συνοδικός
April 17 / April 4
2018 (7526)
2nd Tuesday after PASCHA
RADONITSA • Day of Rejoicing. Commemoration of the Dead
On this day, the Tuesday of St Thomas week, according to the order instituted by our Holy Fathers, we call to remembrance, in Paschal joy, all those who have died from the beginning of the ages in faith and in the hope of resurrection and life eternal. The Slavs, like many ancient peoples, had a tradition of visiting family members' graves during the springtime and feasting together with them. After their conversion to Christianity, this custom transferred into the Russian Orthodox Church as the festival of Radonitsa, the name of which comes from the Slavic word "radost’", meaning "joy". In Kievan Rus' the local name is "Krasnaya Gorka" (Красная горка, "Beautiful Hill"), and has the same meaning. It may seem strange to call a memorial for the departed "joyful", but the Christian belief that lies behind this joy is the remembrance of Jesus' Resurrection and the joy and hope it brings to all. The commemoration of the departed after Pascha was also done in extreme antiquity. St Ambrose of Milan (340 – 397) says in one of his sermons: "It is truly meet and right, brethren, that after the celebration of Pascha, which we have celebrated, to share our joy with the holy martyrs and by them as participants in the suffering of the Lord, to announce the glory of the resurrection of the Lord". Although these words of St Ambrose relate to martyrs, they may be an indication of our custom to commemorate the departed after Pascha on Monday or Tuesday of Thomas Week because the beginning of the solemn commemorations in the faith of those who died is established in the New Testament Church as a pious custom to the memory of the martyrs, both among the martyrs buried in antiquity and the others who have died. Having previously celebrated the radiant feast of Christ's glorious Resurrection, the faithful commemorate the dead today with the pious intent to share the great joy of this Pascha feast with those who have departed this life in the hope of their own resurrection. This is the same blessed joy with which the dead heard our Lord announce His victory over death when He descended into Hades, thus leading forth by the hand the righteous souls of the Old Covenant into Paradise. This is the same unhoped-for joy the Holy Myrrhbearing Women experienced when discovering the empty tomb and the undisturbed grave clothes. In addition, this is the same bright joy the Holy Apostles encountered in the Upper Room where Christ appeared though the doors were closed. In short, this feast is a kindred joy, to celebrate the luminous Resurrection with our Orthodox forefathers who have fallen asleep. There is evidence of the commemoration of the dead today in the writings of the Church Fathers. St John Chrysostom mentions the commemoration of the dead performed on Tuesday of St Thomas week in his "Homily on the Cemetery and the Cross". The faithful departed are remembered in Divine Liturgies, 'koliva' is prepared and blessed in the churches in memory of those who have fallen asleep, and the Orthodox graves in cemeteries are blessed by the priests and visited by the faithful. On this day alms are given to the poor. Furthermore, it should be noted that due to the great spiritual joy this jubilant commemoration bears, it is called in the Slavonic tongue, "Radonitsa", or Day of Rejoicing.
• The Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "THE LIFE-GIVING SPRING" 施生命之泉 (450)
• Thé Akathist Hymn (Chairetismoi, Salutations) to the Virgin Mary (626)
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "GERONTISSA" ("Eldress") at Pantokratoros monastery, Mount Athos
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Γεροντίσσης
The pious hegumen-elder of this monastery received a revelation about his impending end. Before death he wanted to be communed the Holy Mysteries of Christ and he besought of the serving priest to hasten to make the Divine Liturgy, but that one did not heed his request. Then from the wonderworking Gerontissa Icon in the altar was heard a fiercesome voice, ordering the priest to hasten to fulfill the wish of his hegumen. Another miracle from the icon occurred, when through the prayer of the head of the monastery, oil appeared in empty monastic vessels.On the icon, the Mother of God is imaged in full stature without the Christ-Child. Before Her is a vessel, from which oil pours out over the edge. An icon of the Gerontissa Mother of God is known of in the altar of the Uspenie-Dormition cathedral church in the Pochaev Lavra. Through the blessing of Archbishop Modest of Volynsk and Zhitomir, priest-servers before the start of Divine-services asked the blessing for the start of services in front of the Icon of the Mother of God.
