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:447@liturgy.royaldoors.net DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton;VALUE=DATE:20260502 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton;VALUE=DATE:20260503 DTSTAMP:20260426T043903Z URL:https://liturgy.royaldoors.net/events/saturday-may-2-2026-our-father-a mong-the-saints-athanasius-the-great/ SUMMARY:Saturday\, May 2\, 2026\; Our Father Among the Saints Athanasius t he Great. DESCRIPTION:AT VESPERS ON FRIDAY EVENING\nKathisma Reading\n\nThe appointed psalms are chanted.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 1\n\nIf You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revere d.\n\nThe Word\, who is consubstantial with God the Father\,* has fashione d all things and grants life to all\,* came forth from the Virgin\, and as sumed our flesh\,* willingly becoming a man.* Since He is by nature good\, He has poured forth for all* His wise teachings of ineffable wisdom.\n\nI have waited for You as You have commanded\; my soul patiently relies on Y our promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord.\n\nAs the Master of the Law \, You entered the court of the temple\,* there You taught at Mid-feast\, as is written\, O Christ\;* speaking with authority\, You rebuked and cens ured the mindless scribes\,* and all were amazed by the wisdom found in Yo ur words* and by all the marvels* that were wrought by You.\n\nFrom the mo rning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nChrist\, the Bes tower of Wisdom\, the Giver of all good things\,* who pours forth divine s treams from a never-ending spring\,* cries out: Come to Me\, all that thir st\,* draw forth and drink the water of life.* And thus shall rivers of gr ace and divine gifts* issue freely from within yourselves.\n\nTone 4\n\nFo r with the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful redemptio n\;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.\n\nO you who was vouchsafed life immortal* when you preached Christ the Life-giver\, the So n and Word* who is consubstantial and equally everlasting* with the unorig inate Father who begat Him\,* then you burned up the tinder of heresies wi th your fiery tongue\, O glorious one\,* expelling Arius from the Church o f Christ\;* and with your divine discourses you enlightened the hearts or the pious\, O wise one\,* that they might worship the Trinity in one essen ce.\n\nPraise the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you p eople.\n\nLike a divine river aflood with the waters of the Spirit* were y ou shown to be\, O all-wondrous one\,* overflowing with divine doctrines\, * setting all the fullness of the Church afire\,* and overwhelming the ass embly of the heretics* in the depths of your divine words and the abyss of your understandings\, O father.* For you\, O all-wise one\, divine Athana sius who are most rich\,* preached Christ the Master who is consubstantial with the Father who begat Him.\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\; * eternally will His truth endure.\n\nAs a recounter of the mysteries of G od and a divine hierarch\,* you patiently endured* tribulations and persec utions\,* attacks and your exiles\, O blessed one\,* for the sake of the f aith of Christ\,* clearly proclaiming Christ to be consubstantial\, equall y everlasting\,* equal in His activity and equally everlasting* with the p rimal and equally unoriginate Father.* Wherefore\, He Himself has manifest ly adorned you* with all-radiant teachings* and shown you to the whole wor ld as all-splendid.\n\nTone 6\, Glory… \n\nLet us all hymn Athanasius\, the holy hierarch of Christ\;* for\, having set at nought all the teaching s of Arius\,* he manifestly proclaims throughout all the world the might o f the Holy Trinity\,* the one indivisible God in three Persons\,* whom he entreats in behalf of us who celebrate his memory with faith.\n\nTone 3\, Now…\n\nO Lady most honourable\,* how could we but be rapt in wonder* at your giving birth to the Incarnate God* who\, without a mother\, was born of a Father before all ages?* You gave Him birth in the flesh without a f ather\,* without a man’s instrumentality.* He is God and man whose two n atures are intact\,* neither one losing any of its properties.* Therefore\ , O Virgin Mother\,* intercede with Him to save the souls* of those who be lieve and profess in true faith* that you are the Mother of God.\n\nAposti cha\n\nTone 3\n\nBy Your Cross\, O Christ our Saviour\,* the power of deat h has been vanquished\,* the deceit of the devil has been destroyed\,* the refore mankind\, saved by faith\,* offers You hymns of praise for ever.\n\ nThe Lord is King\, He is clothed with majesty\;* the Lord is clothed with strength and He has girded Himself.\n\nO Lord\, all creation has been enl ightened by Your Resurrection\,* and Paradise has been reopened\;* therefo re\, all creation extols You* and offers You hymns of praise forever.