συνοδικός
April 11 / March 29
2018 (7526)
Bright Week • Διακαινήσιμος Ἑβδομάς
Bright Wednesday (2018)
• Synaxis of Panagia YPSENI in Rhodes // BRIGHT WEDNESDAY //
• "KASPEROV" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos // BRIGHT WEDNESDAY // OCT 1 // JUN 29 //
The Kasperovsk Icon of the MostHoly Mother of God during the War of 1853‑1855 defended the city of Odessa against an incursion of hostile forces. Under archbishop Innokentii (Borisov) it was directed "that this event should not be forgotten in the teaching of posterity", and to make celebration on 1 October. The icon had already been acknowledged as wonderworking and glorified by the MostHoly Synod in 1840, after investigation of a whole series of miracles. Before this, the image had been kept by the landowner Juliania Ioannovna Kasperova, who received it inheritance as a sacred family heirloom in 1809.
Σύναξις Πάντων τῶν Σιναϊτῶν Ἁγίων
On Bright Wednesday we commemorate the holy monastic Fathers who have shone forth on the God-trodden Mt Sinai. This commemoration was established by the Church of Russia on April 17, 1997. The Sinai desert, rich in important shrines, has proved to be fruitful in its anchorites. Unceasing noetic prayer strengthens the anchorites’ spiritual struggle, while participation in common prayer and worship transforms the desert into a spiritual meadow. In addition to Saint Catherine, whose relics were translated to Sinai, there have flourished numerous elders, martyrs, teachers.
These include the righteous Martyrs GALAKTEON and EPISTEME, and the ascetics NILUS, JOHN Climacus, HESYCHIUS, PHILOTHEUS, and the two saints named ANASTASIUS. Saint Symeon Pentaglossos helped establish the veneration of Saint Catherine in the West, while Saint Gregory of Sinai transplanted the traditions of noetic prayer to the Slavic peoples. The list of Sinai saints includes figures from both the Old and New Testaments, martyrs, and righteous ascetics, who have been revealed as emblems of sanctity. A total of 181 saints are recognized, and their memories celebrated, in the cycle of daily services.
The Wednesday after Pascha has been established as the feast day of All Saints of Sinai, in which mention is made of these by name. This also forms the occasion for the celebration of all those whose names are known only to God.
• Martyrs JONAH 约纳 and BARACHISIUS 瓦拉赫西 and those with them in Persia: ZANITHAS 匝尼塔, LAZARUS 匝若, MARUTHAS (Marotas) 玛鲁塔, NARSES 纳尔塞斯, ELIAS 伊利亚, MARINUS (Mares) 玛利诺, ABIBUS 阿维佛, SEMBEETH (Sivsithina) 塞姆贝特 and SABBAS 萨瓦 (330)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰωνᾶς, Βαραχήσιος, Ἄβιβος, Ζανιθᾶς, Ἠλίας, Λάζαρος, Μάρης, Μαρουθᾶς, Ναρσῆς, Σάββας καὶ Σιμιάθος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Hieromartyr CYRIL 基里尔 a Deacon of Heliopolis, and others who suffered under Julian the Apostate (364) and Martyrs of Gaza and Ascalon (364)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κύριλλος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἄνδρες καὶ γυναῖκες Μάρτυρες ἐν Ἀσκαλώνι καὶ Γάζῃ
About the Holy Martyr Deacon Cyril, Blessed Theodorit relates, that during the reign of Equal to the Apostles Constantine the Great he destroyed many idols in the city of Iliopolis. Inflamed with holy zeal he had broken many idols venerated in these regions under Emperor Constantine. For this he was killed under Julian the Apostate. Remembering what he had done, the pagans did not content themselves with simply killing him, but opened his stomach and pulled out his liver. Pagans cut up his body and, like wild beasts, they bit at it, for which the Lord punished the torturers with blindness, boils and other terrible ills. During this time in the Palestinian cities of Ascalon and Gaza the pagans tormented to death many Christians ― priests, and likewise women and children that had dedicated themselves to God. Pagans of Ascalon and Gaza captured a large number of virgins, women, and nuns, as well as monks. The torturers cut up their bodies, opening their stomachs and filling them with barley, they gave these Saints to pigs as fodder in 362. For their terrible torments the holy martyrs received crowns of victory in the Kingdom of Heaven.
