All Saints of America

OR THE WEEK From 1 October – the Eastern Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos – to 7 October – the Western Feast of Our Lady of Victory – a set of prayers to Our Lady asking her help and protection for all Christians. These two feasts seem to me analogues. And [...]

Troparion (Tone 8) As the bountiful harvest of Your sowing of salvation, the lands of North and South America offer to You, O Lord, all the saints who have shone forth in them. By their prayers keep the Church and our land in abiding peace through the Theotokos, O most Merciful One! Kontakion (Tone 3) [...]