SEPTEMBER

HAVING THIRTY DAYS

ON THE 1ST OF THE MONTH

Beginning of the Indiction, that is of the New Year; and
commemoration of our Venerable Father Symeon the Stylite and
Archimandrite; the assembly of the most holy Mother of God of the
Miasini; commemoration of the Holy Martyr Aithalas; of the forty
Holy Women and of the deacon Ammoun, their teacher; of the Holy
Martyrs Kallisti, Evodos and Hermogenes, sister and brothers;
commemoration of Jesus son of Navi; and anniversary of the great
fire.

AT VESPERS
We recite the 1st Section of Blessed is the man. At Lord, I have cried
we insert 10 Stichera, and we sing 3 Prosomia of the Indiction, 3 of
the Saint and a further 4, Idiomels, of the Saint.

Of the Indiction. Tone 1. Joy of the heavenly hosts.

Having learned to pray in his own words from Christ’s divine

teaching, let us cry out each day to the Creator: Our Father, who
dwell in heaven, give us our daily bread, overlooking our faults.

As the limbs of the Hebrews who truly disobeyed you, the Master of
all, were once fittingly strewn across the desert, so now too, O Christ,
as the Psalm says, scatter the bones of the impious and unbelieving
Hagarenes at the mouth of Hell.

Christ God, who once on Mount Sinai wrote the tables of the law,
now too, according to the flesh, in the city of Nazareth yourself took
the book of the prophet to read; and having closed it began to teach
the peoples that the Scripture had been fulfilled in you.

Stichera of the Saint.

Tone 5. Model Melody. Venerable Father.
Venerable Father, you found a fair ladder, by which you went up on
high, the ladder which Elias found as a chariot of fire. He though did
not leave his mount to others, but you keep your pillar even after
death. Man of heaven, angel of earth, unsleeping beacon of the
inhabited world, Venerable Symeon, intercede that our souls may be
saved.

Venerable Father, if the pillar could speak it would not cease crying
out your toils, your hardships, your laments. Though it supported, it
was itself supported, nourished like a tree with your tears. Angels
were amazed, mortals marvelled, demons cowered at your
endurance. Venerable Symeon, intercede that our souls may be
saved.

Venerable Father, by the power of the divine Spirit, imitating your

Master, you went up onto a pillar as onto a cross. He though wiped
out the record of all, while you abolished the uprising of the
passions; he like a sheep, you like a victim; he on a cross, you on the
pillar. Venerable Symeon, intercede that our souls may be saved

Others, Idiomels, of the Saint. Tone 2.

A good fruit sprouted from a good root, Symeon, holy from infancy,
nurtured on grace rather than milk, and, having raised his body on a
rock and his mind yet higher towards God, with virtues he built a
habitation in the air, and walking on high with the divine Powers he
became a dwelling place of Christ, who is God and the Saviour of our
souls.

The same tone.

Your memorial, Venerable Father Symeon, and the meekness of your

heart, blessed servant, endure for ever; for though you have passed
over from us, good shepherd, you have not passed from us in spirit
as you stand near God in love and dance with the Angels in heaven.
With them intercede that our souls may be saved.

The same. By Kyprianos.

The casket of your relics, all-praised Father, is a source of healings;

and your holy soul, united with the Angels, fittingly rejoices.
Therefore, as you have boldness towards the Lord, Venerable Saint,
and dance with the Bodiless ones in heaven, implore him that our
souls may be saved.

The same. By Germanos.

You loved the highest philosophy, O God-bearer, and you dwelt

outside the world, living above visible things; and you were revealed
as a godly, untarnished mirror of God; and being ever one with
Light, you gained more light and clearly met a blessed end. Intercede
for our souls, wise Symeon.

Glory. Tone 6. By Germanos.

Divine grace hovered over the casket of your relics, hallowed

Symeon; therefore we too run to the sweet fragrance of your
wonders, drawing out healing of diseases. But Venerable Father,
intercede with Christ God on behalf of our souls.

Both now. The same. By Byzantios.

One with the Holy Spirit, O Word and Son without beginning, co-
maker of all and co-creator of all things visible and invisible, bless the
crown of the year, guarding in peace the multitudes of the Orthodox,
at the prayers of the Mother of God and of all the Saints.

Entrance, O joyful light, Prokeimenon of the Day and the Readings.

The reading is from the prophecy of Isaias.

[Chap. 61,1-10]

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me. He
has sent me to preach good tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-
hearted, to proclaim forgiveness to prisoners and sight to the blind;
to declare an acceptable year of the Lord, and a day of recompense
for our God; to comfort all who mourn, that there may be given to
those who mourn Sion, glory instead of ashes; an anointing of joy for
those who mourn, clothing of glory instead of a spirit of
despondency; and they will be called a generation of righteousness, a
plant of the Lord for glory. And they will rebuild everlasting deserts,
those formerly quite deserted; they will raise up and renew deserted
cities, deserted from generation to generation. And strangers will
come shepherding your flocks, and foreigners will be your
ploughmen and your vinedressers. But you will be called Priests of
the Lord, ministers of our God. You will be told, ‘Devour the
strength of nations’, and in their wealth you will be marvelled at;
instead of your double shame and instead of humiliation their
portion will rejoice. Therefore they will inherit their land a second
time, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head. For I am the Lord,
who love righteousness and hate robberies from injustice; and I shall
give their calf to the righteous, and I shall make an everlasting
covenant with them. And their seed will be known among the
nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. And the one
who sees them will recognise them, because they are a seed blessed
to the ages by God, and with joy they will rejoice in the Lord.

The Reading is from Leviticus.

[26:3-12, 14-17, 19-20, 22, 33, 23-24]

The Lord spoke to the children of Israel saying: If you walk in my

ordinances and keep my commandments and do them, I will give
you rain in its season and the earth will give its produce and the trees
of the plains their fruit. And your threshing time will overtake the
vintage, and the vintage will overtake the sowing. And you will eat
your bread to the full and dwell in safety on your land. And no one
shall make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil wild beasts from
your lands, and war shall not pass through your land. And enemies
will fall before you. And five of you will pursue a hundred and a
hundred of you will pursue tens of thousands. And I will look upon
you and bless you and make you increase and multiply and I will
establish my covenant with you. And you will eat what is old and
very old, and bring out the old to make way for the new. And I will
set my tabernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you; and I
will walk among you; and I will be your God and you shall be my
people. But if you will not listen to me, nor observe these ordinances
of mine, but disobey them, and if your soul loathes my judgements,
so that you do not keep all my commandments, I in turn will do thus
to you: I will bring distress upon you, and you will sow your seed in
vain and your enemies will devour your labours. And I will set my
face against you and you will fall before your foes and they will
pursue you and you will flee though no one pursues you; and I will
smash the arrogance of your pride. And I will make the heaven like
iron for you and your earth like solid bronze. And your strength will
be in vain and your land will not give its fruit, and the trees of the
field will not give their fruit. And I will send the wild beasts of the
earth against you, and they will consume your cattle, and the sword
will come against you and make you few in number. And your land
will be desert and your farms will be desert; because you have
walked against me crookedly, and I will walk against you with
crooked rage, says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel.