\n\nF or He established the world* which shall not be shaken.\n\nI glorify the p ower of the Father\, Son\, and Holy Spirit\;* and I praise the dominion of the undivided Divinity\,* the consubstantial Trinity* who reigns forever and ever.\n\nHoliness becomes Your house\, O Lord\,* for length of days.\n \nO Christ\, who darkened the sun by Your passion* and enlightened all cre ation by Your Resurrection\,* accept our evening prayer\, for You love man kind.\n\nTone 3\, Glory… \n\nAgain\, the Nile flowing with gold\,* the n amesake of immortality\, arriving for his annual commemoration\,* pours fo rth golden torrents of immortality in goodly floods\,* producing the food of immortality\;* and with exalted divine sounds he teaches all to worship the indivisible might of the Trinity\,* pours forth divine doctrines\, gi ves drink to the thoughts of the faithful\,* and prays for our souls.\n\nT one 1\, Now…\n\nYou\, the Wisdom of God\, came to the temple at Mid-feas t\,* teaching and reproving the disobedient Jews\, the Pharisees\, and Scr ibes\,* and with boldness You cried to them:* He that thirsts\, let him co me to Me and drink living water\,* and he shall never again thirst unto et ernity.* From him that believes in My goodness\,* rivers of eternal life s hall pour forth from his noetic belly.* O how great is Your goodness and c ompassion\,* O Christ our God! Glory be to You.\n\nTroparia\n\nTone 3\n\nH oly Father Athanasius\,* you became a stronghold of orthodoxy\,* strengthe ning the Church through your divine teachings\,* opposing the heretical op inion of Arius\,* explaining and teaching that the Son is equal in nature to the Father.* Holy Father\, intercede with Christ God to grant us great mercy!\n\nTone 8\, Glory… Now…\n\nAt the mid-point of the Feast\, O Sa viour\,* water my thirsty soul with streams of true godliness\;* for You c ried out to all: Let any who thirst\, come to Me and drink.* Source of lif e\, Christ our God\, glory to You!\n\n \;\nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON SATURD AY MORNING\nAfter the priest has exclaimed\, Blessed be the Kingdom… and the people have responded\, Amen\, the clergy sing the Paschal Troparion once and the people repeat it. Then\, the clergy sing the first half\, and the people conclude it.\n\nPaschal Troparion\n\nChrist is risen from the dead\,* trampling death by death\,* and to those in the tombs* giving life .\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\, Tone 8: At the mid-point of the Feast\, O Saviour\,* water my thirsty soul with streams of true godliness\ ;* for You cried out to all: Let any who thirst\, come to Me and drink.* O Source of Life\, Christ our God\, glory to You!\n\nGlory be to the Father \, and to the Son\, and to the Holy Spirit\, now and for ever and ever. Am en.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 4: At the mid-point of the Feast according to the Law\,* Maker of all things and Master\,* You said to those present\, O Chr ist God:* Come\, and draw the water of immortality.* And so we fall before You crying out with faith: Grant us Your mercies \, for You are the sourc e of our life.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 3\n\nGreat is our Lord\, and great is His strength\;* and of His knowledge there is no end.\n\nverse: Praise th e Lord\, for a psalm is good\; may praise be sweet to Him. (Psalm 146:5\,1 )\n\nEpistle\n\nActs 12:1-11\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 1\n\nverse: Remember Your congregation which You acquired from the beginning.\n\nverse: But God is o ur king before the ages\; He has wrought salvation in the midst of the ear th. (Psalm 73:2\,12)\n\nGospel\n\nJohn 8:31-42\n\nHymn to the Theotokos\n\ nVirginity is alien to mothers and child-bearing is foreign to virgins\; y et in you\, O Mother of God\, both of them came together. Therefore\, we a nd all the nations of the earth without ceasing magnify you.\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nThose who eat My flesh and drink My blood* abide in Me and I in th em\, says the Lord.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. (John 6:56)\n\nInste ad of Blessed is He Who comes… 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 fro m the dead\,* trampling death by death\,* and to those in the tombs* givin g life.\n\nInstead of May our mouths be filled… we sing three times:\n\n Christ is risen from the dead\,* 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\nChrist is risen from the dead\,* trampling dea th 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. we chant:\n\nChrist is risen from the dead\, trampling death by death\,* and to those in the tombs giving life.\n\nAfte r the final Amen\, the Troparion Christ is risen is sung as at the beginni ng of the Liturgy\, but with the addition:\n\nAnd to us He has granted lif e eternal\;* we bow down before His resurrection on the third day. 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