Troparia and kontakia for June 18

Synaxis of the Saints of North America

Troparion — Tone 8

As the bountiful harvest of Your sowing of salvation, / the lands of North America offer to You, O Lord, all the saints who have shone in them. / By their prayers keep the Church and our land in abiding peace / through the Theotokos, O most Merciful One.

Kontakion — Tone 3

Today the choir of Saints who were pleasing to God in the lands of North America / now stands before us in the Church and invisibly prays to God for us. / With them the angels glorify Him, / and all the saints of the Church of Christ keep festival with them; / and together they all pray for us to the Pre-Eternal God.

Martyrs Leontius, Hypatius, and Theodulus at Tripoli in Syria

Troparion — Tone 3

Girded with divine strength you triumphed in your contest, / O Leontius, the Savior’s trophy-bearer. / You sprang into the contest like a lion, / and destroyed the enemy’s might. / O glorious martyr, entreat Christ our God to grant us his great mercy!

Troparion — Tone 4

Your holy martyr Leontius and his companions, 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!

Kontakion — Tone 3

You confounded the wicked plans of tyrants / and exposed the godless worship of the pagan Greeks. / You illumined all mankind with the knowledge of God by your teachings of true piety, divinely-wise martyr. / Therefore, Leontius, we lovingly honor your memory.

Venerable Leontius of the Kiev Far Caves

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 Leontius, pray to Christ our God to save our souls!

Venerable Leontius the Hagiorite

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 Leontius, pray to Christ our God to save our souls!

“Bogolyubov” Icon of the Mother of God

Kontakion — Tone 3

Today the Virgin appears before her Son, / stretching out her hands toward Him; / the Holy Prince Andrew rejoices, / and the land of Russia celebrates with him, / for the Theotokos prays unceasingly to God for us.