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SUMMARY:Monday\, May 11\, 2026\;  The Holy Cyril and Methodius\, Teachers o
 f the Slavs\; The Holy Hieromartyr Mocius.
DESCRIPTION:Polyeleos Feast.\nAT GREAT VESPERS ON SUNDAY EVENING\nKathisma 
 Reading\n\n“Blessed is the man…” is sung.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 5\
 n\nOut of the depths I cry to You\, O Lord\;* O Lord\, hear my voice!\n\nY
 ou are the light of all mankind\,* the fashioner of the eyes of our mortal
  flesh\,* O God and Word\, O Creator of all things.* And now by the mixtur
 e of spittle and clay\,* in a manner beyond telling You have granted sight
  to a man who was born blind\,* You who with Your fingers fashioned both d
 ust and sight.* And when he who had never seen the sun received sight\,* h
 e beheld You\, the sweet Sun\,* and saw the image of Him who ineffably fas
 hioned us* in accordance with His compassionate mercy.\n\nLet Your ears be
  attentive* to the voice of my prayer.\n\nHaving\, as an abundance of weal
 th\,* the form and members which comprise our mortal flesh\,* the man who 
 came forth blind from his mother’s womb* could not fathom what the form 
 of this world could be\;* for he lacked eyes.* And because of this his fee
 t and his body* were pained by frequent stumbling against stones.* Yet thr
 ough You he gained that wealth he did not have\,* and he beheld You\, the 
 Author of lights\,* the only Light of the world\,* and he proclaimed to al
 l* that You are God and the Lord of creation\,* and the fashioner of all t
 hings in the world.\n\nIf You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But
  with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.\n\nHe who in times past 
 had been blind* confessed with his whole soul\, mind\, and tongue\,* the O
 ne who had fashioned eyes for him out of spittle and clay\,* granting him 
 to see\,* preached that He is the Lord and Creator of all things\,* who ou
 t of compassion for that which He had fashioned\,* became a man\, though H
 e is God almighty.* The scribes could not bear to hear his words and see h
 is zeal\,* and in their jealousy they expelled him from the synagogue\,* f
 or the blindness which consumed their souls* surpassed that which once con
 sumed his eyes.\n\nTone 2\n\nI have waited for You as You have commanded\;
  my soul patiently relies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lor
 d.\n\nWith what wreaths of praise shall we crown the divinely wise teacher
 s* who illumined with the light of the Gospel the Slavic nations* who sat 
 in the darkness of ignorance and the shadow of death?* By them have we bee
 n grafted onto the right fruitful root of the orthodox Church like a wild 
 olive-tree\,* and have received from Christ God\, peace and great mercy.\n
 \nFrom the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nWit
 h what wreaths of praise shall we crown the divinely wise teachers* who il
 lumined with the light of the Gospel the Slavic nations* who sat in the da
 rkness of ignorance and the shadow of death?* By them have we been grafted
  onto the right fruitful root of the orthodox Church like a wild olive-tre
 e\,* and have received from Christ God\, peace and great mercy.\n\nFor wit
 h the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful redemption\;* 
 and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.\n\nWith what hymns of 
 praise shall we bless the divinely wise teachers:* Methodius\, the lover o
 f the wilderness\,* who was enriched with the fruits of the Spirit during 
 his solitary sojourn\,* and Cyril of golden eloquence\,* who through his l
 ove of philosophy acquired higher wisdom* and put to shame the vain belief
  of the pride of Islam?* For their sake Christ our God has granted us grea
 t mercy.\n\nPraise the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all 
 you people.\n\nWith what beauties of hymnody shall we praise the divinely 
 wise teachers:* Methodius\, who for love of Christ spurned all the beautie
 s of the world* and fought mightily for the King of heaven in the angelic 
 habit\,* and Cyril\, who from childhood chose wisdom as his companion* and
  increased the talents given him by God to His glory?* Having come\, throu
 gh them\, to know the one God\,* the ever-existing Trinity the Father\, th
 e Son\, and the Holy Spirit\,*we have received great mercy from Christ God
 .\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;* eternally will His truth end
 ure.\n\nWith what spiritual hymns shall we magnify you\, O all-blessed tea
 chers\,* who struggled as an apostle for the salvation of the Slavic peopl
 es* and laboured well in their enlightenment with the light of the knowled
 ge of God\,* by whom the closed gates thereto have been opened to us* when
  you devised the Slavonic alphabet?* Entering therein\, we come to underst
 and the mystery of the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ\,* and receive
  from Christ God grace and great mercy.\n\nTone 6\, Glory…\n\nCome\, you
  who love the feasts of the Church\,* and with songs of praise let us hymn
  the peers of the apostles\,* the adornment of hierarchs\, the enlightener
 s and fervent helpers of the Slavic peoples\, saying:* Rejoice\, O Cyril\,
  golden clarion of theology\,* who explained the mystery of the Holy Trini
 ty by comparing God to the sun\,* and thereby closed the blaspheming mouth
 s of Islam!* And rejoice with him\, O Methodius\,* who struggled with him 