• The Icon of the Mother of God "DELIVERER" ("Deliveress") (1841, 1889)
• Martyrs AGATHOPODES a Deacon, and THEODULUS a Lector (286-305) thrown into the sea at Salonika with a stone around their necks during the reign of Maximinian Herculius for refusing to give up the sacred books
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θεόδουλος καὶ Ἀγαθόπους οἱ Μάρτυρες
• VM PHERBUTHA (Phermoutha, Ferfouthe) 斐尔弗塔 of Persia, with her sister Widow MEKADOSHTA, and Maidservant (343)
Ἡ Ἁγία Φερφούθη , ἡ ἀδελφή της καὶ ἡ δούλη αὐτῶν οἱ Μάρτυρες
在波斯王萨伯留斯在位期间，主教圣西麦翁被杀害。出于王后的意愿，主教西麦翁的妹妹斐尔弗塔被召入宫。斐尔弗塔容貌出众，因此，受到很多人的追逐，其中包括一些异教徒教士和占卜者。斐尔弗塔一一谢绝了他们，由此引来了众人对她的仇恨。就在那时，王后病了，所有的异教徒教士向国王解释说，是斐尔弗塔给王后下了毒药，解救王后的办法如下：作为基督徒的斐尔弗塔、她的妹妹以及她们的仆人都要锯成两截，其中的三截放在一边，另外三截放在另一边，然后将王后置于其中。国王同意了这些血腥异教徒教士的建议。斐尔弗塔同她的妹妹以及她们的仆人于公元343年为主殉道，由此得到了天国荣耀的冠冕。
• Venerables ascetics THEONAS, SYMEON and FERVINUS (Phorbinus) of Egypt
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Θεωνᾶς, Συμεὼν καὶ Φερβίνος
• AMBROSIUS und THOMAS
• Repose of Elder SAVVAS of Little St Anne's Skete, Mt Athos (1908)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Savva, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Venerable ELIAS of Makeevka, Schemamonk, of Makeyevka, Ukraine (1949)
• Day of martyrdom of Hosiosmartyrs Archimandrite BENJAMIN 文雅敏 (Basil Kononov) of Solovki Monastery (1868-1928) and Hieromonk NICEPHORUS 尼基佛尔 (Nicholas Kuchin) of Solovki Monastery (1881-1928) cruelly murdered at cell near Volkozero, Archangelsk
June 9, 1928. S. Antonov came, as was agreed with the monks, on Volkozero. In place of the cell, he found charred logs and among them - two skeletons. An investigation began; established that in the forest there was a murder and arson. They were committed on Tuesday of the Bright Week with the purpose of robbing of two residents of the village of Korovinskaya - Komsomol member V. Ivanov and his comrade S. Yarygin. Both criminals were young people brought up under Soviet rule, who assumed that the archimandrite kept the treasures of the Solovetsky Monastery. On the eve of the feast of the Holy Pascha, the criminals gathered to go to the forest to rob monks. In the evening of April 17, 1928 they went to Volkozero. It was Tuesday of the Holy Week, the monks performed a festive Divine Service in their cell. The robbers waited for a long time, when in the hut the light turned off. At last it became dark, Ivanov went to the cell and opened fire on the windows. He released 4 patrons in a row. However, the gangsters did not dare enter the cell, they were filled with an incomprehensible horror. Having made their way to the passage, they climbed into the attic, where were kept supplies, outer clothing, shoes. Taking all this, the robbers backed the door with a stake, doused the cell with kerosene found in the attic, and set it on fire ... Even the Soviet court of that time could not justify the monstrous massacre of 20th year old guys over helpless old men. The murderers were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.
