Melkite TypikonThursday, May 14, 2026
Feasts
- movable Class 1 Ascension of our Lord
Saints & Commemorations
- Class 5 Commemoration of the Holy Martyr Isidore of Chios
Details
- Easter
- 2026-04-05 (offset +39)
- Reading Period
- Easter 6
- Liturgical Year
- 2025
- Easter Week
- 6
- Pentecost. Week
- 6
- Nativity
- 225 days / 32 Sundays
Hymns
Troparion of Ascension Thursday (Tone 4)
You ascended in glory, O Christ our God, and gladdened Your disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit. Through Your blessing, they were confirmed in their belief that You are the Son of God, the Redeemer of the world!
Kontakion of Ascension Thursday (Tone 6)
After fulfilling for us Your Plan of Redemption and joining the things of earth with those of Heaven, You gloriously ascended, O Christ our God, without abandoning us, but remained with us for ever, and proclaimed to those who love You: Behold I am with You, no one has power against You.
Troparion of Isidore (Tone 4)
Your martyr(s), O Lord, received the crown of immortality from You, O our God, on account of his struggle. Armed with Your strength, he has vanquished his persecutors, and crushed the powerless arrogance of demons. Through his supplications, O Christ God, save our souls.
Troparion of Isidore (Tone 4)
You renounced the army here below to become a soldier of the King of the Ages, to boldly proclaim the message of Christ our God. Having fought the good fight to a triumphant end, you were divinely glorified as a witness to the Savior. Intercede with Him, O blessed martyr Isidore, to grant great mercy to those who praise your name.
لقد صعتَ بمجدٍ أَيَّها المسيحُ إِلهُنا، مُفرَّحاً تلاميذَكَ بموَعِد الرُّوح القُدُس. وقد تيَّقنوا بالبركة، أنَّكَ أنتَ ابنُ اللهِ المنقذُ العالم.
Synaxarion of Isidore
On May 14, we commemorate the Holy Martyr Isidore of Chios. It is the hope of receiving your crown, O Isidore, that goads you on to death by a sword. On the fourteenth, as the bronze cuts down, it grants it to you. By his holy prayers, O our God, take pity on us and save us. Amen.
Kontakion of Isidore (Tone 4)
Glorious Isidore, through your assiduous prayers to God, you became a guide for the world and a martyr holy in spirit. Wherefore, we praise you today.
لما أكملت التدبيرَ الذي من أجلِنا، ووحَّدتَ ما على الارضِ بالسَّماويات، صعدتَ بمجدٍ أيُّها المسيحُ إِلهُنا، دون أن تَبرَحَ مكاناً، بل لابثاً غيرَ مفارق ٍوهاتِفاً بمحَّبيك: أنا معكم، وليس أحد عليكم
About the Saints
martyr Commemoration of the Holy Martyr Isidore of Chios († 251)
Martyr
Isidore was a soldier who confessed Christ on Chios and was beheaded for refusing to sacrifice.
- Soldier from Alexandria
- Confessed Christ on Chios
- Beheaded for refusing to sacrifice
Readings
Old Testament Isaiah 2:1-3 (Vespers: Ascension of Our Lord)
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Old Testament Isaiah 62:10-63:9 (Vespers: Ascension of Our Lord)
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Old Testament Zechariah 14:1,4,8-11 (Vespers: Ascension of Our Lord)
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Epistle Acts 1:1-12 (Movable Feast: Ascension of Our Lord)
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Gospel Luke 24:36-53 (Movable Feast: Ascension of Our Lord)
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Rubrics
- Dismissal
- Festal dismissal mentioning Ascension of our Lord.
"O Heavenly King..." remains omitted from Ascension until Pentecost. Normal opening prayers ("Come, let us worship...") resume.
1st Class feast: supersedes Sunday. Feast office throughout.
- Type
- Great Vespers
- Entrance
- Entrance procession with censer
- Stichologia
- Omitted (1st class feast — proceed to Lord, to You I Call)
- Prokeimenon
- Great Prokeimenon
- Litia
- Litia with blessing of five loaves, wheat, wine, and oil at Great Vespers.
