BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Winnipeg X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Winnipeg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:570@liturgy.royaldoors.net DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20260901 DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20260902 DTSTAMP:20260824T211040Z URL:https://liturgy.royaldoors.net/events/tuesday-september-1-2026-beginni ng-of-the-indiction-that-is-the-new-year-our-holy-father-symeon-the-stylit e-and-his-mother-martha-synaxis-of-the-most-holy-mother-of-god-of-miasenes / SUMMARY:Tuesday\, September 1\, 2026\; Beginning of the Indiction\, that is \, the New Year\; Our Holy Father Symeon the Stylite and his mother Martha \; Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God of Miasenes. DESCRIPTION:Polyeleos Feast \n\nAT GREAT VESPERS ON MONDAY EVENING \n\nKa thisma Reading \n\nBlessed is the man… is chanted. \n\nAt Psalm 140 \ n\nFor the Indiction\, Tone 1 \n\nLead my soul forth from prison* that I may give thanks to Your name. \n\nHaving prayerfully learned the right g lorious and divine teaching of Christ\,* every day let us cry out to the  Creator:* Our Father\, who dwell in the heavens\,* give us our daily  bread\,* overlooking our transgressions. \n\nThe just shall gather aro und me* when You have been good to me. \n\nO Christ God\, who once on Mou nt Sinai inscribed the tablets\,* now in the flesh in the city of Nazare th* You have Yourself received the book of the prophet to read of God\,*  and unrolling it You taught the people* so as to fulfil that which was w ritten* concerning You. \n\nOut of the depths I cry to You\, O Lord\;*  O Lord\, hear my voice! \n\nAs once in the wilderness the bodies of the J ews* who did not truly subject themselves to You\, the Master of all\,*  fell into the abyss as was fitting\;* so now with psalmody You scatter t he bones of the impious* and unbelieving Hagarenes in hell\, O Christ. \n \nFor Symeon\, Tone 5 \n\nLet Your ears be attentive* to the voice of my prayer. \n\nO venerable father\,* were it possible for your pillar to  speak\,* it would not cease to hymn your pangs\, labours and lamentati ons.* For\, rather than bearing\, it was borne\, like a tree watered by y our tears.* The angels were amazed\, men marvelled\, and the demons fear ed your patience\, O venerable Symeon.* Pray that our souls be saved!   \n\nIf You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You for giveness is that You may be revered. \n\nO venerable father\,* emulatin g your Master through the power of the divine Spirit\,* you mounted moun t your pillar as though it were a cross.* He rent asunder the handwritin g of the sins of all\,* and you put put down the uprisings of the pas sions.* He was like a lamb\, and you were like an immolation.* He ascen ded the Cross\; you\, the pillar.* O venerable Symeon: pray that our sou ls be saved! \n\nI have waited for You as You have commanded\; my soul pa tiently relies on Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord. \n\nO venerable father\,* having drenched your body with tears and cleansed y our soul\,* you scaled the heights of the virtues.* Wherefore\, making your pillar a material habitation* and heavenly Sion your noetic and hea venly city\,* you astounded by your virtues the angels* and struck men w ith awe\, and didst put the demons to shame.* O venerable Symeon: pray t hat our souls be saved! \n\nFor Symeon\, Tone 2 \n\nFrom the morning wat ch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord. \n\nThe sacred Symeon spran g forth as good fruit from goodly stock\,* nurtured from infancy more by grace than by milk.* And\, lifting up his body upon the pillar of ston e\,* and lifting his mind up to God\,* he fashioned a heavenly dwelling -place with his virtues\;* and dancing in chorus with the divine powers \,* he became an abode of Christ God\, the Saviour of our souls.  \n\nF or with the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful redempt ion\;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities. \n\nYour memo ry and the meekness of your heart abide forever\,* O venerable father Sy meon\, blessed favourite of Christ\,* for though you have departed from us\, O good pastor\,* yet in spirit you do not leave us\, interceding in love before God\,* and joining chorus with the angels in the heavens.