 in oneness of mind\, aiding him with prayers and signs!* And now\, O most 
 blessed fathers\, never cease to pray to Christ God for us* who magnify yo
 u with faith and love.\n\nTone 2\, Now…\n\nHe that was born blind though
 t to himself and said:* Was I born without eyes for the sins of my parents
 ?* Was I born to be an example because of the unbelief of the nations?* I 
 cease not from asking: When is it night\, when is it day?* My feet cannot 
 endure striking against the stones.* For I have neither seen the sun shini
 ng nor beheld in image Him who fashioned me.* But I beseech You\, O Christ
  God\,* look upon me and have mercy on me.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 8\n\nAnd 
 now bless the Lord\,* all you servants of the Lord.\n\nverse: Who stand in
  the temple of the Lord\, in the courtyards of the house of our God.\n\nRe
 adings\n\n(1) Deuteronomy 1:8-17\; (2) Deuteronomy 10:14-21\; (3) Wisdom 3
 :1-9\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 8\n\nYou shone forth in the firmament of the Chu
 rch* like the stars of heaven in the radiance of your life\,* O teachers\,
  peers of the apostles\,* and\, ensnaring many nations for Christ* in the 
 net of your teachings\,* you hastened to the unapproachable light\,* where
 \, dwelling now with the angels\,* you make supplication for us who celebr
 ate your sacred memory in the Lord.\n\nYour priests shall be clothed with 
 righteousness\, and Your righteous shall rejoice.\n\nCome\, you who love t
 he feasts of the Church\,* let us magnify the teachers who were the peers 
 of the apostles\, the glory of the Slavs\;* for having been freed from the
  deception of the demons by them\,* we have received the light of the glad
  tidings of Christ* and have come to know the pre-eternal Word * who has d
 elivered us from the darkness of sin.\n\nThe mouth of the righteous shall 
 meditate wisdom and his tongue shall speak of judgment.\n\nO divinely wise
  Cyril and God-loving Methodius\,* apostles and first teachers of the Slav
 s\,* helpers of the faithful and lovers of piety\,* melodious instruments 
 of the Holy Spirit\,* who now have great boldness before Christ\, the Chie
 f Shepherd:* pray for us who celebrate your honoured memory\,* that He may
  lead our life up from corruption\, in that He is greatly merciful.\n\nTon
 e 8\, Glory…\n\nRejoice\, O sacred two who have illumined us with the li
 ght of the knowledge of God:* Cyril\, life-bearing well-spring of spiritua
 l wisdom\,* who gave drink to the Slavic peoples who were perishing of thi
 rst\,* and Methodius\, the pure abode of prayer.* Pray earnestly to Christ
 \, before whom you stand in glory\,* that\, with you\, we also may magnify
  and exalt Him supremely for all ages.\n\nTone 8\, Now…\n\nAs Jesus pass
 ed by on His way from the temple\,* He found a man who was blind from his 
 birth\;* and taking compassion on him\, He put clay on his eyes and said t
 o him:* Go and wash in the pool of Siloam.* And he washed and gained his s
 ight\, and sent up praise to God.* But his kinsmen said to him:* Who has o
 pened your eyes\, which none of those who see were able to heal?* And he c
 ried out and said:* A man called Jesus\; He told me: Wash in the pool of S
 iloam\; and I gained my sight.* He is truly Christ the Messiah\, of whom M
 oses spoke in the Law.* He is the Saviour of our souls.\n\nTroparion\, Ton
 e 4\n\nAs equals to the apostles in the way you lived* and teachers of the
  Slavic lands\,* O Cyril and Methodius\, divinely wise\,* intercede with t
 he Master of all* to confirm the Slavic nations in orthodoxy and oneness o
 f mind\;* to grant peace to the world and save our souls.\n\nGlory… Now
 …\n\nO Mother of God\, the mystery hidden from all eternity* and unknown
  even to the angels\,* was revealed through you to those on earth:* God to
 ok on our human nature* and united it to His divine nature in a perfect bu
 t unconfused union.* Then\, He willingly accepted the cross for our sake* 
 and thereby raised again the first created man\,*and saved our souls from 
 death.\nAT GREAT MATINS ON MONDAY MORNING\nHexapsalm\n\nGreat Litany\n\nTh
 e Lord is God\, Tone 5\n\nTroparia\, Tone 5\n\nLet us the faithful acclaim
  and worship the Word\,* co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit\,* and 
 born of the Virgin for our salvation.* For He willed to be lifted up on th
 e cross in the flesh\, to suffer death* and to raise the dead by His glori
 ous resurrection. (twice)\n\nTone 4\, Glory…\n\nAs equals to the apostle
 s in the way you lived* and teachers of the Slavic lands\,* O Cyril and Me
 thodius\, divinely wise\,* intercede with the Master of all* to confirm th
 e Slavic nations in orthodoxy and oneness of mind\;* to grant peace to the
  world and save our souls.\n\nNow…\n\nO Mother of God\, the mystery hidd
 en from all eternity* and unknown even to the angels\,* was revealed throu
 gh you to those on earth:* God took on our human nature* and united it to 
 His divine nature in a perfect but unconfused union.* Then\, He willingly 
 accepted the cross for our sake* and thereby raised again the first create
 d man\,*and saved our souls from death.\n\nPsalter Reading\n\nSmall Litany
 \n\nSessional Hymn\, Tone 3\n\nStanding now in unapproachable light before
  the life-creating Trinity\,* whom the angelic hosts unceasingly glorify\,
 * and whom you proclaimed aloud among the nations\,* pray earnestly\, O Cy
