BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.13//EN TZID:America/Winnipeg X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Winnipeg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:649@liturgy.royaldoors.net DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20261118 DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg;VALUE=DATE:20261119 DTSTAMP:20261110T144122Z URL:https://liturgy.royaldoors.net/events/wednesday-november-18-2026-the-h oly-martyrs-plato-and-roman/ SUMMARY:Wednesday\, November 18\, 2026\; The Holy Martyrs Plato and Roman. DESCRIPTION:Nativity Fast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain thes e ingredients\nAT VESPERS ON TUESDAY EVENING\nKathisma Reading\n\nThe appo inted psalms are chanted.\n\nAt Psalm 140\n\nTone 8\, Podoben “O all-glo rious wonder…”\n\nIf You mark iniquities\, Lord\, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.\n\nFull of valiant wisdom \,* with a most courageous resolve endured the severing of your limbs and the dismemberment of your body\,* unbearable fire\, starvation and death\, * in expectation of the glory which ages not with time\,* which lies etern ally before you\,* and foreseeing everlasting blessedness.\n\nI have waite d for You as You have commanded\; my soul patiently relies on Your promise \,* for it has trusted in the Lord.\n\nHaving transcended every sense and directed your mind toward life on high\,* with divinely wise thought and g reat wisdom of soul* you spurned the baseness and lowliness of visible thi ngs.* Wherefore\, lacerated and burned with fire for Christ\, O martyr\,* you endured valiantly.\n\nFrom the morning watch until night* let Israel t rust in the Lord.\n\nBy grace you set at nought every assault of the enemy * and the onslaughts of the persecutors\;* and you were crowned with the w reath of victory\,* O you who are most rich\,* being vouchsafed incorrupti ble gladness and ineffable and divine radiance.* And as you are now in the midst thereof\,* ask remission of sins for those who praise you well.\n\n Tone 4\, Podoben “As one valiant among the martyrs…”\n\nFor with the Lord there is mercy\, and with Him there is plentiful redemption\;* and H e shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.\n\nConsumed by fasting\, ha rdened by ascetic endeavour\,* and tormented with manifold tortures\,* you became a two-edged sword\, cutting down hordes of demons\, O Roman\,* ado rnment of athletes\, divine boast\, precious ornament of the Church* of th ose who died shedding their own blood\, O most lauded one.\n\nPraise the L ord\, all the nations\;* proclaim His glory\, all you people.\n\nLacerated and rent asunder\, imprisoned in a dungeon\,* your tongue cut out\, O glo rious athlete\,* your jaw broken\, receiving a blessed end through violent suffocation\,* you were shown to be unshakable and steadfast* through the activity of the divine Spirit\, O Roman\;* wherefore\, we praise you with faith.\n\nStrong is the love of the Lord for us\;* eternally will His tru th endure.\n\nA child speaks eloquently and amazes the mindless:* he is ad orned with honourable opposition and is illumined by his death\;* he is en riched by the goodly fame of the holy athletes\, whose zeal he acquired.* O right wise Roman\, pray with them\, that remission of debts be sent down upon us all.\n\nTone 6\, Glory…\n\nAwesome and all-glorious are the vic tories of Your martyr\, O Lord!* For\, emulating the boldness of the fishe rmen\, by his words and deeds he rent asunder* the mythology and historica l blasphemy of Plato with the nets of theology\;* and when his skin was fl ayed and his head cut off\,* he choked the enemy with the outpouring of hi s blood.* O most blessed wonderworker Plato\, adornment of the martyrs\,* who preached the great name of Christ with boldness\,* ask that great merc y be given our souls.\n\nNow…\n\nSeeing You crucified\, O Christ\, she w ho gave You birth cried aloud:* What is this strange mystery which I behol d\, O my Son?* How is it that You die\, suspended in the flesh upon the Tr ee\,* O Bestower of life?\n\nAposticha\n\nTone 8\n\nО Christ God who was lifted up upon the Cross\,* You saved the race of mankind.* We glorify You r sufferings!\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\nYou were nailed to the Cross\, О C hrist God\,* opening the gates of paradise.* We glorify Your divinity!\n\n Have mercy on us\, O Lord\, have mercy on us\; for we have been filled wit h shame\; our soul is all too full of the mockery of the rich\, of the con tempt of the proud.\n\nYour martyrs\, О Lord\, were no longer mindful of the things of life\,* but ignored their 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 their supplications grant great mercy t o Your people.\n\nGlory… Now…\n\nO Lord\, when the sun beheld You the Sun of righteousness\, hanging upon the Tree\,* it hid its rays\, and the light of the moon was changed to darkness\;* and Your all-immaculate Mothe r was pierced in the depths of her soul.\n\n \;\n\nTroparia\n\nTone 4\ n\nO Lord our God\, your holy martyrs* have deserved the crown of immortal ity* on account of their good fight.* Armed with your strength\, they have vanquished their persecutors* and crushed Satan’s dreadful might.* Thro ugh their supplications\, O Christ our God\, save our souls.\n\nGlory… N ow…\n\nO Virgin\, all immaculate Mother of Christ God\,* a sword pierced your all-holy soul* when you saw your Son and God willingly crucified.* T herefore\, O blessed One\,* never cease to pray to Him* that He may grant us forgiveness of our sins.\nAT DIVINE LITURGY ON WEDNESDAY MORNING\nTropa ria and Kontakia\n\nTroparion\, Tone 4: O Lord our God\, your holy martyrs * have deserved the crown of immortality* on account of their good fight.* Armed with your strength\, they have vanquished their persecutors* and cr ushed Satan’s dreadful might.* Through their supplications\, O Christ ou r God\, save our souls.\n\nGlory be to the Father\, and to the Son\, and t o the Holy Spirit\, now and for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nKontakion\, Tone 4 : Your holy memory delights the universe* and brings us together in your h oly temple.* Since we are now gathered together in our joy\,* praise your great deeds with hymns\, O Plato and Roman\,* and we cry out to you with f aith:* O holy ones\, save your city from its enemies.\n\nProkeimenon\, Ton e 4\n\nTo the saints who are in 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 not be shaken. (Psalm 15:3\,8)\n\nEpistle\n\n 1 Timothy 1:18-20\; 2:8-15\n\nAlleluia\, Tone 4\n\nverse: The just cried o ut and the Lord heard them\, and delivered them out of their afflictions.\ n\nverse: The afflictions of the just are many\, and out of them all will the Lord deliver them. (Psalm 33:18\,20)\n\nGospel\n\nLuke 15:1-10\n\nComm union Hymn\n\nRejoice in the Lord\, O you just\;* praise befits the righte ous.* Alleluia\, alleluia\,* alleluia. 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