Sunday June 07, 2026 / May 25, 2026
In all the world, O Christ our God, Thy Church is adorned with the blood of Thy martyrs as with purple and fine linen. Through them she cries to Thee: Send down Thy compassion to Thy people, grant peace to Thy community, and to our souls the great mercy.
The universe offers to Thee, O Lord, as the Planter of Creation, the God-bearing martyrs as the first-fruits of nature. By their prayers, O Most Merciful One, through the Mother of God keep Thy Church, Thy estate, in deep peace.
Thou didst descend from on high, O Merciful One! / Thou didst accept the three-day burial to free us from our sufferings! / O Lord, our Life and Resurrection: glory to Thee!
For our sake Thou wast born of the Virgin / and did endure crucifixion, O Good One, / destroying death by death. / Revealing the resurrection as God, / do not despise the work of Thy hand. / Reveal Thy love for man, O merciful One, / and accept the Theotokos praying for us, / and save Thy despairing people, O Savior.
By rising from the tomb, Thou didst raise the dead and resurrect Adam. / Eve exults in Thy Resurrection, / and the world celebrates Thy rising from the dead, O greatly Merciful One!
Like a divine treasure hidden in the earth,/ hath Christ revealed thy head to us, O prophet and forerunner;/ wherefore, assembling for the feast of its discovery,/ let us all chant divinely sounding hymns to the Savior// Who saveth us from corruption by his supplications.
The splendid and divine pillar in the world, the luminary of the Sun, the forerunner,/ showing forth his radiant and divine head to the ends of the earth,/ doth sanctify therewith those who bow down before it with faith and cry out:// O all-wise baptizer of Christ, save us all!