Saturday February 24, 2018 / February 11, 2018
First Saturday of the Great Lent. Tone four.
Great Lent. Food with Oil
The Scripture Readings
Hebrews 1:1-12Troparia
The First Week of Great Lent, Kontakion, Tone VI —
My soul, my soul, arise! Why are you sleeping? The end is drawing near, and
you will be confounded. Awake, then, and be watchful, that Christ our God may
spare you, Who is everywhere present and fills all things.
Great Martyr Theodore Tyro, Troparion, Tone II —
Great are the triumphs of faith! In a fountain of flame the holy martyr
Theodore rejoiced as in refreshing water. For having been made a whole burnt
offering by fire, he was offered as sweet bread to the Trinity. By his prayers,
O Christ our God, save our souls.
Kontakion, Tone VIII—
Having received the faith of Christ in thy heart as an inner shield, thou
didst overcome all the opposing forces, O great champion, and thou hast been
crowned with a heavenly crown, O Theodore, for thou art eternally invincible.
Holy Hieromartyr Blaise, Troparion, Tone IV —
As thou didst share in the ways of the apostles/ and didst occupy their
throne,/ thou didst find thine activity to be a passage to divine vision,/ O
divinely inspired one./ Wherefore, ordering the word of truth,/ thou didst
suffer for the Faith even to the shedding of thy blood.// O hieromartyr Blaise,
entreat Christ God, that our souls be saved.
Kontakion, Tone II "Seeking the highest" —
O God-bearing Blaise,/ divine offshoot, unfading blossom,/ much-suffering
branch of the vine of Christ:/ with thy gladness fill those who honor thy
memory,// praying unceasingly in behalf of us all.
And this Kontakion, Tone VIII "As firstfruits" —
With the anointing of the priesthood and the blood of martyrdom/ wast thou
adorned, O glorious Blaise;/ and, joining chorus, thou shinest in the highest,/
watching over those who come to thy temple// and therein unceasingly cry out to
thee: Preserve us all!