συνοδικός
May 16 / May 3
2018 (7526)
Apodosis of Pascha (2018)
• Translation of the DORMITION Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073)
The Kievo-Pechersk Icon of the Uspenie (Dormition) of the Most Holy Mother of God – is one of the most anciently appeared icons in the Russian Orthodox Church. The MostHoly Mother of God entrusted it to 4 Byzantine architects, who in 1073 brought the icon to the Monks Antonii and Theodosii of Pechersk. The architects arrived at the cave of the monks and asked: "Where do ye want to begin the church?" The saints answered: "Go, the Lord will point out the place". "How is it that ye, anticipating impending death, have still not designated the place? – wondered the architects – And still they have given us so much gold". Then the monks called together all the brethren and they began to question the Greeks, saying: "Tell us the truth, who sent you and how did ye wind up hereabouts?". The architects started by saying: "One time, when each of us was asleep in our own homes, early – at sunrise, handsome youths came to us and said: "The Queen doth summon you to Blakhernae". We all arrived at the same time and, in questioning one another we learned, that each of us had heard this command of the Queen and that those sent out had come to all of us. Finally, we beheld the Queen of Heaven with a multitude of warriors. We bowed down to Her, and She said: "I want to build Myself a Church in Rus', at Kiev, and herewith I do bid ye to do this. Take sufficient gold for 3 years". We however, having bowed ourselves down, asked: "Lady Queen! Thou dost send us to a foreign land, – to whom there art we to go?" – She answered: "I send you to these here, to Antonii and Theodosii". – We wondered: "Why then, Lady, dost Thou give us gold for 3 years? With it bid also what concerns us, what we shalt eat and what we shalt drink, and provide us also with what Thou knowest about it". The Queen replied: "This one, Antonii, wilt give only but the blessing and expire from this world into eternal repose. And the other one, Theodosii, wilt follow him after 2 years. Wherefore, take gold abundantly sufficing. And moreover, to esteem you, know that no one is able to do this such as I shall. I shalt give ye, what neither ear hath heard, nor what eye hath seen nor what in heart hath been in ascent for man. I Myself shalt come to look upon the Church and I shalt dwell within it". – She likewise gave us relics of the Holy Martyrs: Artemios, Polyeuktos, Leontios, Akakios, Aretha, James, Theodore, and said: "This place ye within the foundation". – We took gold more than enough, and She said: "Come out the doorway, and behold the resplendid Church". – We went out and beheld a Church in the air. Having come in again to the Queen, we bowed down and said: "Lady Queen, what wilt be the name of the Church?" – She answered: "I wish to call it by Mine Own Name". – We did not dare to ask, what Her Name was, but She Herself again said: "It wilt be the Church of the Mother of God". – And, having given us this icon, She said: "This wilt be put within it". We bowed down to Her and went to our own homes, taking with us the icon, received from the hands of the Queen".
Having heard this account, all glorified God, and the Monk Antonii said: "My children, we never ventured out of this place. Those handsome youths summoning you were holy angels, and the Queen in Blakhernae – was the MostHoly Mother of God Herself. And what regards our image and the gold given as through us, that the Lord only knoweth, how He deigned to do this with His servants. Blest be your arrival, ye have good accompaniment, the venerable icon of the Lady". For three days the Monk Antonii prayed, that the Lord Himself would show him the place for the church. After the first night there was a dew throughout all the land, but dry on the holy spot. On the second morning throughout all the land it was dry, but on the holy spot it was with dew. And on the third morning, having prayed, they blessed the place and measured out with a golden sash the width and length of the church. (This sash had long before been brought by the Varangian Shimon, who had a vision about the building of a church). A firebolt, falling from heaven through the prayer of the Monk Antonii, indicated that what was designated was pleasing to God. Thus was placed the foundation of the Divine Church.
The icon of the Mother of God was glorified by numerous miracles. Two friends, John and Sergei, sealed their friendship before it. After many years John fell mortally ill. He gave part of his wealth to the Pechersk monastery, and the portion for his 5 year old son he gave over for safekeeping to Sergei; he gave over to him also his son Zakharii under his guardianship. When Zakharii turned age 15, he wanted to receive the inheritance belonging to him, but Sergei persisted in saying, that John had distributed off everything to the poor. He persisted to such an extent, that he went into the Uspensk church and vowed before the wonderworking icon, that he had taken nothing. When he made attempt to kiss the icon, he was not able to come near it; he went to the doors and suddenly shouted out: "Holy Antonii and Theodosii! Let me not be struck down for this dishonesty, pray ye the MostHoly Mother of God, that She drive away from me this multitude of demons, to which I am given over. Let the gold and silver be taken away: it is sealed away in my granary". Zakharii gave off all his inheritance to the Pechersk monastery, where he also himself took monastic vows. And from that time no one would take oaths at the wonderworking icon.
