January 2013 - Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada

August 2013
Church Calendar
Prokiemen: Tabor and Hermon. Gospel from St. Luke, per. 45. Psalm 50. Glory: All creation is
filled with joy; Both now: the same; Have mercy on me, O God: Disclosing a little of the radiance.
Canons: both canons of the feast with their irmoi; katavasia of the Exaltation: A Cross
did Moses inscribe. After the 3rd ode: sessional hymn. After the 6th ode: kondak and ikos of
the feast. At the 9th ode we do not sing More honourable, but the refrains of the feast. They
are sung to the irmos and the tropars. Exapostilarion of the feast. At the praises: 4 stykhyry
of the feast, Glory: Both now: of the feast. After the Great Doxology — the tropar of the feast.
Litanies and dismissal of the feast — May Christ, who was transfigured in glory on mount
Tabor before His holy disciples. 1st Hour.
At the Hours: tropar and kondak of the feast
At the Liturgy: Antiphons of the feast. Entrance verse Send forth Your light... (intoned by the
deacon/priest), followed by the tropar of the feast, Glory: Both now: kondak of the feast. Pro -
keimen of the feast. Epistle from the second letter of St. Peter, per. 65. Gospel from St. Mat -
thew, per. 70. In place of It is truly worthy we sing Magnify, O my soul… Your birthgiving was
undefiled… (thus until the Leavetaking of the feast). Communion hymn of the feast. After
the prayer behind the ambon, grapes and other fruit are blessed according to the order given
in the Book of Needs. Dismissal of the feast.
Note: From this day until the Leavetaking of the feast, during the week at Matins we take the
ka tavasia of the feast. During the Entrance at Liturgy we sing Come, let us worship… O Son
of God, transfigured on the mountain, save us who sing to you… The hymn to the Mother of
God and dismissal of the feast.
Tuesday August 20, 2013/August 7, 2013
9th Week after Pentecost. Tone 7
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration
Martyr Dometius of Persia and his two disciples (363).
Ven. Pimen, the Much-suffering, of the Near Kyivan Caves (1110).
Ven. Pimen, faster, of the Kyivan Caves (1239).
St. Mercurius, of the Near Caves in Kyiv, bp. of Smolensk (1239).
Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator at Caesarea in Palestine (260).
St. Hor of the Thebaid (390).
Virgin Potamia of Alexandria.
Ord.: 1 Corinthians 12:12-26; Matthew 18:18-22, 19:1-2, 13-15
Monday Readings: 1 Corinthians 11:31-12:6; Matthew 18:1-11
Wednesday August 21, 2013/August 8, 2013
9th Week after Pentecost. Tone 7
St. Emilian the Confessor, Bp. of Cyzicus (820).
Ven. Gregory, the iconographer, of the Near Kyivan Caves (XII).
Ven. Gregory, wonderworker of the Kyivan Caves (XIV).
St. Myron, bp. of Crete (350).
Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonidas of Constantinople, and many infants with them.
St. Gregory of Sinai (1346).
“Tolga” Icon of the Mother of God (1314)
Ord.: 1Corinthians 13:4-14:5; Matthew 20:1-16
Thursday August 22, 2013/August 9, 2013
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