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.
Saint Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople
Troparion — Tone 8
Through your patience, your unceasing prayer, your love for the poor and the help you gave to them, / you became worthy of your reward, O holy Sampson. / Intercede with Christ God that He may save our souls.
Kontakion — Tone 8
(Podoben: “As the first-fruits of nature...” – Kontakion for All Saints)
We honor your relics, for you are an excellent physician and powerful intercessor; / as we gather to praise you with psalms and hymns, divinely-wise and Venerable Sampson, / we glorify Christ, who granted you the grace of healing.
Venerable Serapion of Kozhe Lake
Troparion — Tone 5
(For reading in the cell)
You indicated the way to salvation through Christ, / rejecting the Hagarene wickedness of your family, / loving Christ God with all your heart, / you regarded boyar honors as nothing, / you chose to live an eremitic life, / with the desert-dweller Nephon you served the Lord, / glorifying the Holy Trinity with prayers and labors in the wilderness, you were revealed as a branch of the good root, / bringing forth good fruit to the Lord. / O Father Serapion, / pray unceasingly for all of us.
Kontakion — Tone 2
You increased the grace given to you by God a hundredfold, / establishing a northern abode in the wilderness, / and with love you gathered and nourished a multitude of others; / you were not wounded by the labors and reproaches of the brethren, / but were revealed as an image of meekness, patience, and humility; / therefore, Venerable Father Serapion, / entreat the Lord to grant these grace-filled gifts to our souls.
Venerable George of Mount Athos
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 George, pray to Christ our God to save our souls!
Finding of the relics of Venerable Ambrose of Optina
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 Ambrose, pray to Christ our God to save our souls!
Venerable Martin of Turov
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 Martin, pray to Christ our God to save our souls!
Hieromartyr Kirion II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia
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 Kirion, entreat Christ God to save our souls.