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DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20260822
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SUMMARY:Saturday\, August 22\, 2026\; The Holy Martyr Agathonicus and those
  with him\; Blessed Hieromartyr Symeon Lukach\, Bishop and Confessor.
DESCRIPTION:Post-feast of the Dormition.\n\nAT VESPERS ON FRIDAY EVENING\n\
 nKathisma Reading\n\nThe appointed psalms are chanted.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\n
 Tone 4\, Podoben “You have given a sign…”\n\nIf You mark iniquities\
 , Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be rever
 ed.\n\nAt your glorious Dormition* the heavens rejoice\, and the armies of
  Angels exult.* The whole earth is glad\, addressing its funeral hymn to y
 ou\,* the Mother of the Master of all things\,* all-holy Virgin who knew n
 ot wedlock\,* who have delivered the human race from the ancestral condemn
 ation.\n\nI have waited for You as You have commanded\; my soul patiently 
 relies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord.\n\nAt a divine c
 ommand* the chief Apostles gathered from the ends of the earth to bury you
 \,* and when they saw you being taken from earth to heaven* they cried out
  with joy in Gabriel’s words:* “Rejoice\, chariot of the whole Godhead
 !* Rejoice\, for you alone by your childbearing* have joined together thin
 gs on earth with those on high!”\n\nFrom the morning watch until night* 
 let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nO Virgin Mother\, Bride of God\,* who car
 ried the Life within your womb\,* by your revered falling asleep you have 
 passed over to immortal life.* Angels\, Rulers and Powers\, Apostles\, Pro
 phets and all creation escorted you\,* and your Son received your most pur
 e soul in His immaculate hands.\n\nTone 4\n\nFor with the Lord there is me
 rcy\, and with Him there is plentiful redemption\;* and He shall redeem Is
 rael from all its iniquities.\n\nSeeking to regain the original beauty* an
 d the splendour that surpasses all understanding\,* you went joyously to t
 he noble combat\, O Agathonicus.* Having fought the enemy\, you bravely cr
 ushed him into the ground.* You wove a brilliant crown of victory.* Entrea
 t the Lover of mankind for those who honour you.\n\nPraise the Lord\, all 
 the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people.\n\nAdorned with the wi
 sdom of God\,* you abounded with words which pour out life\;* you refuted 
 the foolish ones\, reproved the torturer\, and calmed the storm of idolatr
 y.* You strengthened the faithful to persevere in God's grace.* For this y
 ou were cruelly burned alive\,* but as a crown-bearer you entered the king
 dom of heaven.\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;* eternally will 
 His truth endure.\n\nBathed in the blood of your passion\, O Martyr\,* you
  stood before the Master as a fragrant and pleasing sacrifice\,* a pure an
 d favourable gift\,* a sacred offering and a spotless victim.* O Agathonic
 us\, martyr of the Lord\,* by your prayers watch over the whole Church in 
 peace.\n\nTone 1\, Glory…\n\nO long-suffering Agathonicus\,* your name i
 s synonymous with a good victory\,* and you were covered with wounds becau
 se of your love for God.* Having rejected the error of idols and torturers
 \,* you gloriously entered eternal life.* Because of the grace you have wi
 th God\,* on this day of your illustrious memory\,* entreat Him to save ou
 r souls.\n\nNow…\n\nBecause the disciples had been both the eye-witnesse
 s and servants of the Word\,* it was also fitting that they should witness
  the final mystery\,* the Dormition of his Mother according to the flesh.*
  They not only saw the ascension of the Saviour from earth to heaven\,* bu
 t they also were witnesses of the translation of the Mother who bore Him.*
  They came to Zion to escort the Virgin\, who surpasses the Cherubim\,* as
  she hastened in her journey to heaven.* With them let us also bow low* be
 fore the One who intercedes for our souls.\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 8\, Podobe
 n “O most glorious wonder…”\n\nO glorious marvel!* A virgin gave bir
 th to God in the flesh\,* remained a virgin\, and now passes from life.* L
 eaving an earthly life\, she passes over to everlasting life.* For this re
 ason\, the disciples and apostles of Christ* gathered together for her bur
 ial.\n\nGo up\, Lord\, to the place of your rest\, You and the ark of Your
  strength.\n\nLet us in harmony with the angels* joyfully glorify the feas
 t today\,* the precious Dormition of the Theotokos.* Her holy and life-bea
 ring soul has been placed into the hands of her Son.* She is now united wi
 th Him in the everlasting life\,* spiritually entreating in our behalf.\n\
 nThe Lord swore an oath to David\; He will not go back on his word.\n\nLet
