Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee Beginning of the Lenten Triodion
Kontakion — Tone 4
Let us flee from the pride of the Pharisee! / And learn humility from the Publican’s tears! / Let us cry to our Savior, / have mercy on us, / only merciful One!
Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Troparion — Tone 1
Hail, Virgin Theotokos, full of grace; / for from you has shone forth the Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God, / giving light those in darkness. / Be glad, O righteous Elder; / for you received in your arms the Redeemer of our souls, / Who bestows upon us resurrection.
Kontakion — Tone 1
By Your birth, You sanctified a virginal womb, / and fittingly You blessed Simeon’s hands, O Christ God; / even now You have saved us by anticipation. / Grant peace to Your faithful people whom You have loved, O only Lover of mankind.
Venerable Isidore of Pelusium
Troparion — Tone 4
(Podoben: “Be quick to anticipate...”)
In your wisdom you adorned the Church of Christ gloriously with your many homilies, / O Venerable Isidore, / you were purified by abstinence, great deeds, and divine vision, / and you shone forth in the world. / By your words, O Father, we are guided and initiated into a more excellent life.
Kontakion — Tone 4
Finding you to be another morning star, O glorious one, / the Church is illumined by the brilliance of your words, / and she cries out to you: “Rejoice, most blessed and godly-minded Isidore.”
Venerable Cyril the Wonderworker, Abbot of Novoezersk, Novgorod
Troparion — Tone 8
By a flood of tears you made the desert fertile, / and your longing for God brought forth fruits in abundance. / By the radiance of miracles you illumined the whole universe! / O our holy father Cyril, pray to Christ our God to save our souls!
Venerable Abraham and Coprius, of Pechenga
Troparion — Tone 8
By a flood of tears you made the desert fertile, / and your longing for God brought forth fruits in abundance. / By the radiance of miracles you illumined the whole universe! / O our holy fathers Abraham and Coprius, pray to Christ our God to save our souls!
Martyr Jadorus
Troparion — Tone 4
Your holy martyr Jadorus, O Lord, / through his suffering has received an incorruptible crown from You, our God. / For having Your strength, he laid low his adversaries, / and shattered the powerless boldness of demons. / Through his intercessions, save our souls!
Kontakion — Tone 2
(Podoben: “You sought the heights...”)
You appeared as a bright star announcing Christ with your radiance, / which is repulsive to this world, O Martyr Jadorus; / extinguishing the allure of false gods, / you enlighten the faithful, / always interceding for us all.
Hieromartyr Abramius, Bishop of Arbela in Assyria
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 Abramius, entreat Christ God to save our souls.
Venerable Nicholas the Confessor, Abbot of Studion
Troparion — Tone 3
(Podoben: “The Divine Faith...”)
O Studite Nicholas, you were shown as the divine offspring of Kydonίa and a model of the monastic life; / and you revered the Icon of Christ, / excelling in the struggles of your confession. / O Venerable Father, / intercede with Christ God, that He may grant us great mercy.
Kontakion — Tone 8
(Podoben: “O Victorious Leader...”)
You arose from Kydonίa as a brilliant luminary, / and illuminated the fullness of the Church by your steadfast confession O God-bearer. / You clarified the veneration of the Icon of Christ by your struggles and pains. / Therefore we cry out: “Rejoice, Father Nicholas.”
Saint Evagrisi, disciple of Saint Shio
Troparion — Tone 8
By a flood of tears you made the desert fertile, / and your longing for God brought forth fruits in abundance. / By the radiance of miracles you illumined the whole universe! / O our holy father Evagrisi, pray to Christ our God to save our souls!
Monastic Martyr Anthony of Kareotis
Troparion — Tone 8
In you, O Father, was preserved with exactness what was according to the image; / for you took up the Cross and followed Christ. / By so doing, you taught us to disregard the flesh, for it passes away; / but to care for the soul, since it is immortal. / Therefore, O Venerable Anthony, your spirit rejoices with the Angels.
Kontakion — Tone 2
Let us fittingly extol the all-praised Anthony with hymns as a devout and experienced faster, / as an honorable and voluntary martyr, / and as one who led an eremitic life in the desert, / for he has trampled the serpent underfoot.