• New Hieromartyr NICHOLAS 尼科拉 Karaulov, Bishop of Velsk (1871-1932) day of death in prison of Novosibirsk
• Hosiosmartyress Nun MARIA 玛利亚 (Lidia Lelyanova) of Gatchina (1874-1932) martyred in prison hospital in Peterburg
• New Hieromartyr JOHN 约安 Vechorko, Priest (1890-1933) day of martyrdom, shoted in Minsk
• Martyr JOHN 约翰 Kolesnikov (1877-1943) day of death in Siblag KZ, 2nd lagpunkt of Tajginsk department, Kemerovo
• Repose of Archimandrite JOHN (Maitland Moir) of Edinburgh, Scotland (1924-2013) a priest and priest of the Orthodox Church of St Andrew in Edinburgh and founder of several Orthodox communities in Scotland. He was Orthodox Chaplain to the University of Edinburgh
• Repose of Patriarch ALEXY I (Sergius Simanskij) of Moscow (1877-1970) the 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) between 1945 and 1970; died of a myocardial infarction at the age of 92 and was buried in the Trinity-St Sergius Lavra at Sergiyev Posad outside of Moscow
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Patriarch Alexy, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Sainted AMBROSIUS Bishop of Mediolanum (339-397) // DEC 7 //
• Monk ANTHIMOS (Athanasios Kourouklis) the Blind Ascetic of Kefallonia and Enlightener of Greece (1727-1782) in Lepeda, Greece // SEP 4 //
The blind monk Anthimos was born in Kefalonia in 1727. He became a monk at Aghio Oros and visited many sacred places in Greece. He cloistered at the Monastery of Saint Matrona in Chios, where, according to tradition, he was sleeping on the church’s floor. He is considered the missionary of the Cyclades and the Dodecanese, because, on his passage through these islands, his preaching were of great spiritual benefit for the inhabitants and he left behind great work. The monk Anthimos Kourkoulis renovated the Monastery at Lepeda in 1769 and converted it into a woman’s monastery.
• Martyr BASIL 瓦西里 of Mangazea in Siberia (1602)
• Virgin COINE (Caemh, Caev) of Cill-Caoimhe or Coine, probably Kilkine, County of Wicklow
The present saint may have been the sister of St Kevin, founder of Glendalough, and, it seems not improbable, that she lived in the place previously mentioned.
• CROINSEACH (also Cronsecha)
• EUPRAXIA (Euphrasia, Praxea and Praxeas) the Younger of Tabenna (Tabennesi) in Egypt (410)
• GALLUS a lake-dweller, of Loch Techet (Lough Gara) Counties of Roscommon and Sligo
This lake, at present, is known as Lough Gara, or Lough O'Gara, near Boyle, and on the borders of the counties of Roscommon and Sligo. The river Boyle has its source from this lake. We are informed, that St Patrick, while in Connaught, resolved to visit Moylurg, and that passing through Bearnas Hua Noililla, or the gaps of Collooney, he moved onward towards the River Buill—now the Boyle—which takes its rise in Loch Techet.
• Venerable monk GEORGE 格奥尔吉 of Mount Maleon (Malevon) in Laconia, in the Peloponnese (5-6th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεώργιος ὁ ἐν Μαλεῷ
• GUIER a priest and hermit in Cornwall, where a church recalls his name
• GWERIR (Guier) a hermit near Liskeard in Cornwall (9th c.) at whose grave King Alfred was healed of a serious illness
A taciturn hermit monk in Liskeard, Cornwall, England, at whose grave King Alfred is said to have been cured of a serious illness. Saint Gwerir's cell was occupied after his death by Saint Neot.