• MM ARMOGASTES & SATURUS the high officers, ARCHINIMUS of Mascula in Numidia and Companions (460) depicted as early Christians who are condemned to being killed by herds of cows
• GWYNLLYW (also Gwynllyn, Gundleus, Wollo, Woolos or Woolo) ended his life as a hermit in Wales, and his wife GWLADYS (also Gladys) of Stow Hill at Newport (Gwent), parents of St CADOC (5th c.)
Gundleus (Latin for Gwynllyw, which is Anglicized as Woolo) was a Welsh chieftain. Although he was the eldest, when his father died, Gundleus divided his inheritance among his six brothers. According to legend, he desired to marry Gwladys, daughter of Saint Brychan of Brecknock. When Brychan refused his daughter's hand, Gundleus kidnapped and married her. One aspect of the legend has King Arthur helping to defeat the pursuing Brychan and being dissuaded from capturing Gwladys for himself by two of his knights. Nevertheless, Gundleus and Gwladys led a riotous life, engaging in violence and banditry until their first son, Saint Cadoc, convinced them to adopt and follow a religious life together at Stow Hill near Newport (Gwent), Monmouthshire. Later he had them separate and live as hermits. Gundleus spent his last years completely retired from the world in a solitary little dwelling near a church which he had built. He wore sackcloth, ate barley-bread strewn with ashes, and drank water. To constant prayer and contemplation he added the work of his hands. On his deathbed, Gundleus was visited by Saint Dyfrig and his own son Cadoc, who provided him with the Last Rites of the Church. There is a church dedicated to him at Newport. Gwaladys born in Wales in the 5th century. One of the 24 children of Brychan of Brecknock, wife of Saint Gundleus, and mother of Saints Cadoc and, possibly, Keyna, Saint Gladys led a very interesting life. It is said that after their conversion by the example and exhortation of their son, she and Gundleus lived an austere life. It included the rather interesting practice throughout the year of taking a nightly baths in the Usk, followed by a mile-long walk in the nude. Her son finally convinced them to end the practice and to separate. Gladys moved to Pencanau in Bassaleg. The details of her story come from a 12th-century vita, which includes miracles that took place in the time of Saint Edward the Confessor and William I.
• Venerables Monastics JONAH 约纳 (1480), elder MARK 马可 (15th c.) and nun BASSA wife of Jonah; founders of the Pskov-Caves Monastery
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Μάρκος, Ἰωνᾶς καὶ Βάσσος
It is unknown precisely, when the first hermit monks settled by the Kamenets stream in the natural caves of the hill, which the local inhabitants called "the holy hill". The monastery chronicle presents an account of eye-witnesses, hunter-trappers from Izborsk by the nickname of Selishi: "Once by chance we came with our father to the outlying hill, where now is the church of the Mother of God, and heard what seemed church singing; they sang harmoniously and reverently, but the singers could not be seen, and the air was filled with the fragrance of incense". Of the first elders of the Pskovo-Pechersk monastery only Mark alone is known by name. About him it testifies: "First at the beginning a certain elder was living at the Kamenets floodage by the cave, of whom certain fishermen caught sight of at the three rocks, lying over the cave of the MostHoly Mother of God church; but we were not able to discover anything known about this one, -- who the elder was nor his lineage, nor how and from whence he came to this place, nor how long he dwelt there nor how he died". The second hegumen of the Pechersk monastery bore the name of Starets (elder) Mark in the monastery Synodikon. The Monk Kornilii (20 February) as hegumen doubted the veracity of this inscription and he ordered that the name be erased from the Synodikon. Suddenly he became grievously ill and had a revelation, that this was in punishment for ordering to strike out the name of the Monk Mark from the monastery diptych. Begging forgiveness with tearful prayer at the grave of the Starets Mark, Hegumen Kornilii put back his holy name. When the cave church of the Uspenie (Dormition) of the MostHoly Mother of God was dug out and the burial caves expanded, the Hegumen Dorophei found the grave of the Monk Mark in decay, but his relics and clothing undecayed. In the year 1472 the peasant Ivan Dement'ev cut down the forest on the steep hill. One of the felled trees rolled downhill, tearing out of the ground by its roots another tree. The slide opened up the entrance to a cave, over which was the inscription: "A cave built by God". There is a tradition about this, that a certain Fool for Christ the Monk Varlaam frequently came to the cave and wiped away this inscription, but that it every time miraculously re-appeared. To this holy spot, prayed in by the first ascetics, there came from elsewhere the priest John nicknamed "Shestnik". He was a native of "the Moscow lands" and served as priest at Iur'ev (now Tartu) in "a right-believing church, established by Pskov people" and named for Saint Nicholas and the GreatMartyr George, and he together with the Priest Isidor spiritually nourished the Russians living there. In 1470 Father John was compelled to flee with his family to Pskov under persecution from the German-Catholics. Having learned of the martyr's end of his comrade (the commemoration of PriestMartyr Isidor is 8 January), John decided to withdraw into the newly-appeared "cave built by God", so that there, on the very boundary with the Livonians, he might found a monastery as an outpost of Orthodoxy. Soon his wife fell ill and, having taken monastic vows with the name Vassa, she died. Her righteousness was evidenced immediately after her death. Her husband and her spiritual father buried the Nun Vassa in the wall of "the cave built by God", but by night her coffin was "removed from the ground by an invisible power of God". Father John and the other priest confessor of the Nun Vassa were upset, thinking that this had occurred, because they had not made in full the order of farewell-song, and a second time they sang the funeral service and again they buried the body, but in the morning it again was "atop the ground". Then it became clear, that this ― was a sign from God. They made the grave of the Nun Vassa in the cave on the left side. Shaken by the miracle, John took monastic vows with the name Jona and began to asceticise even more fervently. Having dug out by hand the cave church and two cells on pillars, he began to petition the clergy of the Pskovsk Trinity cathedral to consecrate it, but these decided not to do so at the moment "because of the unusual location". Then the Monk Jona besought the blessing of the Novgorod Archbishop Theophil. On 15 August 1473 the cave church was consecrated in honour of the Uspenie (Dormition) of the MostHoly Mother of God. During the consecration there occurred a miracle from an icon of the Uspenie of the MostHoly Mother of God ― a blind woman received her sight ― "sent by the merciful God beginning His great gifts to His All-Pure Mother". This icon, which they call the "old", in distinction from another wonderworking icon of the Uspenie of the MostHoly Mother of God bordered with Her life, was written about the year 1421 by the Pskov iconographer Aleksei Maly, and is preserved at present in the altar of the Uspensk temple in the hill locale. The icon bordered with the life ― is the temple patron-icon of the cave church. The date of consecration of the cave church is reckoned as the official date of the founding of the Pskovo-Pechersk monastery. The Monk Jona asceticised at the cave monastery until 1480 and peacefully expired to the Lord. Upon his death they discovered on his body a chainmail coat of armour, which was hung over his grave in testimony of the secret ascetic deeds of the monk, but during an incursion of the Germans it was stolen. The relics of the Monk Jona rest in the caves alongside the relics of the monastic elder Mark and the Nun Vassa. Once during an invasion of the monastery the Livonian knights, jeering over the holy relics, wanted to open with a sword the cover of the coffin of the Nun Vassa, but a flame from the holy ascetic flashed out from the coffin. Traces of this punishing fire are seen to the present day on the coffin of the Nun Vassa.