 ril and Methodius\, that He deliver from eternal damnation* and grant remi
 ssion of debts to those who honour your memory with love.\n\nGlory… Now
 …\n\nO ever-glorious Virgin\, mother of Christ God\,* Mary\, Bride of Go
 d and most pure help of the faithful\,* deliver from every danger and mise
 ry* all those who lovingly seek your protection\;* for you are the only Be
 trothed of God.\n\nPsalter Reading\n\nSmall Litany\n\nSessional Hymn\, Ton
 e 5\n\nLet the generations of the Slavs rejoice today\,* celebrating the s
 acred memory of the divinely wise teachers with splendour\;* for through t
 hem did the Divine Liturgy and all the services of the Church* begin to be
  celebrated for us in our native tongue\,* and thereby an inexhaustible we
 ll of water pouring forth to eternal life has been given to us\,* drinking
  from which we never cease to magnify you\, O Cyril and Methodius.* Rejoic
 ing in the glory of the saints\,* pray earnestly that our souls be saved.\
 n\nGlory… Now…\n\nO Immaculate One\, I am being tossed about in the vi
 olence of my passions.* I fervently call out to you:* Do not permit me to 
 be lost in my misery\,* for you gave birth to the Source of mercy.* We hav
 e no other hope but you.* Therefore\, I place my trust in you* that I may 
 not be the cause of joy and laughter for the enemy.* For you can do as you
  will* because you are the Mother of the God of all.\n\nPolyeleos\n\nMagni
 fication\n\nWe extol you\,* O holy Methodius and Cyril\, equals to the apo
 stles\,* who illumined all the Slavic nations with your teachings* and led
  them to Christ.\n\nverse: My lips will speak words of wisdom. My heart is
  full of insight.\n\nverse: Your justice I have proclaimed in the great as
 sembly.\n\nverse: The mouth of the just utters wisdom\, and his lips speak
  what is right.\n\nGlory… Now… Alleluia\, alleluia\, alleluia! Glory b
 e to You\, O God! (3)\n\nSmall Litany\n\nSessional Hymn\, Tone 4\n\nCome\,
  with praises let us honour aloud our enlighteners\,* for with the manna o
 f their divinely wise teaching they fed the Slavic peoples* who were peris
 hing out of hunger for the word of God\,* and illumined them\, as with the
  rays of the sun\,* by translating the Gospel of the son of thunder into t
 heir native tongue.* And\, having received enlightenment from it we cry ou
 t in thanksgiving:*  Rejoice\, O ever-glorious Cyril and Methodius!\n\nGl
 ory… Now…\n\nO invincible protectress of the afflicted* and benevolent
  intercessor of those who hope in you\,* save us from all dangers\,* for y
 ou are the help of all.\n\nGradual Hymns\, Tone 4\n\nAntiphon 1\n\nFrom my
  youth do many passions war against me\;* but do You Yourself defend* and 
 save me\, O my Saviour.\n\nYou haters of Sion shall be shamed by the Lord\
 ;* for like grass\, by the fire* shall you be withered.\n\nGlory… Now…
 \n\nIn the Holy Spirit\, every soul is quickened\,* and\, through cleansin
 g\, is exalted* and made radiant* by the Triple Unity in a hidden sacred m
 anner.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 4\n\nYour priests shall be clothed with right
 eousness\,* and Your righteous shall rejoice.\n\nverse: Hear this\, all na
 tions\; give ear\, all you that inhabit the world.\n\nLet everything that 
 lives\, Tone 4\n\nGospel\n\nJohn 10:1-9\n\nPsalm 50\n\nVerses after Psalm 
 50\, Tone 6\n\nGlory…\n\nThrough the prayers of the holy apostles\,* O M
 erciful One\,* remit our many sins.\n\nNow…\n\nThrough the intercession 
 of the Mother of God\,* O Merciful One\,* remit our many sins.\n\nHave mer
 cy on me\, O God\, in Your kindness. In Your compassion blot out my offens
 e.\n\nCome\, you who love the feasts of the Church\,* and with songs of pr
 aise let us hymn the peers of the apostles\,* the adornment of hierarchs\,
  the enlighteners and fervent helpers of the Slavic peoples\, saying:* Rej
 oice\, O Cyril\, golden clarion of theology\,* who explained the mystery o
 f the Holy Trinity by comparing God to the sun\,* and thereby closed the b
 lasphemous mouths of the Khazars!* And rejoice with him\, O Methodius\,* w
 ho struggled with him in oneness of mind\, aiding him with prayers and sig
 ns!* And now\, O most blessed fathers\, never cease to pray to Christ God 
 for us* who magnify you with faith and love.\n\nCanon\n\nCanon of the Vene
 rable Ones\, Tone 3. Katavasiae of Pascha\n\nOde 1\n\nIrmos: He who of old
 \, by His divine gesture\,* united the waters into one gathering and parte
 d the sea for the people of Israel:* He is our God and is all-glorious.* T
 o Him alone let us chant\, for He has been glorified!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyri
 l and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nAt a loss how to traverse the wat
 ers of life’s tumult\, O venerable Methodius\, you abandoned all the bea
 uties of this world and\, fighting the invisible foe in the angelic habit\
 , you served the one God\, joyously singing: to Him alone let us chant\, f
 or He has been glorified!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to Go
 d for us!\n\nYou were shown to be a chosen vessel from thine infancy\, O b
 lessed Cyril\, in nowise desiring to receive milk from a stranger’s brea
 sts\, thereby showing that your mind would not be deceived by a strange do
 ctrine\, but would be illumined by the teaching of the holy Orthodox Churc
 h\, and that you yourself would become the teacher and enlightener of many
 .\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nBedewed by 