  us go to the glorious Gethsemane in spirit* and to the holy home of the g
 lorious body of the Theotokos.* Filled with heavenly fragrance\,* let us s
 ing hymns with the apostles and the angels* because there is joy in her Do
 rmition .for those on earth and in heaven.\n\nTone 8\, Glory…\n\nYou wer
 e called an excellent treasure\, O martyr Agathonicus\,* and you became a 
 temple and consecrated yourself to the King of all.* O seed of martyrs\, y
 ou routed the power of the enemy* and grasped the reward of victory.* Now 
 you stand before God on high as a crown-bearer.* Do not cease to entreat H
 im* in behalf of those who honour you.\n\nTone 1\, Now…\n\nO Theotokos\,
  Christ your Son and our God * confirmed his two natures because He died a
 s a man and rose as God.* O Mother of God\, He also consented that you die
 * according to the law of nature* so that unbelievers might not question t
 he workings of Providence.* O heavenly Bride\, you were taken from earth* 
 as though from the bridal chamber and entered heaven.* The atmosphere was 
 sanctified by your passage through it\,* just as earth was illumined by yo
 ur giving birth.* The apostles assembled\, and the angels carried you alof
 t.* After having buried your most pure body and having sung hymns\,* they 
 gazed in awe and fearfully said:* This is the ransom of the right hand of 
 God* because He is within you\, and He will not be moved.* O most honoured
  Mother\, do not forsake us who look upon you.* We are your people and the
  sheep of your fold.* We invoke your name and ask for salvation and great 
 mercy.\n\nTroparia\n\nTone 4\n\nO Lord our God\, Your holy martyrs* have d
 eserved the crown of immortality* on account of their good fight.* Armed w
 ith Your strength\, they have vanquished their persecutors* and crushed Sa
 tan's dreadful might.** Through their supplications\, O Christ our God\, s
 ave our souls.\n\nTone 1\, Glory… Now…\n\nIn giving birth you retained
  your virginity\,* in falling asleep you did not abandon the world\, O Mot
 her of God.* You passed into life\, for you are the Mother of Life\,* and 
 by your prayers** you deliver our souls from death.\n\nAT DIVINE LITURGY O
 N SATURDAY MORNING\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\, Tone 1: In givi
 ng birth you retained your virginity\,* in falling asleep you did not aban
 don the world\, O Mother of God.* You passed into life\, for you are the M
 other of Life\,* and by your prayers* you deliver our souls from death.\n\
 nTroparion\, Tone 4: O Lord our God\, Your holy martyrs* have deserved the
  crown of immortality* on account of their good fight.* Armed with Your st
 rength\, they have vanquished their persecutors* and crushed Satan’s dre
 adful might.** Through their supplications\, O Christ our God\, save our s
 ouls.\n\nGlory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.\n\n
 Kontakion\, Tone 1: O holy martyr\, you have gained a good name for yourse
 lf\; * you put an end to the worship of the evil ones * without fearing th
 e suffering that you would bear. * Therefore\, you have inherited the eter
 nal gifts\, O Agathonicus\, * and together with your companions\, * you we
 re worthy to obtain the crowns of heaven..\n\nNow and for ever and ever. A
 men.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 1: The tomb and death could not hold the Mother o
 f God\,* unceasing in her intercession and unfailing hope of patronage\,* 
 for\, as the Mother of Life\, she was transferred to life* by Him Who had 
 dwelt in her ever-virgin womb.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 3\n\nMy soul magnifie
 s the Lord\, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour.\n\nverse: Becau
 se he has regarded the humility of His handmaid\; for behold\, all generat
 ions shall call me blessed. (Luke 1:46-48)\n\nEpistle\n\n1 Corinthians 2:6
 -9\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 8\n\nverse: Rise up\, O Lord\, to the place of Your 
 rest\, You and the ark of Your holiness.\n\nverse: The Lord swore an oath 
 to David\, and will not go back on His word. (Psalm 131:8\,11)\n\nGospel\n
 \nMatthew 22:15-22\n\nHymn to the Theotokos\n\nSeeing the pure one’s fal
 ling asleep\, angels marvelled in wonder how the Virgin could ascend from 
 earth to heaven.\n\nAnd the Irmos: O pure Virgin\, in you are conquered th
 e bounds of nature\,* for childbirth remains virginal and death is betroth
 ed to life.* Virgin after childbearing and alive after death\, O Mother of
  God\,* never cease to save your inheritance.\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nI will 
 take the chalice of salvation\;* and I will call upon the name of the Lord
 .* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. (Psalm 115:13)
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