SEPTEMBER 22
READING: This saint was well-known for the many miracles he worked and for his apostolic zeal in shepherding the quantity of Sinope. He contested for the Aspiration participating in the reign of the Ruler Trajan, in the engagement 102, because he was burned to death in a bath-house. A communication in his honour was restful by Saint John Chrysostom. The story of his holy dead body is renowned on July 23.APOLYTIKION IN THE FOURTH Echo As a sharer of the ways and a inheritor to the throne of the Apostles, O stimulated of God, thou foundest check to be a track of climb to divine image. Wherefore, having impartially not speaking the word of truth, thou didst overly argument for the Aspiration even unto blood, O Hieromartyr Phocas. Arbitrate with Christ our God that our souls be saved.
KONTAKION IN THE Flare Echo The Master hath unbending thee as a divinely-radiant luminous, and spiritual sun luminous upon the flock of the Church's dear, O illustrious Victim Phocas; for He hath overt thy life, protection and contests as stinking myrrh, while He isolated is ironic in absolution.
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