 the waters of your teachings\, even to this day the Slavic lands bring for
 th fruit right pleasing to Christ the Master\; therefore\, the Holy Church
  blesses you\, crying aloud: Deliver us from tribulations\, for you have b
 een glorified!\n\nMost holy Theotokos\, save us.\n\nThe waters of sin have
  entered into my soul\, O Mistress\, and I am sunk in the mire of the pass
 ions. To you do I flee\, O most immaculate one: still the turmoil of impur
 e thoughts and grant me peace of mind.\n\nKatavasia: It is the Day of Resu
 rrection\, let us be radiant\, O people\; Pascha\, the Lord’s Pascha: fo
 r from death to life\, and from earth to heaven\, Christ God has brought u
 s\, as we sing the song of victory.\n\nOde 3\n\nIrmos: O Most High and Alm
 ighty One\,* who has brought out of nonexistence all things fashioned by t
 he Word* and perfected by the Spirit:* establish me in Your love.\n\nHoly 
 Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nO venerable Methodius
 \, hearing with the ear of your heart: “He who would come after Me\, let
  him take up his cross and follow after Me\,” you followed Christ\, shou
 ldering the cross of the monastic life. Entreat Him that in His love He es
 tablish me\, who am cold.\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to Go
 d for us!\n\nHe who of old showed Jacob\, in a dream\, a ladder which exte
 nded up into the heavens\, O holy Cyril\, when you were a boy also in a wo
 ndrous dream betrothed you to a maiden more lovely than all others\, Sophi
 a by name. And\, behold! the wisdom which sits at His throne has establish
 ed you in the love of the Most High.\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\,
  pray to God for us!\n\nHe who has brought all things out of nonexistence\
 , O right wondrous fathers\, sanctified you for Himself as chosen vessels 
 from your mother’s womb\, that you might bring His name before the natio
 ns. Therefore\, celebrating your honoured memory\, we entreat you\, O Cyri
 l and Methodius\, to establish your wavering mind in the confession of the
  right Faith.\n\nMost holy Theotokos\, save us.\n\nO pure one\, who has gi
 ven peace to the world and given birth to the Origin of tranquillity\, sti
 ll the waves of my passions and establish me upon the rock of dispassion.\
 n\nKatavasia: Come\, let us drink a new drink\, not one miraculously broug
 ht forth from a barren rock but the Fountain of Incorruption\, springing f
 orth from the tomb of Christ\, in Whom we are strengthened.\n\nKontakion\,
  Tone 8\n\nDrawn to the well by faith\,* the Samaritan woman beheld You\, 
 the Water of Wisdom\,* and drinking abundantly of You\,* she inherited the
  heavenly Kingdom for ever\,* becoming everlastingly glorious.\n\nIkos\n\n
 Let us hear of the noble mysteries\, as John teaches us what comes to pass
  in Samaria\, how the Lord speaks to a woman\, asking water of her\, even 
 He that gathered the waters into the places where they are gathered\, and 
 who is of one throne with the Father and the Spirit\; for He\, the renowne
 d One\, came\, seeking out His image forever.\n\nSessional Hymn\, Tone 4\n
 \nYou likened the holy consubstantial Trinity to the sun\, O divinely insp
 ired Cyril\, declaring that the visible\, created sun in the sky is an ima
 ge of the Holy Trinity\, saying: “The solar disc is an image of God the 
 Father\, Who has neither beginning nor end\; and as a ray of light issues 
 forth from the solar disc\, illumining the earth\, so is the Son\, the Eff
 ulgence of the Father\, begotten of God the Father\; and the warmth which 
 gives life to the whole world\, and with the ray is poured forth from the 
 same disc\, is an image of the Holy Spirit\, Who proceeds from the same Fa
 ther.” Heeding your wondrous teaching\, we also worship the one God in T
 rinity\, blessing your memory\, O right wondrous one.\n\nOde 4\n\nIrmos: Y
 ou have ordained steadfast love for us\, O Lord\;* for gave Your only-bego
 tten Son over to death for us.* Therefore\, in thanksgiving we cry out to 
 You:* Glory to Your power\, O Lord!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, 
 pray to God for us!\n\nYou set the keeping of the commandments as your cor
 ner-stone\, O venerable Methodius\, and building the house of your soul th
 ereon you made it a habitation of the Holy Spirit. And I\, who am the abod
 e of sin\, fall down before you\, O most blessed one: cleanse me with the 
 dew of your prayers\, that I may cry out in thanksgiving: Glory to Your po
 wer\, O Lord!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\
 nO blessed Cyril\, you cried out: “Grant that I may understand what is p
 leasing to You\, O Master!” when you were given over to study with the y
 oung emperor\; therefore\, in addition to outward philosophy\, you receive
 d the wisdom of the Spirit and the fear of God from on high\, and regarded
  earthly wisdom as nought\, crying: Glory to Your power\, O Lord!\n\nHoly 
 Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nYou set love for your
  Creator like a seal upon your heart\, O most blessed Cyril\; therefore\, 
 you rejected an earthly betrothal and the glory of this world\, and\, esca
 ping like a bird from the hunters’ snares\, you attained to the calm hav
 en of monastics and were clothed in the robe of joy\, chanting with Method
 ius: Glory to Your power\, O Lord!\n\nMost holy Theotokos\, save us.\n\nSe
 tting my iniquities and injustices before me\, I see that they have multip
