Troparion and Kontakion

At Vespers, ‘O Theotokos and Virgin, rejoice’ twice, and the troparion of the feast once.

At God is the Lord, the troparion of the resurrection twice, then Glory..., and that of the feast; Both now..., and the resurrectional theotokion in the same tone.

After Ode III, the sessional hymns of the feast.

After Ode VI, the kontakion, ikos and synaxarion of the feast. 

At the Hours, the troparia of the resurrection and of the feast; the kontakion of the feast

At Liturgy, the troparion of the resurrection and of the feast; Glory…, Both now…, and the kontakion of the feast. 

The troparion of the feast, in Tone IV:

Adorned in the blood of Thy Martyrs throughout all the world / as in purple and fine linen, / Thy Church, through them, doth cry unto Thee, O Christ God: / Send down Thy compassions upon Thy people; // grant peace to Thy flock and to our souls great mercy. 

The kontakion of the feast, in Tone VIII:

To Thee, O Lord, the Planter of creation, / the world doth offer the God-bearing martyrs as the first fruits of nature. / By their intercessions preserve Thy Church, Thy Commonwealth, in profound peace, // through the Theotokos, O greatly-merciful One. 

Vespers

At Lord I have cried, 10 stichera: 6 of the resurrection and 4 of the feast, in Tone VI, spec. mel.: "Having set all aside":

As is meet let us acclaim / with sacred songs and laudations / the divine assembly of the Apostles, Martyrs, and godly-minded priests, / and the women most chaste, / who throughout the whole world / have contested in unshaken faith. / For, though they were of earth, / they were all united together with the Bodiless of Heaven's heights, / and by their august passion / they received most blessed dispassion through Christ God's grace. / And now like steadfast stars that shine upon us, // they intercede with great boldness for our souls.

The most steadfast Martyrs of Christ our God / struggled with wild beasts, / suffered dislocation and deprivation of their hands, / and were torn by claws. / They were struck with sharp swords, / and in no wise yielding, / they were burnt and scorched with flames of fire. / Lo, they were also pierced, / and their joints were severed most grievously. / They suffered all with steadfastness, / while looking ahead to rewards to come / and unfading crowns, / and the glory of the Savior, Christ our God; / and with great boldness // they intercede with Him in our souls' behalf.

Being set aflame with the fire / of the love of the Lord God, / they fully disdained the fire; / and thus being kindled like most divine live coals, / through Christ did the august Martyrs wholly burn up / the dead wood of error's insolence; / they bridled mouths of beasts by wise supplications to the Lord; / and thus, beheaded, / they themselves cut off all the hosts of the enemy; / and in that they poured forth their blood in streams / through their endurance and great patience, they watered all the Church, // which then blossomed forth with faith. 

Speaking with the Spirit’s words / the Savior’s blessed disciples, / who by faith became as well the Spirit's true instruments, / sowed and cast abroad to the earth's farthest ends / their most holy preaching / in a manner wholly Orthodox. / Therefore there blossomed forth by a divine husbandry and by grace / the Martyrs' hosts and phalanxes, / who by divers torments and fire and stripes / showed forth and depicted the saving and august Passion of Christ. / And thus with boldness // they intercede with Him in our souls' behalf.

Glory.., in Tone VI:

O divine choir of Martyrs, / foundation of the Church, / perfection of the Gospel, / ye have fulfilled in deed the sayings of the Savior; / in you the gates of Hades, that yawned against the Church, are shut; / the flow of your blood hath dried up the libations of idolatry; / your slaughter gave birth to the plenitude of the faithful. / Ye did amaze the incorporeal hosts, / and now stand crowned before God. // Unceasingly entreat Him in behalf of our souls.

Both now..., and the dogmatic theotokion.

Entrance, Prokeimenon, and 3 Readings. 

At Litia, the sticheron of the patronal saint, then of the feast, in Tone I:  

In unison of faith, let us spiritually celebrate the universal festival / of all them that have been pleasing unto God from ages past, / even the venerable order of Patriarchs, / the assembly of Prophets, the adornment of Apostles, / the gathering of Martyrs, the boast of Ascetics, / the memory of all the Saints; / for they intercede unceasingly that peace be granted to the world, // and great mercy to our souls.

Come, all ye faithful, / with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, / let us acclaim the all-glorious memory of all the Saints: / the Baptist of the Savior, / the Apostles, Prophets, and Martyrs, / the hierarchs, teachers, and righteous, / the ascetics and the just, / and the God-loving company of holy women; / and let us cry out with one accord / while we reverently acclaim them as blessed: / O supremely good Christ our God, / by their intercessions grant peace unto Thy churches, / victory over heresy unto Thy Christ-loving hierarchs, // and great mercy to our souls.