The reading is from the Wisdom of Solomon.

[Chap. 4,7-15]

A just man, even if he die early, will be at rest; for an honoured old
age is not so because of length of time, nor is it measured by the
number of years. Understanding is men’s true grey hairs, and a ripe
old age is a spotless life. Being pleasing to God, he was loved; and
while living among sinners, he was taken away. He was snatched
away lest wickedness alter his understanding, or trickery deceive his
soul. For the witchery of evil dims the good, and the waywardness of
desire undermines an innocent mind. Made perfect in a short time,
he fulfilled long years; for his soul was pleasing to the Lord;
therefore he hurried him from the midst of evil. But the peoples have
seen and not understood, nor laid such a thing to heart: that grace
and mercy are with his holy ones, and his presence with his chosen
ones.

At the Aposticha. Idiomel Stichera of the Indiction.

By Monk John. Tone 1.

The entrance of the year is here, summoning all the shining ones to
honour it, Kallisti, Evodos and Hermogenes, brethren and
champions; Symeon the equal of the angels; Jesus son of Navi; the
Seven Youths of Ephesus, and the choir of Holy Women, beacon of
forty fires. As we celebrate their memories together, lovers of
festivals, let us eagerly cry out: O Lord, bless the works of your
hands, and grant that we may pass profitably through the course of
the year.

The same tone.

Verse 1: A hymn is due to you, O God, in Sion, and vows shall be

paid you in Jerusalem.
 By the same.

Christ our God, who created all things with wisdom and brought
them from non-being into being, bless the crown of the year and
preserve our city unbesieged; make glad our faithful Sovereigns by
your power, giving them victories against enemies, through the
Mother of God granting the world your great mercy.

Tone 2.

Verse 2: We shall be filled with the good things of your house: holy is
your temple, wonderful in righteousness.

By Kyprianos.

Wonderful are you, O God, and wonderful are your works, and your
ways are unsearchable; for you are the Wisdom of God and perfect
substance and power, co-operation like him without beginning and
without end; therefore by your all-powerful authority you came
inexpressibly, unchanged in your Godhead, from a Mother who did
not know man, to visit the world, seeking the creature you had
beautified, setting bounds and times, O Unchangeable, for our
salvation. Therefore we cry out to you: Loving Lord, glory to you!

The same.

Verse 3: You will bless the crown of the year with your goodness,
and our fields will be filled with fatness.

By Monk John.

You who created all things with wisdom, Word of the Father before
the ages, and established the whole creation by your all-powerful
word, bless the crown of the year with your goodness, and
overthrow heresies, through the Mother of God, for you are good
and love mankind.

Glory. Tone 5. Venerable Father.

Venerable Father, you found a fair ladder, by which you went up on

high, the ladder which Elias found as a chariot of fire. He though did
not leave his mount to others, but you keep your pillar even after
death. Man of heaven, angel of earth, unsleeping beacon of the
inhabited world, Venerable Symeon, intercede that our souls may be
saved.

Both now. The same. By Monk John.

You, O King, Who Are and who abide even to ages without end,
accept the supplication of sinners who beg salvation; and grant, O
Lover of mankind, abundance to your land, giving it temperate
weather; as once with David, fight alongside our faithful King
against godless barbarians, for they have entered your tabernacles
and defiled your all-holy place, O Saviour. But grant victories, Christ
God, at the intercession of the Mother of God; for you are the victory
and boast of the Orthodox.

Apolytikion of the Indiction. Tone 2.

Fashioner of all creation, who fix times and seasons by your own
authority, bless the crown of the year with your goodness, Lord,
preserving the Kings and your city in peace, at the prayers of the
Mother of God, and save us.

Glory. Of the Saint. Tone 1.

You became a pillar of endurance, Venerable Father, rivalling the

forefathers: Job in sufferings and Joseph in trials, and, while still in
the body, the life of the Bodiless Powers. Our Venerable Father
Symeon, intercede with Christ God that our souls may be saved.

Both now. Of the Mother of God. Tone 7.

Hail full of grace, Virgin Mother of God, harbour and protection of

the human race; for from you the Redeemer of the world became
incarnate; for you alone are Mother and Virgin, ever blessed and
glorified. Intercede with Christ God to grant peace to the whole
inhabited world.

And Dismissal.
 AT MATINS
After the 1st Psalter reading, Kathisma of the Indiction.

Tone 8. The Wisdom and Word.

O God, who grant fruitful seasons and rains from heaven for those
on earth, now too accept the petitions of your servants and deliver
your city from every constraint; for your acts of pity are for all your
works. Therefore bless our comings and goings, direct the works of
our hands for us and grant us forgiveness of offences; for you, the
Powerful One, brought all things from non-existence into being.

Glory. Both now. Repeat.

After the 2nd Psalter reading, Kathisma of the Ascetic.

Tone 5. The Word without beginning.

You adorned your life with self-mastery, and having slain the body,
you wiped out the assaults of the foe, blessed Father; and, as a
worthy heir, you passed over to God, to everlasting life; therefore do
not cease to intercede that our souls may be saved.

Glory. Tone 4. Speedily anticipate.

You came to the starting block of martyrdom, Kallisti, with your two
brothers faithfully proclaiming Christ our God; for having nurtured
them with love you made them true spiritual vessels of Christ’s
Church; therefore, as a Martyr, you were joined with them for the life
on high.

Both now. Theotokion, to the same melody.

Speedily accept our supplications, all-immaculate Sovereign Lady,

and offer them to your Son and God; banish the difficulties of those
who have recourse to you, scatter the ambushes and the insolence of
those who are now in arms against your servants.
 [After the Polyeleos, Kathisma of the Holy Women.

Tone 1. The soldiers watching.

Rational Lambs, having finished your course and kept the faith,
faithfully you were offered through martyrdom to the Lamb and
Shepherd. And so today with joy we praise your sacred memory,
noble Saints, as we magnify Christ.

Glory. Both now. Tone 4. Joseph was amazed.