 lied more than the sands of the sea. To you do I flee\, O most immaculate 
 one: heal the sores of my soul\, that in thanksgiving I may cry out to Him
  who was born of you: Glory to Your power\, O Lord!\n\nKatavasia: On divin
 e watch let the God-inspired Habakkuk stand with us and show forth the lig
 ht-bearing angel clearly saying: Today salvation is come to the world\, fo
 r Christ is risen as Almighty.\n\nOde 5\n\nIrmos: In a vision Isaiah behel
 d God exalted upon a throne borne aloft by angels of glory\;* and he cried
 : Woe is me!* for I have beheld beforehand the incarnate God\, the unwanin
 g Light\,* who reigns with peace!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pr
 ay to God for us!\n\nYou flowered like a fragrant lily in the wilderness\,
  O venerable Methodius\, adorning your soul with prayer\, vigils and fasti
 ng\; and\, having lived angelically upon the earth\, with the angels you n
 ow contemplate in splendour the never-waning Light who reigns with peace.\
 n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nPraying in th
 e wilderness to Him who is borne up by the angels of glory\, O Cyril\, you
  were prevailed upon to return to the Imperial City and adorned with pries
 tly rank\, that you might show the way of salvation to men\, illumining th
 em with the light of doctrine and offering up the un-bloody sacrifice to t
 he never-waning Light who reigns with peace\, for all.\n\nHoly Fathers Cyr
 il and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nYou were shown to be an inexhaus
 tible well of wisdom\, O God-bearing Cyril\, when you were sent by the emp
 eror to dispute with the Saracens\, who blaspheme the all-holy Trinity\; a
 nd they were unable to drown in the turgid waters of their false religion 
 you who are illumined from on high by the never-waning Light.\n\nMost holy
  Theotokos\, save us.\n\nHow can I fail to fear the dread felling\, since 
 I am a barren tree\, wretch that I am? Make haste quickly to her who is fu
 ll of grace\, O my soul\; for if she will not help you\, you will never be
 hold the never-waning Light who reigns with peace!\n\nKatavasia: Let us aw
 ake in the deep dawn\, and instead of myrrh\, offer a hymn to the Master\,
  and we shall see Christ\, the Sun of Righteousness\, Who causes life to d
 awn for all.\n\nOde 6\n\nIrmos: The uttermost abyss has encompassed me\, a
 nd my spirit is failing\;* but stretch forth Your upraised arm\, O Master 
 and Helmsman\, and save me\, as You did Peter.\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and M
 ethodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nO all-wise Cyril\, you said to the Khaza
 rs who disputed with you\,” Our God is like the deep of the sea\, unfath
 omable by the mind and indescribable in words\;” and some who attempt to
  sail across this deep in the leaky boats of their own intellect are drown
 ed\, falling into errors and heresies\, while others are buffeted by incom
 prehension and doubt\, knowing not how to chant: O Helmsman\, save us\, as
  You did Peter!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\
 n\nSunk deep in the abyss of their false understandings\, the Khazars secr
 etly offered you deadly poison. But He who said: “If you drink anything 
 deadly\, it will not harm you\,” preserved you whole and returned you wi
 th honour to the Imperial City. And\, fittingly blessed by the emperor and
  patriarch\, you were supremely exalted\, crying: “O Helmsman\, You have
  saved me as You did Peter!”\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray 
 to God for us!\n\nThe Holy Spirit once said to the disciples: “Separate 
 for Me Barnabas and Saul for the task to which I have called them\,” the
  enlightenment of the nations who are perishing in the abyss of ignorance 
 of God\; and He likewise commanded that you be sent to the lands of the Sl
 avs\, O venerable fathers. And\, illumined by the light of your teaching\,
  people who sat in darkness and the shadow of death have cried out: “O H
 elmsman\, You have us as You did Peter!”\n\nMost holy Theotokos\, save u
 s.\n\nThe uttermost abyss of sins has encompassed me\, and\, beset with tr
 embling and terrified of utter drowning\, I offer you entreaty\, O all-imm
 aculate one: Have mercy upon my passion-plagued soul! Stretch forth your h
 ands\, in that you are good\, and as your Son saved Peter\, so save me\, O
  you who steer my soul.\n\nKatavasia: You descended into the nethermost pa
 res of the earth\, and shattered the eternal bars that held the fettered\,
  O Christ\, and on the third day* like Jonah from the whale\, You arose fr
 om the tomb.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 3\n\nKontakion\, Tone 3: Let us extol our
  two sacred teachers.* By their translation of Scriptures* they tapped for
  us a well that brings knowledge of God.* Drawing from it abundantly to th
 is very day* we call you blessed\, O Cyril and Methodius.* As you stand be
 fore the throne on high\,* fervently pray to God to save our souls.\n\nIko
 s\n\nCome\, O faithful\, let us praise our God-bearing fathers Methodius a
 nd Cyril\, the preachers of piety who shone forth in virtue\, the true pil
 lars and foundation of the Church\, the divine clarions of Christian dogma
 s\; for having driven the darkness of unbelief away from us and burned up 
 the impieties of heresy with the fire of the Spirit\, by their translation
