συνοδικός
April 14 / April 1
2018 (7526)
Bright Week • Διακαινήσιμος Ἑβδομάς
Bright Saturday (2018)
The artos, which was blessed after the Liturgy of Pascha, is cut and distributed after Liturgy on Bright Saturday. The prayer read today speaks of Christ as the Bread of Life.
Synaxis of the HOLY KOLLYVADES FATHERS // BRIGHT SATURDAY //
On the Saturday of Bright Week, a service has been written to commemorate all of the Holy Fathers of the so-called "Kollyvades" movement:
• NEOPHYTOS Kavsokalyvites (1689-1784) Initiator of the Kollyvades Movement
• Venerable monk ATHANASIOS the Parios (1722-1813) the Kollyvas and teacher of the Nation
• KOSMAS the Aitolos (1779)
• MAKARIOS Notaras, Archbishop of Corinth (1731-1805) the Wonderworker of Myloi in Samos
• NIKODEMOS the Hagiorite (1749-1809) the Perennial Teacher of our Orthodox Faith
• NIKEPHOROS of Chios (1821)
• Venerable God-bearer NEPHON the New (1736-1809) who was given the title Cenobiarch, contributed to the growth of monasticism with the founding of hesychasteria and monasteries on the islands of the Aegean, struggling together with the other Kollyvades fathers for the preservation of the spirit of Orthodoxy, the spiritual regeneration of the people and the return to the ancient ecclesiastical tradition
• Holy New Hieromartyr PARTHENIOS Partheniades (1805)
In Thrace he worked as a priest and one day he advised a young Christian woman how to flee a relationship she had with a Muslim Turk. When this Muslim learned of it, he became enraged and killed Parthenios on the 5th of March in 1805.
• CYRIL the New of Paros (1748-1833) ndowed with the gift of foresight and with the ability to work miracles. He made the sign of the Cross over a snake and it died; he traveled on his monastic cassock which he spread out on the sea; he struck a rock at the arid Monastery of Saint George and a spring gushed forth which is still running to this day
• PAISIUS Velichkovsky (1722-1794) the great neptic and hesychast
• The Holy Kollyvades AGAPIOS (1844) and PORPHYRIOS (1852) the Ascetics of Santorini
• ARSENIOS of Paros (1800-1877)
• PARTHENIOS of Chios (1883)
• NEKTARIOS the Wonderworker of Aegina, Bishop of Pentapolis (1846-1920) • NICHOLAS Planas (1851-1932)
• SAVVAS the New, of Kalymnos (1862-1948)
These were monastics primarily from Mount Athos who taught adherence to Holy Orthodox dogma and tradition amid waves of westernization and secularism during the years of the Turkish occupation of Greece. The ranks of such Holy Fathers include some of the Church's most beloved Saints: St Nikodemos the Hagiorite, St Makarios (Notaras) of Corinth, St Athanasios of Paros, St Paisius Velichovsky, St Nektarios of Aegina, St Kosmas Aitolos, St Savvas of Kalymnos, St Nicholas Planas and so many more. The following summary discusses the Holy Mountain and the Kollyvades by Monk Moses the Athonite: In the mid-18th century a grave theological debate developed all over the Holy Mountain in connection with the issues of the holding of memorial services for the departed, frequency of Holy Communion, and other matters relating to the exact observance of Orthodox tradition. The starting-point for this prolonged controversy was the building of the Kyriakon at the Skete of Saint Anna (1754). The question arose as to whether the commemoration of the founders and benefactors should be held on Saturday or Sunday, and with what frequency the monks should receive Holy Communion. The debate divided the monks, and those who insisted that the memorial services should be held on Saturdays were mockingly dubbed "kollyvades" (named after the kollyva, or sweetened boiled wheat served at memorial services). It seems, however, that, behind their apparent obstinacy, they had a profound knowledge of ecclesiastical tradition and fought hard for its authenticity and for its purification from adulteration. Thus the name of "kollyvas" became a title of honor and the movement was responsible for a profitable and beneficial regeneration and renewal. Indeed, this devout movement was led by three saints: Makarios Notaras, Nikodemos the Hagiorite and Athanasios of Paros, and they numbered among their supporters and sympathizers distinguished scholars such as Neophytos Kavsokalyvitis, Christophoros Artinos, Agapios of Cyprus, Iakovos the Peloponnesian, Paul the Hermit, Theodoritos of Esphigmenou and a number of others. Some of them chose voluntary exile and took refuge in mainland Greece or the islands, where they founded scores of monasteries, of which a fair number survive today. Thus we see Makarios Notaras in Chios, Niphon in Skiathos, Dionysios of Skiathos in Skyros, Ierotheos in Hydra, with numerous disciples and friends of that Athonite tradition which has nourished monks and saints. The monasteries which they founded were noted for their vigor and service. The Ecumenical Patriarchate by decision of the Holy Synod finally put an end to the 'kollyvades' issue, by ruling that memorial services could be held as circumstances demanded and that Holy Communion, with the proper preparation, could be received frequently, and that the life of the substance, and not the aridity of the form, was to be adhered to.
