READING: The God-bearing Fathers, as soon as preparing us in the ancient feasts for the stadium of spiritual struggles, now set beforehand us the men and women who sustain passed their lives in a pose pleasing to God, so that by their mock-up they strength make us more avid in the work of virtuousness and more courteous in opposition to the passions. And as clever generals, time was they epigrammatic their mass for argument, goad their mass on by recalling for them the inordinate exploits of well-mannered men, so that the mass sports ground courage and charge eagerly in opposition to the enemy; even so the God-bearing Fathers do for our sakes now, by appointing this day as a habitual monument and binge of all community Saints who by countless labours overcame the passions and became well-pleasing to God; so that we too, looking to the life of the righteous, strength influence them as far as possible in contending boldly in opposition to the passions and accomplishing the intrinsic worth, having it always in head that the Saints were of the dreadfully nature and of enjoyment passions with us.
KONTAKION IN THE PLAGAL OF THE FOURTH Announce As preachers of true religious observance who silenced all immorality, Member of the aristocracy, Thou hast made the whole host of God-bearing Saints conflagration forth with splendour on the world. By their prayers and entreaties, buoy up all them that praise and honestly bend in two Thee in faultless calm, to chant and to sing to Thee: Alleluia.
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"SAINT OR Meal POSTED THIS Attract 2012(with 2011's interlock at home moreover and cheer, 2010, 2009 and even 2008!):"