  of the Scriptures they transformed the Slavic race from wild olive-trees 
 into a fruitful grove\, through divine baptism have brought them into the 
 Christian Faith\, and have filled the whole world with a multitude of mira
 cles\; therefore\, they stand\, crowned\, before God Almighty. And we cry 
 out to them: O divine fathers\, peers of the apostles\, entreat Christ\, t
 hat He grant all the Slavic peoples steadfastness in Orthodoxy and oneness
  of mind\, bring peace to the world\, and save our souls.\n\nOde 7\n\nIrmo
 s: The three youths did not worship the golden image\, the Persian idol\,*
  but chanted in the midst of the furnace: O God of our fathers\, blessed a
 re You!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nAbidi
 ng alone in solitude before\, O Methodius\, you made your soul like a divi
 nely planted garden\; but later\, undertaking the apostolic preaching with
  the divinely wise Cyril\, you laboured in the lands of the Slavs\, where\
 , unburnt by the fire of impiety like the youths in the furnace\, you chan
 ted: O God of our fathers\, blessed are You!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Met
 hodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nYou bested the Jews and Saracens in argume
 nt\, O all-wise Cyril\, and enlightened the land of the Khazars with holy 
 baptism\, freeing a multitude of captives\, and transformed brackish water
  in an arid wilderness into potable water\; and\, saved by you\, the peopl
 e chanted: O God of our fathers\, blessed are You!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril a
 nd Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nO venerable fathers\, you were vesse
 ls chosen to bear the name of the Lord before the nations\; therefore\, th
 e Slavic peoples desired to be illumined by the light of your doctrine. An
 d you deemed it better to exchange the sweetness of solitude for apostolic
  labour\, that you might win a great many for Christ\; and together with t
 hem you chant: O God of our fathers\, blessed are You!\n\nMost holy Theoto
 kos\, save us.\n\nI am a vessel full of the passions\, O all-holy Virgin T
 heotokos\, and fear ultimate death and the threat of the fire. But save me
  who am perishing\, O all-pure one\, and gird my spirit about with strengt
 h\, that\, bursting the bonds of sin\, I may chant in thanksgiving: Blesse
 d are you who gave birth to Him who has delivered the captives!\n\nKatavas
 ia: He who delivered the Children from the furnace\, became man\, suffers 
 as a mortal\, and through His Passion clothes mortality with the beauty of
  incorruption\, He is the only blessed and most glorious God of our father
 s.\n\nOde 8\n\nIrmos: The youths who beheld God* caused the flame of mater
 ial fire to wither away through that which is immaterial\,* and they chant
 ed:* Bless the Lord\, all you works of the Lord!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and
  Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nContinually illumined by the immateria
 l fire of grace\, you received the rank of priest\, O blessed Cyril\; and 
 with the aid of the Holy Spirit\, you devised an alphabet for the Slavs\, 
 that the people\, enlightened by the translation of divinely inspired book
 s into their native speech\, might chant: Bless the Lord\, all you works o
 f the Lord!\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nO
  most lauded fathers\, you first thundered out the chief heading of our Fa
 ith\, the unearthly words of the son of thunder: “In the beginning was t
 he Word\, and then the melodious Psalter\, wherewith the Holy Church cries
  out in gladness: Bless the Lord\, all you works of the Lord!\n\nHoly Fath
 ers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nYou have enriched us with
  an immaterial treasure\, O right wondrous fathers\, for thanks to you\, t
 he Divine Liturgy began to be celebrated in the Slavonic language\; and pa
 rtaking of this grace to this day\, we bless you\, chanting: Bless the Lor
 d\, all you works of the Lord!\n\nMost holy Theotokos\, save us.\n\nThe fi
 re of temptations and evil perils hath surrounded me. To you do I flee\, O
  Virgin Theotokos\, disdain not the supplications of your servant\, O pure
  one\, but deliver me from the cruel ones who beset me\, that\, uttering b
 lessing\, I may bless you and exalt your name supremely forever.\n\nKatava
 sia: This chosen and holy day is the first of the Sabbaths\, the queen and
  lady\, the feast of feasts\, and the festival of festivals\, wherein we b
 less Christ throughout the ages.\n\nOde 9\n\nIrmos: We magnify you\, the u
 nburnt bush\, the holy Virgin\,* the Mother of the Light\, the Theotokos\,
  the hope of us all.\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for
  us!\n\nWho can praise you fittingly\, O most glorious Methodius? O Cyril 
 who can reckon the labours you undertook\, like to an apostle\, for the sa
 lvation of an erring people? We who have been taught by you to glorify God
  Most High in our native tongue magnify you in oneness of mind.\n\nHoly Fa
 thers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\n\nWhen you had completed 
 your work and finished the race\, O blessed Cyril\, you received word of y
 our repose from on high\, and\, accepting it joyfully\, you chanted: “My
  spirit was glad because of them that said to me\, Let us go into the cour
 ts of the Lord!” And yearning for the heavens\, you were borne aloft in 
 soul\, where with the hosts of heaven you continually magnify the consubst