As to the Master of the universe and Giver of good things, with faith
we fall down before you, as we fervently cry out: Entreated by your
compassion, Saviour, and by the prayers of her who gave you birth,
and of those who have ever been well pleasing to you, as you are
good vouchsafe to grant a prosperous year to those who honour you
in two natures and faithfully glorify you.

The 1st Antiphon of the 4th Tone.

Gospel of an Ascetic. Psalm 50.

Glory. At the prayers of your Ascetic…

Both now. At the prayers of the Mother of God…

Have mercy on me, O God,…

Idiomel Sticheron of the Ascetic. Tone 2.

You who created all things with wisdom, Word of the Father before
the ages, and established the whole creation by your all-powerful
word, bless the crown of the year with your goodness, and
overthrow heresies, through the Mother of God, as you are good and
love mankind.]

And the Canons.

The Canon for the Indiction. Composition of Monk John.

Ode 1. Tone 1. The Irmos.

Let us, all peoples, sing a song of victory to him who rescued Israel
from the bitter slavery of Pharao, and guided him dryshod in the
depth of the sea; for he has been glorified.

Troparia.

Let us all sing a song of victory to Christ, through whom all things
were established, and in whom they continue unerringly, as to the
subsistent Word born of God, the Father without beginning; for he
has been glorified.

Let us all sing a song of victory to Christ, who at the Father’s good
pleasure appeared from a Virgin and proclaimed an acceptable year
of the Lord, redemption for us; for he has been glorified.

Coming to Nazareth the provider of the Law would teach on the

Sabbath, instructing the Hebrews of his coming, through which, as
he is merciful, he will save our race.

Theotokion.

Let us, all Believers, ever praise in song the Maiden beyond marvels,
who made Christ dawn on the world and who filled all things with
the joy of everlasting life; for she has been glorified.

Canon of the Holy Women, whose Acrostic is:

Steadfast Women Martyrs’ toils I sing.

Ode 1. Tone 4. I will open my mouth.

Steadfastly, O Martyrs, you struggled with the opponent, first as

ascetics, then later by the contest through blood; therefore in faith we
celebrate your memories.

The weakness of the flesh forgotten, wounded by love for him who
for us endured cross and death, the holy women followed in his
footsteps.

Worship of pagans and temples of demons you hurled to the ground

with the weapon of faith, and you were offered to the heavenly
temple as living treasures, all-honoured Martyrs.
 Theotokion.

All spotless one, strengthened by the grace of him who dawned from
your womb, the young maidens escaped the swell of tortures and
were brought in your train rejoicing.

Canon of the Saint, whose Acrostic, without the Theotokia, is:

Accept the hymn, O blessed Symeon.

By Monk John.

Ode 1. Tone 8. Let us sing to the Lord.

As with the broken instrument of my tongue I weave this song for

you, Godbearing Symeon, grant me through your supplications
divinely inspired light of knowledge.

Persians, Ethiopians, Indians and Scythians and a multitude of Arabs

recognised your wisdom, Father, and they glorified Christ who is
glorified through you.

You were filled with spiritual grace; for, like Jacob, David and Moses,
you appeared from the sheepfolds as leader of spiritual flocks, O
blessed one.

Theotokion.

Immaculate Mother of God, hail honoured one, who contained in

your womb the uncontainable God, entreat that those who sing your
praise you may be redeemed.

Katavasia.

A Cross Moses traced out as he cut the Red Sea in a straight line with
his rod for Israel as they marched on foot; and then united it again,
overwhelming Pharao with his chariots, as with another line he
marked out the invincible weapon. Therefore let us sing to Christ our
God, for he has been glorified.

Of the Indiction. Ode 3. The Irmos..

Establish me, O Christ, on the unshakeable rock of your
commandments, and enlighten me with the light of your face; for
none is holy but you, O Lover of mankind.

Troparia.

Establish, O Good One, the fruitful vine, which your right hand has
planted with love upon the earth, preserving your Church, O All-
powerful.

Grant, Lord, that those who in faith sing your praise as God of the
universe, may pass through this year abounding in spiritual works,
well-pleasing to God.

Let the circle of the year be calm for me, O merciful Christ, and fill
me with your divine words, which you appeared speaking to the
Jews on the Sabbath.

Theotokion.

As the one who alone surpassing nature received the grace that
surpasses mankind, Christ our God, who dwelt unaltered in your
womb, we ever glorify you.

Of the Holy Women. He weakened the bow.

Strengthened by almighty strength, you overthrew the power of your

opponents; therefore as victors you have been crowned by Christ.

The jaws of the wild beasts were seen to be powerless through

Christ’s divine might, and you were delivered, God-bearers,
unharmed as you honoured God.

Made divine by your intent on God, O Victors, you beat off the chill
of polytheism and reached the warmth of the glory on high.

Theotokion.

We know and devoutly proclaim you, All-spotless One, to be most

truly Mother of God; for through you the Creator deigned to speak
with us.

Of the Saint..
Swiftly fleeing the icy blast of the winds, you boldly reached a
dwelling of salvation, Symeon, from which you plucked the fruit of
life that does not age.

Gladly you inclined your obedient ear to the Master who promised
blessedness; and blessed was the way of life you found.

Having welcomed the seeds of the word in the furrows of your heart,
with floods of tears, you reaped for Christ a full ear of virtues.

Theotokion.

Bride of God, ineffably you conceived the Saviour and Lord, who
from troubles delivers us who call on you in truth.

Katavasia.

A Rod is accepted as a figure of the mystery; for by its budding it

marks out the priest. While for the Church that once was barren the
Tree of the Cross has flowered for strength and steadfastness.

[Kontakion of the Indiction.

Composed in the year 1813 by the revered Patriarch of

Constantinople Cyril VI.

Tone 3. Today the Virgin.

You created the universe in your ineffable wisdom, and fixed the
seasons by your authority; grant victories to your Christ-loving
people; may you bless our goings and comings of the year, directing
our works to your divine will.]

Kathisma of the Saint. Tone 8. The Wisdom and Word.

Burning with faith, wise Father, and despising all temporary things,
you followed Christ, in the power of the Spirit, having melted your
body, Venerable One, by self-mastery, ever looking towards the
glory of heaven; therefore you found for your divine ascent the
ladder of the pillar fitting your longing, holy Symeon. Intercede with
Christ God to grant forgiveness of offences to those who feast with
love your holy memory.
 Glory. Of the Holy Women.

Tone 1. The soldiers watching.

Rational Lambs, having finished your course and kept the faith,
faithfully you were offered through martyrdom to the Lamb and
Shepherd. And so today with joy we praise your sacred memory,
noble Saints, as we magnify Christ.

