Sunday June 28, 2026 / June 15, 2026
Let the heavens rejoice, / let the earth be glad! / For the Lord has shown might with His arm,/ He has trampled down death by death. / He has become the first-born of the dead. / He has delivered us from the depths of hell, / and has granted the world great mercy!
We praise you as the mediatrix of our salvation, / O Virgin Theotokos. / For your Son, our God, Who took flesh from you, / accepted the passion of the cross, / delivering us from corruption as the Lover of man.
On this day Thou didst rise from the tomb, O Merciful One, / leading us from the gates of death. / On this day Adam exults as Eve rejoices; / with the prophets and patriarchs they unceasingly praise / the divine majesty of Thy power!
No Troparion is given in the Menaion.
Having cleansed thy radiant heart by the Spirit,/ O glorious Prophet Amos,/ and received the gift of prophecy from on high,/ thou didst cry aloud throughout the land:// Behold our God! There is none other like unto Him!
Having dedicated thyself wholly to the Lord from thy youth, thou becamest a model of virtue in prayers, labors and fasting; wherefore, beholding thy goodly intent, God appointed thee the hierarch and pastor of His Church: and for this cause, thy precious body hath been preserved whole and incorrupt after thy repose. O holy hierarch Jonah, entreat Christ God, that He save our souls.
To From childhood thou didst enslave thyself unto the Lord, O wise one, laying waste to thy body through fasting and the keeping of vigils; wherefore, thou wast shown to be the pure vessel and abode of the all-holy Spirit. For this cause He ordained thee as hierarch and pastor for His Church, and having tended it well, thou didst depart unto the Lord Whom thou didst love. We therefore beseech thee: Be thou mindful of us who honor thy holy memory with faith, that we may all cry aloud unto thee: Rejoice, O father Jonah, most honored and holy hierarch!
The assembly of the Orthodox hath thee as a great intercessor, O divinely wise one, for as thou art a conversor with the venerable and sharest in divine wisdom, so, O all-wondrous Jerome, entreat Christ God that He grant us great mercy.
With hymns let us praise the right laudable Jerome, the most venerable among the venerable and the most blessed among the blessed, the instructor and helper of the faithful, crying out to him with love: Rejoice, O divinely wise father!