 antial Trinity.\n\nHoly Fathers Cyril and Methodius\, pray to God for us!\
 n\nReceiving the episcopacy of the Church of Moravia\, O venerable Methodi
 us\, in proclaiming the Holy Faith you undertook many labours and struggle
 s\, and endured many tribulations and persecutions\; and\, rejoicing now i
 n the highest with the holy Cyril\, pray for us\, that we may continually 
 magnify you as our helpers and mediators.\n\nMost holy Theotokos\, save us
 .\n\nO you who are most exalted than the angels and more honourable than t
 he cherubim\, we pray: through the intercession of the holy Cyril and Meth
 odius have pity on our lowliness\, lead us up from the depths of sin\, and
  deliver us from everlasting damnation\, that with them we may magnify you
 \, the Theotokos and Mother of the Light\, and our hope.\n\nKatavasia: Shi
 ne\, shine\, O new Jerusalem\, for the glory of the Lord has risen upon yo
 u! Exult now and be glad\, O Sion! And you\, O chaste Mother of God\, take
  delight in the resurrection of your Son.\n\nSmall Litany\n\nHymn of Light
 \n\nCelebrating your memory with splendour\, O holy teachers\, we entreat 
 you most earnestly: establish on the rock of the confession of Christ the 
 nations which you enriched with the treasure of the glad tidings\, and pre
 serve our life in peace.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nEnlighten my noetic eyes wh
 ich are bereft of sight\, O Lord\, because of sin’s gloomy darkness. And
  since You are compassionate\, instil in me humility. Cleanse me by the te
 ars of repentance and change of heart.\n\nStichera on the Praises\, Tone 5
 \n\nTo carry out the sentence pre-ordained:* this honour is for all His fa
 ithful.\n\nO Lord\, while the grave was sealed by lawless men\, * You came
  forth from the tomb * in a manner similar to You birth from the Theotokos
 . * Your bodiless Angels could not fathom the event of Your incarnation\, 
 * likewise the soldiers guarding You could not know when You arose. * For 
 the full knowledge of both events has been sealed from those who would inq
 uire\, * but the wonder of these events has been revealed to those who wit
 h faith * worship the mystery which we hymn\;* grant unto us joy and great
  mercy.\n\nPraise God in His holy place\, praise Him in His mighty heavens
 .\n\nWoe is me! how I have become like the barren fig tree\,* and I fear t
 he curse\, and also being cut down.* But\, O Christ God\, the Heavenly Hus
 bandman\,* show forth my hardened soul as fruitful\, * and receive me as Y
 ou did the prodigal son\,* and have mercy on me.\n\nPraise Him for His pow
 erful deeds\,* praise His surpassing greatness.\n\nBlessed is the army of 
 the King of the Heavens\; * for though the passion-bearers were born of th
 e earth\, * yet they eagerly struggled to attain to the angelic rank by di
 sdaining their bodies\; * and through their sufferings\, were counted wort
 hy * of the honour of the bodiless hosts. * By their prayers\, O Lord\, se
 nd down upon us Your great mercy.\n\nTone 4\n\nO praise Him with sound of 
 trumpet\,* praise Him with lute and harp\;\n\nO divinely wise Cyril and Me
 thodius\, following in the steps of the apostles\, with oneness of mind yo
 u laboured to search out the lost\; and like fleet-winged eagles you soare
 d above the Slavic lands\, and\, having illumined them with the light of t
 he knowledge of God\, you brought them to Jesus who loves mankind\, the Sa
 viour of our souls.\n\nPraise Him with timbrel and dance\,* praise Him wit
 h strings and pipes.\n\nO God-bearing fathers\, husbandmen of the vineyard
  of Christ\, planters of piety: after diligent search you found the Slavic
  peoples like a lost coin\; and\, rejoicing with the angels\, Jesus who lo
 ves mankind\, the Saviour of our souls\, has taken it into the treasury of
  everlasting life.\n\nO praise Him with resounding cymbals\, praise Him wi
 th clashing of cymbals.* Let everything that lives and that breathes give 
 praise to the Lord.\n\nO champions of the Holy Trinity\, guides of the los
 t\, who bested the blasphemy of Islam and put to shame the impiety of the 
 Jews: the Church which you acquired through your God-pleasing labours and 
 your sweat\, strive to preserve unharmed by the assaults of the enemy and 
 well-pleasing to Jesus who loves mankind\, the Saviour of our souls.\n\nTo
 ne 6\, Glory…\n\nO you people\, piously celebrating the memory of our en
 lighteners\, let us cry out in thanksgiving: Rejoice\, all-radiant beacons
  who have illumined the Slavic lands with the light of the knowledge of Go
 d! Rejoice\, O good shepherds\, who have gathered together the reason endo
 wed sheep who were scattered amid the groves of unbelief\, and have brough
 t them to Christ\, the Chief Shepherd. Magnifying Him\, we call you blesse
 d.\n\nTone 2\, Now…\n\nThe blind man\, accounting all his life as though
  it were night\, * cried to You\, O Lord: * Open my eyes\, O our Savior\, 
 * O Son of David\, * that together with all mankind\,* I also may praise Y
 our power.\n\nGreat Doxology\n\nTroparia\, Tone 5\n\nLet us the faithful a
 cclaim and worship the Word\,* co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit\,
 * and born of the Virgin for our salvation.* For He willed to be lifted up
  on the cross in the flesh\, to suffer death* and to raise the dead by His
  glorious resurrection.\n\nTone 4\, Glory…\n\nAs equals to the apostles 