Both now. Of the Indiction.

Tone 4. Joseph was amazed..

As to the Master of the universe and Giver of good things, with faith
we fall down before you, as we fervently cry out: Entreated by your
compassion, Saviour, and by the prayers of her who gave you birth,
and of those who have ever been well pleasing to you, as you are
good vouchsafe to grant a prosperous year to those who honour you
in two natures and faithfully glorify you.

Of the Indiction. Ode 4.

The Irmos.

I have learned of your dispensation, All-powerful One, and I have

glorified you with fear, O Saviour.

Troparia.

Your people offers you its annual firstfruits, glorifying you with
Angels’ hymns, O Saviour.

As you love mankind, grant, O Christ, that those who start the year
may complete it in a way pleasing to you.

Almighty, only Lord, grant to the world that the revolutions of the
years be calm.

Theotokion.

Let us all hymn the Mother of God as harbour and sure hope of our
souls.

Of the Holy Women. The One seated.

Having endured tortures and rackings of the body by varied means,
crushing and burning of the limbs, you have inherited heavenly
dwellings and enjoy the tree of life, O Admirable ones.

The Powers of heaven marvelled at the struggle of the blessed

maidens, how they routed the foe, being given power in their
woman’s nature by the power of him who dawned from a woman.

Having cast aside all the vanity of the world, you clung with your
whole soul to God and to him alone; therefore, Brides of Christ, you
endured most stoutly the toils of the ascetic life and of the martyr’s
contest.

Bearing the Cross as the strongest of weapons, you stood in battle

against hostile regiments. With Christ, who conquered the world by
the power of his divinity, you carried off the victory.

Theotokion.

The Lord came down as rain upon a fleece into your womb, as the
Prophet said of old, All-pure one, the Lord whom you bore in two
natures, to whom we cry: Glory, O Christ, to your power.

Of the Saint. Lord, I have heard.

It was not on sand but on the deepest toils that you laid the
foundation of your ascetic life, All blessed one, and built an
unshakeable tower of virtues.

The roughest rope your body’s lot to nail it to the fear of the spirit,
you found, O Venerable one, the allotment of a divine inheritance.

The hidden passions of the body ebbed away in rotting decay, that
even the worms feared you as you slept.

Imitating the life-giving Dead after his voluntary passion, as in a

tomb you placed yourself in a gloomy well

Theotokion.

Immaculate Mary, implore the God whom you bore to grant your
servants pardon of their offences.
 Katavasia.

Lord, I have heard the mystery of your dispensation; I have

considered your works and glorified your Godhead.

Of the Indiction. Ode 5. The Irmos.

Rising in the night we hymn you, O Christ, without beginning with

the Father, and the Saviour of our souls. Grant the world peace, O
Lover of mankind.

Troparia.

O Christ, who fill all things with goodness, grant to your servants
that, crowned with blessings, the many circled time may be
temperate and prosperous.

Let the change of the year be an alteration for the better and a
condition of peace for us who know you, O Word, to be coeternal
with the Father.

Without beginning with the Father, you who are beyond time came
upon earth, announcing in the Father’s name forgiveness for
prisoners and new sight for the maimed.

Theotokion.

Our hopes and our confidence we place in you, Mother of God, make
him to whom you gave birth kindly to us.

Of the Holy Women. The ungodly will not see.

As spotless lambs, as acceptable sacrifices, O Martyrs, you were

offered to the true Lamb and Shepherd, as whole burnt offerings and
acceptable holocausts.

Slain in body, you were alive in soul, O Martyrs, for you imitated the
Cross, the death and the voluntary sufferings of him who slew the
strength of death.

Being of one mind in many bodies, rent by divers scourges and

burned by fire, the Godly-minded Martyrs confessed one Lord Jesus.
 Theotokion.

Set me upright, who am fallen into a pit of temptations, and pilot me,
O only all-spotless one, who gave birth to God, the pilot who by his
goodness united things formerly separated.

Of the Saint. Enlighten us.

Christ showed you, Symeon, to be a new Daniel; for, through a

revelation, he brought you unharmed from a pit infested with wild
beasts.

Offering your whole self to the Lord, you bared yourself to the
hostile elements of snow, ice and heat.

You were shown to be a new Moses and a new Elias, throughout

your life living for the forty days on one meal, venerable Father.

Theotokion.

Ever implore your Son and our God, pure Mary who knew not
wedlock, to send down his mercy upon us the faithful.

Katavasia.

Thrice-blessed Tree, on which Christ, the King and Lord, was

stretched! Through it the one who deceived through a tree has fallen,
caught by the bait of God who was nailed to you in the flesh and
who grants peace to our souls.

Of the Indiction. Ode 6. The Irmos.

You saved the Prophet from the whale, O Lover of mankind, bring
me too up from the deep of offences, I beg.

Troparia.

Grant, Master, that with the start of the year we may offer you the
first fruits of a life that is pleasing to you.

Compassionate Saviour, by participation in your law show us who

sing your praise to be full of days of the Spirit.

Theotokion.
O you who gave birth to Christ our God, we beg you, deliver from
every threat those who flee to you.

Of the Holy Women. He cried out, foreshadowing.

Their foremother was overjoyed as she watched the one who

formerly exiled her by trickery from Paradise broken and trampled
down by women’s feet.

You combined the ascetic life with the contest of martyrdom, and
now you have been joined without corruption to the Bridegroom of
souls, and with joyful souls you take your places in the divine bridal
chamber.

Mounting wild waves of tortures could not sink the vessels of the
Martyrs, for with a strong hand they made for the divine havens.

Theotokion.

As you see the fulfilment of your words, magnify even more, O

Mother of God, him who magnified you; for behold all generations
truly call you blessed.

Of the Saint. Grant me a tunic.

Blessed Father, Christ displayed you as a worker of signs and

wonders, having shown you to be a dwelling place of divine force.

Your body was raised on the column as on a cross; therefore you

have been glorified with Christ who was raised on a tree for your
sake.

Having found a pathway in the air, inspired Symeon, bring up to the

heights of heaven those who faithfully sing your praise.

Theotokion.

We the faithful declare you, Mother of God, to be the temple and ark
of God, living bridal chamber and gate of heaven.

Katavasia.
Jonas, stretching out his hands like a cross in the belly of the sea
monster, clearly prefigured the saving Passion. Escaping from there
on the third day, he was an image of the transcendent Resurrection of
Christ God, who was nailed in the flesh and by his rising on the third
day enlightened the world.

Kontakion of the Saint. Tone 2. Model Melody.

