BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.8//EN TZID:America/Winnipeg X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Winnipeg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:622@liturgy.royaldoors.net DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20261022 DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20261023 DTSTAMP:20261012T230923Z URL:https://liturgy.royaldoors.net/events/thursday-october-22-2026-the-hol y-wonderworker-and-equal-to-the-apostles-abercius-bishop-of-hieropolis-hol y-seven-youths-of-ephesus-holy-father-john-paul-ii-pope/ SUMMARY:Thursday\, October 22\, 2026\; The Holy Wonderworker and Equal-to-t he-Apostles Abercius\, Bishop of Hieropolis\; Holy Seven Youths of Ephesus \; Holy Father John Paul II\, Pope DESCRIPTION:AT VESPERS ON WEDNESDAY EVENING\n\nKathisma Reading\n\nThe appo inted psalms are chanted.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 2\, Podoben “When from the Tree…”\n\nIf You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But wit h You forgiveness is that You may be revered.\n\nWith the splendours of di vine teaching* you destroyed the night of polytheism\, O father Abercius\, * and dawning like the morn\,* you made those who before were in darkness children of the day\,* showing forth most glorious miracles\, O hierarch.* Therefore\, we all celebrate your holy memory with faith\,* singing to yo u\, O divinely inspired one.\n\nI have waited for You as You have commande d\; my soul patiently relies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord.\n\nWorking a miracle\, O father\,* you mingled wine and oil in a sin gle vessel\, preserved in another form\,* but by divine grace caused them to separate when needed\;* and by your prayer a gift of warm waters flowed forth\,* healing the infirmities of all those who approach you with faith * and call you blessed\, O Abercius.\n\nFrom the morning watch until night * let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nCleaving wholly to God\, O Abercius\,* you were revealed to be a fulfiller of divine teachings\;* and having rece ived grace from on high\, O venerable one\,* you drove away the diverse in firmities of all\,* and destroying the temples of the idols* you planted d ivine knowledge in those who before languished wretchedly in ignorance\,* O blessed one.\n\nTone 4\, Podoben “As one valiant among the martyrs… ”\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\nSubmi tting to God\, the blessed youths spurned the exceedingly wicked commands\ ,* and when they were bound they broke the bonds of delusion\,* and\, reje cting worldly rank\, have received a glory* which made them most gloriousl y perfect* and won for them the enjoyment of the heavenly kingdom.\n\nPrai se the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people.\n\nH aving mightily trained yourselves for the struggles of suffering\, O saint s\, you hid in the cave\,* entreating to the Lord with unceasing prayers\, * that He grant might and power* through judgments which He who is the Lov er of mankind knows\;* and in a godly manner He commanded all of you to fa ll asleep in peace.\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;* eternally will His truth endure.\n\nCome\, let us earnestly hymn the witnesses of pi ety\,* the divinely assembled regiment\, the blessed choir\,* the invincib le company of martyrs\, the beautiful triumph of the Church of God\,* the indivisible assembly\,* the unvanquished army\, the unshakable foundation of piety.\n\nTone 3\, Glory…\n\nO venerable hierarch\, all-blessed fathe r Abercius\, wonder-worker and favourite of God\,* who shone forth in your prophetic life\,* you have been deemed worthy of apostolic gifts\,* uncea singly ministering to the Saviour with the angels.* Pray that our souls be delivered from every threat.\n\nNow…\n\nA sword pierced your heart\, O most pure one\,* when you beheld your Son upon the Cross\;* whereupon you cried aloud:* Show me not to be childless\, O my Son and my God\,* You who have kept me a Virgin even after I gave birth!\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 4\n\n You enlightened the choir of the apostles with the Holy Spirit\, О Christ God.* By them wash away the defilement of our sin\, and have mercy on us. \n\nI have lifted up my eyes to You enthroned in heaven. Behold\, as the e yes of servants are on the hands of their masters\, as the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress\, so are our eyes on the Lord our God unt il He has mercy on us.\n\nThy Holy Spirit revealed the illiterate disciple s to be teachers\, О Christ God\,* and set at naught the deception of the pagans with their greatly eloquent harmony\,* in that He is almighty.\n\n Have mercy on us\, O Lord\, have mercy on us\; for we have been filled wit h shame\; our soul is all too full of the mockery of the rich\, of the con tempt of the proud.\n\nO martyrs of the Lord\,* you animate sacrifices\, n oetic whole-burnt offerings\, perfect offerings to God\,* you lambs who kn ow God and are known of Him\,* and to whose fold the wolves have no entry: * Pray that with you we also may be tended by the water of peace.\n\nTone 4\, Glory… Now…\n\nDeliver us from our needs\, O Mother of Christ God\ ,* you who have given birth to the Creator of all\,* that we all may cry o ut to you:* Rejoice\, O you who alone are the intercessor for our souls!\n \nTroparia\n\nTone 4\n\nYou became a preacher of truth and a worker of mir acles\,* a father of orphans and a support of the poor\,* a brave shepherd of the flock and a terror to devils.* Defend those who cry to you\, O fat her Abercius\,* and beg Christ our God to save our souls.\n\nGlory…\n\nI n their sufferings\, Your martyrs\, O Lord\,* received imperishable crowns from You\, our God\;* for\, possessed of You might\,* they set at naught the tyrants and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons.* By their suppl ications save our souls.\n\nNow…\n\nO Virgin Mother of God\,* we acknowl edge that the Word of the Father\, Christ our God\,* was incarnate of you\ , the only pure one and the only blessed one.* Therefore\, we sing to you a hymn of praise and we exalt you.\n\nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON THURSDAY MORNIN G\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: You became a preacher of truth and a worker of miracles\,* a father of orphans and a support of th e poor\,* a brave shepherd of the flock and a terror to devils.* Defend th ose who cry to you\, O father Abercius\,* and beg Christ our God to save o ur souls.\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: In their sufferings\, Your martyrs\, O Lo rd\,* received imperishable crowns from You\, our God\;* for\, possessed o f You might\,* they set at naught the tyrants and crushed the feeble audac ity of the demons.* By their supplications save our souls.\n\nGlory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 4: O Christ who has glorified Your saints on earth\,* before Your awesome Seco nd Coming* You have shown forth the resurrection to those who knew it not\ ,* through the most glorious raising up of the youths\,* revealing their c lothing and bodies as incorrupt\;* prevailing upon the emperor to cry alou d:* Truly there is resurrection for the dead!\n\nNow and for ever and ever . Amen.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 8: The whole Church of the faithful consider y ou to be a most excellent priest* and dweller with the apostles\, O Aberci us.* By your supplications preserve it invincible\,* un-assailed and undef iled by all heresy\,* in that you are ever-memorable.\n\nProkeimenon\, Ton e 1\n\nMy mouth shall speak wisdom and the meditation of my heart understa nding.\n\nverse: Hear these things\, all you nations\; give ear all you in habitants of the world. (Psalm 28:4\,2)\n\nEpistle\n\nColossians 4:2-9\n\n Alleluia\, Tone 2\n\nverse: The mouth of the just man shall meditate wisdo m and his tongue shall speak judgment.\n\nverse: The law of his God is in his heart\, and his steps will not falter. (Psalm 36:30\,31)\n\nGospel\n\n Luke 9:49-56\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nThe just man shall be in everlasting rem embrance\;* of evil hearsay he shall have no fear.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. 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