The icon more than once defended the land from invasion of enemies. In 1677, when the Turks laid siege to Chigirin and danger threatened Kiev, they carried the icon around the city for almost the entire course of the day of 27 August. The Mother of God blessed Russian armies going to the Battle of Poltava (1709). In 1812 they again carried the icon around Kiev. The celebration of the icon is set twice within the year: 3 May and 15 August.
• "PECHERSK" Not Wrought by Hand Icon (1085) of the Mother of God appeared in the Great church of the Kievo-Pechersk monastery in the year 1085
• "SVEN-CAVES" (1288) Icon of the Mother of God with Sts Antony and Theodosius
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῶν Σπηλαίων ἐν Κιέβῳ
The Svensk-Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God was written by the Monk Alypii of Pechersk (+ c. 1114, Comm. 17 August, under which see the account about him). On the icon is depicted the Mother of God, sitting upon a throne, and upon Her knees is the God-Infant. At the right side of the throne stands the Monk Theodosii, and on the left – the Monk Antonii of Pechersk. Until the year 1288 it was situated at the Kievo-Pechersk monastery, where it was glorified by miracles, and in 1288 it was transferred to the Bryansk Svensk monastery, named in honour of the Uspenie (Dormition) of the MostHoly Mother of God, in accord with the image. The Chernigov prince Roman Mikhailovich, then at Bryansk, fell blind. Hearing about the miracles worked by the icon of the Monk Alypii, the prince sent to the monastery a courier with a request to send him at Bryansk the icon for his healing. They dispatched the icon together with a priest along the River Desna. During the time of sailing the boat came in to land at the right bank of the River Svena. After lodging for the night they went to the boat to make prayers before the icon, but they did not find it there, and they saw it upon an hill opposite the River Svena. The icon stood on an oak amidst the branches. News of this reached prince Roman, and they led him to the icon on foot. The prince prayed fervently before the icon and vowed to build on that spot a monastery, bestowing on it all the land which could be seen from the hill. After the prayer the prince regained his sight. At first he saw the footpath, then nearby objects, and finally all the surroundings. Having made an enclosure for the icon, the prince had a molieben served, and then all that were gathered made the foundations for a wooden church in honour of the Uspenie of the MostHoly Mother of God. The tree, on which the icon set, they cut up and used as wood for other icons. And then was established a feastday of the Svensk Icon of the Mother of God on 3 May. The icon was glorified by healings of the blind, demoniacs, and was a protector from enemies.
• "YASKINSKY" Icon of the Mother of God (682)
The Yasninsk-Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God appeared on 3 May 682 at Constantinople, and afterwards was transferred to the Kievo-Pechersk Lavra, where likewise it was glorified by numerous miracles.
• "VLAKHERNSKY" Icon of the Mother of God
• ALEXANDER I (115) the 5th Pope of Rome from c 107 to c 115; HM priests EVENTIUS & THEODULUS (113-119) buried on the Via Nomentana in Rome
Tradition relates that, after a lengthy imprisonment, Pope Saint Alexander I and two priests, Eventius and Theodulus, were burned and then beheaded during Hadrian's persecution. During his imprisonment, Alexander is said to have brought Saint Quirinus and his daughter Saint Balbina to the faith. Today's saints were buried on the Via Nomentana near Rome. Their relics were later translated to the church of Saint Sabina, which now belongs to the Dominicans. Although called Pope Alexander in the Roman Martyrology, all sources agree that this is probably an erroneous listing.
• VM ANTONINA of Krodamos and M ALEXANDER at Constantinople
At Constantinople the birthday of the martyrs SS Alexander, the soldier, and Antonina, a virgin. In the persecution of Maximian she was condemned to the stews by Festus the Governor. But she was secretly delivered by Alexander, who changed garments with her and remained there in her place. She was afterwards commanded to be tortured with him, and both were together cast into the flames, with their hands cut off, and were crowned after ending a mighty contest.
