The Commemoration of the Consecration of the Holy Resurrection Patriarchal Sobor; The Holy Martyrs Florus and Laurus.

When

August 18, 2025

All Day

Polyeleos Feast. Post-feast of the Dormition.

VESPERS ON SUNDAY EVENING

Kathisma Reading

Blessed is the man… I chanted.

At Psalm 140

Tone 2

Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord;* O Lord, hear my voice!

With what unworthy lips shall we bless the Theotokos,* who is more honourable than creation* and more holy than the cherubim and all the angels:* the immovable throne of the King,* the house wherein the Most High dwelt,* the sanctuary of God, the salvation of the world,* the one who richly bestows great mercy upon the faithful* on the day of her divine memorial?

Let Your ears be attentive* to the voice of my prayer.

If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.

What spiritual hymns shall we now offer to you, O most holy one?* For by your immortal dormition you have sanctified the whole world* and passed over to the things which are above the world,* to comprehend the beauty of the Almighty,* and to rejoice in Him, as His Mother,* the ranks of angels and the souls of the righteous accompanying you.* With them ask for us peace and great mercy.

Tone 2

I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.

The Father, with His Divine Son, has made a dwelling place in their beloved people,* who kept the word of His truth and endured in faithfulness.* The children of God in much-suffering Ukraine* feared neither torment, persecution, nor cruel death.* And so upon them, as if upon living foundation stones,* the Sobor of the Resurrection rises up.

From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.

For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.

You, O Perfecter, have transformed the souls of Your faithful friends* into a House of Wisdom and a temple of Your invisible presence.* The temple of Your love is more formidable than walls of stone,* established as it is within the human heart, a living Holy of Holies.* From it, there blossomed forth the visible beauty* of the newly raised Sobor of the Resurrection.

Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.

Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.

How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Sabaoth!* From of old the Ukrainian soul would huddle to Your majestic and ancient temples;* but, in the midst of evil times, full of the darkness of hostile Godlessness* other temples faithfully shone forth:* the village home, the city room,* in every place where living torches of Your truth shone forth,* raising thereby the Sobor of the Resurrection.

Tone 5, Glory…

Come from the west, and the north, and the sea, and the east,* from all over Ukraine – O faithful friends of the Lord,* and let us behold the Church reborn.* Let the cathedral of our souls shine forth, as divinely radiant torches,* within that cathedral which is built above Slavutych.* And so, raised up in spirit by the Holy Spirit,* let us glorify Christ, our Pascha, to the ages!

Tone 4, Now…

Come, O you people, let us hymn the all-holy and pure Virgin* from whom the incarnate Word of the Father came forth ineffably;* and let us cry aloud, saying:* Blessed are you among women,* and blessed is the womb which contained Christ!* Having surrendered your soul into His holy hands, O all-pure one,* entreat Him, that our souls be saved.

Prokeimenon, Tone 8

And now bless the Lord,* all you servants of the Lord.

verse: Who stand in the temple of the Lord, in the courtyards of the house of our God.

Readings

(1) 1 Kings 8:22-23, 27-30; (2) Wisdom 7:21-8:4; (3) Proverbs 9:1-11

Aposticha

Tone 2

Raise a hymn, all you choirs of heaven!* For the Virgin Mother hasbeen all-gloriously translated* from earth to the heavens.

Arise, O Lord, into Your rest,* You and the ark of Your holiness.

The choir of the disciples has assembled all-gloriously* from the ends of the earth,* to bury your divine and incorrupt body, O Maiden.

The Lord has sworn in truth to David,* and He will not annul it.

Be lifted up, O you gates of heaven,* beholding the only Mother of God,* the portal of the Most High coming to the highest.

Tone 2, Glory… Now…

Let us chant today the hymn of David to Christ God, O people:* The virgins that follow after her, said he, shall be brought to the King,* and those near her shall be brought in gladness and rejoicing;* for she who is of the seed of David, for whose sake we have been deified,* is gloriously and ineffably placed in the hands of her Son and Master.* Hymning her as the Mother of God, let us cry aloud and say:* Save us, who confess you to be the Theotokos,* from every evil circumstance,* and deliver our souls from misfortunes!

Troparia

Tone 4

As the priceless beauty residing within the divine image of the tabernacle,* thus outwardly you manifested the holy glory of your temple O Lord.* Establish it for the ages of ages, and accept, through the prayers of the Theotokos, our supplications,* which we unceasingly offer to You, O Life and Resurrection of all.

Tone 1, Glory… Now…

In giving birth you retained your virginity,* in falling asleep you did not abandon the world, O Mother of God.* You passed into life, for you are the Mother of Life,* and by your prayers* you deliver our souls from death.

DIVINE LITURGY ON MONDAY MORNING

Troparia and Kontakia

Troparion, Tone 1: In giving birth you retained your virginity,* in falling asleep you did not abandon the world, O Mother of God.* You passed into life, for you are the Mother of Life,* and by your prayers* you deliver our souls from death.

Troparion, Tone 4: As the priceless beauty residing within the divine image of the tabernacle,* thus outwardly you manifested the holy glory of your temple O Lord.* Establish it for the ages of ages, and accept, through the prayers of the Theotokos, our supplications,* which we unceasingly offer to You, O Life and Resurrection of all.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

Kontakion, Tone 4: The Synaxis of the faithful in the Cathedral of the Resurrection,* shines as a multitude of stars in heavens,* and as we offer our prayers we exclaim:* “This is the house the Lord has made.”

Now and for ever and ever. Amen.

Kontakion, Tone 2: The tomb and death could not hold the Mother of 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.

Prokeimenon, Tone 3

My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour.

verse: Because he has regarded the humility of His handmaid; for behold, all generations shall call me blessed. (Luke 1:46-48)

Prokeimenon II, Tone 4

Holiness befits your house, O Lord, for length of days.

Epistle

Hebrews 3:1-4

Alleluia, Tone 8

verse: Rise up, O Lord, to the place of Your rest, You and the ark of Your holiness.

verse: The Lord swore an oath to David, and will not go back on His word.

verse: His city is founded on the holy mountain.

Gospel

Matthew 13:16-18

Hymn to the Mother of God

Seeing the pure one’s falling asleep, angels marvelled in wonder how the Virgin could ascend from earth to heaven.

And the Irmos: O pure Virgin, in you are conquered the bounds of nature,* for childbirth remains virginal and death is betrothed to life.* Virgin after childbearing and alive after death, O Mother of God,* never cease to save your inheritance.

Communion Hymn

I will take the cup of salvation;* and I will call upon the name of the Lord.* I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of Your house; and the place where Your glory dwells.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia.