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Holy Martyrs Plato (286-305) and Roman (305).
VESPERS ON SUNDAY EVENING
Kathisma Reading
There are no appointed psalms to be chanted tonight.
At Psalm 140
Tone 8
If You mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?* But with You forgiveness is that You may be revered.
Full of valiant wisdom,* with a most courageous resolve endured the severing of your limbs and the dismemberment of your body,* unbearable fire, starvation and death,* in expectation of the glory which ages not with time,* which lies eternally before you,* and foreseeing everlasting blessedness.
I have waited for You as You have commanded; my soul patiently relies on Your promise,* for it has trusted in the Lord.
Having transcended every sense and directed your mind toward life on high,* with divinely wise thought and great wisdom of soul* you spurned the baseness and lowliness of visible things.* Wherefore, lacerated and burned with fire for Christ, O martyr,* you endured valiantly.
From the morning watch until night* let Israel trust in the Lord.
By grace you set at nought every assault of the enemy* and the onslaughts of the persecutors;* and you were crowned with the wreath of victory,* O you who are most rich,* being vouchsafed incorruptible gladness and ineffable and divine radiance.* And as you are now in the midst thereof,* ask remission of sins for those who praise you well.
Tone 4
For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him there is plentiful redemption;* and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Consumed by fasting, hardened by ascetic endeavour,* and tormented with manifold tortures,* you became a two-edged sword, cutting down hordes of demons, O Roman,* adornment of athletes, divine boast, precious ornament of the Church* of those who died shedding their own blood, O most lauded one.
Praise the Lord, all the nations;* proclaim His glory, all you people.
Lacerated and rent asunder, imprisoned in a dungeon,* your tongue cut out, O glorious athlete,* your jaw broken, receiving a blessed end through violent suffocation,* you were shown to be unshakable and steadfast* through the activity of the divine Spirit, O Roman;* wherefore, we praise you with faith.
Strong is the love of the Lord for us;* eternally will His truth endure.
A child speaks eloquently and amazes the mindless:* he is adorned with honourable opposition and is illumined by his death;* he is enriched by the goodly fame of the holy athletes, whose zeal he acquired.* O right wise Roman, pray with them, that remission of debts be sent down upon us all.
Tone 6, Glory…
Awesome and all-glorious are the victories of Your martyr, O Lord!* For, emulating the boldness of the fishermen, by his words and deeds he rent asunder* the mythology and historical blasphemy of Plato with the nets of theology;* and when his skin was flayed and his head cut off,* he choked the enemy with the outpouring of his blood.* O most blessed wonderworker Plato, adornment of the martyrs,* who preached the great name of Christ with boldness,* ask that great mercy be given our souls.
Tone 6, Now…
О Theotokos, who at the sound of the archangel’s voice* conceived in your womb the Word,* who with the Father and the Spirit is equally beginningless,* you have been revealed to be more exalted than the cherubim, seraphim, and thrones.
Prokeimenon, Tone 8
And now bless the Lord,* all you servants of the Lord.
verse: Who stand in the temple of the Lord, in the courtyards of the house of our God.
Aposticha
Tone 1
Great is the abyss of my many transgressions, О Saviour,* and I sink grievously because of my offenses.* Grant me Your hand, as You did to Peter, О God.* Save me and have mercy upon me!
I have lifted up my eyes to You enthroned in heaven. Behold, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress, so are our eyes on the Lord our God until He has mercy on us.
In that I have been condemned for wicked thoughts and deeds, О Saviour,* grant me the thought of returning to You, О God,* that I may cry aloud: Save me, О good Benefactor,* and have mercy upon me!
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been filled with shame; our soul is all too full of the mockery of the rich, of the contempt of the proud.
Through the prayers of all the saints and the Theotokos,* О Lord, grant us Your peace,* and have mercy upon us,* in that You alone are compassionate.
Glory… Now…
Joy of the ranks of heaven,* and mighty intercession for mankind on earth, O most pure Virgin:* save us who have recourse to you,* for in you, after God,* have we placed our hope, O Theotokos.
Troparia
Tone 4
O Lord our God, your holy martyrs* have deserved the crown of immortality* on account of their good fight.* Armed with your strength, they have vanquished their persecutors* and crushed Satan’s dreadful might.* Through their supplications, O Christ our God, save our souls.
Glory… Now…
To the One who was reared in the Temple,* close to the Holy of Holies,* and who was full of faith, wisdom, and perfect virginity,* Gabriel, the captain and leader,* offered esteem and greetings from heaven when he said:* Rejoice, O blessed One! Rejoice, O glorified One!* The Lord is with you.
DIVINE LITURGY ON MONDAY MORNING
Troparia and Kontakia
Troparion, Tone 4: O Lord our God, your holy martyrs* have deserved the crown of immortality* on account of their good fight.* Armed with your strength, they have vanquished their persecutors* and crushed Satan’s dreadful might.* Through their supplications, O Christ our God, save our souls.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Kontakion, Tone 4: Your holy memory delights the universe* and brings us together in your holy temple.* Since we are now gathered together in our joy,* praise your great deeds with hymns, O Plato and Roman,* and we cry out to you with faith:* O holy ones, save your city from its enemies.
Prokeimenon, Tone 4
To the saints who are in His land, the Lord has made wonderful all His desires in them.
verse: I foresaw the Lord in my sight, for He is at my right hand that I may not be shaken. (Psalm 15:3,8)
Epistle
1 Timothy 5:1-10
Alleluia, Tone 4
verse: The just cried out and the Lord heard them, and delivered them out of their afflictions.
verse: The afflictions of the just are many, and out of them all will the Lord deliver them. (Psalm 33:18,20)
Gospel
Luke 17:20-25
Communion Hymn
Rejoice in the Lord, O you just;* praise befits the righteous.* Alleluia, alleluia,* alleluia. (Psalm 32:1)