Seeking things above and joined to things below, you made your
column a chariot of fire, through which you have become a
companion of the Angels, with them unceasingly imploring Christ
God on behalf of us all.

The Ikos.

What human will ever suffice to sing the praise of Symeon’s

blameless life? Nevertheless with God’s wisdom I shall hymn the
contests and struggles of the hero, of the one who appeared on earth
as a beacon for all mortals, and by perseverance shone brightly for
the choir of Angels; for singing with them unceasingly he does not
cease imploring Christ on behalf of us all.

Synaxarion.

The Month of September, having 30 days.

The day has 12 hours and the night 12 hours.

On the 1st of the month, Beginning of the Indiction, that is of the

New Year.

Verses.
New year’s Indiction bless for us, we pray,
O you, both Ancient and, for mankind, New.

Note that the Church of God celebrates the Indiction, having received the tradition
from the ancients, for it was thought by the Romans that this Indiction marked the
beginning of the year (the word Indiction means for the Romans ‘boundary’).
Moreover because on this day Our Lord Jesus Christ entered the Synagogue of the
Jews and being handed a book (it was that of the Prophet Isaias), He opened it and
found the passage where it is written: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, therefore He
has anointed me; He has sent me to preach the gospel to the poor; to heal the broken
hearted; to proclaim forgiveness for prisoners, and sight to the blind; to proclaim an
acceptable year of the Lord’ [Is.61,1-2]. Then he handed the book to the attendant, sat
down and said: ‘To-day this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ears’. When too the
crowds marvelled at the words of grace that came from his mouth [Lk. 4,16-22].
On the same day we commemorate the marvel which took place
through the Holy Mother of God in the Monastery of the Miasini;
and the fire that took place.

Verses.
Strange was the catch that by itself came up
From harbour’s depth: the Virgin’s honoured image.

The commemoration of the Mother of God of the Miasini is kept because of the
wonder-working and holy ikon of the Mother of God which had been thrown into the
harbour of Zagouros, of the Monastery of the Miasini, through fear of the iconoclasts,
and was, by God’s good pleasure, returned unharmed after many years.

The commemoration of the fire; because of the great fire which took
place in Constantinople, because of our sins, in the reign of Leo the
great King, nicknamed the Pick-axe, in the year 450, and which
ravaged by fire most of the city in seven days.

On the same day, commemoration of our venerable Father Symeon

the Stylite.

Verses.

His pillared station Symeon left behind,

And took his stand beside the Word of God.
High stepping Symeon died on the first of the month of September.

Symeon the Stylite lived in the reign of Leo the Great and when Martyrios
was Bishop of Antioch. He came from the Eparchy of Cilicia, from the village
of Sesan. He adopted the monastic life and having ascended a column, he
persevered there for forty seven years and having become the worker of
many wonders he died in peace.

On the same day, commemoration of the Venerable Martha, mother

of the Venerable Symeon; and of the Venerable Evanthia; and the
falling asleep of Jesus son of Navi.

Verses.

On earth of old once Martha welcomed Christ.

Now Christ in heaven, Martha, welcomes you.

The sun that once he halted left behind,

Now Jesus contemplates the Sun of glory.
This Jesus was the son of Navi and successor of Moses as lawgiver for the
Hebrews. He captured Jericho, a city of foreigners and saw the Chief Captain
Michael holding a sword. On learning that he was the Chief Captain of the
Power of the Lord, he threw away his arms and fell at his feet. Once when
fighting a battle against foreigners the sun was about to set, so in his zeal for
battle he prayed to God and said: ‘Let the sun stand still’; and at once the sun
stopped in its course and did not set until he had mightily routed the
foreigners. He was commander of the people and led them from the
wilderness and apportioned to them the land of Promise, which is Palestine.
He judged the people of Israel for twenty seven years, became the dread of his
enemies and, having displayed his courage and virtue in many wars, died
and was buried with honour by his own people.

On the same day, commemoration of the forty Holy Women Martyrs,

Virgins and Ascetics, and of the Deacon Ammoun, their teacher.

Verses.
For virgins double twenty fire and sword
Secured as Bridegroom Christ the Son of God.

A helmet heated in the flames Ammoun received:

Stripped off his covering of flesh with joy.

These Martyrs were from Adrianoupolis in Macedonia, and being Christians

they followed Christ, having as their teacher the Deacon Ammoun. Arrested
by Vavdos the Governor of Adrianoupolis and fiercely tortured for not
worshipping the idols they prayed to God, and the priest of the idols was
suspended in mid-air, was punished for many hours then fell and perished.
Saint Ammoun was strung up and his sides were burned; then a red-hot
helmet was placed on his head. Delivered from this, he was sent with the holy
Virgins from Verroi to Heraklion in Thrace, to the tyrant Licinius; and by the
latter’s decision ten of them were thrown into the flames, eight with their
teacher were beheaded; another ten died by being pierced with swords in face
and heart, six were cut to pieces with knives, the rest departed to the Lord
having been made to swallow lumps of heated iron.

On the same day, commemoration of the Holy Martyrs, sister and

brothers, Evodos, Kallisti and Hermogenes.

Verses.
Fairest [kalliston] indeed the end Kallisti found,
With her two brothers, likewise fair[kalois], cut down.

These holy martyrs were sister and brothers, born from the same womb and
born again spiritually from the divine font, at the times of the preaching. But
when they were denounced to the Governor as Christians and the noble
courage and unshakeable resolve of their soul was realised, the Governor
passed sentence of death by the sword against them; and having thus
completed the race of martyrdom, they departed to the Lord.

The venerable Meletios the Young, ascetic on the mountain of

Nyoupolis, died in peace.

The Holy New Martyr Angelis, who bore his witness in

Constantinople in 1680, died by the sword.

At their holy intercessions, O God, have mercy on us. Amen.

Of the Indiction. Ode 7. The Irmos..

The Youths brought up together in piety, despising the impious

decree, did not fear the threat of the fire, but standing in the middle
of the flames they sang, ‘God of our fathers, blessed are you!’

Troparia.

As we begin the year let us the Orthodox people offer the first fruits
of our hymns to Christ who reigns over the kingdom without
bounds, as we devoutly sing: God of our fathers, blessed are you!

O Christ who exist before the ages, Lord for ever and ever, the source
of goodness, fill the year with your good gifts for us who sing: God
of our fathers, blessed are you!

Theotokion.

Christ our Master, we your servants bring you in intercession your

pure Mother, that your people may be delivered from every
difficulty, as they sing: God of our fathers, blessed are you!