*  With them pray that our souls be saved. \n\nPraise the Lord\, all the  nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people. \n\nO all-praised father \, the shrine of your relics pours forth healings\,* and your holy soul\ , united with the angels\, rejoices as is meet.* Wherefore\, O venerable one\, having boldness before the Lord\,* and holding chorus with the in corporeal ones in the heavens\,* with them pray that our souls be saved.  \n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;* eternally will His truth endure. \n\nO God-bearer\, you loved the most exalted philosophy* and wer e beyond the world\, dwelling above visible things\,* and showed yoursel f to be a divine and undefiled mirror of God.* Ever united to the light\ , you received the light and a most notable end\, O blessed one.* Pray  in behalf of our souls\, O wise Symeon. \n\nTone 6\, Glory… \n\nGrace divine overshadows the shrine of your relics\, O sanctified Symeon.* Wh erefore\, having recourse to the fragrance of the myrrh of your miracles\ ,* we draw forth the healing of our infirmities.* Yet\, O venerable fat her\, entreat Christ God in behalf of our souls. \n\nTone 6\, Now… \ n\nO unoriginate Word and Son\, who re united with the Holy Spirit\,*  Creator and Fashioner of all things visible and invisible:* bless the cr own of the year\, preserving the multitude of the Orthodox in peace\,* t hrough the prayers of the Theotokos and of all Your saints. \n\nProkimeno n of the day \n\nReadings \n\n(1) Isaiah 61:1-9\; (2) Leviticus 26:3-24\ ; (3) Wisdom 4:7-15 \n\nAposticha \n\nTone 1 \n\nThe New Year has dawne d\, summoning all to honour them that enlighten it:* Callista\, Evodus  and Hermogenes\, the sibling sufferers\;* Symeon\, the equal of the an gels\; and Joshua\, son of Nun\;* the seven youths of Ephesus\, and the choir of martyred women forty times radiant:* sharing in whose memory\, O you that love the feasts of the Church\, let us piously cry out:* bles s\, O Lord\, the works of Your hands\,* and vouchsafe us safely to pass through the cycles of the year. \n\nTo You is due praise\, O God\, in Si on\;* and to You will a vow be rendered in Jerusalem. \n\nO Christ our God\, who has made all things in wisdom* and has brought things that were not into existence:* bless the crown of the year and preserve our citie s unharmed\;* gladden all right-believing Christians with Your strength \,* granting them victory over their adversaries\,* and bestowing great mercy upon the world\,* for the sake of the Theotokos. \n\nTone 2 \n\ nWe shall be filled with the good things of Your house\;* holy is Your t emple\, wonderful in righteousness. \n\nWondrous are You\, O Lord\, and w ondrous are Your works\, and Your ways are inscrutable\,* for You are the Wisdom of God\, the perfect Hypostasis and Power\,* equally unoriginate  and equally ever-existent:* and by Your creative and almighty authority Yo u ineffably entered the world* through Your Mother who knew not man\,* see king to benefit Your creation\, not altering in Your divinity\,* appointin g the times and seasons for our salvation\, O Immutable One.* Wherefore\, we cry to You: O good Lord\, glory to You! \n\nYou will bless the crown o f the year* with Your goodness\, O Lord. \n\nO pre-eternal Word of the Fa ther\, who created all things in wisdom* and fashioned every creature by Y our almighty word:* bless the crown of the year with Your goodness\,*  and for the sake of the Theotokos\, set heresies at nought\,* for You ar e good and love mankind. \n\nTone 5\, Glory… \n\nO venerable father\, you discovered a good ladder\,* whereby you ascended on High as on the f iery chariot which Elijah found.* Though he did not leave the means of h is ascent behind for others\,* yet even after death you have your pilla r.