 in the way you lived* and teachers of the Slavic lands\,* O Cyril and Meth
 odius\, divinely wise\,* intercede with the Master of all* to confirm the 
 Slavic nations in orthodoxy and oneness of mind\;* to grant peace to the w
 orld and save our souls.\n\nNow…\n\nO Mother of God\, the mystery hidden
  from all eternity* and unknown even to the angels\,* was revealed through
  you to those on earth:* God took on our human nature* and united it to Hi
 s divine nature in a perfect but unconfused union.* Then\, He willingly ac
 cepted the cross for our sake* and thereby raised again the first created 
 man\,*and saved our souls from death.\n\nInsistent Litany\n\nLitany of Sup
 plication\n\nGreat Dismissal\n\n \nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON MONDAY MORNING\nA
 fter the priest has exclaimed\, Blessed be the Kingdom… and the people h
 ave responded\, Amen\, the clergy sing the Paschal Troparion once and the 
 people repeat it. Then\, the clergy sing the first half\, and the people c
 onclude it.\n\nPaschal Troparion\n\nChrist is risen from the dead\,* tramp
 ling death by death\,* and to those in the tombs* giving life.\n\nTroparia
  and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\, Tone 5: Let us the faithful acclaim and worsh
 ip the Word\,* co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit\,* and born of th
 e Virgin for our salvation.* For He willed to be lifted up on the cross in
  the flesh\, to suffer death* and to raise the dead by His glorious resurr
 ection.\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: As equals to the apostles in the way you li
 ved* and teachers of the Slavic lands\,* O Cyril and Methodius\, divinely 
 wise\,* intercede with the Master of all* to confirm the Slavic nations in
  orthodoxy and oneness of mind\;* to grant peace to the world and save our
  souls.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 3: Let us extol our two sacred teachers.* By t
 heir translation of Scriptures* they tapped for us a well that brings know
 ledge of God.* Drawing from it abundantly to this very day* we call you bl
 essed\, O Cyril and Methodius.* As you stand before the throne on high\,* 
 fervently pray to God to save our souls.\n\nGlory be to the Father\, and t
 o the Son\, and to the Holy Spirit.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 4: Blinded in the 
 eyes of my soul\,* I come to You\, O Christ\, like the man who was blind f
 rom birth\,* and I cry in repentance:* You are the brilliant light of thos
 e in darkness.\n\nNow and for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 8: 
 Though You descended into a tomb\, O Immortal One\,* yet You destroyed the
  power of Hades\;* and You rose as victor\, O Christ God\,* calling to the
  myrrh-bearing women: Rejoice!* and giving peace to Your Apostles:* You\, 
 who grant Resurrection to the fallen.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 8\n\nPray and 
 give thanks to the Lord our God.\n\nverse: In Judea God is known\; His nam
 e is great in Israel. (Psalm 76:12\,2)\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 7\n\nPrecious
  in the sight of the Lord is the death of His venerable ones.\n\nEpistle\n
 \nActs 17:1-15\; Hebrews 7:26-8:2\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 8\n\nverse: Look upon
  me and have mercy.\n\nverse: Direct my steps according to Your word. (Psa
 lm 118:131-132)\n\nverse: Your priests shall clothe themselves with justic
 e\, and Your venerable ones shall rejoice.\n\nGospel\n\nJohn 11:47-57\; Jo
 hn 10:9-16\n\nHymn to the Theotokos\n\nThe Angel cried out to the One full
  of Grace: O chaste Virgin\, rejoice! And again I say\, Rejoice! Your Son 
 has risen from the tomb on the third day\, and raised the dead. Let all pe
 ople rejoice! Shine\, shine\, O new Jerusalem\, for the glory of the Lord 
 has risen upon you! Exult now and be glad\, O Sion! And you\, O chaste Mot
 her of God\, take delight in the resurrection of your Son.\n\nCommunion Hy
 mn\n\nReceive the Body of Christ\;* taste the fountain of immortality.* Pr
 aise the Lord from the heavens\; praise Him in the highest.* The just man 
 shall be in everlasting remembrance\;* of evil hearsay he shall have no fe
 ar.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia.\n\nInstead of Blessed is He Who come
 s… we sing:\n\nChrist is risen from the dead\,* trampling death by death
 \,* and to those in the tombs* giving life.\n\nInstead of We have seen the
  true light… we sing:\n\nChrist is risen from the dead\,* trampling deat
 h by death\,* and to those in the tombs* giving life.\n\nInstead of May ou
 r mouths be filled… we sing three times:\n\nChrist is risen from the dea
 d\,* trampling death by death\,* and to those in the tombs* giving life.\n
 \nInstead of Blessed be the name of the Lord… we sing three times:\n\nCh
 rist is risen from the dead\,* trampling death by death\,* and to those in
  the tombs* giving life.\n\nAt the dismissal\, instead of Glory be to the 
 Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit\, now and forever and ever. Amen. w
 e chant:\n\nChrist is risen from the dead\, trampling death by death\,* an
 d to those in the tombs giving life.\n\nAfter the final Amen\, the Tropari
 on Christ is risen is sung as at the beginning of the Liturgy\, but with t
 he addition:\n\nAnd to us He has granted life eternal\;* we bow down befor
 e His resurrection on the third day.
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