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συνοδικός

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January 11 / December 29
2018/2017（7526）
Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ
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Commemoration of ALL ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS who died from hunger, thirst, the sword and freezing 纪念所有因饥荒、干旱、刀兵、寒冷、及一切天灾人祸而丧生的正教信徒
On the 29th of December, the Holy Church commemorates All Christians who died from starvation, thirst, or the cold, or were put to death by the sword. Their Synaxis was celebrated in the august Church of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos of Chalkoprateia, west of Hagia Sophia, wherein is kept the holy Soros.
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The 14 000 Holy Infants of Bethlehem (2) Holy Innocents massacred by decret of Herod at Bethlehem 纪念在伯利恒被暴君伊若德所屠杀的一万四千名无辜圣婴孩
Τὰ Ἅγια Νήπια (περίπου 14.000) ποὺ ἐσφάγισαν μὲ διαταγὴ τοῦ Ἡρώδη
In our own day, the icon of "Rachel weeping for her children" (Matthew 2:18) has come to commemorate also the tens of millions of children who have died through abortion.
Seeing a rival in the small child born in Bethlehem, Herod massacred all the male children in this important village under two years of age. Warned in a dream, Joseph fled to Egypt with the Virgin and the child Jesus. Thus was realized the prophecy of Jeremia: "A voice was heard in Rama, weeping and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted, because they are no more." (Matthew 2:18)
The wrath of God soon fell upon Herod himself: a horrid condition struck him down and he died, eaten by worms while still alive. Before his death, the impious king murdered the chief priests and scribes of the Jews, and also his brother, and his sister and her husband, and also his own wife Mariam, and three of his sons, and seventy men of wisdom who were members of the Sanhedrin. He initiated this bloodbath so that the day of his death would not be one of rejoicing, but one of mourning.
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• Martyrs CALLISTUS, FELIX and BONIFACE in Rome
• Martyrs DOMINIC, VICTOR, PRIMIAN, LYBOSUS, SATURNINUS, CRESCENTIUS, SECUNDUS and HONORATUS in North Africa
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NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• New Hieromartyr ARCADIUS Bishop of Tver (1937)
• New Hieromartyr THEODOSIJ Belen’kij, presbiter, priest (1885-1937/1938) day of martyrdom, shoted at Tül’kuzbas at Chimkent of South Kazakhstan
• New Hieromartyr archpriest NICHOLAS Tolgskij (1886-1937/1938) day of martyrdom, shoted at Lis’ja Balka in Chimkent, South Kazakhstan
• Martyresses NATALIA Sundukova (1887-1941/1942) together with JEVDOKIA Nazina (1902-1941/1942), NATALIA Silujanova (1905-1941/1942), ANNA Borovskaja (1907-1941/1942), MATRENA Navolokina (1894-1941/1942), VARVARA Derev’agina (1912-1941/1942), ANNA Popova (1898-1941/1942), JEVDOKIA Guseva (1912-1941/1942), JEVFROSINIA Denisova (1906-1941/1942), AGRIPPINA Kiselöva (1903-1941/1942), NATALIA Vasil’jeva (1899-1941/1942) day of martyrdom, shoted at Karlag NKVD KZ, Kazakhstan
• Venerable LAURENCE of Chernigov (1949/1950)
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• AILERAN the Wise of Clonard, i.e. lector of Cluain Iraird (664) who, like many other Irish saints, died of the fatal yellow plague that devastated the country, is described as chief professor of the schools of Clonard
• ALBERT of Gambron (7th c.) a courtier who became a hermit and later founded the small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France
• Martyress ANYSIA
• M ANTONY of Damaskus, martyred in Ar-Raqqa (799)
• Venerable ATHENODORUS 阿提诺多若 the Leper (4th c.) disciple of St Pachomius the Great
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀθηνόδωρος
• Venerable Elder BASILISCUS 瓦西利斯科 the Hesychast of Siberia (1824)
• Venerable monk BENJAMIN 文雅敏 of Nitria in Egypt (392)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Βενιαμίν
Walk on the royal path and count off the miles, and do not be discouraged.