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἑρμῆς καὶ Θεοδώρα οἱ Μάρτυρες
The sister of St Hermes (August 28) whom she helped in prison and under torture. She was herself martyred some months later. Brother and sister were buried side by side.
• Martyrs ALEXANDER, DIONYSIUS, INGENIANI, PANTEROS (or PANTAINOS), PARTHENIOS and SATURNINUS
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀλέξανδρος, Διονύσιος, Ἰνγενιανή, Πάντερος ἢ Πάνταινος, Παρθένιος καὶ Σατουρνίνος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs GERONTIUS 格隆提 and BASILIDES 瓦西利迪 (3rd c.) beheaded by the sword
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βασιλείδης καὶ Γερόντιος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Welsh missionaries CAIDOC and FRICOR (Adrian) (7th c.)
Born in Ireland, they preached Christ in the country of the Morini in the north of France. Their relics are still venerated in the parish church of Saint Riquier near Amiens.
• Translation (1052) of relics of MM CANTIUS (Cantianorus), CANTIANUS and Martyress CANTIANILLA of Rome suffered in in Aquileia of Italy (290/304)
• MM QUINTIAN and IRENAEUS of Armenian
• MM VICTOR and STEPHEN of Egypt
• Our venerable father Elder BARSANUPHIUS (Pavel Plikhankov) of Optina (1845-1913)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Βαρσανούφιος τῆς Ὄπτινα
Elder Barsanuphius (1845–1913), a disciple of Elder Anatole (Zertsalov) and Elder Nektary, was a highly cultured man and a successful colonel before entering the monastic life at a relatively late age. Due to his purity of heart and spiritual sobriety, he was transformed by God into a grace-filled Elder virtually overnight. The period before the first World War and the Russian Revolution was a complex one. The world was seething in unprecedented passions, and one could clearly sense the approach of darkness. With a sympathetic soul Elder Barsanuphius attended to the world, and the Lord parted a curtain before him, showing him the horrors of the future.
• New Hieromartyr JOACHIM Levitsky, of Kyiv, Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod, crucified upside down at Sevastopol (1921)
• Martyr MICHAEL (Misha) Fool for Christ (1931)
• New Hieromartyr SERGIUS 塞尔吉 Zavarin, presbiter, priest of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1885-1938) day of death in Siberian KZ
• Hosiosmartyr Schemabishop MACARIUS 玛喀里 of St Macarius the Roman Monastery, near Lezna (1944)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Νέος
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀβραάμιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Βουλγαρίας
• Righteous ACHAZ 阿哈次
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἄχαζ ὁ Δίκαιος
• BERHARD (644) a saintly Bishop who had a great affection for St Valéry and who tried to have him buried in his cathedral in Amiens
• CELLACH (Cellach mac Congaile, Ceilach, Keilach, Kelly) Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, previously the Abbot of Iona in Scotland and founder of the Monastery of Kells (815)
• DODOLINUS of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in the Dauphiné in France (7th c.)