• THEOCHARIS (1845) a teacher at Komboti, and APOSTOLOS; local Saints of Arta // BRIGHT WEDNESDAY //
The icons of these saints are in the church of Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) in Arta. • Monks ISAAC, PHILIP and others
• New Martyrs Priest PAUL 保罗 Voinarsky, and brothers PAUL 保罗 and ALEXIS 阿莱克西 Kiryan, of the Crimea (1919)
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL 米迦勒 Victorov, presbiter, archpriest, hieroconfessor (1871-1933) day of death in Solovky KZ, Archangelsk
• Venerabless EUTROPIA (Ekaterina Isajenkova) of Kherson, Ukraine (1863-1968) clairvoyant // MAR 16/29 REPOSE // OCT 30/NOV 12 UNCOV REL //
• David III the Restorer, King of Georgia (1075-1130)
• DIADOCHOS 迪亚多霍 of Photiki, Bishop of Photike in Old Epirus, whose works are included in the Philokalia (486)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Διάδοχος Ἐπίσκοπος Φωτικῆς τῆς Παλαιᾶς Ἠπείρου
• Sainted Archbishop EPHRAIM of Rostov (1454) 艾弗冷
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐφραὶμ Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ροστὼβ τῆς Ρωσίας
• EUSTASIUS (Eustace) 艾弗斯塔西 Abbot of Luxeuil (625)
A favourite disciple and monk of St Columbanus, whom he succeeded as second Abbot of Luxeuil in France. He succeeded his master St Columban in the charge of abbot, in 611. He sanctified himself by humility, continual prayer, watching, and fasting; was the spiritual father of six hundred monks, and of many holy bishops and saints, and died in 625.
• EUSTATHIUS 艾弗斯塔提 the Confessor, Bishop of Kios in Bithynia (9th c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐστάθιος ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἐπίσκοπος Κίου Βιθυνίας
When the heresy of the iconoclasts appeared in the Church of Christ, this blessed man armed himself with the study of the Holy Scriptures and with it, as if it was a sling, he fought the iconoclasts, who boasted against the Churches of God. Hence some of them slandered the Saint to the emperor who was an iconoclast at that time. At first the Saint received threats, then they spat on his face, beat him, imprisoned him, mistreated him, examined him and beat him with sticks. Finally, the iconoclasts beat him up with thick rods and banished him from his diocese because he venerated and honored the holy icons. Having spent some years in exile, he was distressed, ill treated, deprived, hungry, thirsty and naked. Therefore under such mistreatment and hardship the renowned one thanked God and departed for the eternal habitations.
• FERGHAS son of Enda, of Inis-Caoin (Iniskeen) in Lough Erne
• FIRMINUS Bishop of Viviers in France (6th c.)
• FULARTACH (Fulartus) Bishop of Clonard (8th c.)
• GERY (also known as Jouery) bishop of Sens (711) uncle to Saint Ebbo
• Hermit GUTHLAKE (673-714) Patron of the Abbey of Croyland // APR 11 //
• Venerable HESYCHIOS the Sinaite, Abbot of Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai (7th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἠσύχιος ὁ Σιναΐτης
• Venerable JOHN 约翰 the Hermit of Egypt, anchorite (4th c.)
约安的母亲是犹利亚纳，她是亚美尼亚的一名基督徒。从年幼时起，约安就离开了他的母亲，隐退到了旷野中，将自己的全部热情投入到对主基督的爱上。在旷野中，约安首先听从他的精神导师法尔姆蒂乌斯的指导，这位导师受到上帝的喜悦，以至于上帝派来的天使每天都带给他面包。之后，年轻的约安决定离群独处，走入一个枯井中，在那里进行祷告、禁食和守夜，渡过了多年的时间。圣法尔姆蒂乌斯从天使那里带来面包给约安。这样约安就不会变得骄傲，上帝的天使不想亲自给约安带来面包，而是让他的精神导师将面包带给他。经过10年在枯井中的潜心修行，圣约安终于安息在主的怀抱。约安的圣髑创造了很多奇迹。约安的一生受到上帝的喜爱并被人们赞美，当时为公元4世纪。
• Translation of the Relics of Saint JOSEPH Gerontogiannis, abbot of Kapsa Monastery in southeast Crete (1799-1874) // BRIGHT WEDNESDAY // On August 6, 1874 Saint Joseph Gerontogiannis, abbot of Kapsa Monastery in southeast Crete, invited the brotherhood back to his cell to ask their forgiveness, and received Holy Communion. He did the sign of the cross, turned right, and crossing his arms he delivered his venerable soul into the hands of the transfigured Lord. For three days his body was unburied and was a means of popular pilgrimage for the faithful to say their final greetings and venerate him. He was buried in the Church of the Honorable Forerunner, where many continued to come and venerate his relics and icon and take dirt from his grave. The translation of his relics took place on May 7, 1982, which was 108 years after his repose, and it is celebrated annually on Bright Tuesday, along with his primary feast day on August 7th. The sacred relics were placed in a silver casket with his honorable skull in a prominent place of the church and they give off an unspeakable fragrance.
