With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II
(September 25/October 8 and July 5/18)
Like the ascetic of virtues, like a true warrior of Christ God, you labored in the passion of the great one in the life of time, in singing, vigils and vengeances, being your disciple; In the same way, the Most Holy Spirit dwells in you, by whose action you are brightly adorned. But since you have boldness towards the Holy Trinity, remember the flock that you wisely gathered; and do not forget, as you promised, visiting your children, Sergius, Our Father.
Having been wounded by the love of Christ, O Reverend, and following that irrevocable desire, you hated every carnal pleasure, and like the sun you shone for your fatherland; Thus Christ enriched you with the gift of miracles. Remember us, who honor your blessed memory, and we call to you: Rejoice, O God-wise Sergius.
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(September 26/October 9 and May 8/21)
Apostle, beloved of Christ God, hasten to deliver irresponsible people; He receives you when you fall, even if you fell on Persia, you are received, pray to Him, O Theologian, and disperse the present darkness of tongues, asking us for peace and great mercy.
Thy greatness, virgin, who is the story? Do miracles, and pour out healings, and pray for our souls, as the Theologian and friend of Christ.
##Glorification
We magnify you, Apostle of Christ and Evangelist John the Theologian, and honor your illnesses and labors, in which you worked in the gospel of Christ.
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(5/18 October)
Mother Sees of Russia, true custodians of the apostolic traditions, pillars of steadfastness, teachers of Orthodoxy, Petra, Alexia, Jono, Philippe and Hermogene, pray to the Lord of all, peace Grant the universe and our souls great mercy.
Live piously among the saints, and guide people to the wisdom of God, and please God well. For this reason, from Him you are glorified by incorruptibility and miracles, as disciples of God’s grace.
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(November 13/26, January 27/February 9 and September 14/27)
Your lips, like the brightness of a fire, shining forth, enlighten the universe with grace; not to gain the treasures of the world through the love of money, but to show us the height of humility of mind. But chastising your words, Father John Chrysostom, pray to the Word of Christ God to save our souls.
You have received Divine grace from Heaven and through your lips you have taught us all to worship the One God in the Trinity, John Chrysostom, most blessed saint, we worthily praise you: you are for a mentor, like a Divine manifestation.
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(December 6/19 and May 9/22)
The rule of faith and the image of meekness and self-control of the teacher will be revealed to your flock, even the truth of things; For this reason, you have acquired high humility, rich in poverty, Father Nicholas, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
In Mireh, the holy one, the priest appeared to you: O Lord of Christ, having fulfilled the Gospel, you laid down your soul for your people, and saved the innocent from death; For this reason you have been sanctified, as the great hidden place of God’s grace.
##Glorification
We magnify you, Holy Hierarch Father Nicholas, and honor your holy memory, for you pray for us, Christ our God.
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(January 1/14)
Thy message went out into the whole earth, because thou hast taught the people that have received thy word, thou hast clarified the nature of beings, and adorned human customs Royal consecration, Reverend Father, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Thou hast appeared as an unshakable foundation to the Church, giving to all unstealthy dominion by man, sealing with thy commandments, the unappearing Reverend Basil.
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(January 2/15 and July 19/August 1)
From your youth you loved Christ, O blessed one, and you ardently longed for that one work, with unceasing prayer and labor in the desert you labored, with a tender heart Having acquired the love of Christ, the chosen one, beloved of God, appeared to the Mother. For this reason we cry out to you: save us with your prayers, Seraphim, our reverend Father.
Having left the beauty of the world and the corruption in it, O Reverend, you moved into the Sarov monastery, and there, having lived like an angel, you were the path to salvation for many. For this reason, glorify Christ to you, Father Seraphim, and enrich you with the gift of healings and miracles. Moreover, we cry to you: Rejoice, Seraphim, like our Father.
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(January 30/February 12)
As the apostles of oneness and the universal teacher, pray to the Lord of all to grant universal peace and great mercy to our souls.
Holy and divine preachers, the top of teachers, Lord, you accepted for the enjoyment of your good things and peace: for you accepted labor and death more than any all-fruitfulness, One glorify Thy saints.
##Glorification
We magnify you, Saints Basil, Gregory and John, and honor your holy memory, for you pray for us to Christ our God.
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Today the Russian Church joyfully rejoices, like the mother of her children, glorifying her new martyrs and confessors: saints and priests, royal passion-bearers, noble princes and princesses, reverend men and wives and all Orthodox Christians, who, during the days of the godless persecution, laid down their lives for faith in Christ and kept the truth with their blood. Through their intercession, long-suffering Lord, preserve our country in Orthodoxy until the end of the age.
Today the New Martyrs of Russia in white robes stand before the Lamb of God and with the Angels they sing a song of victory to God: blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and praise, and honor, and strength, and strength to us To God forever and ever. Amen.
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(February 12/25, as well as May 20/June 2 and October 5/18)
As an apostle with the altar, and a kind doctor, and a favored minister, flowing more honestly to your race, Saint Alexis, the God-wise wonderworker, has come together with love in your memory We celebrate brightly, in songs and songs, rejoicing and glorifying Christ, such grace as has given you healing and great strengthening of your city.
