BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.12//EN TZID:America/Winnipeg X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Winnipeg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:633@liturgy.royaldoors.net DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20261102 DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20261103 DTSTAMP:20261026T150624Z URL:https://liturgy.royaldoors.net/events/monday-november-2-2026-the-holy- martyrs-acindynus-pegasius-aphtonius-elpidephorus-and-anempodistus/ SUMMARY:Monday\, November 2\, 2026\; The Holy Martyrs Acindynus\, Pegasius\ , Aphtonius\, Elpidephorus\, and Anempodistus DESCRIPTION:VESPERS ON SUNDAY EVENING\n\nKathisma Reading\n\nThere are no p salms chanted this evening.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 6\n\nIf You mark iniqu ities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.\n\nThrough thought of contrition grant me tears of repentance\, О Saviour\,* that I may wash away the filth from my soul\,* which I have badly sullied\, committing unrighteousness all the time\,* for it is for t his that I have her who gave birth to You\, and the angelic choirs\,* entr eating Your love for mankind\,\n\nI have waited for You as You have comman ded\; my soul patiently relies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in th e Lord.\n\nCome\, О my soul\, and repent of the many sins have committed in this life\,* and entreat the multitude of the heavenly armies with sigh s and tears\,* that time be given you for repentance\,* lest you be sent i nto the most accursed fire of Gehenna* like the barren fig-tree.\n\nFrom t he morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nNot one of Your commandments have I kept on earth.* When You shall sit upon Your thro ne\, how shall I give answer for myself\,* receiving condemnation for all that I have done in knowledge or in ignorance\, О my Christ?* Therefore\, I cry out to You:* Through the supplications of Your servants save me\, t he prodigal!\n\nTone 4\, Podoben “As one valiant among the martyrs…” \n\nFor with the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful red emption\;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.\n\nLet us h ymn the company of the five martyrs:* The wise Acindynus* with Pegasus and Elpidephorus\,* Aphtonius and Anempodistus!* They are valiant athletes an d fervent protectors.* They pour forth abundant grace and unfailing hope\, * granting them freely to the faithful!\n\nPraise the Lord\, all the natio ns\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people.\n\nNeither hunger\, nor tribula tion\,* neither life nor death\,* nor boiling cauldrons nor the depths of the earth\,* nor even the mouths of wild beasts* could separate your brave deeds of patient endurance from the love of Christ!* You continually dire cted your gaze towards Him:* Desiring Him alone\, you vanquished the enemy !\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;* eternally will His truth end ure.\n\nAs you delight in sweetness and are filled with light\,* inheritin g eternal life\, divinely wise ones\,* deliver those who pray to you and h onour your place of martyrdom* from misfortunes\, bondage and imprisonment !* For you have boldness before God and great mercy* as true imitators and followers of Christ!\n\nTone 6\, Glory…\n\nToday the martyrs' choir of fivefold splendour* illumines the faithful like a constellation of stars!* It summons all to mystical joy!* Today the servants of the spiritual Sun* lead all to righteousness:* They destroyed the traditions of the Persians * who adored the material sun and worshipped fire!* They filled to overflo wing the cup of their suffering\; * they have been crowned with their bloo d shed for the sake of Christ!* They call us\, lovers of piety\, saying:* Come\, feast as you behold our sufferings:* Look upon our crowns and honou rs!* For Christ has truly said:* He who endures to the end is saved!* Come \, share our crowns and take us as intercessors before the Lord!\n\nNow… \n\nО Theotokos\, who at the sound of the archangel’s voice* conceived in your womb the Word\,* who with the Father and the Spirit is equally beg inningless\,* you have been revealed to be more exalted than the cherubim\ , seraphim\, and thrones.\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 6\n\nAt Your fearful Coming \, O Christ\,* may we not hear the words: I know you not.* For though\, O Saviour\, we have put our trust in You\,* from negligence we have not kept not Your commandments\;* yet we entreat You\, spare our souls.\n\nI have lifted up my eyes to You enthroned in heaven. Behold\, as the eyes of serv ants are on the hands of their masters\, as the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress\, so are our eyes on the Lord our God until He has m ercy on us.\n\nI have no repentance and I have no tears.* Therefore I entr eat You\, O Christ God:* before the end is here* turn me back and grant me compunction\,* that I may be delivered from the torments of Hades.\n\nHav e mercy on us\, O Lord\, have mercy on us\; for we have been filled with s hame\; our soul is all too full of the mockery of the rich\, of the contem pt of the proud.\n\nYour martyrs did not deny You\, О Lord\,* nor did the y depart from Your commandments.* By their prayers have mercy on us.\n\nTo ne 2\, Glory…\n\nCome\, let us rejoice in the Lord today:* The day of th e commemoration of the passion-bearers!* Come\, all who love the feasts of the Church!* Let us give glory\, offering them mystical praise:* Rejoice\ , Acindynus!* Rejoice\, Pegasus and Anempodistus!* Rejoice\, Elpidephorus! * Rejoice\, Aphtonius!* You drowned the deceits of idolatry in the depths of the sea\;* you preached Christ the Lord openly in the arena!* Therefore \, most blessed\, greatly suffering ones\,* ever intercede for our souls!\ n\nNow…\n\nRejoice\, O Theotokos Mary\, * the indestructible and surpass ingly holy temple\; * as the prophet cried out: * Holy is your temple\,* w ondrous in righteousness!\n\nTroparia\n\nTone 2\n\nO victorious witnesses of the Lord\,* blessed is the earth which has drunk your blood.* Holy are the tombs which have received your bodies.* In the furnace you conquered t he foe and preached Christ.* Intercede with the gracious Lord to save our souls.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nO Mother of God\, you are a fountain of mercy \;* count us worthy of your compassion\;* look upon a people who have sinn ed\;* manifest your power as you always do.* Because of our trust in you\, we cry out to you* as once did Gabriel\, the commander of the angels.\n\n AT DIVINE LITURGY ON MONDAY MORNING\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\ , Tone 2: O victorious witnesses of the Lord\,* blessed is the earth which has drunk your blood.* Holy are the tombs which have received your bodies .* In the furnace you conquered the foe and preached Christ.* Intercede wi th the gracious Lord to save our souls.\n\nGlory be to the Father and to t he Son and to the Holy Spirit\, now and for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nKontak ion\, Tone 2: Christ’s soldiers were on earth like stars revolving aroun d the Sun of Glory.* They dispelled the darkness of the passions* and gene rously poured out upon all people an abundance of grace\,* granting an ass urance of salvation to those who call upon them with faith.\n\nProkeimenon \, Tone 4\n\nTo the saints who are in His land\,* the Lord has made wonder ful all His desires in them.\n\nverse: I foresaw the Lord always in my sig ht\, for He is at my right hand that I may not be shaken. (Psalm 15:3\,8)\ n\nEpistle\n\n1 Thessalonians 2:20-3:8\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 4\n\nverse: The just cried out and the Lord heard them\, and delivered them out of their a fflictions.\n\nverse: The afflictions of the just are many\, and out of th em all will the Lord deliver them. (Psalm 33:18\,20)\n\nGospel\n\nLuke 11: 29-33\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nRejoice in the Lord\, O you just\;* praise befi ts the righteous.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. 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