Synaxis of All Saints
Troparion — Tone 4
Adorned in the blood of Your Martyrs throughout all the world, / as if clothed in purple and linen, / through them Your Church cries out to You, O Christ God: / “Bestow Your bounties upon Your people, / grant peace to Your habitation, and great mercy to our souls.”
Kontakion — Tone 8
(Original Melody)
As the first fruits of nature offered to the Planter of all creation, O Lord, / the inhabited earth brings the God-bearing Martyrs. / By their supplications, and the intercession of the Theotokos, / preserve Your Church in profound peace, O greatly Merciful One.
Icon of the Mother of God “The Unbreakable Wall”
Troparion — Tone 4
Let us, sinful and humbled, now run earnestly to the Theotokos, / and let us fall down in repentance, crying from the depths of our soul: / "Help us, O Sovereign Lady, and have compassion on us. / Make haste, for we perish from the multitude of our sins. / Do not turn your servants empty away, for we have you as our only hope.
Kontakion — Tone 6
We have no other help, we have no other hope, but you, O Sovereign Lady. / Help us, for in you do we hope, / and of you do we boast, for we are your servants. / Let us not be put to shame.
"Seven Arrows" Icon of the Mother of God
Troparion — Tone 5
Soften our evil hearts, O Theotokos, and repel the attacks of those who hate us, / and loosen all the rigidity of our soul. / For beholding your holy image, / we are filled with compunction by your compassion and loving kindness toward us, / and we kiss your wounds; / for we are terrified by the darts with which we wound you. / O Compassionate Mother, / do not let us perish because of our hardness of heart, / or our neighbor's hardness of heart, / for you are truly the Softener of Evil Hearts.
Kontakion — Tone 2
By your grace, O Sovereign Lady, / soften the hearts of evildoers, / send down benefactors who will preserve them from all evil; / with gratitude and zeal, we pray to you before your revered icons.
Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina in Sicily
Troparion — Tone 8
As a flaming arrow You were sent from on high / to the throne of Taormina to wound godless impiety / and to illumine the hearts of the faithful, / confirming them in the faith through the word of God. / And having completed your course You did suffer unto bloodshed. / O Hieromartyr Pancratius, pray for all who praise your memory.
Troparion — Tone 4
By sharing in the ways of the Apostles, / you became a successor to their throne. / Through the practice of virtue, you found the way to divine contemplation, O inspired one of God; / by teaching the word of truth without error, you defended the Faith, / even to the shedding of your blood. / Hieromartyr Pancratius entreat Christ God to save our souls.
Kontakion — Tone 8
You were a brilliant star in Taormina, O blessed Pancratius, / and You became a hieromartyr for Christ. / Standing before Him now, pray for those who honor you.
Kontakion — Tone 4
Pancratius, you were revealed as a brilliant star for the people of Taormina; / you were also shown to be a sufferer for Christ. / Since you now stand before Him, O blessed one, pray for those who honor you.
Hieromartyr Cyril, Bishop of Gortyna in Crete
Troparion — Tone 4
By sharing in the ways of the Apostles, / you became a successor to their throne. / Through the practice of virtue, you found the way to divine contemplation, O inspired one of God; / by teaching the word of truth without error, you defended the Faith, / even to the shedding of your blood. / Hieromartyr Cyril, entreat Christ God to save our souls.
Martyrs Patermuthius, Coprius, and Alexander the Soldier, in Egypt
Troparion — Tone 4
Your holy martyrs Patermuthius, Coprius, and Alexander, O Lord, / through their sufferings have received incorruptible crowns from You, our God. / For having Your strength, they laid low their adversaries, / and shattered the powerless boldness of demons. / Through their intercessions, save our souls!
Saint Theodore, Bishop of Edessa
Troparion — Tone 4
You were a follower of the Apostles and a pillar of divine teachings, / therefore you came to Christ, and by your prayers, O blessèd Theodore, / you illumined the Caliph Mavi with the light of Baptism. / By professing the Faith, he shed his blood and received that which he asked: a crown from Christ the King. / O Hierarch Theodore, entreat Him to save our souls.
Troparion — Tone 4
Against your will, you received your flock as a Hierarch, / but of your own free will you contested for the Church, / and the unbelieving Caliph Mavi converted to the Faith with the help of earth from the Lord's tomb. / Along with his physical blindness, you also healed his soul, and instructed him in piety. / At the same time you drove heretics away from the Church like wolves. / O most revered Hierarch Theodore, / pray that our souls may be saved.
Kontakion — Tone 4
Shining like the sun with radiant life, O Hierarch Theodore, / you appeared before the Babylonian Caliph with miracles, making him a servant of Christ. / Now standing with him before the throne of the Trinity, / remember us who celebrate your glorious memory, / O wise one.
Kontakion — Tone 4
By your good will, you graciously illumined your child, / the revered Mavi, at the Life-Giving Tree. / You went to Constantinople, / where you healed the eyes of the virtuous Empress Theodora with earth from the Lord's tomb and restored her sight. / From there, with the desired treasure again in Babylon / you strengthened the honorable Mavi for his martyrdom for Christ; / therefore we cry out to you: / “Rejoice, revered Theodore, / disciple of Christ, the Good Shepherd.”
Saint Dionysios the Rhetorician and his disciple Saint Mētrophánēs
Troparion — Tone 3
(Podoben: “The Divine Faith...”)
You consumed the roots of the passions with divine coals, / and shone ascetically on Athos, / for radiant with the unwaning light, / you were shown as equals to the God-bearers. / O wise Dionysios and godly Mētrophánēs, entreat Christ God that great mercy may be granted unto us.
Kontakion — Tone 8
(Podoben: “O Victorious Leader...”)
As most sacred initiates of the Trinity, and of equal standing, and communicants with the Monastic Saints, / O wise Dionysios and Mētrophánēs, / never cease to quash the schemes of the Enemy against us, / so that we may cry: “Rejoice, O God-bearers.”