Let us bless the Divine and Most Honorable Saint of Christ, the new wonderworker Alexis, who sings truly, O people, with love, as a great shepherd, a wise minister and teacher. Russian lands. Today, coming to his memory, let us joyfully cry out a hymn to the God-bearing One: for having boldness towards God, deliver us from manifold circumstances, and let us call to you: Rejoice, strengthening of the city ours.
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(April 23/May 6)
As a liberator of captives and a defender of the poor, a doctor of the infirm, a champion of the Orthodox, Victorious Great Martyr George, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
You appeared to be cultivated by God, a most honest worker of piety, having gathered for yourself the handles of virtues; Having sowed in tears, reaped with joy, and suffered through blood, you received Christ, and with your prayers, holy ones, you granted forgiveness to everyone for their sins.
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(11/24 May)
As the apostle of uniformity and the Slovenian countries, the teacher, Cyril and Methodius of God, pray to the Lord of all, to establish all Slovenian languages in Orthodoxy and unanimity, to pacify the world and save souls ours.
We honor the sacred duo of our enlighteners, the Divine Scriptures, which poured out for us the source of knowledge of God, from which we draw endlessly even to this day, we please you, Cyril and Methodius, To the Throne of the Most High and to those who warmly pray for our souls.
##Glorification
We magnify you, Saints Methodius and Cyril, equal to the apostles, who enlightened the entire Slovenian country with your teachings and brought them to Christ.
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(June 24/July 7)
Prophet and Forerunner of the coming of Christ, we are worthy to praise you, we are perplexed, we who honor you with love: the barrenness of your birth and the Father’s voicelessness were resolved by your glorious and honest Christmas, and the incarnation of the Son of God in the world is preached.
Before the barrenness of the day, Christ gives birth to the Forerunner, and that is the fulfillment of every prophecy: Whom the prophets preached, the prophet laid his hand on Him in the Jordan, and the prophet appeared of God’s Word, preacher, together with the Forerunner.
##Glorification
We magnify you, the Forerunner of the Savior, John, and honor your glorious birth even from the barren one.
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(June 29/July 12)
The Mother Apostles and the universal teachers, pray to the Lord of all to grant universal peace and great mercy to our souls.
Firm and divinely preached preachers, the top of Your apostles, O Lord, You have received for the enjoyment of Your good things and peace; For you have accepted illness and death more than all fruitfulness, the only one who knows the heart.
##Glorification
We magnify you, Christ’s apostles Peter and Paul, who enlightened the whole world with your teachings and brought everything to Christ.
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(July 11/24)
Having fixed your mind with the wings of God-mind, you flew above visible creatures, seeking God and the Creator of all things, and having found Him, you received the birth of baptism; enjoying the living tree, you remain incorruptible forever, Olgo, ever-glorious.
Let us sing today to God, the Benefactor of all, who glorified the God-wise Olga in Russia, and through her prayers will grant remission of sins to our souls.
##Glorification
We magnify you, holy blessed princess of Russia Olgo, and honor your holy memory, for you pray for us to Christ, our God.
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(July 15/28)
You are like a merchant looking for good beads, gloriously powerful Vladimir, sitting at the height of the table, the mother of cities, God-saved Kiev; testing and sending to the Royal City to bring the Orthodox faith, you found priceless pearls, Christ, who chose you like the second Paul, and shook off blindness into the holy a spiritual and physical font. At the same time, we celebrate your success, your people: pray for the salvation of your Russian ruler and the multitude of those who rule.
Having become like the great Apostle Paul, in his gray hairs, the all-glorious Vladimir, like a child, you left all cares about idols, like a perfect man, you became adorned. Divine Baptism with scarlet; and now stand before the Savior Christ in joy, pray that the ruler of the Russian powers and the multitude of those who rule will be saved.
##Glorification
We magnify you, holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, and honor your holy memory, who trampled idols and enlightened the entire Russian land with holy baptism.
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(July 20/August 2)
Angel in the flesh, the foundation of the prophets, the second forerunner of the coming of Christ, the glorious Elijah, who sent Elisse the grace to drive away illnesses and cleanse lepers, and also to those who worship him. healing.
Prophet and seer of the great deeds of our God, O great Elijah, who filled the watercourse clouds with your message, pray for us to the One Lover of Mankind.
##Glorification
We magnify you, holy prophet of God Elijah, and honor your glorious ascension on the chariot of fire.
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(July 27/August 9)
Passion-bearing saint and healer Panteleimon, pray to the Merciful God that He will grant remission of sins to our souls.
This imitator of the Merciful, and receive healing grace from Him, passion-bearer and martyr of Christ God, with your prayers of soul heal our ailments, drive away the ever-wrestling temptations from those who cry truly: save us, Lord.
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(August 29/September 11)
The memory of the righteous is with praise, but the testimony of the Lord, the Forerunner, is sufficient for you: for you have shown that you are in truth and more honorable than the prophets, as even in the streams of baptism you were worthy Preached. Moreover, having suffered for the truth, rejoicing, you preached the good news to those in hell of God, who appears in the flesh, who takes away the sin of the world and gives us great mercy.
The Forerunner's glorious beheading saw the coming of a certain Divine, and the coming of the Savior was preached to those in hell. Let Herodia weep, having asked for lawless murder: for thou hast not loved the law of God, nor the living age, but the feigned, temporal one.
##Glorification
We magnify you, John the Baptist of the Savior, and honor all your honorable heads after beheading.