The Festal Menaion (Biblia.com)

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This volume contains the variable portions of the services for nine of the Twelve Great Feasts (excluding Palm Sunday, Ascension, and Pentecost, which can be found in the Triodion and the Pentecostarion). You’ll also find the texts for some other important feasts surrounding these nine, as well as an introduction to the services of the church and their structure.

‘I depart’, cried Simeon, ‘to declare the good tidings to Adam abiding in hell and to Eve’; and with the prophets he sang rejoicing: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou. ‘To deliver our kind formed from dust, God will go down even unto hell: He will give freedom to all the captives and sight to the blind, and will grant the dumb to cry aloud: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou.’ ‘And a sword shall pierce thy heart, O All-Pure Virgin,’1 Simeon foretold to the Theotokos, ‘when thou shalt see

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