Troparion — Tone 1 You were a pillar of patient endurance, Having imitated the forefathers, O Venerable One: Job in suffering, and Joseph in temptations. You lived like the bodiless ones while yet in the flesh, O Simeon, our Father. Beseech Christ God that our souls may be saved. […]
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Kontakion 3rd Tone: I am grievously paralyzed in a multitude of sins and wrongful deeds. As You raised up the paralytic of old, also raise up my soul by Your divine guidance, that I may cry out, “Glory to Your Power O Compassionate Christ.” Reading from the Book of […]
Reading From St. Mark The Ascetic “Do not claim to have acquired virtue unless you have suffered affliction, for without affliction virtue has not been tested” ~ on The Spiritual Law Two Hundred Texts, The Philokalia Vol 1 Reading from The Book of Job “I know that you can […]
Reading from Isaiah Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the […]