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...the weapon[s]; for by you, [O Cross], we were saved from the biting and incorporeal beast, and the drops of incorruptible blood poured out upon you wiped away the sin of the rib-born [Eve]. The children of the holy Church bless you.

[ON] MONDAY

[Monday]: Heavenly chosen flock, whom the Good Shepherd left in heaven and came in search of us who were lost; whereby, having filled the number of the hundred, He made joy in heaven for [you] the heavenly hosts; we beseech you, intercede before the Lord for the remission of our sins. Beholders of the Invisible, contemplators of the depths of God, who descended with the Only-Begotten to minister unto the Economy [of Salvation]: at the Nativity, bringers of good tidings to the shepherds, and to the myrrh-bearing women, heralds of the life of the Living One; we beseech you, intercede before the Lord for the remission of our sins.