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[OF THE] MARTYRS

RUBRIC: FIRST SIDE [OF THE CHOIR]

AK [Third Plagal Tone / *Awb-kēn*]. Send forth, O Lord, your light and your truth. Show us, O Lord, [your] mercy, and be a helper to your servants, through the intercession of the holy martyrs whose commemoration [is held] today. That, being led by them, we may go up to [your] holy mountain and into your dwellings. I will go in before the altar of God, unto God, who gladdens my youth. Show us [your mercy...]

RUBRIC: [Of the] Theophany [Epiphany]

RUBRIC: And

[THE FEAST OF] THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD [INTO THE TEMPLE]

[The] Sun of righteousness, today revealed [unto] the race of humankind; having become man, [He] sanctified the waters, regenerating us by baptism...