Of the Holy Women. He who saved in fire.

How undaunted your resolution, Godbearing Ammoun; for as leader

of the choir of virgins you did not flinch at tortures, but died with
them, as minister and initiate of God’s glory.

How wise you are, Escort of the brides; with words of courage you
anoint the Martyrs: let them fix their gaze on the Bridegroom and
bravely endure the pains of the flesh as they cry: God of our fathers,
blessed are you!

The noble Martyrs in the stadium cried out: Maidens, let us not falter.
See, the stadium is open. Let us stand bravely; Christ is holding out
the crowns. Let us not spare our bodies.

Theotokion.

Blessed is the fruit of your blessed womb, whom the Powers of

heaven and the ranks of mortals bless, for he has delivered us from
the ancient curse, O Blessed one.

Of the Saint. Youths who honoured God.

You ended a drought for the despairing and opened for them the
gates of rain, and steadied the shaken land, and you taught peoples
to cry: Blessed is the God of our fathers!

As a mighty beacon of the Church and sun of many lights, O

Symeon, you sent out beams in all directions , enlightened peoples
and taught them to cry: Blessed is the God of our fathers!

Streams flowing together from every side, Servant of Christ, a sea of

men welded together in the fold of your ascetic discipline, was
taught by you to cry out: Blessed is the God of our fathers!

Of old in the arms of the Elder, but now in the tables of your heart,
Venerable Symeon, Christ took his rest by his invisible power;
therefore you cried: Blessed is the God of our fathers!

Theotokion.

It was fitting for him who took flesh without seed to come forth from
you, immaculate Virgin; for you, O Pure one, brought forth him who
surpasses all things, to whom with hymns we shout and cry: Blessed
is the God of our fathers!

Katavasia.

The senseless decree of a godless tyrant, redolent of threats and

blasphemies hateful to God, drove peoples to confusion. But neither
the fury of wild beasts nor the roaring of the fire frightened three
Youths; but united in the fire that answered with a spirit bringing
dew they sang, ‘O our God and the God of our Fathers, O highly
exalted, blessed are you!’

Of the Indiction. Ode 8. The Irmos..

Praise in hymns Christ God, who protected the Youths as they sang
praises in the furnace and who turned the roaring furnace into dew,
and highly exalt him to the ages.

Troparia.

The holy Church offers you, O Christ, as author of salvation, the first
fruits of the year as she cries: Praise in hymns and highly exalt Christ
to the ages.

The Creator who wisely made all things new out of nothing, and
arranges the revolutions of the seasons by his will, praise in hymns
and highly exalt him to the ages.

To God who arranges all things and alters the seasons for the varied
guidance of mankind we sing: Praise him in hymns and highly exalt
him to the ages.

Theotokion.

In the passing and the revolutions of the years the ranks of Orthodox
mortals, pure Virgin Mother of God, sing your praise as God’s
Mother and salvation of all.

Of the Holy Women. The Offspring of the Mother of God.

As Martyrs you wrapped yourselves in garments bright and shining

as from blood, having together truly put off the humanity that was
corrupted by sins, and you sang: You his works praise the Lord, and
highly exalt him to all the ages.

Enlightened by abundant floods of light, the divine brightness of the

spiritual Sun, you ran, O Martyrs, through the night of godlessness
as you sang in unison of soul: You his works praise the Lord, and
highly exalt him to all the ages.
Like sheep like spotless lambs, like divine doves and willing victims,
and like unblemished sacrifices, O Martyrs, you were offered to the
Creator as you sang in harmony: You his works praise the Lord and
highly exalt him to all the ages.

On the orders of lawless tyrants you underwent an unjust death,

your limbs cut up, battered with rods, mercilessly struck, slain by the
sword; and so in joy you inherit your rich undying recompense.

Theotokion.

Women ran behind you, all pure Bride of God, sensing the sweet
fragrance of the perfumes of the only-begotten Son who shone forth
from your womb, and they reign with you indeed as they praise
Christ to the ages.

Of the Saint.

Having left every attachment and pitying a mother’s weakness, as

though living you appeared after death, crying out: Hymn the Lord
and highly exalt him to all the ages.

You gave strength to a paralysed sick youth and ordered him to

carry the tribal chief like his bed on his shoulders as he hymned the
Lord and highly exalted him to all the ages.

He who made Job shine brightly through suffering, when your flesh
was suppurating with rottenness turned you, servant of Christ, into a
priceless pearl, as he glorified you, Symeon, to all the ages.

At Symeon’s entreaties, Master, you summoned a vengeful robber

chief, as of old the Thief on the tree; therefore we hymn you and
highly exalt you to all the ages.

Theotokion.

Virgin Mother of God, who received the Angel’s ‘Hail!’, bore the
Lord of glory and made the light dawn on the world, we all hymn
you and glorify you.

Katavasia.
O Youths, equal in number to the Trinity, bless the Creator, Father,
God; sing the praises of the Word who descended and changed the
fire to dew, and highly exalt the all-holy Spirit that grants life to all,
to the ages.

The Magnificat is not sung.

Of the Indiction. Ode 9. The Irmos.

The bush that unburned blazed with fire showed an image of you
pure child-bearing; and now we beseech you to quench the furnace
of temptations which rages against us, that we me ceaselessly
magnify you, O Mother of God.

Troparia.

O Word and Power of God, true and hypostatic Wisdom, who hold
together and govern all things, dispose the season which now
confronts your servants in a condition of calm

Alone you existed before the ages, as maker and sovereign of ages,
three-personned, one indivisible Godhead; at the prayers of the holy
Mother of God proclaim the victory to your inheritance.

Theotokion.

Saviour and Master of all, Creator and Ruler of creation, at the

prayers of her who bore you without travail, give peace to your
world, and guard your Church unceasingly from faction.

Of the Holy Women. Eve by the sickness.

The all-blessed Martyrs pour out streams of healings as from a

fountain for those in need, they halt the ravages of disease, dispel the
heat of passions, fire the hearts of those who love God, to bring forth
the good fruit of godly deeds.

The godly Deacon Ammoun with Kelsina and forty other godly
minded holy women competed like trained athletes and received
their crowns; and now they dance with the Angels, while we, as is
right, call them blest.
Having raised your might against the foe you were exalted and have
become as Angels. You enjoy the tree of life in Paradise without
constraint, O Brides of God, and now you possess a source of
blessings, as you intercede for the world.

Theotokion.

Blameless Maiden, you have been revealed as the place of the mighty
Wisdom beyond understanding, a living throne and gateway;
therefore virgins loved you as Queen, O Virgin, and have been
brought in your train, O Child of God.

