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DAY 21
ADORATION OF CROSS
Γ' Κυριακὴ τῶν Νηστειῶν (Σταυροπροσκυνήσεως)
The Third Sunday of Lent is that of the Veneration of the Cross. The cross stands in the midst of the church in the middle of the lenten season not merely to remind men of Christ’s redemption and to keep before them the goal of their efforts, but also to be venerated as that reality by which man must live to be saved. "He who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me" (Mt.10:38). For in the Cross of Christ Crucified lies both "the power of God and the wisdom of God" for those being saved (1 Cor.1:24). For the catechumens of the early church, and the faithful preparing for Pascha today, the spiritual theme starts to change from personal faith, and personal effort, to Christ. The Church teaches that it is Christ's cross that saves. One cannot take up his own cross and follow Christ unless one has Christ's cross which he took up to save mankind. Partaking of this tree, one will no longer die, but will be kept alive. This is done to refresh, reassure and to encourage those participating in Great Lent. The Church equates the appearance of the cross at this time to the banners and symbols that precede the return of a victorious king. The Epistle reading is from Hebrews 4:14-5:6 and explains Christ's priesthood, and the Gospel lesson from Mark 8:34-9:1 ends with And He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that there are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with power."
• Synaxis of the MEZHETSK 麦哲茨克 Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos at Kiev (1492)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Κιέβῳ Ρωσίας
The Mezhetsk Icon of the Mother of God appeared at Kiev in the year 1492.
Ἡ Ἁγία Φωτεινὴ ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς ἡ Σαμαρείτιδα
Οἱ Ἁγίες Φωτώ, Φῶτις, Παρασκευή, Κυριακὴ καὶ Ἀνατολὴ οἱ Μάρτυρες ἀδελφὲς τῆς Ἁγίας Φωτεινῆς
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰωσῆς καὶ Βίκτωρ οἱ Μάρτυρες υἱοὶ τῆς Ἁγίας Φωτεινῆς
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σεβαστιανὸς ὁ δοῦκας
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόκλητος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ φαρμακὸς
• MM PAPIAS, DIODORUS, CONON & CLAUDIAN (250) poor shepherds, natives of Pamphylia in Asia Minor, who were tortured and put to death under Decius
• MM VICTOR Stratelates and CHRISTODOULOS
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βίκτωρ καὶ Χριστόδουλος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• 29 Martyrs including FORTUNATUS, FELIX & Companions
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL Lisitsyn, presbiter, priest (1862-1918) day of martyrdom, killed in stanitsa Ust’-Labinskaja, Kuban’
Father Mikhail Lisitsyn was tortured for three days - from Friday to Sunday ... When his body was found, there it was more than 10 wounds, the head was cut into pieces. He was driving for a long time, with a loop drawn around his neck, through the village; executors mocked and beat him so, that at the end he himself, falling on his knees, implored the torturers to finish him off sooner. After killing him, the Red Army men forbade burial, but the wife of the murderer bought his body for burial for 600 rubles. After the ransom of the torned body of Mikhail, Matushka Evdokia prepared him for a Christian burial, he was clothed in white priestly clothes, put in a new coffin and carried for burial service to the church of St Nicholas, where he preached the word of God for many years. The funeral was complete on February 28, 1918 by the priests Alexei Bogdanov, John Salsky, the deacon Arkady Kononov, the psalmists John Strukov and Stefan Volik. Buried in a common cemetery. According to the memories of the granddaughter of Father Michael, the parishioners of the St Nicholas Church persuaded Matushka Evdokia to reburial him closer to the temple, where he served: "Grandmother did not want to, but was persuaded. She told me that 9 months later my grandfather look like as if it was yesterday he was buried…" According to the evidence of the great-grandson of Michail - Gennady Lisitsyn, in 2003, managed to establish a lost burial place, located at the eastern wall of the former summer cinema (in its place was the St Nikolas church, destroyed in the 1930s of the 20th century), in the city park Ust-Labinsk.
