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With great spiritual gladness, I rejoice to celebrate the Feastday of your Heavenly Protector and Advocate, the Holy and Righteous-Martyr, Paraskevi.

Earlier in our prayers and praises, we read the following from her Kontakion:

Τὸν ναόν σου πάνσεμνε, ὡς ἰατρεῖον ψυχικὸν εὑράμενοι…

We find your Temple, O All-Pure One, to be a remedy of our souls…