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:636@liturgy.royaldoors.net DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20261105 DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20261106 DTSTAMP:20261026T150904Z URL:https://liturgy.royaldoors.net/events/thursday-november-5-2026-the-hol y-martyrs-galaction-and-epistemis/ SUMMARY:Thursday\, November 5\, 2026\; The Holy Martyrs Galaction and Epist emis DESCRIPTION:VESPERS ON WEDNESDAY EVENING\n\nKathisma Reading\n\nThe appoint ed psalms are chanted.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 6\, Podoben “On the third day…”\n\nIf You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.\n\nYou became ministers of the gr eat mysteries of God\,* О theologians and disciples who beheld God\,* and have received the grace of healings\;* curing the diseases of all.\n\nI h ave waited for You as You have commanded\; my soul patiently relies on You r promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord.\n\nYou are the great refuge a nd protection of our souls* and the expulsion of evil spirits\, О apostle s of the Lord who beheld God\;* wherefore\, we ever honour you.\n\nFrom th e morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nFrom every e vil circumstance\, from harm wrought by the demons\,* from transgressions and wretched captivity\,* deliver those who honour you with faith\,* О di vine and blessed apostles.\n\nTone 8\n\nFor with the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful redemption\;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.\n\nNurtured on the milk of faith\, you attained m aturity in Christ\,* for the sake of your many torments and tribulations\, O Galaction\,* having become an acceptable sacrifice and a perfect immola tion* through your voluntary onslaught\, O you who are most rich.* O your firm and steadfast faith\, whereby you received God\,* O you who are now d eified most perfectly!\n\nPraise the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim Hi s glory\, all you people.\n\nArtfully did you seek out the Wellspring of g ood things most earnestly desired\,* and with the splendours thereof you i llumined soul and mind\, O you who are blessed of God\;* and with mighty o pposition you cast down the ancient tyrant of great craft\, much suffering martyr Epistemis\,* O divine adornment of monastics.\n\nStrong is the lov e of the Lord for us\;* eternally will His truth endure.\n\nThe two all-ra diant luminaries of the noetic East* shine forth with grace and piously il lumine all creation* with the transcendent splendours of their sufferings and the divine flames of healings.* And honouring their most splendid feas t\, we glorify Christ* who illumines all for their sake.\n\nTone 8\, Glory … Now…\n\nRejoice\, enlightenment of souls\,* forgiveness of sinners\, correction of the negligent!* Rejoice\, consolation and joy\, and helper of the sorrowful!* Rejoice\, O good one\, healing of the souls of the weak !* Rejoice\, reconciliation with God and mediatrix\,* O pure one who are m ore holy than all the seraphim!\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 6\n\nOnce\, the apost les trolled the depths of the sea with nets\, О Lord\,* and likewise the heights of the kingdom for the sake of their doctrines.* In the first\, th ey skilfully tested the unfathomable depths\;* and in the other they attai ned through faith Your infinite bosom\,* and they proclaimed Your timeless Son to the world.* By their supplications and those of all the saints\,* have mercy on us.\n\nI have lifted up my eyes to You enthroned in heaven. Behold\, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters\, as th e eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress\, so are our eyes on the Lord our God until He has mercy on us.\n\nOnce\, when Your disciples were tempest-tossed in a boat\, О Christ\,* they cried out: “O Master\, sav e us! For we are perishing!” *And we now cry aloud:* We pray You\, О ou r Saviour and Lover of mankind\,* deliver us from our tribulations!\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 Cross was the invincible weapon of the martyrs\, О Lord\;* for they looked upon imminent death\, foreseeing the life which is to come\,* and they were strengthened by hope in You.* By their prayer s have mercy upon us!\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nThe eye of my heart longingly seeks you\, O Lady\;* disdain not my feeble sigh.* At the hour when your S on shall judge the world\,* be my protection and helper.\n\nTroparia\n\nTo ne 4\n\nYour holy martyrs\, O Lord\,* by their passions acquired the crown s of incorruptibility from You\, our God.* For possessing Your power they overcame the torturers* and shattered the feeble insolence of demons.* By their supplications\, save our souls.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nO Virgin Mothe r of God\,* we acknowledge that the Word of the Father\, Christ our God\,* was incarnate of you\, the only pure one and the only blessed one.* There fore\, we sing to you a hymn of praise and we exalt you.\n\nAT DIVINE LITU RGY ON THURSDAY MORNING\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: Yo ur holy martyrs\, O Lord\,* by their passions acquired the crowns of incor ruptibility from You\, our God.* For possessing Your power they overcame t he torturers* and shattered the feeble insolence of demons.* By their supp lications\, save our souls.\n\nGlory be to the Father and to the Son and t o the Holy Spirit\, now and for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 2 : As bright and unerring stars you appeared to the world* proclaiming with your rays the Sun\, that is\, Christ\, O martyrs\,* and you have extingui shed all error.* But to us you give light\, praying without ceasing for al l of us.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 4\n\nTo the saints who are in His land\,* t he Lord has made wonderful all His desires in them.\n\nverse: I foresaw th e Lord always in my sight\, for He is at my right hand that I may not be s haken. (Psalm 15:3\,8)\n\nEpistle\n\n1 Thessalonians 5:1-8\n\nAlleluia\, T one 4\n\nverse: The just cried out and the Lord heard them\, and delivered them out of their afflictions.\n\nverse: The afflictions of the just are many\, and out of them all will the Lord deliver them. (Psalm 33:18\,20)\n \nGospel\n\nLuke 11:47-12:1\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nRejoice in the Lord\, O y ou just\;* praise befits the righteous.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. 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