Saturday April 04, 2026 / March 22, 2026
Thou didst give a pledge of the general resurrection before Thy Passion, O Christ our God, by raising Lazarus from the dead. Therefore, we too, like the children, carry the symbols of victory and cry to Thee, the Vanquisher of death: Hosanna in the Heights! Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord.
Christ, the joy of all, the truth, the light, the life, the resurrection of the world, in His goodness appeared to those on earth, and He became an image of the Resurrection and grants to all divine forgiveness.
No Troparion is given in the Menaion.
Running thy race lawfully, thou didst keep the Faith, O hieromartyr Basil;/ wherefore, thou hast been counted worthy of crowns of martyrdom/ and hast shown thyself to be an unshakable pillar of the Church,/ confessing the Son as equally unoriginate with the Father and the Trinity as indivisible,/ Whom do thou entreat, that those who honor thee be delivered from misfortunes,// that we may cry out to thee: Rejoice, O divinely wise Basil!