• EULOGIUS (Eulogius the Prophet) 愚艾弗罗吉 of Salosi, Georgia, Fool for Christ (12-13th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐλόγιος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός
During the Liturgy at Odzrkhe Monastery a miracle occurred: endowed by God with the gift of prophecy, Saint Eulogius the Fool for-Christ fell to his knees, lifted his hands to the heavens and cried out: "Glory to God! Almighty Christ!...Do not fear the Persians, but rather depart in peace, for the mercy of God has descended upon the house of Tamar!" Eulogius’s words were clearly a divine revelation. Saint John of Shavta turned to Queen Tamar, rejoicing, "Your Highness! The Almighty has made known to us our victory in the war from the lips of a fool-for-Christ!" Eulogius confided his secret to Saint John: disguised as a fool, he had been concealing his God-given gift. But now it seemed that the gift would become apparent to all, so Eulogius quickly disappeared out of sight to escape the people’s attention. Saint John of Shavta composed his "Hymns to the Theotokos of Vardzia" in thanksgiving for Georgia’s victory in the Battle of Basiani. He is also recognized as the composer of "Abdul-Messiah" (Abdul-Messiah: servant of Christ) a famous ode to the holy queen Tamar.
• Venerable EUTHYMIUS 艾弗提弥 the Wonderworker, Archimandrite of Suzdal (1404)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐθύμιος ὁ Θαυματουργός
• GERONTIUS 格隆提 the Canonarch of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (14th c.) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γερόντιος ὁ Κανονάρχης
The Monk Gerontii asceticised during the 14th Century. He was a monk of the Kievo-Pechersk monastery and fulfilled the obedience of canonarch (arranger of church-canon song). He spent all his life at the monastery, in ascetic deeds of abstinence, obedience and prayer. The Monk Gerontii was buried in the Farther Caves. His memory is celebrated also together with the Sobor-Assemblage of the Monks of the Farther Caves, on 28 August.
• JOHN (John of Black Mountain) 约翰 Shavteli, of Salosi, Georgia (12-13th c.) great Georgian hymnographer, philosopher, and orator
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Φιλόσοφος ἐκ Γεωργίας
• KALI the Philanthropist (740) // BRIGHT SATURDAY // MAY 15 // MAY 22 //
• LEUCONUS (666) the 18th bishop of Troyes, who founded Notre-Dame-des-Nonnains
• MAKARIOS 玛喀里 of Pelekete, Abbot of Pelekete Monastery (820)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος ἡγούμενος τῆς μονῆς Πελεκητῆς
Macarius was ordained by Patriarch Tarasius of Constantinople, was imprisoned and tortured for his opposition to the iconoclasm proclaimed by Emperor Leo the Armenian, and was released by Leo's successor, Emperor Michael the Stammerer. When he refused Michael's demands that he support the iconoclastic heresy, he was exiled to the island of Aphusia off the coast of Bithynia and died there.
• MARCELLA of Auvergne, Shepherdess and Solitary
• Venerabless MARY of Egypt (421)
Ἡ Ὁσία Μαρία ἡ Αἰγυπτία
耶路撒冷牧首圣改为索弗若尼书写了有关这位圣人的事迹：有一年在大斋期期间，一位司祭修士佐西玛长老前往约旦外围的旷野，准备呆上20天的时间。突然，他看见了一个人影，那人看起来苍白、赤身裸体，且头发雪白，并要逃避开佐西玛的视线。这位长老拔腿就追，跑了很长时间才追上。这时，此人蹲伏在溪流中大声喊：“佐西玛圣父，看在上帝的份上请原谅我。我不能见你，因为我是一个女人，我赤身裸体。”佐西玛听到这之后脱下他的外衣送给这个妇女。佐西玛长老非常害怕，因为这妇人喊着他的名字，而他却不认识这个妇人。在长老的再三请求之下，这个妇人讲述了她的故事。这个妇人出生于埃及，在12岁那年她在亚历山大里亚过着一种放荡不羁的生活，就这样过去了17年的时间。有一天，她抵挡不住欲望之火，于是乘坐一个船前往耶路撒冷。在抵达圣城之后，她打算进入教堂，以便敬拜神圣的十字架，但是一股无形的力量在阻止她进入教堂。她感到非常恐惧，她注视着前庭的上帝之母圣像，并开始祷告，以便能够让她进入教堂敬拜荣耀的十字架，并对自己过去自己的罪过和不洁净进行忏悔，同时许诺，她将会按照圣母的指引行事。之后她被允许进入教堂。在敬拜完十字架后，她来到了前庭的圣母像前对圣母表示感谢。就在那时，她听到了一个声音说：“如果你跨越约旦河，你将会找到真正的平安！”于是她买了三条面包开始向约旦河前行，同一天晚上她抵达了约旦河。第二天她在圣约安修道院领取了圣体血，并穿越了约旦河。她留在旷野中48年的时间，期间忍受了巨大的痛苦、恐惧，并同欲望进行争斗，如同与野兽争斗一样。她以植物为食。当她站立着进行祷告的时候，佐西玛看到了她悬浮在空中。她请求佐西玛一年后来约旦河岸带给她圣体血。第二年，佐西玛在晚间来到了约旦河岸，带来了圣体血。他感到奇怪：这位圣人如何会穿越约旦河？就在这时，借着月光，他看到了她走近约旦河，对着约旦河作了十字之后就从河面上走过来，如同走在干的陆地上一样。佐西玛在给了她圣体血之后，她开始请求他一年之后再来他们当初见面的那个溪流。佐西玛如期前往，这次他看到的是她已死亡的尸体躺在河流旁。在尸首上方的沙地上有一个纸条，上面写道：“圣父佐西玛，请将谦卑的马利的尸体埋葬于此地，让尘土归于尘土。鄙人于4月1日领取过圣体血之后死亡，这也正是主耶稣基督为拯救我们而忍受磨难的那一夜晚。”从这个纸条，佐西玛第一次知道了她的名字，使人感到震惊的是，她领取圣体血已经是一年前的事情了，那时她来到了佐西玛渡过20天旅行的那个溪流。这样，佐西玛埋葬了马利的尸体。当他返回到修道院之后向众人讲述了马利的生活和他亲眼看见的她的奇迹。由此，主知道怎样荣耀悔罪的罪人。在大斋期的第5个星期天也是圣马利的纪念日。在大斋期期间，教会将她作为典范，以激励每一个愿意悔改的人。圣马利大约于公元530年离世。
• MELITO 麦利顿 of Sardis, Bishop of Sardis (177)
梅勒蒂昂是公元2世纪时期出色的牧者，他用大能进行管理，并将《圣经》的各章节整理成一套完整的手抄本。他用自己谦逊和虔诚将老底家的教会恢复和平，因为当时因为庆祝复活节引起了纷争。除此之外，他还捍卫基督教免受异教徒的破坏。他于公元170年来到罗马上书皇帝玛尔霍•奥雷里乌斯有关捍卫基督教会的文章。大有学问、虔诚且热心的圣梅勒蒂昂于公元177年安息主怀。
• Bishop PACHOMIUS Romansky, of the Kyiv Caves (1724)
• Martyr POLYNIKOS (Polynices, Polynikis)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πολύνικος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• PROCOPIUS 普若科彼 of Sázava, Abbot of Sázava in Bohemia (980-1053) born in Czechia, he was ordained in Prague. Later he became a hermit and finally founded the monastery of Sazava
普若科彼出生于现今捷克境内的霍蒂斯。他被任命为司祭，而后隐退到山中，效仿东方隐士的模式生活。乌尔里希公爵意外地来到了普若科彼那里，并要求他在萨扎瓦河畔修建圣施浸约安修道院。这位圣人于公元1053年离世。
• Martyr hermit TEWDRIC (Theodoric) of Tintern, Wales (5-6th c.)
