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SUMMARY:Thursday\, June 4\, 2026\; Most Holy Eucharist
DESCRIPTION:Apostle’s Fast\n\nGREAT VESPERS WITH LYTIA ON WEDNESDAY EVENI
 NG\n\nKathisma Reading\n\n“Blessed is man…” is sung.\n\nAt Psalm 140
 \n\nTone 6\n\nOut of the depths I cry to You\, O Lord\;* O Lord\, hear my 
 voice!\n\nO Lover of mankind\,* when You were at supper with Your faithful
  disciples* You revealed the great mystery of Your incarnation\, saying:* 
 Eat the life-giving bread which is My Body\,* and drink the Blood of etern
 al life.\n\nLet Your ears be attentive* to the voice of my prayer.\n\nO Lo
 ver of mankind\,* when You were at supper with Your faithful disciples* Yo
 u revealed the great mystery of Your incarnation\, saying:* Eat the life-g
 iving bread which is My Body\,* and drink the Blood of eternal life.\n\nIf
  You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is 
 that You may be revered.\n\nThe room\, where Christ celebrated the Passove
 r\,* became a heavenly tabernacle\,* an unbloody supper and a spiritual se
 rvice\,* and the table\, on which these mysteries were celebrated\,* a spi
 ritual altar.\n\nI have waited for You as You have commanded\; my soul pat
 iently relies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord.\n\nThe ro
 om\, where Christ celebrated the Passover\,* became a heavenly tabernacle\
 ,* an unbloody supper and a spiritual service\,* and the table\, on which 
 these mysteries were celebrated\,* a spiritual altar.\n\nFrom the morning 
 watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nO Bread of heaven\, Yo
 u blessed the bread* and offered thanks to the Father and Begetter.* You a
 lso took the chalice and gave it to Your disciples\, saying:* Take\, eat -
  this is My Body\,* and drink the Blood of incorruptible life.\n\nFor with
  the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful redemption\;* a
 nd He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.\n\nThe Lord fed His dis
 ciples with heavenly food.* Before His passion He gave them the Bread of A
 ngels\,* more wonderful than the manna.* “Your fathers\,” said the Lor
 d\, “ate manna in the desert and died.* This is the bread that comes dow
 n from heaven\;* whoever eats this bread shall not die\, but shall live fo
 rever.”* Grant today that we may also partake of this bread\,* through t
 he prayers of the Mother\n\nPraise the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim 
 His glory\, all you people.\n\nAfter the disciples had eaten the Mystical 
 Supper\,* Christ took bread into His hands\, raised His eyes to heaven\,* 
 blessed and broke it\, gave it to His disciples\, saying:* Take eat\; this
  is My Body\, which is broken for you* for the remission of sins and life 
 everlasting.\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;* eternally will Hi
 s truth endure.\n\nYou alone possess immortality and dwell in light inacce
 ssible.* How then can You\, have fellowship with the idol of sinful darkne
 ss?* Therefore\, You\, Who are that light which enlightens every man\,* do
  not judge or cast our dark and sinful souls into the outer darkness\,* bu
 t illumine us with Your grace\, we beseech You\,* O Ocean of mercy\, O tra
 nsubstantial Bread!\n\nTone 4\, Glory… Now…\n\nCome\, you lovers of fe
 asts\,* let us today joyfully celebrate the saving feast of the life-givin
 g Bread* and the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world.* Let us
  celebrate today\, not with the leaven of our sinful past\,* but with swee
 tness of purity and truth.* And\, having purified ourselves\, let us becom
 e His worthy partakers\,* in order to obtain the everlasting kingdom of Ch
 rist.\n\nReadings\n\n(1) Exodus 16:1-3\,11-15\; 1 Samuel 21:2-7\; 1 Kings 
 17:2-16\n\nLytia\n\nTone 6\n\nDavid\, the forefather of Christ\,* played a
 nd danced before the overshadowed Ark.* Today\, we also worship God in the
  tabernacle\,* Whose human nature the Ark prefigured.* For\, here\, instea
 d of the manna\,* we mysteriously behold the incarnate Divinity\,* and ins
 tead of the tablets of the Law\,* the Lawgiver Christ our God\,* Who saves
  our souls.\n\nIn the Old Testament the Ark was overlaid inside and outsid
 e with gold.* When the heathens seized it\,* the Lord could not suffer to 
 dwell with the idol in the temple\,* but dashed it to the ground\, smashin
 g its head and both palms of its hands.* Yet\, You\, O Lover of mankind\, 
 Christ our God\,* willed to enter the defiled temple of our wretched souls
 ?* Therefore\, purify and sanctify our souls\, O Lord.\n\nO pure Lamb\, Wh
 o takes away the sins of the whole world!* for the salvation of mankind Yo
 u changed bread into Your Body\,* and under the form of bread You mysterio
 usly hid Yourself\,* body\, soul\, and divinity.* Today\, we\, the faithfu
 l\,* solemnly and fervently worship this Bread with faith.\n\nTone 2\, Glo
 ry… Now… \n\nWe\, the faithful\, with trembling\,* approach Your Mysti
 cal Supper and divine table\,* desiring to drink of the fountain of immort
 ality\;* but fear and trembling seize us because of our numerous sins.* Th
