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SUMMARY:Tuesday\, July 7\, 2026\; Our Venerable Father Thomas of Maleum and
  Acacius who is mentioned in “The Ladder of Divine Ascent
DESCRIPTION:AT VESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 1\, Podobe
 n\, “Joy of the ranks of heaven…”\n\nIf You mark iniquities\, Lord\,
  who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.\n\nO
  father\, we have come to know you as a divinely radiant beacon\,* illumin
 ing the world with noetic beams* and dispelling the darkness of the wicked
  tumult of the demons.* Therefore\, with faith we celebrate your splendid 
 memory\, O blessed one.\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\nHaving been resplendent in riches and power in thy former life\, O fat
 her Thomas\,* you arrayed yourself in the monastic habit\, O venerable one
 \,* emulating the poverty of Him who became incarnate for our sake.* There
 fore\, He has made you rich with many spiritual gifts.\n\nFrom the morning
  watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nWith a pillar of fire
 \, O father\, God manifestly guided you to salvation\,* to the calm harbou
 r\, to the mountain of dispassion\;* and by your prayer you made water gus
 h forth\,* caused the blind to see and the lame to walk aright.\n\nTone 4\
 , Podoben “As one valiant among the martyrs…”\n\nFor with the Lord t
 here is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful redemption\;* and He shall
  redeem Israel from all its iniquities.\n\nThrough abstinence you mortifie
 d carnal knowledge* and enlivened your soul with fasting and the exercise 
 of the virtues.* Wherefore\, you have been shown to be truly alive even af
 ter your repose\;* for death has been as a dream to you who have passed ov
 er to God* and placed your soul in His hands\, O glorious Acacius.\n\nPrai
 se the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people.\n\nO
  Acacius\, you lulled to sleep the desires of the passions\,* having acqui
 red all-night vigilance\, obedience\, and humility\,* the knowledge of the
  divine Scriptures\,* a pure heart\, and an intellect untroubled.* Wherefo
 re\, you became a receptacle of the Holy Spirit\,* shining rays of miracle
 s upon all the ends of the earth.\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us
 \;* eternally will His truth endure.\n\nHaving utterly disdained worldly a
 ttachments\,* you became a vessel of dispassion\;* and in love of wisdom\,
  O glorious one\,* you were exalted to the ultimate Desire by active ascen
 t\,* and with mystic vision you beheld the inconceivable and divine beauti
 es of things unseen\,* O Acacius most wise and blessed.\n\nTone 4\, Glory
 … Now…\n\nO most pure one\, who contained within your womb the unconta
 inable God* who\, in His love for mankind\, became man\,* received from yo
 u our substance and manifestly deified it\,* disdain me not who am now sor
 rowful\,* but quickly have pity and free me from the diverse malice and ho
 stility of the evil one.\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 5\n\nO Lord\, I cease not to
  sin\,* nor do I perceive Your love for mankind which You have granted me.
 * Vanquish my lack of discernment\, O You who alone are good\,* and have m
 ercy upon me.\n\nI have lifted up my eyes to You enthroned in heaven. Beho
 ld\, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters\, as the ey
 es of a maid are on the hands of her mistress\, so are our eyes on the Lor
 d our God until He has mercy on us.\n\nO Lord\, from reverent fear of You 
 I tremble\,* yet I cease not from committing sins.* Who\, when called to t
 rial\, does not fear the judge?* Or who\, desiring to be healed\, angers t
 he physician\, as I do?* O longsuffering Lord\, have compassion upon my we
 akness\,* and have mercy upon me.\n\nHave mercy on us\, O Lord\, have merc
 y on us\; for we have been filled with shame\; our soul is all too full of
  the mockery of the rich\, of the contempt of the proud.\n\nHaving put on 
 the breastplate of faith and armed themselves with the image of the Cross\
 ,* Your saints\, О Lord\, manfully gave themselves over to torments* and 
 cast down the pride and deception of the devil.* As God almighty\, send do
 wn peace upon the world through their entreaties\,* and great mercy upon o
 ur souls.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nAssuage the sufferings of my much-sighing 
 soul\,* O you that wipe every tear from the face of the earth\;* for you b
 anish the sufferings of mankind\,* and dispel the sorrows of the sinful.* 
 For in you do we all have our hope and confirmation\,* O most holy Virgin 
 Mother.\n\nTroparia\n\nTone 4\n\nGod of our fathers\, You always treat us 
 fairly.* Deprive us not of Your mercy* but by their prayers direct our liv
 es in peace.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nLet us poor sinners hasten with fervour
  to the Mother of God\;* let us humbly kneel before her and say from the d
 epth 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 away your servants e
 mpty-handed\,* for you are their only hope and protection.\n\nAT THE DIVIN
 E LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\, Tone 
 4: God of our fathers\, You always treat us fairly.* Deprive us not of You
 r mercy* but by their prayers direct our lives in peace.\n\nGlory be to th
 e Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit\, now and for ever and ever
 . Amen.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 2: Passing through the swell of the waves with
 out being wet*\, you mightily engulfed the incorporeal enemies* in the str
 eams of your tears\, O godly venerable martyrs.* Having received the gift 
 of miracles\,* pray without ceasing for all of us.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 7
 \n\nThe venerable ones will exult in glory* and they shall by joyful in th
 eir beds.\n\nverse: Sing to the Lord a new song\; let His praise be in the
  assembly of the venerable ones. (Psalm 149:5\,1)\n\nEpistle\n\n1 Corinthi
 ans 6:20-7:12\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 6\n\nverse: Blessed is the man who fears 
 the Lord\; he shall delight exceedingly in His commandments.\n\nverse: His
  posterity shall be mighty upon the earth. (Psalm 111:1\,2)\n\nGospel\n\nM
 atthew 14:1-13\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nRejoice in the Lord\, O you just\;* pr
 aise befits the righteous.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. (Psalm 32:1)
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