• New Hieromartyr SILVESTR (Iustin Ol’shevskij) Archbishop of Omsk, Bishop of Prilutsk and Vicar of Poltava (1860-1920)
• New Hieromartyr PETER 斐特若 Varlamov, presbiter, priest (1897-1930) day of martyrdom, shoted in Ufa, Bashkirija
• New Hieromartyr SERGIUS 塞尔吉 Voskresenskij, presbiter, priest (1890-1933) day of death in Belbatlag KZ, Medvezhjegorsk, railway of Murmansk
At the beginning of March 1933 fr. Sergiy, apparently deliberately, was put in one cell with criminals. These criminals, probably not without advice from the camp administration, removed from him a sheepskin coat, the rest of the clothes and put them to the frost. As a result he passed away on March 11.
• New Hieromartyr JOHN 约翰 Pashin, bishop of Rylsk священномученик (1881-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted in Ukhtpechlag KZ, Komi
• New Hieromartyr JOHN 约翰 Dunajev, presbiter, priest (1885-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted in Jaroslavl’
• Hosiosmartyress nun ANNA 安纳 (Maria Blagoveshchenskaja) (1898-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted in Jaroslavl’
• Bishop ALEXANDER of Alexandria (250-328)
• ANDREW of Florence (407) Bishop of Florence in Italy succeeded Saint Zenobius
• ASTHEA
• BECCAN (Becanus) the Blind, probably of Kinsealy, County of Dublin
• Hieromartyr DIONYSIUS Bishop of Augsburg in Germany (303/304)
Venerated as the first Bishop of Augsburg in Germany. By tradition he was baptised and later consecrated bishop by St Narcissus. He was martyred under Diocletian.
• EITHNE (also Ethnea, Eithene or Ethne) of Naas, Co. Kildare, Co-Fndr. of Tech-Ingen-Baithe near Swords, Co. Dublin
• New Martyr ELIAS 伊利亚 of Trebizond (1749)
• ENNA of Clonfert, a possible companion of Saint Brendan the Navigator and his successor at Clonfert
• Hieroconfessor FAUSTINIAN 2nd Bishop of Bologna in Italy (342)
reorganised his diocese and lived to be a firm defender of Orthodoxy against Arianism
• Hieromartyr HILARIUS Bishop of Mainz (161) in Rheinland-Pfalz
• IRENE of Gaza (490) Syria
At age 14 and a pagan, Saint Irene gave asylum to Saint Porphyrius, from whom she received baptism and a benediction.
• Holy Martyr JOHN 约安 Kalpha 卡尔法斯 ("the Apprentice" 学徒) at Constantinople (1575)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Κάλφας
The Holy New Martyr John Kalphes (the Apprentice) lived in a suburb of Constantinople, called Galata. He was a cabinetmaker by profession, and he had acquired great skill in his craft, so that important officials made use of his services. He was entrusted with the inner adornment of the sultan’s palace. Saint John Kalphes was distinguished for his Christian charity, he provided for orphans and those locked up in prison, and many turned to him for help. One time a certain dignitary asked Saint John to take on his nephew as an apprentice. He agreed, and the youth received an honorable position at court upon the completion of his apprenticeship. Once, encountering his former teacher and benefactor, he asked Saint John what it says in the Christian books about their "prophet" Mohammed. Saint John did not want to answer his question, but because of the persistent demands of the youth, he declared that Mohammed was a mere mortal, an uneducated man who did not perform a single miracle during his lifetime. He went on to say that Mohammed was no prophet, but rather an adversary of God. The youth, devoted to Islam, reported to his fellow Moslems that the cabinetmaker had insulted Mohammed. Saint John was brought to trial, where they demanded that he renounce Christ, but he bravely confessed his faith in Christ. After torture, they sent the holy martyr off to penal servitude, where he spent six months. Then, for the next three months they beat him in the prison. Seeing that they could not coerce him into submitting to their will, they beheaded him in the crowded city square in Ergat-Bazara, near the Bedestan (a covered bazaar) on February 26, 1575. The suffering of the holy Martyr John Kalphes were recorded by Father Andrew, the Chief Steward (Megas Oikonomos) of the Patriarch of Constantinople, who communed him with the Holy Mysteries in prison.