• Hosiosmartyr HILDEBERT Abbot of St Peter in Ghent in Belgium, martyred by fanatics for defending the veneration of icons (752)
• ISIDORE 伊西多若 of Seville, Bishop of Seville (636)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Ἐπίσκοπος Σεβίλλης
Born in Cartagena in Spain, he was the brother of Sts Leander, Fulgentius and Florentina. He succeeded St Leander as Bishop of Seville in 600. He presided over several Councils, reorganised the Spanish Church, encouraged monastic life, completed the Mozarabic rite, was an encyclopedic writer and was also responsible for the Council of Toledo in 633.
• Venerable JAMES 雅各 monk of Starotorzhok (Old Torzhok) in Galich, Kostroma (15-16th c.)
The Monk Jakov of Galich asceticised during the 15-16 Centuries at the Starotorzhsk monastery in the city of Galich in the Kostroma district, nearby the Stolbischa marker, or Staroe-town. They suggest, that the Starotorshzk monastery was founded by the Monk Jakov of Zhelesnoborovsk (11 April). The Monk Jakov died a schema-monk and was buried beneathe the altar of the monastery church in honour of Saints Boris and Gleb. His image was written similar to that of the Monk Zosima of Solovetsk (17 April).
• Sainted JOB Patriarch of Moskow (1607)
• Venerable JOSEPH 约熙福 the Hymnographer, of Sicily (883)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωσὴφ ὁ Ὑμνογράφος
约熙福出生于西西里，父亲普罗提诺 和母亲阿伽塔都是虔诚、善良的基督徒。在父母去世之后，约熙福移居到德撒洛尼基，并在那里剪发成为一名修士。作为一名修士，在斋戒、节制、祷告、唱颂圣咏、警醒以及劳作方面，约熙福是众人的榜样。德撒洛尼基的主教任命他为修士司祭。德高望重的格里哥利•德卡颇利在访问德撒洛尼基时，约熙福给他留下了深刻的印象，正是因为约熙福罕见的性格，格里哥利主教邀请他到君士坦丁堡他的修道院中。亚美尼亚人莱翁五世在位期间，破坏圣像的运动又复燃。约熙福奉召前往罗马进见罗马教宗，希望罗马教会能够捍卫东正教信仰。在路上，约熙福被海盗劫持，并将他带到克里特，异端邪说者将他囚禁在监狱中长达6年的时间。约熙福感到非常高兴，因为他有幸为基督遭受折磨，由此他继续赞美上帝，并将身上的铁链视为金饰。就在圣诞节早晨这一天，也正是约熙福被囚禁的第6年，邪恶的莱翁皇帝在教堂作早课的时候遇刺身亡。就在那个时刻，圣尼科拉在监狱中向约熙福显现，对他说：“起来，跟我走！”约熙福感觉自己被提升到了空中，就在那时，他发现自己已经处在君士坦丁堡的大门前。所有信众们都为他的到来而欢欣鼓舞。他为许多圣人谱写了赞美诗，他同时拥有“悟道"的恩典，由此，牧首佛提任命他为神父，并接收其他司祭的告解，这位牧首称他为“上帝的仆人，天使降世，众神父的神父”。约熙福在高龄之际离世，用文字和赞美诗服侍上帝多年时间。约熙福于公元883年圣大星期四前夜离世。
• Venerable JOSEPH 约熙福 the Much Ailing 忍受病苦者, 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 Ἰωσὴφ ὁ Πολύαθλος
In his grievous illness he turned to God with prayer and made a vow: if the Lord granted him health, he would then serve the brethren of the Kievo-Pechersk monastery until the end of his days. The prayer of the much-sick sufferer was heard. After his return to health, he entered the Kievo-Pechersk monastery, took monastic vows and began fervently to work at deeds of fasting and prayer, and with love to serve the brethren. After his death the Monk Joseph was buried in the Farther Caves (his memory is likewise celebrated together with the Sobor-Assemblage of the Monks of the Farther Caves on 28 August).