Of the Saint.

As one who had shown himself a king through steadfastness in

sufferings, godly Symeon, Christ approved you as sharer of his royal
rule; therefore in hymns we magnify you.

Granted the grace of healing from the inexhaustible treasury of the

Spirit, godly Symeon, you reward with healings those who celebrate
your memory.

You have walked the path of heavenly virtue, you have displayed
the prize from on high, you have reached the heavenly dwellings:
intercede that our souls may be saved.

Theotokion.

You have been shown to be the bush that burned yet was not
consumed by fire, by conceiving without seed, O Virgin, the God and
Saviour of the world, whom we unceasingly magnify.

Katavasia.

Mystic Paradise are you, O Mother of God; untilled you brought

forth Christ, who planted on the earth the life-giving Tree of the
Cross. And so, as it is raised today, we worship it and magnify you.

Another.

The death that came to the race through eating of the tree has,
through the Cross, today been made of no effect. For the curse on all
mankind of our mother Eve has been abolished by the shoot of the
pure Mother of God, whom all the Powers of heaven magnify.

Exapostilarion of the Indiction. With the Disciples.

O God of gods and Lord, three-personned nature, unapproachable,

eternal, uncreated and almighty creator of the universe, we all fall
before you and we implore you: as you are good, bless this present
year, preserve our Sovereigns and all your people in peace, O
Merciful One.

Of the Saint. The same melody.

Like a beacon, Venerable one, your light-bearing life blazed out and
enlightened the whole earth with the rays of your wonders; for
through a pillar, Father, you ascended as by a ladder to God, where
truly exists the goal of all desires, as you intercede for those who
honour you, blest Symeon.

Theotokion. The same melody.

As Saviour and Master of all creation, who fix times and seasons by
your authority, crown the circle of the year, O Merciful, with
blessings of goodness, preserving your people in peace, unharmed,
unhurt, we beseech you, at the prayers of her who bore you and of all
the godly Saints.

At Lauds we insert 4 Verses and we sing the following Idiomels.

Tone 3. By Monk John.

Word of the Father before time, who are in the form of God and who
brought all creation out of non-being into being; and who fix times
and seasons by your own authority: bless the crown of the year with
your goodness, granting peace to your Churches, victories to our
faithful Sovereign, abundant fruit of the earth and your great mercy.

By the same. Tone 4.

Your kingdom, Christ God, is the kingdom of all the ages, and your
dominion is from generation to generation; you have made all things
in wisdom, fixing for us times and seasons; therefore we thank you
for all things and through all things we cry out: Bless the crown of
the year with your goodness and grant that we may all cry out to you
without condemnation: Lord, glory to you!

The same melody. By Andrew of Pyros.

Your paths, O God, your paths are great and wonderful; therefore we
magnify you for the might of your dispensation, for, light from light,
you visited your wretched world, and in your good pleasure, O
Word, did away with the first curse on ancient Adam, and you fixed
for us times and seasons for glorifying your all-pervading goodness.
Lord, glory to you!

Tone 2. By Germanos.

When by your Passion, Lord, you established the whole world, then
the weak clothed themselves in power: women showed manly
courage against the villainous tyrant, and having reversed the
mother’s defeat of old, they have reached the pleasure of Paradise, to
your glory, who were born of a woman and have saved the human
race.

Glory. Of the Saint. Tone 2.

A good fruit sprung from a good root, Symeon, holy from infancy,
was nurtured on grace rather than milk; and having raised his body
on a rock and his mind yet higher towards God, with virtues he built
a habitation in the skies, and walking on high with the divine Powers
he has become a dwelling place of Christ, God and the Saviour of our
souls.

Both now. Tone 8. By Germanos.

O Word, Christ God, who brought the whole universe into being,
who fix times and seasons for us, bless the works of your hands, by
your power make our faithful Sovereign glad, granting him strength
against barbarians, for you alone are good and love mankind.

Great Doxology, and Dismissal.

AT THE LITURGY
Typika and Beatitudes, and from the Canons of the Indiction and the
Saint from Odes 3& 6.
8. Establish, O Good one, the fruitful vine, which your right hand has
planted with longing on the earth, preserving your Church, O All
powerful.

7. Grant, Lord, that those who in faith hymn you, the God of all, may
pass through this year abounding in spiritual works, well-pleasing to
God.

6. Let the circle of the year be calm for me, O merciful Christ, and fill
me with your divine words, which you appeared speaking to the
Jews on the Sabbath.

5. As the one who alone above nature received the grace beyond
humanity, Christ our God, who dwelt unaltered in your womb, we
ever glorify you.

4. Blessed Father, Christ displayed you as a worker of signs and

wonders, having shown you to be a dwelling place of divine force.

3. Your body was raised on the column as on a cross; therefore you

have been glorified with Christ who was raised on a tree for your
sake.

2. Having found a pathway in the air, inspired Symeon, bring up to

the heights of heaven those who faithfully hymn you.

1. We the faithful declare you, Mother of God, to be the temple and

ark of God, living bridal chamber and gate of heaven.

Apolytikion of the Indiction. Tone 2.

Fashioner of all creation, who fixes times and seasons by your own
authority, bless the crown of the year with your goodness, O Lord,
preserving the Kings and your city in peace, at the intercessions of
the Mother of God and save us.

Of the Mother of God. Tone 7.

Hail full of grace, Virgin Mother of God, harbour and protection of

the human race; for from you the Redeemer of the world became
incarnate; for you alone are Mother and Virgin, ever blessed and
glorified. Intercede with Christ God to grant peace to the whole
world.
 Of the Saint. Tone 1.

You became a pillar of endurance, venerable Father, rivalling the

forefathers, Job in sufferings and Joseph in trials, and while still in
the body the life of the Bodiless ones. Our Venerable Father Symeon,
intercede with Christ God that our souls may be saved.

Kontakion of the Indiction.

Tone 3. Today the Virgin.

You created the universe in your ineffable wisdom, and fixed the
seasons by your authority; grant victories to your Christ-loving
people; may you bless our goings and comings of the year, directing
our works to your divine will.

Glory. Another, of the Saint.

Tone 2. Model Melody.

Seeking things above and joined to things below, you made your
column a chariot of fire, through which you have become a
companion of the Angels, with them unceasingly imploring Christ
God on behalf of us all.

Both now. Of the Nativity of the Mother of God.

Joachim and Ann were freed from the reproach of childlessness, and
Adam and Eve from the corruption of death by your holy Nativity, O
Immaculate. Freed from the guilt of offences your people also
celebrates it, as they cry to you: The barren woman bears the Mother
of God and the nourisher of our life.

