Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

Troparion - Tone 1

O Lord, save Your people,
And bless You inheritance.
Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians
Over their adversaries.
And by virtue of Your Cross,
Preserve Your habitation.

Kontakion - Tone 4

As You were voluntarily raised upon the cross for our sake,
Grant mercy to those who are called by Your Name, O Christ God;
Make all Orthodox Christians glad by Your power,
Granting them victories over their adversaries,
By bestowing on them the Invincible trophy, Your weapon of Peace.

Before Your Cross
We bow down in worship, O Master
And Your holy Resurrection
We glorify!

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It Calls All of Creation

As the Cross is raised on high,
it calls all of creation
to praise the undefiled Passion of Christ Who was lifted up on it.
By the Cross He killed the one who killed us.
He has brought us back to life,
and has adorned us, making us worthy to live in heaven.
We rejoice and exalt His name,
magnifying His infinite condescension!

~ from the Stikhera for the feast 

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The Miracle of My Salvation 

Many indeed are the wondrous happenings of that time: God hanging from a Cross, the sun made dark, and again flaming out; for it was fitting that creation should mourn with its Creator. The Temple veil rent, blood and water flowing from His side: the one as from a man, the other as from What was above man; the earth was shaken, the rocks shattered because of the Rock; the dead risen to bear witness of the final and universal resurrection of the dead. The happenings at the Sepulchre, and after the Sepulchre, who can fittingly recount them? Yet not one of them can be compared to the miracle of my salvation. A few drops of Blood renew the whole world, and do for all men what the rennet does for milk: joining us and binding us together.

~ St. Gregory the Theologian