- Theotokion (Aposticha)
- O you who are all-pleasing to God, may the error of idol-worship be destroyed and the power of demons trodden underfoot through the might of your Son's Cross. Wherefore we the faithful always humbly sing to you and bless you, and we exalt you, professing that you are truly the Mother of God.
- Note
- Great Vespers with entrance procession and litia.
- Opening Prayers
- "Blessed is our God..." — "O Heavenly King..." is omitted (from Ascension until Pentecost). Continue with the Trisagion and Hexapsalm.
- After Hexapsalm
- "The Lord is God..." in the tone of the day, then Troparia
- Polyeleos
- Yes — Polyeleos (Psalms 134-135) sung for class 1 feast.
- Gospel
- Gospel of the feast
- Doxology
- Great Doxology (chanted)
- Theotokion (Menaion)
- O you who are all-pleasing to God, may the error of idol-worship be destroyed and the power of demons trodden underfoot through the might of your Son's Cross. Wherefore we the faithful always humbly sing to you and bless you, and we exalt you, professing that you are truly the Mother of God.
- At the Praises
- O Christ God who revealed Yourself to the world through a Virgin, and through her made us to be children of light: have mercy on us.
- Type
- St. John Chrysostom (Ordinary)
- Antiphons
- Feast Antiphons — Antiphons of the feast from the Horologion or Menaion
- Eisodikon
- God ascended amid shouts of joy, the Lord amid trumpet blasts. ~O Son of God, who gloriously ascended into Heaven, save us who sing to You, Alleluia.
- Troparion
- (Tone 4) You ascended in glory, O Christ our God, and gladdened Your disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit. Through Your blessing, they were confirmed in their belief that You are the Son of God, the Redeemer of the world!
- Kontakion
- After fulfilling for us Your Plan of Redemption and joining the things of earth with those of Heaven, You gloriously ascended, O Christ our God, without abandoning us, but remained with us for ever, and proclaimed to those who love You: Behold I am with You, no one has power against You. (Tone 6)
- Trisagion
- "All of you who have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ, alleluia." replaces the Trisagion
- Cherubic Hymn
- Let us who mystically represent the Cherubim and sing to the life-giving Trinity the thrice-holy hymn, let us lay aside all the cares of this world, that we may receive the King of all, who comes invisibly escorted by hosts of Angels. Alleluia.
- Theotokion
- Hirmos (Tone 5): "O you who have given birth in time to the One whom no limit of time can hold, you thus have become the Mother of God in a manner beyond understanding and beyond words. We, the faithful, magnify you in one mind."
- Koinonikion
- God ascended amid shouts of joy, the Lord amid trumpet blasts: Alleluia.
- Prokimenon
- (Tone 3) Be exalted above the heavens, O God; above all the earth be your glory!
- Prokimenon Verse
- My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and chant praise.
- Alleluia
- (Tone 8) All you peoples, clap your hands! Shout to God with cries of gladness! God is gone up with a triumphant cry, the Lord, at the sound of the trumpet.
- Post-Communion
- "We have seen the true light..."
- Apolysis
- ...who gloriously ascended into Heaven for our salvation...
Feast Antiphons
Antiphon 1 (Ps. 46:2, 3, 4)
Antiphon 2 (Ps. 47:2, 3, 4)
Antiphon 3 (Ps. 117:1, 2, 4)
Ambon Prayer
Make us worthy here on earth as in heaven to be concerned with seeking that which is on high, where You are seated at the right hand of God.
We await Your glorious and awesome coming, which You have made known through the angels to the Apostles, the witnesses of your ascension into heaven.
Number us with those who will be taken up into the clouds to meet You when You come to judge the world in righteousness, that with them we may be filled with joy forever, by the good will and love for mankind of Your eternal Father, with whom You are blessed and glorified, together with Your all-holy, good and life-giving Spirit, now and always and forever and ever.