 rough You we wish to be cleansed of them\,* by the supplications of our La
 dy\, the Mother of God.\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 1\n\nLet us praise the living
  and heavenly Bread* which\, in an unspeakable manner\, continually comes 
 down from heaven\,* and with one mind let us say:* Rejoice! 0 Body of Chri
 st\,* through which we all have been saved.* Rejoice! 0 divine and sacred 
 Blood\,* through which we have been redeemed.\n\nBy the Bread of the Angel
 s man is fed\; He sent them food in abundance.\n\nO marvellous wonder!* Yo
 u gave Your very self to Your disciples and friends as food\, saying:* Eat
  this bread - it is My Body.* And taking the chalice\, You said:* All of y
 ou\, drink My Blood!\n\nAnd\, as though rain He sent them manna as food\, 
 and He gave them bread from heaven.\n\nO divine\, most holy\, most preciou
 s Body of the God-Man and Word!* Save Your servants from all anxiety\, tem
 ptation\, and every kind of assault\,* and grant the heavenly kingdom and 
 life\,* for the sake of Your mercy.\n\nTone 8\, Glory… Now…\n\nO glori
 ous wonder!* Christ\, having taken bread and blessed it\,* gave it to His 
 disciples\, saying: Take and eat - this is My Body\;* take also the chalic
 e.* Then the living and divine Bread came down from heaven at that mystica
 l supper\,* and of His own free will gave Himself as food.* Therefore\, le
 t everyone examine himself\,* and then let him eat and drink for the salva
 tion of soul and life everlasting.\n\nTroparion\n\nTone 4\n\nYour memorial
 \, O Christ our God\,* has shone forth upon the world as a festal day\,* f
 or the fishermen learned from You to offer unbloody sacrifice with bread a
 nd wine.* And so\, we celebrate Your divine memorial\,* and doing so cry o
 ut\, O Lord\, glory be to You! (3)\n\nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON THURSDAY MORNIN
 G\n\nAntiphon 1\n\nThe Lord is my shepherd\, I shall not want\; he makes m
 e lie down in green pastures.\n\nThrough the prayers of the Mother of God\
 , O Saviour\, save us.\n\nEven though I walk through the valley of the sha
 dow of death\, I fear no evil\; for You are with me.\n\nThrough the prayer
 s of the Mother of God\, O Saviour\, save us.\n\nYou prepare a table befor
 e me in the presence of my enemies.\n\nThrough the prayers of the Mother o
 f God\, O Saviour\, save us.\n\nGlory… Now… Only-Begotten Son…\n\nAn
 tiphon 3\n\nAnswer me when I call\, O God of my righteousness!\n\nTropario
 n\, Tone 4: Your memorial\, O Christ our God\,* has shone forth upon the w
 orld as a festal day\,* for the fishermen learned from You to offer unbloo
 dy sacrifice with bread and wine.* And so\, we celebrate Your divine memor
 ial\,* and doing so cry out\, O Lord\, glory be to You!\n\nOffer right sac
 rifices\, and put your trust in the Lord.\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: Your memo
 rial\, O Christ our God\,* has shone forth upon the world as a festal day\
 ,* for the fishermen learned from You to offer unbloody sacrifice with bre
 ad and wine.* And so\, we celebrate Your divine memorial\,* and doing so c
 ry out\, O Lord\, glory be to You!\n\nYou have put more joy in my heart th
 an they have when their grain and wine abound.\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: Your
  memorial\, O Christ our God\,* has shone forth upon the world as a festal
  day\,* for the fishermen learned from You to offer unbloody sacrifice wit
 h bread and wine.* And so\, we celebrate Your divine memorial\,* and doing
  so cry out\, O Lord\, glory be to You!\n\nEntrance\n\nI will offer You a 
 sacrifice of praise\; I will call upon the name of the Lord.\n\nTroparion 
 and Kontakion\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: Your memorial\, O Christ our God\,* h
 as shone forth upon the world as a festal day\,* for the fishermen learned
  from You to offer unbloody sacrifice with bread and wine.* And so\, we ce
 lebrate Your divine memorial\,* and doing so cry out\, O Lord\, glory be t
 o You!\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nKontakion\, Tone 4: Behold Christ is present 
 as food for all.* Come\, let us fall down and worship Christ our God* hidd
 en under these Mysteries and humbly cry out:* Consume us not by fire throu
 gh communion\, O Master\, unworthy as we are\,* but be the One who consume
 s our sins by fire* and purifies our souls.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 4\n\nHe 
 would feed you with the finest of the wheat\, and with honey from the rock
  I would satisfy you.\n\nverse: Exalt in God\, our helper! (Ps 81:16\,2)\n
 \nEpistle\n\n1 Corinthians 11:23-32\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 4\n\nverse: The eye
 s of all look to You\, and You give them their food in due season.\n\nvers
 e: You open Your hand\; You satisfy the desire of every living thing. (Ps 
 144: 15\,16)\n\nGospel\n\nJohn 6:48-54\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nWhoever eats M
 y flesh and drinks My blood abides in me\, and I in him * Alleluia\, allel
 uia\,* alleluia. (John 6:56)
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