festival.\n\nStrong is the love of the Lo
 rd for us\;* eternally will His truth endure.\n\nSeated in the heights of 
 divine knowledge\, O James\,* you received the grace of the Spirit\,* whic
 h appeared to you in the guise of fire* and manifestly consumed all the id
 olatrous filth of impiety with a tongue of fire.* Wherefore\, we praise yo
 u as an apostle and herald of God\,* celebrating today your holy festival.
 \n\nGlory... \n\nManifestly receiving the grace of the divine Spirit\, O J
 ames\,* you were numbered among the sacred choir of the apostles.* Wherefo
 re\, by His descent from the heavens and His mighty inspiration\,* He illu
 mined you with a tongue of fire\,* and you have consumed the thorny ungodl
 iness of the heathen.* Entreat Christ God\, O divine herald\, that our sou
 ls be saved.\n\nNow…\n\nO Mother of God\, because of You* David the Prop
 het became an ancestor of God\;* he foretold and sang a joyous hymn of pra
 ise* and cried out to Him who worked wonders in you:* “The Queen stood a
 t your right hand.”* God revealed you as a life-giving mother\,* when He
  chose to be incarnate of you without a father.* He renewed in man His ima
 ge* which the passions had corrupted.* He found the lost sheep in the moun
 tains\,* carried it on His shoulders\,* offered it to the Father\,* genero
 usly numbered it among the powers of heaven\,* and saved the whole world\,
  since He is Christ of great and rich mercy.\n\n[Prokeimenon]\n\nReadings\
 n\n(1) 1 John 1:1-7\; (2) James 1:1-12\; (3) Jude 1:1-25\n\nAposticha\n\nT
 one 4\n\nYou have obtained invincible authority over demons\, Apostle Jame
 s\,* and in the name of Christ power to drive away the princes of darkness
 .* You passed through the earth as a radiant sun enlightening all lands\, 
 glorious one:* preaching Christ’s first and second coming.\n\nTheir proc
 lamation has gone out into all the earth\, and their words to the ends of 
 the universe!\n\nJames\, you were a man of true action\,* showing forth th
 e original grace of divine\, natural life.* You were called the son of the
  grace of God.* Because of the purity of your mind and your goodness\,* yo
 u were manifest as a sincere disciple of Christ.\n\nThe heavens declare th
 e glory of God\, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork!\n\nAs a well-m
 ade instrument\, apostle James\,* you gave yourself to the calling in of t
 he Gentiles.* You led them divinely\, instructing them in the knowledge of
  Christ\,* and by both deed and word\,* you brought all to confess the tru
 e divine nature of Jesus\,* who is the Saviour of our souls.\n\nTone 5\, G
 lory...\n\nWe praise in faith\, glorious James\, the honourable day of you
 r memory:* not because you are the son of Alpheus\,* but because you are C
 hrist’s apostle\; a preacher of his ineffable incarnation.* Since you st
 and before the throne of the Master\,* with the angels\, the choirs of apo
 stles and martyrs\,* pray without ceasing that our Saviour and God will sa
 ve us.\n\nNow…\n\nO most pure Virgin\,* you are the temple\, the gate\, 
 the palace\, and the throne of the King.* Christ\, our Redeemer and Lord\,
 * appeared through you to those who slumbered in darkness.* For He\, as th
 e Sun of Righteousness\,* wishes to enlighten those whom He created with H
 is own hands* according to His own image.* Therefore\, O Lady\, whom we al
 ways praise in song\,* we beseech you to intercede with Christ for the sal
 vation of our souls\;* for\, as His Mother\, you can approach Him with the
  greatest confidence.\n\nTroparia\n\nTone 3\n\nHoly apostle James\, interc
 ede with the merciful God* to grant to our souls* forgiveness of sins.\n\n
 Glory… Now…\n\nWe sing your praises\, O Virgin\;* for\, as the Mother 
 of God\, you always intercede for the salvation of the human race.* It is 
 from you that our God and Your Son took flesh.* Then\, by suffering the pa
 ssion on the Cross\,** and out of love for mankind\, He delivered us from 
 corruption.\n\nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON FRIDAY MORNING\n\nTroparia and Kontaki
 a\n\nTroparion\, Tone 3: Holy apostle\, James\, intercede with the mercifu
 l God* to grant our souls* forgiveness of sins.\n\nGlory be to the Father 
 and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit\, now and for ever and ever. Amen.\n
 \nKontakion\, Tone 2: With praises let us all extol James as a herald of G
 od\;* he firmly planted the doctrines of wisdom in the souls of the godly.
 * For he stands before the Master’s throne of glory* and rejoices with a
 ll the angels* unceasingly praying for all of us.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 8\
 n\nTheir utterance has gone forth into all the earth\,* and their words un
 to the ends of the world.\n\nverse: The heavens tell the glory of God\, an
 d the firmament declares the work of His hand.\n\nEpistle\n\n1 Corinthians
  4:9-16\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 1\n\nverse: The heavens shall confess Your wond
 ers\, O Lord\, and Your truth in the church of the saints.\n\nverse: God i
 s glorified in the assembly of the saints.\n\nGospel\n\nLuke 10:16-21\n\nC
 ommunion Hymn\n\nTheir utterance has gone forth into all the earth\,* and 
 their words unto the ends of the world.* Alleluia\, alleluia\, * alleluia.
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