Come, let us all rejoice spiritually on the memory of the Saints; / for behold, it hath come bringing us bountiful gifts. / Wherefore, let us cry out with a voice of rejoicing / and with a pure conscience, saying: / Rejoice, O assembly of Prophets, / who proclaimed the coming of Christ to the world, / and who foresaw things afar off as though they were near. / Rejoice, O choir of the Apostles, / ye fishers of men who caught the nations in your nets. / Rejoice, O company of the Martyrs, / who were gathered from the ends of the earth into one Faith, / and who for the sake thereof endured the infliction of torments, / and in a perfect manner received the crown of contest. / Rejoice, O beehive of the Fathers, / who wore down your own bodies in asceticism, / and mortified the passions of the flesh; / who by divine love took wing in mind and soared unto the Heavens, / and who rejoice with the Angels and enjoy eternal good things. / Wherefore, O ye Prophets, Apostles, and Martyrs, / together with the ascetics, / fervently beseech Him that crowned you, / that He redeem from visible and invisible enemies // those who with faith and love celebrate your ever-venerable memory.

Glory..., in Tone V:

Let us hasten unto the present festival, O ye faithful; / for there is set before us / a spiritual banquet and a mystical wine-bowl, / filled with the sweet food of joy, / even the virtues of the martyrs. / For these stout-hearted ones, from the ends of the earth, / offered unto God as a rational sacrifice / the varied torments and afflictions of their bodily members / and the very prime of their years. / Some were beheaded, / others were dismembered of their arms / and were sundered in every joint. / All the Saints became sharers of the Passion of Christ. / O Lord, Who didst grant them crowns as a reward for their afflictions, / grant that we may live according to their example, // since Thou art the Friend of man.

Both now..., and the theotokion in the same tone. 

At the Aposticha, the stichera of the resurrection, then Glory…, of the feast, in Tone VI:

Come, O ye faithful, / let us form a choir today. / Let us piously celebrate and gloriously honor / the glorious and venerable memory of all the Saints, while saying: / Rejoice, O glorious Apostles, Prophets, Martyrs, and Hierarchs. / Rejoice, O assembly of the righteous and the just. / Rejoice, O choir of honored women. / Intercede ye with Christ for the world, / that victory over heresy be granted to our hierarchs, // and great mercy to our souls.

Both now..., and the theotokion in the same tone. 

‘O Theotokos and Virgin, rejoice’ twice, and the troparion of the feast once. 

Matins

At God is the Lord, the troparion of the resurrection twice, then Glory..., and that of the feast; Both now..., and the resurrectional theotokion in the same tone.

After Ode III, the sessional hymns of the feast.

After Ode VI, the kontakion, ikos and synaxarion of the feast.

The exapostilarion of the resurrection, then Glory…, and that of the feast:

With hymns let us crown as is meet the Baptist and Forerunner, / the prophets and apostles with the martyrs and wise hierarchs, / ascetics and hieromartyrs, / the women who loved God / and the just ones and the righteous ones, / with all the ranks of angels, / and let us pray and make supplication / that we may also attain unto the glory // which they have with Christ the Savior.

Both now...

He that is ever glorified on high as God by Angels / ineffably did not forsake the bosom of the Father, O spotless one, / when He came down, unto us here below; / and thou didst become the cause of our salvation / in that thou didst lend flesh to Him / in a manner past all speech from thy pure blood. // O pure one, ask that He forgive the sins of us, thy servants.

At the Praises, 8 stichera: 5 of the resurrection, and 3 of the feast, in Tone IV, spec. mel.: ‘As one valiant’:

Christ the Lord hath made wondrous / all of His Saints that were on the earth, / for these blessed ones received in their very flesh / His wounds and sufferings / and have been arrayed therewith splendidly. / And they stand manifestly decked out with divine comeliness. / Let us therefore praise and acclaim them / as unwilting blossoms and as willing sacrifices, // and as unerring stars of the Church.

Stichos: The righteous cried, and the Lord heard them, / and He delivered them out of all their tribulations.

Since by means of their virtues’ light / they made earth to be heavenly, / and in their great struggles did emulate Christ’s death, / and since they traveled that path, / the cause of true immortality, / and excised our mortal ills / by the marvelous surgery of the grace of God, / let the Martyrs, who did contest throughout the world wholeheartedly and nobly, // be lauded now and acclaimed with hymns.

Stichos: Wondrous is God in His Saints, the God of Israel.

Let the prophets, apostles, and all the righteous, / the teachers with all the hieromartyrs, / the just, and fervent choirs of women who did contest / and those who strove in ascetic deeds, / yea, that multitude of saints, / and the hosts of the righteous ones, / let them all be praised with most sacred hymns, / for they have inherited the Kingdom in the highest, // and they abide now in paradise.

Glory..., and the first Gospel sticheron. Both now..., and the theotokion in Tone II.

Divine Liturgy

At the Beatitudes, 8 troparia: 4 of the resurrection, and 4 from Ode VI of the canon of the feast. 

After the Entrance, the troparion of the resurrection and of the feast; Glory…, Both now…, and the kontakion of the feast. 

Prokeimenon of the resurrection and for the feast, in Tone IV:

Wondrous is God in His saints, the God of Israel. 

Alleluia of the feast, in Tone IV.

Communion Hymn of Sunday, and of the feast:

Rejoice in the Lord…