• Hieromartyr NESTOR bishop of Perge (251)
Seeking to win Emperor Decius's favor, Governor Epolius of Lycia, Pamphylia, and Phrygia began persecuting Christian in his jurisdiction. Bishop Saint Nestor of Magydos, Pamphylia, who caught the unwanted attention of the governor by his evangelical zeal, was arrested and brought to Perga where he was crucified. In art, he is depicted as a bishop with a cross, sometimes crucified with ropes, or praising God upon the rack.
• NICHOLAS of Katopinos
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Κατοπινός
• Venerable OTTOKAR (Odoakar) of Tegernsee, monastery founder (771)
• Sainted PORPHYRIUS 颇尔斐里 Bishop of Gaza (420)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πορφύριος Ἐπίσκοπος Γάζης
• QUODVULTDEUS Bishop of Carthage (409) exiled by the Arian Genseric, king of the Vandals, when they captured the city in 439 and died in Naples, Italy
• Venerable Monk SEVASTIAN (Sebastian) 塞瓦斯提安 of Poshekhon’je (1500) founder of Sokhotsk Monastery, Yaroslavl // DEC 18 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Σεβαστιανὸς ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Martyr SEBASTIAN of Rome, chieftain (66)
• VICTOR (also known as Vittre) (4th c.) a hermit in Arcis-sur-Aube in Champagne in France
的十字架 斯督迪修道院的聖德奧多若院長 十字架是何等寶貴的恩惠啊！它看起來是多麼美麗啊！它不是像「伊甸園」裏的那株樹一樣善惡參半。它是又好吃又好看的、十全十美的一株果樹！ 因為十字架所產生的不是死亡，而是生命；不是陰影，而是光明。十字架引人進入伊甸，並不引人出離。這是基督升上的十字架，像君王升上的戰車，它摧毀了那操著死亡霸權的惡魔，而把整個人類從虐王的奴役下拯救了出來。 主基督就是在這十字架上，好像傑出的戰士一樣，雙手雙足以及他屬神的肋旁都受了傷，以醫治罪人的創傷，也就是我們那為毒龍所傷害的人性。 從前我們因樹木而死亡；如今卻因 樹木而重獲生命；從前我們為樹木所迷惑，如今我們都藉樹木堅拒了詭計多端的毒蛇──魔鬼。這的確是前所未聞的交換！我們獲得了生命，以代替死亡；獲得了不死之恩，以代替腐朽；獲得了榮耀，以代替恥辱。 從此看來，聖保祿的高呼不無理由。他說：「至於我，我只以我們的主耶穌基督的十字架而誇耀。因為藉著基督，世界對我來說，已被釘在十字架上了；我對於世界，也被釘在十字架上。」因為，那由十字架所盛開的無上智慧之花，使世界智慧的虛偽自我成為愚蠢無知的。那十字架上所結出的一切善果，切斷了罪惡的嫩芽。 自世界開始，許多最令人驚奇的事跡、都曾是這十字架的象征和預兆。如果你願知道，就請注意。那諾 厄不是奉天主命令，依靠一只小木船救了他的子媳和各種禽獸，免遭洪水淹死嗎？ 至於梅瑟的那支木杖不也是十字架的預象嗎？是的，這支木杖有時使清水變為血；有時把術士的幻術之蛇全部吞食；用以擊水就把海水分開，使以民乾足越過；再一擊又把海水復合，使敵兵淹死，而保全了選民。同樣，那亞郎的木杖也是十字架的預象，它曾在同一天裏發出枝葉，指定了合法的司祭。 此外，當亞巴郎捆起兒子依撒格，把他放在木柴堆上時，這也是十字架的預象。十字架殲除了死亡，恢復了亞當的生命。所有宗徒都因十字架而誇耀；所有殉道者都因十字架而加冕；所有聖人都因十字架而成聖。我們因十字架而穿上基督，脫去了舊人。
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.
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