Prokeimenon. Tone 4.

Great is our God, and great his strength: * and there is no measuring
his understanding.

Verse: Praise the Lord, for to sing his praise is good: may our praise
delight our God.

[Epistle to Timothy. See the 33rd Saturday.]

 The Reading is from the 2nd Epistle of Paul to Timothy.
[2:11-19]

Child Timothy, the word is sure: if we have suffered with him, we

shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if
we deny him, he in turn will deny us; if we are unfaithful, he remains
faithful: he cannot deny himself. Remind people of these things,
warning them before the Lord not to wrangle over words, which
serves no useful purpose, but ruins those who listen. Be eager to take
your stand before God as one well tested, a worker who is
unashamed, who rightly proclaims the word of truth. Avoid profane
and idle talk; for it only makes people advance in impiety, and their
word will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaios and
Philetos, who have swerved from the truth by saying that the
resurrection has already taken place. They are upsetting the faith of
some. But God’s firm foundation stands and carries this inscription,
‘The Lord knows those who are his’ and ‘Let everyone who calls on
the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.’

[And another Epistle, for the Saint, to the Colossians.

See the 30th Sunday.]

The Reading is from the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians.

[3:12-16]

Brethren, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves

with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear
with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another,
forgive each other; just as Christ has forgiven you, so you also must
forgive. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds
everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ
rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body.
And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach
and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your
hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.

Alleluia. Tone 4.

Verse 1: To you praise is due in Sion: and to you a vow will be

performed.
Verse 2: We shall be filled with the good things of your house: holy is
your temple, wonderful in justice.

Gospel according to Luke.

[4:12-16]

At that time, Jesus came to Nazareth.

And of the Saint. From that according to Matthew. See January 20th.,
Matthew 11:27-30. [The current Greek Gospel book gives that for St
John Chrysostom, November 13th, John 10:9-16.]

Communion of the Indiction.

Bless the crown of the year with your goodness, O Lord. [Alleluia.]

And of the Saint.

The just will be held in eternal memory. Alleluia.

NOTE ON THE TYPIKON

The present Menaion gives a Polyeleos and Gospel for Matins, but
this is modern, and the texts used as Kathisma and Idiomel are used
elsewhere in the office. The Typikon of Dionysiou makes no mention
of this addition, nor, in fact, does the Typikon printed in the
Menaion. This section has therefore been printed within square
brackets. There are also some differences over the Apostle and
Gospel for the Saint. The Menaion prescribes for the Liturgy the
Gospel for Matins of St Efthymios, not that for the Liturgy, which is
Luke 6:17-21. These two Gospels are in fact interchangeable between
Matins and Liturgy. See, for example December 4th , St Savvas.

In the following notes the parts in square brackets are taken from the
Typikon of Dionysiou and represent the fuller, monastic, use.

If the 1st of September falls on a Sunday, the Typikon is as follows.

[The off ice of the Holy Women is omitted, or read at Compline.]

On Saturday evening the whole of the 1st Kathisma of the Psalter is

said, even if the 1st Section is sung. At Lord, I have cried 4 Stichera of
the Resurrection in the Tone of the week, 3 of the Indiction and the 3
Prosomia of the Saint. Glory of the Indiction, Tone 6, One with the
Holy Spirit and Both now the 1st Theotokion of the Tone. Entrance,
O joyful light, prokeimenon of the day and the Readings. At the
Aposticha, the Stichera and verses from the Oktoichos, Glory of the
Saint Venerable Father, and Both now of the Indiction You, O King.
Apolytikia of the Resurrection, of the Indiction and of the Mother of
God Hail, full of grace. [Or Resurrection, Saint and Indiction.] And
Dismissal.

At Matins, at The Lord is God, Apolytkia as at Vespers, except that

the Resurrection one is sung twice. The Resurrection Kathismata and
that of the Indiction O God who grant fruitful seasons twice. [That is,
it replaces the Theotokion each time.] After Psalm 118, the
Evlogitaria, the Ypakoï, the Anavathmi of the Tone and the
Prokeimenon. The Canons, of the Resurrection and of the Indiction.
[Or, more correctly, that of the Resurrection and the Mother of God
to 6. That is, the Irmos and Troparia of the Resurrection (=4) and 2
Troparia from the canon to the Mother of God (= 6). Of the Indiction
(4) and of the Saint (4), making 14.] The Katavasias of the Cross. After
the 3rd Ode, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection and the final
Kathisma of the Indiction As Master of the universe. [Or, Kontakion
and Ikos of the Resurrection, Glory Kathisma of the Saint, Both now
Kathisma of the Indiction As Master of the universe.] After the 6th
Ode, Kontakion and Ikos of the Indiction, [Or, Kontakion and Ikos of
the Saint] the Synaxarion of the day. The Magnificat is sung.
Exapostilaria of the Resurrection, the Saint and the Indiction .At
Lauds, 4 Stichera of the Resurrection and 4 of the Indiction (doubling
the first), Glory of the Indiction O Word, Christ God and the usual
Sunday Theotokion. [Or, 4 Stichera of the Resurrection, 3 of the
Indiction and the Doxastikon of the Saint, with the appropriate
verses, A hymn is due to you, O God in Sion (see the Aposticha of
Vespers) and Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of holy
one, Glory the Eothinon of the Sunday and the usual Sunday
Theotokion. Great Doxology and the usual Resurrection Troparion.
First Hour [and Catechesis of St Theodore].

At the Hours the Resurrection Apolytikion is read at each, but that of

the Indiction and Saint are read alternately. The Ypakoï and
Kontakion of the Saint are both read.

At the Liturgy, Typika and Beatitudes, with of which 4 Troparia of

the Resurrection in the Tone of the week, and 4 from Ode 6 of the
Indiction [Or, and 4 from Ode 3 of the canon of the Indiction and 4
from Ode 6 of the canon of the Saint, making 12] After the Entrance,
Apolytikia of the Resurrection, the Indiction, the Mother of God, the
Saint and the Church.. Kontakion of the Indiction [Or, of the
Resurrection, the Indiction, the Saint, the Church and the Mother of
God.] Apostle, Gospel and Communion of the Indiction [Or, of the
Indiction and the Saint. Those of the Sunday are omitted.]

[After the Prayer behind the Ambo at once the Apolytiokion and
Kontakion of the Saints are sung with the one to the Mother of God.
After the blessing of the Kollyva the Priest enters the sanctuary,
while we begin Psalm 142 and the usual Lesser Blessing of water for
the 1st of the month is sung.]