BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:America/Winnipeg X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Winnipeg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:535@liturgy.royaldoors.net DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20260729 DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20260730 DTSTAMP:20260717T163712Z URL:https://liturgy.royaldoors.net/events/wednesday-july-29-2026-the-holy- martyr-callinicus/ SUMMARY:Wednesday\, July 29\, 2026\; The Holy Martyr Callinicus DESCRIPTION:VESPERS ON TUESDAY EVENING\n\nKathisma Reading\n\nThe appointed psalms are chanted.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 8\n\nIf You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revere d.\n\nWhen You were nailed to the Cross\, Your hands and feet run through\ ,* Your holy side was pierced\, pouring forth drops of blood and water\,* divine salvation\, supremely good One\,* that You might wash away my defil ement and pollution.* Glory to Your goodness\, О all-Compassionate One!\n \nI have waited for You as You have commanded\; my soul patiently relies o n Your promise\,* for it has trusted in the Lord.\n\nYou endured suffering \, О Master\,* that You might bestow dispassion upon all who worship Your sufferings and voluntary sacrifice:* the spear\, nails and reed\, which Y ou willingly endured with long-suffering:* that for the sake of Your suffe rings\, О Lord\, You might win dispassion for me.\n\nFrom the morning wat ch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.\n\nThe unblemished heifer\, beholding her Bullock willingly lifted up upon the Tree\,* cried out with compunction\, lamenting:* “Woe is me\, О my most beloved Child!* How ha ve the ungrateful assembly of the Jews rewarded You\,* desiring to leave m e bereft of You\, О all-Beloved!”\n\nTone 8\, Podoben O all-glorious wo nder…”\n\nFor with the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him there is ple ntiful redemption\;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.\n \nGodly minded martyr Callinicus\,* you devoutly preferred death above lif e:* you revealed a faithful image of the death of Christ!* Therefore you o btained immortality and unending joy!* You have made your dwelling with th e ranks of angels\, glorious one\,* where all the champions rejoice!\n\nPr aise the Lord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people.\n\ nAll-blessed martyr Callinicus\, you obtained the unseen Lord* as an invin cible ally against unseen enemies!* You raised up great trophies of immort ality!* By the first of your contests you overthrew him* who boasts that h e would blot out the earth and the sea.* You drowned him in the streams of your blood!\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;* eternally will Hi s truth endure.\n\nLet us honour Callinicus in hymns today!* He is the for emost fighter for piety\;* a destroyer of the enemy\, the constant compani on of the martyrs!* He is a temple of the Holy Spirit who became a soldier of Christ the King!* He is truly the inexhaustible treasury of healings\, * and the wonderful support of the faithful!\n\nTone 7\, Glory… Now…\n \nО all-holy Virgin Lady\, who has given birth to the Lord* who in His te nder compassion was nailed to the Cross\,* pouring forth a stream of life upon the world:* Entreat Him\, that our souls may be saved\;* for we\, the faithful\, have you alone as a refuge\, bulwark\, and aid.* Wherefore\, w e flee to your protection.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 1\n\nYour mercy\, O Lord\ , shall follow me* all the days of my life.\n\nverse: The Lord is my sheph erd\, I shall not want. In green pastures He gives me repose.\n\nAposticha \n\nTone 8\n\nО Christ God who was lifted up upon the Cross\,* You saved the race of mankind.* We glorify Your sufferings!\n\nI have lifted up my e yes to You enthroned in heaven. Behold\, as the eyes of servants are on th e hands of their masters\, as the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her m istress\, so are our eyes on the Lord our God until He has mercy on us.\n\ nYou were nailed to the Cross\, О Christ God\,* opening the gates of para dise.* We glorify Your divinity!\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 proud.\n\nYour martyrs\, О Lord\, were no longer mindful of the things of life\,* but ignored thei r tortures for the sake of the life which is to come\,* and were shown to be inheritors thereof\;* therefore\, they rejoice with the angels.* By the ir supplications grant great mercy to Your people.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nO Lord\, when the sun beheld You the Sun of righteousness\, hanging upon th e Tree\,* it hid its rays\, and the light of the moon was changed to darkn ess\;* and Your all-immaculate Mother was pierced in the depths of her sou l.\n\nTroparia\n\nTone 4\n\nYour holy martyr Callinicus\, O Lord\, through his sufferings* has received an incorruptible crown from You\, our God!* For having Your strength\, he laid low his adversaries\,* and shattered th e powerless boldness of demons.** Through his intercessions\, save our sou ls!\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nO Virgin\, all immaculate Mother of Christ God\, * a sword pierced your all-holy soul* when you saw your Son and God willin gly crucified.* Therefore\, O blessed One\,* never cease to pray to Him* t hat He may grant us forgiveness of our sins.\n\nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON WEDNE SDAY MORNING\n\nTroparia and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: Your martyr\, Callinicus\, O Lord\,* by his passion acquired the crown of incorruptibil ity from You\, our God.* For possessing Your power he overcame the torture rs* and shattered the feeble insolence of demons.* By his supplications\, save our souls.\n\nGlory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy S pirit\, now and for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 2: As a brigh t and unerring star you appeared to the world* proclaiming with your rays the Sun\, that is\, Christ\, O martyr\, Callinicus\,* and you have extingu ished all error.* But to us you give light\, praying without ceasing for a ll of us.\n\nProkeimenon\, Tone 7\n\nThe just man shall be glad in the Lor d and shall hope in Him.\n\nverse: Hear\, O God\, my voice when I make my petition to You. (Psalm 63:11\,2)\n\nEpistle\n\n1 Corinthians 16:4-12\n\nA lleluia\, Tone 4\n\nverse: The just man shall flourish like the palm tree\ ; and he shall grow like the cedar in Lebanon.\n\nverse: They who are plan ted in the house of the Lord shall flourish the courts of our God. (Psalm 91:13\,14)\n\nGospel\n\nMatthew 21:28-32\n\nCommunion Hymn\n\nHe makes spi rits His angels\,* and flaming fire His ministers.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. 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