* O heavenly man\, earthly angel\, inextinguishable beacon of the world \, venerable Symeon:* pray that our souls be saved! \n\nNow… \n\nO Y ou that are ever King and abide for endless ages:* accept the supplication of sinners entreating salvation\, O Lover of mankind\,* and grant fertili ty to Your earth\, bestowing seasonable weather thereon\;* on behalf of or thodox Christians contend against the godless barbarians\,* as once You di d for David\, when they came to Your habitations* and defiled the most hol y place\, O Saviour.* And through the prayers of the Theotokos\, grant vic tories to them\, O Christ God\,* for You are the victory and boast of the orthodox. \n\nTroparia \n\nTone 2 \n\nFashioner of all creation* You fi xed times and seasons by Your own authority\;* bless the crown of the ye ar\, O Lord\, with Your goodness\,* preserving our nation and Your city in peace\;* and save us through the prayers of the Mother of God. \n\ nTone 1\, Glory… \n\nO venerable saint\, you became a pillar of endura nce\,* rivalling the forefathers: Job in afflictions and Joseph in trial s\,* and while still in the body you lived the life of the Bodiless ones .* O Symeon our father\,* entreat Christ God to save our souls. \n\nTo ne 1\, Now… \n\nRejoice\, Virgin Mother of God\, full of grace\,* har bour and protection of the human race:* from you the Redeemer of the wor ld was incarnate.* For only you – ever blessed and glorified – are M other and Virgin.* Pray to Christ our God to grant peace to the world.  \n\n \n\nDIVINE LITURGY \n\nTroparia and Kontakia \n\nTroparion\, Tone 2: Fashioner of all creation\,* you fixed times and seasons by Your ow n authority\;* bless the crown of the year\, O Lord\, with your goodnes s\,* preserving our nation and Your city in peace\;* and save us throug h the prayers of the Mother of God. \n\nTroparion\, Tone 1: Rejoice\, Virgin Mother of God\, full of grace\,* harbour and protection of the hu man race:* from you the Redeemer of the world was incarnate.* For only you – ever blessed and glorified – are Mother and Virgin.* Pray to Christ our God to grant peace to the world. \n\nTroparion\, Tone 1: O ve nerable saint\, you became a pillar of endurance\,* rivalling the forefa thers: Job in afflictions and Joseph in trials\,* and while still in the body you lived the life of the Bodiless ones.* O Symeon our father\,*  entreat Christ God to save our souls. \n\nGlory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. \n\nKontakion\, Tone 2: Seeking things above\, you joined yourself to those on high\;* you made your pillar a f iery chariot\,* through which\, O venerable one\, you became a companion of the angels.* With them\, unceasingly implore Christ God on our behal f. \n\nNow and for ever and ever. Amen. \n\nKontakion\, Tone 2: You dw ell on high\, O Christ the King\,* Creator and Builder of all that is se en and unseen.* You made seasons and time and the day and night.* Now bless the crown of the present year.* Guard and protect our country\, th is city and your people\,* O Lord\, so rich in mercy. \n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 3 \n\nGreat is our Lord and great is His strength\;* and of His k nowledge there is no end. \n\nverse: Praise the Lord for a psalm is good \; may praise be sweet to Him. (Psalm 146:5) \n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 7 \n \nPrecious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His venerable ones. (P salm 115:6) \n\nEpistle \n\n1 Timothy 2:1-7\; Colossians 3:12-16 \n\nAl leluia\, Tone 4 \n\nverse: To You\, O God\, is due a hymn in Sion\, and to You shall a vow be paid in Jerusalem. (Psalm 64:2) \n\nverse: You wil l bless the crown of the year with Your goodness. (Psalm 64:12) \n\nverse : Blessed is the man who fears the Lord\; he shall delight exceedingly in His commandments. (Psalm 111:6-7) \n\nGospel \n\nLuke 4:16-22\; Matthew 11:27-30 \n\nCommunion Hymn \n\nYou will bless the crown of the year* w ith Your goodness. (Psalm 64:12)* The just man shall be in everlasting  remembrance\;* of evil hearsay he shall have no fear. (Psalm 111:6-7)* A lleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Winnipeg X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Winnipeg BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR