συνοδικός
April 9 / March 27
2018 (7526)
Bright Week • Διακαινήσιμος Ἑβδομάς
Bright Monday
• The Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mt Athos Panagia "GLYKOPHYLOUSA" ("Sweet-kissing") 甘饴之吻
The Glykophilousa Icon belongs to the Eleousa (the Virgin of Tenderness) category of icons, where the Mother accepts the affection shown by the Child Christ. The icon is commemorated by the Church on March 27 and also on Bright Monday. The icon depicts the Theotokos inclining toward Christ, Who embraces her. She seems to be embracing Him more tightly than in other icons, and her expression is more affectionate. The Icon is located on a pillar on the left side of the katholikon (main church).
• The Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mt Athos "OF THE AKATHIST" 弗坐词
The "Akathist" Icon of the Mother of God is on the iconostasis of the Hilandar Monastery’s katholikon. It is known as the "Akathist" Icon because, during a fire at the katholikon in 1837, an Akathist was being read before the icon, and it remained unharmed, to the joy of the monks.This icon should not be confused with the Zographou Icon "Of the Akathist" (October 10) and Hilandar Icon "Of the Akathist" (January 12).
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Φιλητὸς, Λυδία, Θεοπρέπιος, Μακεδόνας, Ἀμφιλόχιος καὶ Κρονίδης οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs BARUCH and JOHN by the sword
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βαρούχιος καὶ Ἰωάννης οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyr CODRATUS (Quadratus), THEODOSIUS, EMMANUEL and with him 40 MARTYRS who suffered under Diocletian
• Martyrs MANUEL 埃玛努伊尔 and THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 (304) in Sirmium
• 9 Persian Martyrs: ZANITAS, LAZARUS, MAROTAS, NARSES, ELIAS, ABIBOS, SEMBEETH, MARES and SABAS (344)
• AMBROSE (Besarion Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1861-1927) // MAR 16 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀμβρόσιος Πατριάρχης Γεωργίας
Such a memorandum was unprecedented for the Bolshevik regime and the response by them was immediate. In February 1923, Patr. Ambrose and his council were arrested and imprisoned. In a public show trial, Patr. Ambrose and his fellow clergy were accused of hiding historic treasures of the Church in order to keep them from passing into the hands of the Soviet state. In his defense at the end of the trial, Patr. Ambrose stated, My soul belongs to God, my heart to my country; you, my executioners, do what you will with my body." While expecting execution, the Bolsheviks did not dare to execute him and sentenced Patr. Ambrose to eight years imprisonment. His property was also confiscated. During the time of his imprisonment from 1923, Metr. Kalistrate was locum tenens. The public outcry over the extent of the Red Terror in Georgia caused the Bolsheviks to moderate their pressure on Georgian society. In March 1926, the Bolsheviks put forward an amnesty for the 1924 insurrection and suspension of religious persecutions. Later in 1926, Ambrose and a few Georgian clergy were released from prison. However, the strains of the years showed, and Patr. Ambrose soon reposed in Tbilisi on March 29, 1927.
• Repose of Venerable Elder AUGUSTINE (Anthony Korra) of Philotheou, Mt Athos (1882-1965)
• Repose of Venerable ALEXANDER abbot of Voche, near Galich on the Volga (16th c.)
• Martyress ALKELD (also Athilda or Alkelda) of Yorkshire (10th c.) martyred by the Danes
Local tradition claims that she was a Saxon princess (and probably a nun). Apparently she was strangled by Danish pirates (or their women), because that is how she is depicted in an ancient painting. She was buried in a church at Middleham.
• AMATOR (Amador) a hermit to whom several churches are dedicated in Portugal
• Prophet ANANIAS (Hanani) 阿纳尼亚 in the time of King Asa, who was imprisoned (II Chronicles 16:7-10)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνανὶ ὁ Προφήτης
The Prophet Hanani was sent by the Lord to rebuke King Asa of Judah for entering into a league with Benhadad I, King of Syria (Aram), against the northern kingdom of Israel (2 Chr. 16:1-10). This Hanani was also probably the father of the Prophet Jehu (1 Kings 16:7). In 2 Chronicles 16 we read of him:
At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him: Because you relied on the king of Aram and not on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand. Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen? Yet when you relied on the Lord, he delivered them into your hand. For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.
Asa was angry with the seer because of this; he was so enraged that he put him in prison. At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people.
The events of Asa's reign, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the Lord, but only from the physicians. Then in the forty-first year of his reign Asa died and rested with his ancestors.
The Holy Prophet Hanani reposed in peace.
• Repose of Sainted ANTHONY 安托尼 Stakhovsky, metropolitan of Tobolsk in Siberia (1740)
• AMPHILOCHIUS
• VM AUGUSTA at Serravalle in Venetia (or Venezia) near Treviso in Northern Italy (5th c.) daughter of the Teuton Duke of Friuli, martyred by her father, venerated in Serravalle near Treviso
Saint Augusta's conversion to Christianity so enraged her father, the Teuton duke of Friuli, that he killed her with his own hand. She had an early cultus at Serravalle, near Treviso, in northern Italy. Augusta's emblem in art is a sword. She is generally pictured on her funeral pyre holding a sword. Sometimes the image includes her father who is killing her (like Saint Barbara, who is more likely to be the saint portrayed in this way) or with a wheel like Saint Catherine of Alexandria. She is venerated in Serravalle (Treviso).
• Venerable Monk CYRICUS (Quiricus) 基里科 of Apros in Thrace
Ὁ Ὅσιος Κήρυκος ὁ ἐν Ἄπρῳ
• Repose of Sainted Archbishop EPHRAIM of Rostov (1454) 艾弗冷
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐφραὶμ Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ροστὼβ τῆς Ρωσίας
• Bishop EUTYCHES
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐτύχιος
• Sainted HAIMO Bishop of Halberstadt (853)
• Abbot ISAAK of Constantinople (853)
• JOHN 约安 the Discerner, Clairvoyant of Lycopolis, anchorite of Egypt (394)
约安原本是一个樵夫，在他25岁的时候，因为非常渴望能够进行恒久祷告的生活，从而隐退到了荒野之中，直至90岁高龄去世为止。他虽然是血肉之躯，但是他的生活却如同非血肉之躯。他能够猜测每个前来他那里的人的心，并能够知道他们的姓名、他们的愿望以及他们的所思所想。他可以向德奥多西预言战争的胜败；只要需要，他可以向将军、修士以及所有人预言将来所要发生的不幸。有一次，一个王子要求约安接见他的王妃，因为她非常想见约安。这位圣人不会满足空洞洞的好奇心，于是在王妃的梦境中向她显现，让她看一看他的容貌。当王妃向王子描述她的梦境时，王子确定梦境中的人正是约安。约安教导到访的每一位将谦卑作为所有美德之本，并经常援引生活中的例证，以证明高傲自大者最终会从高处摔倒，并使自己陷入罪恶。约安忍受了多次邪恶之灵的攻击。有一次，撒旦带领着伪装为光明天使的群鬼出现在约安的面前。这些群鬼强迫约安敬拜撒旦，并促使约安向撒旦跪拜，口称撒旦是基督。但是约安明智地回答说：“我每天都敬拜我的王－耶稣基督。如果他是基督，他就绝不会现在向我提出这样的要求。”在约安说完这些话之后，群鬼化成一股烟雾消失了。约安90岁那年在下跪祷告期间安然离世。
• Transation of Relics of Martyr JUSTINUS of Lupara (today Louvre of Paris) (304) France
According to tradition, Justinus died at an adolescent age in the persecutions under Emperor Diocletian in Louvre - the settlement on the site of today's Louvre Museum in Paris. Justinus' bones rest in the church of Notre Dame in Paris. In 891 relics were brought to Corvey, 949 by King Otto I also Justinus' head. The story of the torment of Justinus is broadly similar to that of Justus de Beauvais, who also has relics in Corvey.
• LUPAIT, Matr. (5th c.)
• LYDIA of Thyatira at Phillippi, Dcn. (49) the Apostle Paul's first convert to Christianity in Europe // MAR 27 // JUN 25 //
As described in the Acts, Lydia was a "seller of purple", a person who traded in purple dyes and fabrics for which the city of Thyatira was noted. Purple goods were part of a high value industry and were used by emperors, high government officials, and priests of the pagan religions. Tradition relates that she and her husband may have been involved in this business. At some point Lydia and her household moved from Asia Minor to the city of Philippi in Macedonia. The reasons she moved may have been business related as Philippi was a Roman colony on the major east-west trade route, the Egnation Highway, between Rome and Asia. Also, she may have been a Jewish convert who no longer could worship in the custom of the Thyatirans. The words of The Acts quoted below describe Lydia's meeting with the Apostle Paul on his second missionary journey about the year 50. Paul and his companions started their journey visiting the established churches in western Asia Minor when he answered a vision in which he saw a man dressed in a Macedonian manner calling upon him to "Come over to Macedonia and help us." Paul's custom was to find local synagogues in which he would preach. But, apparently the Jewish population in Philippi was not sufficient to allow holding Sabbath Services for the Jewish men. Thus, Paul's party walked out of the city following the Gangites River (now called the Angista River) when they came upon a group of women praying in the manner of Jews, along flowing water. After greeting the women, Paul and his companions sat down and shared the good news of Christ's salvation with them. Lydia, among the women, had listened attentively and took the message to heart. She and her family were then baptized in the Gangites River along which they had been praying. Thus, Lydia became the first person in Europe to become a follower of Christ. As Acts notes, Paul and his companions were well received by Lydia as they stay at her house after their release from the Philippi prison. Surely, during their imprisonment, Lydia and those who assembled in her home spent the night in prayer for the release of Paul and Silas, making her home the first Christian Church in Europe. When Paul departed from Philippi he left Luke behind to preach the Gospel and to establish firmly the church in Philippi, using as its core Lydia, the jailer, and their households. Paul speaks fondly, in his letter to the Philippians, of the brethren who were members of the church of Philippi, calling them "…my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown…". (Philippians 4:1)
• VM MATRONA (also Matrounah or Matruna) 玛特若纳 at Thessalonica (Thessalonike) (4th c.)
Ἡ Ὁσία Ματρώνα ἡ Ὁμολογήτρια ἡ ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ
Saint Matrona an orphan girl was the maid-servant of a Jewish mistress named Pantila, the wife of a Thessalonian general. One day she accompanied her mistress to the synagogue, but instead of entering it, she proceeded toward the church. She was discovered, cruelly beaten, and thrown into prison, where she remained four days without anything to eat. Taken out of prison, she was beaten again and finally died in prison.
玛特若纳是一个孤儿，是德撒洛尼基一户犹太人家的女仆。女主人总是嘲笑玛特若纳的基督信仰，并试图说服她否认基督参加犹太人集会。但是玛特若纳只是默默地作着他自己的工作，没有对她的主人说任何事情，而是秘密地向主基督进行祷告。有一次，女主人发现玛特若纳瞒着自己去教堂参加聚会，她非常生气，质问玛特若纳为什么不去参加犹太人的聚会反而去教堂。玛特若纳回答说：“因为上帝在基督徒的教堂中而不是在犹太人的会堂中。”因为这个回答使得女主人大发雷霆，对玛特若纳痛打了一顿，将她锁在一个黑暗的屋子中，并将她的双手绑住。第二日，在她下跪祷告并赞美上帝时，依着上帝的大能，绑着她的绳索突然自行脱落了。之后玛特若纳又有两次遭到禁锢，最后被饿死。那个邪恶的犹太女人将这位圣洁的童女的尸体从高楼处仍到了地面。一些基督徒收敛了这位殉道者的尸体，将其厚葬。当时的主教亚历山大里亚得知这位圣女所行的种种奇迹，在她的坟墓上修建了一座教堂；而那个邪恶的犹太女人也受到了审判，得到了她应有的下场：就在她从高处抛下玛特若纳的地方，她失足摔到了下面的人行道上一命呜呼。
• Venerable PAPHNUTIUS (4th c.) 帕弗努提 disciple of St Anthony the Great
帕弗努提是圣大安托尼的门徒。因为他圣洁的生活使得很多罪人都走上了悔罪的道路，其中也包括圣泰斯，每年的10月8日纪念这位圣人。帕弗努提看上去更象是一位天使，而不是一个血肉之躯的人。帕弗努提于公元4世纪末离世。
• Sainted PAUL 帕弗罗 the Standard-bearer, bishop of Corinth (925)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Παῦλος ὁ Σημειοφόρος Ἐπίσκοπος Κορίνθου
• Venerable ROMULUS (730) Abbot of St Baudilius near Nimes in France. About 720 he and his monks fled before the invading Saracens and settled in a ruined monastery in Saissy-les-Bois
• Repose of RUPERT (Robert) 1st Archbishop of Salzburg and Apostle of Bavaria and Austria (7th c.)
• Sainted SUAIRLECH (750) 1st Bishop of Fore in Westmeath in Ireland from 735 to 750
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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