• Virgin LASAR (Lassar, Lassera, Lassair or Lasair) of Doire McAedhmechain, Co. Meath, a nun in Ireland (6th c.) niece of St Forchera who became one of St Patrick's earliest converts, in Ireland
The Irish nun Saint Lasar (meaning "Flame") was the niece of Saint Forchera. Still very young, she entered religious life under the care of SS Finnian (December 12) and Ciaran (September 9) at Clonard.
• LEONTIOS of Vlacherna in Arcadia (18th c.) // BRIGHT WEDNESDAY //
• VM MACHUTA (also Maches) of Monmouth (6th c.)
• MARCIAN
• Our Righteous Father MARK 马可 the Confessor, Bishop of Arethusa (364)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάρκος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀρεθουσίων
有关玛尔克的遭遇，神学家圣格里哥利和有福的特奥多利特曾有过记载。根据记述，在君士坦丁大帝在位期间玛尔克捣毁了很多异教徒的庙宇，并皈依了很多人相信基督。当犹利安登上皇位不久之后就背叛了基督，阿雷图萨的居民也离弃了基督。他们起来反对玛尔克，因为他捣毁了他们的庙宇，现在玛尔克或是重建庙宇，或是进行赔偿。年迈的玛尔克一一拒绝了，因此，他遭到了鞭打，并在大街上被拖拉示众。之后，他们又用坚硬的细线将他的双耳割掉。而后将他脱光衣服，在他的身上涂抹上蜂蜜，并将他绑在树上，忍受夏日阳光的暴晒，让蚊虫和黄蜂来蛰他。玛尔克为基督的缘故忍受了一切痛苦，一声也没有吭。玛尔克虽然年迈，但是却荣光焕发，如同天使一般。异教徒将赔偿庙宇的钱降低到了不值一提的价钱，好让玛尔克支付，但是遭到了玛尔克的拒绝，他不肯赔偿一文钱。玛尔克的耐心大大感动了那里的居民，他们开始对玛尔克怀有崇敬之心，并为他感到难过。之后，为了保存他的生命，民众们将赔偿金降低到了零，他们不但释放了玛尔克，而且都前来他那里，领受他的教诲，归入主基督的怀抱。与此同时，在黎巴嫩山脚下的伊利奥颇利城有一位名叫西里尔的辅祭，他也遭受了同样的磨难。在基督教获得自由的时期，西里尔也捣毁了许多偶像，在叛教者犹利安统治时期遭受了痛苦的折磨。异教徒残忍无比，将西里尔杀死，用他们的牙齿将其胸膛内肠子取出来。就在圣西里尔遭磨难的这一天，另有许多人也遭受了磨难。凶狠的异教徒将他们的尸体切割成块儿，并同大麦进行混合喂猪。他们很快得到了应有的报应：他们的牙齿全部都脱落了，并从他们的口腔中发出一股难以忍受的臭气。
• Repose of Elder NICETAS of the Roslavl Forests (1793)
• PATAPIUS
• RUPERT (Hrodbert, Robert, Rupprecht) Bishop of Salzburg (8th c.) // MAR 27 // SEP 25 TR REL //
Rupert's emblem in art is a barrel of salt, because of his association with the reopening of the salt mines. He may be shown holding a basket of eggs; baptizing Duke Theodo(re) of Bavaria; or with Saint Virgilius of Salzburg.
• Martyr SECUNDUS of Asti, a noble from Asti in Piedmont in Italy and an officer in the imperial army, beheaded in Asti under Hadrian (119)
• SODEALBH (also Sodhealbh, Sodelb, Sodelva or Sodelbia) of Offaly, Co-Fndr. of Tech-Ingen-Baithe near Swords, Co. Dublin
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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