• Holy Martyr KALLINIKOS torn apart by wild beasts
• MERRYN (Merin) (6th c.) Missionary in Cornwall and Brittany
Saint Merryn is the titular patron of a place in Cornwall. He may be identical with the Breton saint honoured at Lanmerin and Plomelin. During the medieval period, the legendary Saint Marina was believed to have been its patron.
• Hosiosmartyr NICETAS 尼基塔 a Slav from Albania, monk of Mount Athos and Serres (1808)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικήτας ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ἐκ Σερρῶν
尼基塔是阿尔巴尼亚的斯拉夫人。作为圣山阿托斯的修士，他前往塞雷斯，同穆斯林人就宗教的问题进行争论。因为土耳其人不能说服他，所以，他们对尼基塔进行折磨，由此，尼基塔返回到了天家，当时为公元1808年。
• Monk PAPHNUTIOS
• Venerable Ascetic PUBLIUS (Poplios) the Egyptian
Ὁ Ὅσιος Πόπλιος ὁ Αἰγύπτιος
• Venerable PLATON the Studite (Plato of Sakkoudion), Abbot of the Studion and Confessor (812)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Πλάτων
• Martyr THEODOR
• Sainted THEONAS 德奥纳 Metropolitan of Thessaloniki (1541)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεωνᾶς Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκης
Saint Theonas was a disciple of Saint James of Kastoria (November 1), and lived at the beginning of the sixteenth century. He lived for some time in the Pantocrator and Simonopetra Monasteries on Mt Athos. He founded the Monastery of Saint Anastasia, and was consecrated as Archbishop of Thessalonica. He died in peace.
• THEONA (also Theonas)
• TIGERNACH (Tigernake, Tierney, Tierry) of Clones (549) Abbot of Clones, succeeded St Macartin as Bishop at Clogher in Ireland
Abbot Saint Tigernach of Cluanois (Clones) Abbey in Monaghan succeeded Saint Macartan as bishop of Clogher, Ireland. While the details of his life are unreliable because they were written from tradition centuries after his death, he is said to have had a tragic childhood and to have died blind. They say that he was the son of a famous general named Corbre and Dearfraych, the daughter of an Irish king named Eochod. He was baptized by Bishop Saint Conleth of Kildare with Saint Brigid as his godmother. While still a youth, he was captured by pirates and taken to the British king, who placed him in the monastery of Rosnat. There he learned to serve God with his whole heart, mind, soul, and strength. When he returned to Ireland, he was reluctantly consecrated bishop, and, upon the death of Macartan in 506, took over that see.
• Venerable Hieromonk ZOSIMAS 佐西玛 of Palestine (560) a monk of the Jordanian monastic community during the reign of Emperor Theodosius the Younger. It was he who discovered, administered Holy Communion to and buried the body of St Mary the Egyptian. He died in the Lord in his 100th year in the 6h century
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ζωσιμᾶς
在德奥多西二世皇帝在世期间，佐西玛是约旦一个修道院的修士。佐西玛发现了埃及的圣马利，为他分享了圣体血，并安葬了他的尸体。佐西玛于公元6世纪百岁高龄之际离世。
• Venerable ZOSIMAS 佐西玛 founder and abbot of the Annunciation Monastery at Lake Vorbozoma (Vorbosomsk) (1550)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ζωσιμᾶς ἐκ Ρωσίας
The Monk Zosima of Vorbozomsk was the founder of a monastery in honour of the Annuniciation of the MostHoly Mother of God on an island in Lake Vorbozoma, situated 23 versts to the south of Belozersk. The monastery was founded way back in the XV Century, since it is known, that in the year 1501 the head of the monastery was Hegumen Jona, a disciple of the Monk Zosima. The monastery was among the number of those numerous wilderness-monasteries (small monasteries) which, being of the form of the so-called "Trans-Volga" monasteries, were dispersed around the Kirillo-Belozersk monastery. The Monk Zosima died in the first half of the 16th century. It is known, that the monk wrote guidances and letters to his spiritual daughter Anastasia.
• ZOSIMA
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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