You are most glorious, O Christ our God!  You have established the Holy Fathers as lights on the earth! Through them you have guided us to the true faith!  O greatly Compassionate One, glory to You!

With the Saints give rest, O Christ, to the soul of Thy servant, where sickness and sorrow are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting.  Whither we mortals shall go, making our funeral dirge the hynn:     Alleluia.  Memory Eternal!

Blessed are You O Christ Our God  You have revealed the fishermen as most wise  by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit  through them You drew the world into Your net  O Lover of Man, Glory to You!

Father’s Day is tomorrow.   It is a terrifying responsibility to bring up children in this modern age of such various evil distractions. Being a good Father and Mother is hard but bringing your children to church and helping them to realize that the world is much more calming and satisfying when Our Lord and Savior is at the center of their being. There is peace, understanding and love in a reality that is comfortably supported by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you;  but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.     (Matt 6:14-15)

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you;  but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.   (Matt 6:14-15)

As the bountiful harvest of Your sowing of salvation,  the lands of North America offer to You, O Lord, all the saints who have shone in them.  By their prayers keep the Church and our land in abiding peace  through the Theotokos, O most Merciful One.

Prophet and Forerunner of the coming of Christ,  although we cannot praise you worthily,  we honor you in love at your nativity,  for by it you ended your father’s silence and your mother’s barrenness,  proclaiming to the world the incarnation of the Son of God!  (Troparion - Tone 4)

Today the formerly barren woman gives birth to Christ’s Forerunner, who is the fulfillment of every prophecy;  for in the Jordan,  when he laid his hand on the One foretold by the prophets,  he was revealed as Prophet, Herald, and Forerunner of God the Word. (Kontakion - Tone 3)

Judge not, that you be not judged.  For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.         (Matt 7:1-2)

O foremost of the Apostles and teachers of the inhabited earth,  intercede with the Master of all  to grant peace to the world and great mercy to our souls.   (Troparion — Tone 4)