• Venerable Abbot EBRULFUS (Evroult) of Ouche (596/626-706) born in Bayeux in France, he became a monk at the monastery of Deux Jumeaux, and later founded a monastery at Ouche and also other smaller monasteries
• Righteous presbiter ECKHART of Halberstadt (1048)
• Venerable GEORGE 格奥尔吉 bishop of Nicomedia (9th c.) composer of Canons and Troparia
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεώργιος Ἐπίσκοπος Νικομήδειας ποιητὴς ἀσματικῶν Κανόνων καὶ Τροπαρίων
• Hosiosmartyr GIRALD (Girard, Giraud) (1031) a monk at Lagny in France and later Abbot of Saint-Arnoul, he became Abbot of Fontenelle where he was murdered
• Venerable monk and Emperor LOTHAR I (855) Germany
• Bishop MAEDÓC (Maedhog) of Lismore (Lis-mór) (7th c.)
• Venerable MARCELLUS 玛尔凯洛 of the Acœmetes (Akoimeton), abbot of the Community of the Sleepless Ones called "the Ever-Vigilant" in Constantinople (486) clairvoyant, healer and great wonderworker
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μάρκελλος
The Order of the Acœmetes differed from other Basilian monks only by this particular rule, that each monastery was divided into several choirs, which, succeeding one another, continued the divine office day and night without interruption: whence was derived their name, which signifies in Greek, without sleep. This institute was set on foot by a Syrian nobleman, named Alexander, who had borne an honourable command in the army several years; but renouncing the world in 402, built a monastery upon the banks of the Euphrates, in which he assembled four hundred monks. Coming afterwards to Constantinople, he founded a monastery not far from the city, towards the Euxine sea, in which he governed three hundred monks, whom he divided into six choirs. Alexander died in 430. His successor John removed his community to a monastery which he built at Gomon, a mile from Constantinople. St Marcellus, who was chosen third abbot of this house, raised the reputation of this order to the highest pitch. He was a native of Apamea in Syria, and, by the death of his parents, who were rich and of noble descent, he was left master of a plentiful fortune when he was in the flower of his age. Considering seriously with what vanities the little interval between a man’s birth and his death is usually filled in the world, he conceived a great distate of its fooleries, and repairing to Antioch, made sacred studies, and the exercises of devotion, his whole employment. By holy meditation he saw daily more and more clearly the emptiness of all worldly occupations and enjoyments. An infant with all its childish toys about it, thinks itself happy; and what are these, if compared to those fooleries which in manhood are called business or amusements? From this contempt of earthly things, his love of those which are heavenly, daily grew stronger; and it was not long before he bestowed on the poor his whole personal estate, and settled his real estate upon a younger brother. Thus disencumbered, he repaired to Ephesus, and there put himself under the direction of certain eminent servants of God. The greatest part of the night he spent in prayer, and the day he employed in copying good books, by the sale of which he gained not only his own subsistence, but also wherewith to relieve the poor. The reputation of the austerity and solitude of the Acœmetes drew him thither; and taking the habit, he ran in a religious course with incredible ardour. Upon the death of Alexander, the founder and first abbot, Marcellus had been chosen to fill his place, had he not concealed himself by a timely flight. When he returned, John, who had been chosen abbot, compelled him to be his assistant in the discharge of his office; and upon his demise Marcellus was raised to that dignity. The Order flourished exceedingly under his prudent and saintly administration; and when he was at a loss how sufficiently to enlarge his buildings, he was abundantly supplied with means for that purpose by Pharetrius, a very opulent gentleman, who took the habit with all his sons on the same day. About the year 465, Studius, a nobleman who had been consul in 463, founded for him and his monks a great monastery within the city, near the golden gate, in which there are said to have been one thousand monks at the same time. This house being called by the founder’s name, the Acœmetes were from that time called Studites. St Marcellus assisted at the council of Constantinople, assembled by St Flavian against Eutyches, whose heresy our holy abbot condemned, with the prelates who composed that venerable assembly.
• Venerable monk and Hermit REGINBERT of Seldenbüren (962)
• Hosiosconfessor THADDEUS 塔德 of the Studion (818) a disciple of Theodore the Studite, was a defender of the veneration of holy icons
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θαδδαῖος ὁ Ὁμολογητής
• Venerable THEOPHILUS 德奥斐洛 of Luga and Omutch (1412)
• TROPHIMUS 特若斐默 1st Bishop of Aries in France (280)
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• Commemoration of the consecration of the Temple of the Holy Forty Martyrs, near the Copper Tetrapyle (four-way arch)
Ἐγκαίνια τοῦ Ναοῦ Ἁγίων Τεσσαράκοντα πλησίον τοῦ Χαλκοῦ Τετραπύλου

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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.
愿上帝怜恤我罪人
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
for the sake of the prayers
of Thy most pure Mother,
our holy and God-bearing fathers and all the saints, have mercy on us.
Amen.
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Blessed be God.