BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/Winnipeg X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Winnipeg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:478@liturgy.royaldoors.net DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton;VALUE=DATE:20260602 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton;VALUE=DATE:20260603 DTSTAMP:20260529T144336Z URL:https://liturgy.royaldoors.net/events/tuesday-june-2-2026-our-holy-fat her-nicephorus-the-confessor/ SUMMARY:Tuesday\, June 2\, 2026\; Our Holy Father Nicephorus the Confessor. DESCRIPTION:Apostle’s Fast.\n\nAT VESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING\n\nKathisma R eading\n\nThe appointed psalms are chanted.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 8\n\nI f You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.\n\nI have acquired neither compunction\, nor a w ellspring of tears\,* nor fervent confession\, nor weeping which washes me clean\, nor humility of heart\;* I have been neither an emulator of the p ublican\, nor of the harlot\, nor of the prodigal son*. How\, therefore\, shall I find remission for my many sins?* But in the judgments which You k now\, save me\, О Christ.\n\nI have waited for You as You have commanded\ ; my soul patiently relies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lo rd.\n\nI have made myself foreign to every commandment of God\;* in every way I have neglected higher virtue\;* I have mindlessly wasted my whole li fe in slothfulness\;* and I have committed every unseemly and iniquitous a ct in fornication.* Wherefore\, since You are compassionate\, О Christ\, have pity\, and freely save me.\n\nFrom the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nIn Your anger rebuke me not who am the work of Your hands\,* and who with my foolish mind have torn myself away from g oodness\, О Lover of mankind\,* and who in the abyss of Your ineffable co mpassion* was for my sake well-pleased to become like to me.* But through the supplications of Your ever-Virgin Mother\, О Word\,* grant me divine conversion\, in that You are God.\n\nTone 4\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\nO divinely inspired one\, manifest in s anctity\,* we know you to be the ground of the Truth\,* the confirmation o f the Faith\, the expounder of dogmas\, the advocate of piety\,* the abode of purity\, the chosen receptacle\,* the sweet savour of the Spirit\, the great treasury of doctrines\,* the foundation of the Church of Christ.\n\ nPraise the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people. \n\nO all-wise\, blessed and holy hierarch\,* we praise you\, the successo r of the apostles\,* who shared in the ways of the martyrs\,* the emulator of the fasters\, the seal of teachers\,* the divine model\, the initiate of the mysteries of Christ\,* the divinely flowing river of understanding\ ,* drowning the thoughts of the iniquitous and blasphemous.\n\nStrong is t he love of the Lord for us\;* eternally will His truth endure.\n\nHaving i ncreased the talent of wisdom\, O you who are most rich\,* you were vouchs afed the joy of your Lord.* Adorned with the grace of divine radiance\,* a nd shining noetically with the brilliant radiance of the Spirit\,* you sta nd now at the right hand of the Bestower of life\,* ever illumined\, O glo rious one\,* with the rays that emanate therefrom.\n\nTone 8\, Glory… No w…\n\nWith faith I hasten to your protection\, О pure Theotokos.* Save me from perils and misfortunes\, from the confusion of the passions and th e malice of the demons.* For\, possessed of an abyss of mercy\,* you have been shown to be a mediatress of salvation\,*О Lady\,* who has given birt h to the only merciful\, all-compassionate and abundantly kind-hearted God .\n\nProkeimenon\n\nTone 4\n\nThe Lord hears me* when I cry out to Him.\n\ nverse: Whenever I called\, the God of my justice heard me.\n\nAposticha\n \nTone 8\n\nThe angels unceasingly hymn You\, the King and Master\;* and I fall down before You\, crying like the publican:* Cleanse me\, О God\, a nd have mercy upon me!\n\nI have lifted up my eyes to You enthroned in hea ven. 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 o n the Lord our God until He has mercy on us.\n\nAs you are immortal\, О m y soul\,* let not the waves of life engulf you\,* but rise up\, crying out to your Benefactor:* Cleanse me\, О God\, and save me!\n\nHave mercy on us\, O Lord\, have mercy 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 p roud.\n\nО martyrs of the Lord\, entreat our God\,* and ask for our souls a multitude of compassions* and the cleansing of our many transgressions\ , we beseech you.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nRejoice\, praise of the universe!* Rejoice\, temple of the Lord!* Rejoice\, mountain overshadowed!* Rejoice\ , refuge of all!* Rejoice\, golden candlestick!* Rejoice\, honoured glory of the Orthodox!* Rejoice\, Mary\, Mother of Christ God!* Rejoice\, paradi se! Rejoice\, divine table!* Rejoice\, tabernacle! Rejoice\, golden jar!* Rejoice\, hope of all!\n\n \;\n\nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON TUESDAY MORNING\ n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: The truth of your deeds ma de you for your flock a rule of faith* and an image of meekness\,* a teach er of continence.* And so you gained the heights through humility\,* riche s through poverty\,* father and bishop\, Nicephorus.* Intercede with Chris t\, our God\,* for the salvation of our souls.\n\nGlory be to the Father a nd to the Son and to the Holy Spirit\, now and for ever and ever. Amen.\n\ nKontakion\, Tone 2: O thunder of justice\, spiritual trumpet\,* planter o f faith and destroyer of heresies\,* servant of the Trinity\, great hierar ch Nicephorus\,* forever standing in the company of the angels\,* pray wit hout ceasing for all of us.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 1\n\nMy mouth shall spea k wisdom and the meditation of my heart understanding.\n\nverse: Hear thes e things\, all you nations\; give ear all you inhabitants of the world. (P salm 28:4\,2)\n\nEpistle\n\nRomans 4:4-12\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 2\n\nverse: T he mouth of the just man shall meditate wisdom and his tongue shall speak judgment.\n\nverse: The law of his God is in his heart\, and his steps wil l not falter. (Psalm 36:30\,31)\n\nGospel\n\nMatthew 7:15-21\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nThe just man shall be in everlasting remembrance\;* of evil hearsa y he shall have no fear.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. 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