Friday July 17, 2026 / July 4, 2026
The truth of things revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of faith,/ a model of meekness and a teacher of abstinence/ wherefore thou hast attained the heights through humility/ and riches through poverty.// O hierarch Andrew our father, entreat Christ God that our souls be saved.
In thee, O mother, that which was created according to the image of God was manifestly saved./ For accepting thy cross thou didst follow after Christ,/ and praying thou didst learn to disdain the flesh,/ for thou didst transcend it to take care of thine immortal soul.// Wherefore, with the angels doth thy soul rejoice, O venerable Martha.
Standing before the Lord and the all-pure Virgin Theotokos in prayer,/ and offering up hymnody and praises, O honored Martha,/ thou gavest birth to a sacred child,/ the all-wondrous Symeon, the beacon of the whole world.// With him do thou ever pray for us all.
Manifestly trumpeting forth hymns of divine sweetness,/ thou wast shown to be a most radiant beacon for the world,/ shining with the light of the Trinity, O venerable Andrew.// Wherefore, we all cry out to thee: Cease thou never to pray for us all.
Meekly didst thou endure the loss of thine earthly kingdom, the bonds and divers sufferings inflicted upon thee by those opposed to God, and didst bear witness for Christ even unto death, O great passion-bearer, divinely crowned Tsar Nicholas; wherefore, Christ God hath crowned thee in the heavens with a martyr's crown, together with thy queen, thy children and thy servants. Him do thou beseech, that He have mercy upon the Russian land and save our souls.
Taking up the Cross of Christ, thou didst pass from royal glory to the glory of heaven, praying for thine enemies, O holy martyr Princess Elizabeth; and with the martyr Barbara thou didst find everlasting joy. Therefore, pray ye in behalf of our souls.
Thou didst strengthen the hope of the martyred Tsar, his Tsaritsa and children, and it took flight to Thy love, proclaiming beforehand their future rest. Through their prayers, O Lord, have mercy upon us.