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SUMMARY:Tuesday\, August 4\, 2026\; The Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus\; Holy
  Venerable Woman-Martyr Eudocia.
DESCRIPTION:Dormition Fast\n\nVESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING\n\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 revered.\n\nMy whole life have I\, a wretch\, shamefully squand
 ered with harlots\, О Lord\,* but like the prodigal I cry out with compun
 ction:* О heavenly Father\, I have sinned!* Cleanse and save me\, and rej
 ect me not who have drawn far away from You\,* and am now beggared because
  of my fruitless deeds.\n\nI have waited for You as You have commanded\; m
 y soul patiently relies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
 \n\nO Christ who are rich\,* in impoverishing Yourself You have enriched m
 ankind with immortality and radiance.* Wherefore\, with the virtues enrich
  me* who have been impoverished by the pleasures of life\,* and number me 
 with the pauper Lazarus\,* rescuing me from the torment of the rich man an
 d Gehenna\,* which lie before me.\n\nFrom the morning watch until night* l
 et Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nI have sorely enriched myself with evil\,*
  I have loved food and preferred the good things of this life\,* and am co
 ndemned to Gehenna\, О Lord.* My starving mind have I disdained\, as the 
 rich man did Lazarus.* Have pity on me\, who have been cast away* from the
  doors of Your divine works\, О Lord.\n\nTone 1\, Podoben “Joy of the r
 anks of heaven…”\n\nFor with the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him th
 ere is plentiful redemption\;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its ini
 quities.\n\nCome\, let us ever sing hymns to the memory of the seven honou
 red youths\;* the brilliant seven-branched lampstand.* Let us cry out to C
 hrist who has crowned them:* By their prayers\, Lord and Deliverer\, bring
  peace to our life!\n\nPraise the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His g
 lory\, all you people.\n\nThe seven godly youths died according to nature.
 * Yet they rose up at once as though from sleep* in a manner transcending 
 nature indeed* for they had slept in the cave as dead for three hundred an
 d seventy-two years!\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;* eternally
  will His truth endure.\n\nNow let us honour John and Martinian\,* Anthony
  and Dionysius* with the godly Iamblicus and Maximilian\,* for they pray o
 n our behalf.* Together with them let us praise with devotion* the wise Ex
 acustodian.\n\nTone 1\, Glory… Now…\n\nWith the staff of your prayer\,
  O pure Theotokos\,* quickly drive away the bestial passions from my wretc
 hed soul\,* peacefully guiding my life\;* and number me upon the holy floc
 k of your chosen ones.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 4\n\nThe Lord hears me* when 
 I cry out to Him.\n\nverse: Whenever I called\, the God of my justice hear
 d me.\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 1\n\nGreat is the abyss of my many transgressio
 ns\, О Saviour\,* and I am grievously engulfed because of my offenses.* G
 rant me Your hand\, as You did to Peter\, О God.* Save me and have mercy 
 upon me!\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 the 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\nIn that I have been condemned for wicked
  thoughts and deeds\, О Saviour\,* grant me the thought of returning to Y
 ou\, О God\,* that I may cry aloud: Save me\, О good Benefactor\,* and h
 ave mercy upon me!\n\nHave mercy on us\, O Lord\, have mercy on us\; for w
 e have been filled with shame\; our soul is all too full of the mockery of
  the rich\, of the contempt of the proud.\n\nThe confession you made befor
 e the tribunal reviled the power of the demons\,* and freed mankind from d
 elusion\, О saints.* Wherefore\, when you were beheaded you cried aloud:*
  О Lord\, may the sacrifice of our lives be well-pleasing to You\,* for h
 aving loved You\, we have spurned this transitory life\,* О Lover of mank
 ind.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nO all-hymned Virgin\,* in whom Moses beheld a m
 ystery with prophetic eyes* the bush that burned yet remained unconsumed\;
 * for the fire of the Godhead did not burn your womb\, O pure one.* Wheref
 ore\, we beseech you\, as the Mother of our God:* beg peace and great merc
 y for the world.\n\nTroparia\n\nTone 4\n\nWhat a marvel of faith!* The sev
 en holy youths lived in a cave as in a palace\,* and they passed on withou
 t corruption.* After time had marched on\, they came out as if from sleep*
  and are fitting signs of the resurrection of all.* Have mercy on us\, O C
 hrist\, through their prayers.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nLet us poor sinners h
 asten with fervour to the Mother of God\;* let us humbly kneel before her 
 and say from the depth of our hearts:* O Lady\, be kind to us and help us.
 * Hasten\, for we are perishing under a multitude of sins.* Do not turn aw
 ay your servants empty-handed\,* for you are their only hope and protectio
 n.\n\nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\nTro
 parion\, Tone 4: What a marvel of faith!* The seven holy youths lived in a
  cave as in a palace\,* and they passed on without corruption.* After time
  had marched on\, they came out as if from sleep* and are fitting signs of
  the resurrection of all.* Have mercy on us\, O Christ\, through their pra
 yers.\n\nGlory be to the Father\, and to the Son\, and to the Holy Spirit\
 , now and for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 4: Despising the co
 rruptible things of this world\,* they received gifts which were incorrupt
 ible.* They died but did not decay.* Coming out after many years\, they bu
 ry unbelief.* O faithful people\, come to praise them today\,* and let us 
 raise a hymn to Christ.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 4\n\nTo the saints who are i
 n His land\, the Lord has made wonderful all His desires in them.\n\nverse
 : I foresaw the Lord in my sight\, for He is at my right hand that I may n
 ot be shaken. (Psalm 15:3\,8)\n\nEpistle\n\n2 Corinthians 2:14-3:3\n\nAlle
 luia\, Tone 4\n\nverse: The just cried out and the Lord heard them\, and d
 elivered them out of their afflictions.\n\nverse: The afflictions of the j
 ust are many\, and out of them all will the Lord deliver them. (Psalm 33:1
 8\,20)\n\nGospel\n\nMatthew 23:23-28\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nThe just man sha
 ll be in everlasting remembrance\;* of evil hearsay he shall have no fear.
 * Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. (Psalm 111:6)
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