Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross Over Jerusalem, in 351 AD - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 8
Now the image of Your Cross has shone brighter than the sun, / spreading from the Holy Mountain1 to the Place of the Skull,2 / and in it O Savior, You revealed Your power, thereby strengthening us. / Keep us always in peace, through the intercessions of the Theotokos, O Christ God, and save us.
1 The Mount of Olives.
2 Golgotha.
Kontakion — Tone 8
The Most Pure Cross has opened Heaven which was closed, / and has dawned upon the earth, shining its brilliant rays to the heavens; / therefore, receiving the radiance of its power as our guide to the unwaning light, / we have it in battles as a weapon of peace, an invincible trophy.