Saint Tewdric, prince of Glamorgan, is discussed in the Book of Llan Dav, written much later. According to this source, in his later years he resigned his position in favor of his son Meurig in order to become a hermit at Tintern. During an invasion of the Saxons, he placed himself at the head of his people. In the ensuing battle, he was mortally wounded by a lance. Tewdric was buried at Mathern, near Chepstow, formerly called Merthyr Tewdrig, where the church still bears his name. He is the reputed founder of the churches at Bedwas Llandow and Merthyr Tydfil. In the early 17th century, Francis Godwin of Llandaff found the saints bones, including a badly fractured skull in the church at Mathern.
• TUAN of Tamlacht, County of Down
The Martyrology of Tallagh, at the 1st of April, inserts the name of Tuan, son of Cairill. This saint is said to have been called Ruanus, by Giraldus Cambrensis; yet, we do not find any warrant for such an assertion, although, indeed, that writer has an account of a Ruanus, who is reported to have survived a great pestilence, which devastated Ireland, AM 2820. The incrediblestatement is made, that he survived to the time of St Patrick, who baptized him, and that he lived to be 1500 years old, when he died. This is one of the many fables, with which Giraldus Cambrensis was pleased to overload his writings. According to the Martyrology of Donegal, Tuan, son of Coirell, of Tamlachta, in Boirche, had veneration paid him, at this date. The previous identification serves, for this particular locality.
• VALÉRY (Walric, Walericus) Abbot of Leuconay (Saint-Valery-sur-Somme) (619/622) Abbot in Picardy
A monk at Luxeuil in France, he later founded the monastery of Leuconay at the mouth of the Somme. Two towns in that area are named Saint-Valéry after him.
Saint Valery was born at Auvergne in the 6th century, where in his childhood he kept his father's sheep. He desired to study and begged a teacher in a nearby school to trace the letters and teach them to him, which the schoolmaster was happy to do. He soon knew how to read and write, and the first use he made of his knowledge was to transcribe the Psalter; he then learned it by heart. He began to frequent the church, and love of his religion soon burnt strongly in his heart. He was still young when he took the monastic habit in the neighboring monastery of Saint Anthony. No persuasion could convince him to return home when his father came to attempt that move, and the Abbot, recognizing that his firmness was of divine origin, said to the monks, Let us not reject the gift of God. His father eventually was present when he received the tonsure, and shed tears of joy, having accepted his son's determination. It was soon visible to all that God destined him for some high role in the Church. He left for a more distant monastery in Auxerre, and there he seemed to live a life more angelic than human. A rich lord of the region, after talking with him one day, disposed of his entire fortune without even returning home, to embrace religious poverty. At that time Saint Columban was preaching in Gaul; Valery with some fellow monks desired to hear him and went to Luxeuil, where they were not disappointed. They asked to be received into that monastery in 594 and were accepted. A corner of the garden which Valery was assigned to cultivate was entirely spared when insects devastated the rest. The holy Abbot Columban allowed him to make his religious profession, and he remained at Luxeuil for some fifteen years. He was a witness when the local king drove away Saint Columban from his foundation, as a foreigner in the land. Soon afterward the monastery was invaded by strangers, but finally Saint Valery and the new Abbot, Saint Eustasius, succeeded in recovering it. Some time afterwards Saint Valery with another monk left to carry the faith elsewhere, and decided with the permission of King Clotaire to remain as hermits in the region of Amiens. He raised to life a poor condemned man after he had been hanged, and the word of the sanctity of this monk soon spread. The wilderness of Leuconaus was transformed into a community, where from the numerous monastic cells and church the praises of the Lord rose up night and day. In 613, three years after his arrival, this locality became a monastery where the religious lived in common. A man who had become unable to walk was cured by Saint Valery and replaced him later as Abbot of this monastery; he is today Saint Blitmond. Many more miracles illustrated his life of prayer and sacrifice. Saint Valery died in 619, and his tomb became celebrated by numerous miracles. A basilica was raised there in his honor, at the site where one of his disciples had felled a tree, object of pagan superstitions, at a word from the Saint.
• VENANTIUS (255) bishop in Dalmatia whose relics were brought from Spalato to Rome in 641
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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