• MM SARAH and her 2 sons at Antioch (2nd c.) • HM deacons DIODOROS and RODOPIANOS at Aphrodisia in Anatolia (285-305) martyred in Caria, Asia Minor, during the reign of Diocletian
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Διόδωρος καὶ Ροδοπιανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs TIMOTHY (Timotheus) 提摩太 the Reader, and his wife MAURA (Mavra) 玛弗拉 of Antinoe (the Thebaid) in Egypt (286)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τιμόθεος καὶ Μαύρα οἱ Μάρτυρες
这两位夫妇的命运使人震惊！因为他们相信基督，由此在他们结婚之后仅仅20天就被带到法庭，受到当时的行政长官阿里亚努斯的审讯，当时正是戴克里先在位期间。提摩泰在本地教区负责读经。行政长官问他：“你是谁？”提摩泰回答说：“我是一名基督徒，我是上帝教会的诵经士。”行政长官又问他：“你看到了你身边这些刑具了吗？”提摩泰回答说：“你看到我身边的有上帝的天使使我坚强吗？”然后行政长官下令用铁辊刺穿他的耳朵，疼得他瞳孔凸起。之后他们将提摩泰倒置悬挂起来，并将木头塞在他的嘴里。起初，因为看到丈夫忍受痛苦，毛拉感到害怕，但是他的丈夫一直在鼓励她，由此她在行政长官面前一直坚守自己的信仰。之后，行政长官下令将她的头发全部拔掉，并将她的手指切掉。如果没有上帝的恩典，他们夫妇二人可能不能忍受这样的酷刑，在经过接二连三的痛苦折磨之后，他们二人面对面地被钉死在十字架上。在十字架上他们二人又活了九天，期间相互鼓励、劝告坚守信仰。第十天，他们将灵魂交在了上帝的手里。他们二人殉道的时间为公元286年。
These holy martyrs were husband and wife. During the persecutions of Diocletian, the governor Arian demanded that Timothy hand over his sacred books (these were rare at that time, and as a Reader he was entrusted with their care). Timothy refused, saying that he would no more do so than a father would hand over his own children to death. He was brutally tortured and, when he refused to yield, the governor summoned Timothy's wife Maura, thinking that she would urge her husband to bow to the idols, but instead she confessed herself to be a Christian too. She in turn was subjected to many tortures, and finally the couple were crucified facing one another, where they hung for nine days, encouraging one another in the Faith, before they met their blessed end. They had been married for less than a month when they received their crowns.
• VMM ARAGONA (also Radegundis) and OLIVARIA at Piscine-sous-Chaumont, Basigny in France (5th c.)
• Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire
Οἱ Ἅγιοι εἴκοσι ἑπτὰ Μάρτυρες
• MICHAEL and ARSENIUS of Ulompo, Georgia (9th c.)
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Μιχαὴλ καὶ Ἀρσένιος ἐκ Γεωργίας
• Venerables Schemaabbess JULIANA 犹利亚纳 (1393) and Schemanun EUPRAXIA 艾弗普拉克西亚 (1394) of the Monastery of the Conception in Moskow; sisters of St Alexis Metropolitain of Moskow
• New Martyrs ANASTASIA and CHRISTODOULOS at Achaea (1821)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀναστασία καὶ Χριστόδουλος οἱ Νεομάρτυρες
• IRODION of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900) located 32 km from Târgu Jiu at Southern Sub-Carpathians, on the banks of the river Jiu
• New Hieromartyr NICOLOS 尼科拉 Benevolsky, priest of Alma-Ata (1877-1941) day of death in Karlag KZ, department in poselok Spasskij, Kazakhstan
• NIKOLA Velimirović, Bishop of Žiča and Ohrid
Sister of St Waldalenus, founder of the monastery of Bèze in France. She became abbess of a convent near Bèze. St Adalsindis was born to Sts Adalbald and Rictrudis. She entered the convent at Hamayles-Marchiennes, near Arras, France, in the early seventh century. Her sister, St Eusebia, was the abbess there. Their other sibling was St Waldalenus, who founded the monastery. She peacefully fell asleep in the Lord in 680.
• New Martyr AHMET the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀχμὲτ ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Κάλφας
Raised as a Muslim in 17th century Constantinople. Calligrapher and copyist in the royal chancery. He lived as an unmarried layman, but had a concubine, a Christian slave woman from Russia. Little by little, she brought him to a desire for the faith, and he began his catechumenate. However, before he could be baptized he was betrayed by another calligrapher who spotted him with Christian. Ahmed was arrested, imprisoned without food for a week, and then murdered for his desire to convert. Beheaded Martyr.
• ALDWYN (8th c.) Abbot of Partney in Lincolnshire in England
Raised in a pious family; his brother Ethelwine was the second bishop of Lindsey, England, and his sister Ethelhild was abbess in Lincolnshire, England. Founded the monastery Athelney in Somerset, England. Monk. Abbot of Peartney in Lincolnshire, England. Died early 8th-century at Peartney Abbey, Lincolnshire, England of natural causes.
• ANSFRIED (Ansfridus) 安斯弗里德 bishop of Utrecht (1010)
Count of Brabant in Belgium, in 992 he built the convent of Thorn for his daughter and wife, himself wishing to become a monk. Instead he was made Archbishop of Utrecht in Holland. As such, he founded the monastery of Hohorst (Heiligenberg) and, when stricken with blindness, went there, fulfilling his ambition of living as a monk and reposing there.
• CONLETH of Kildare (5-6th c.) attacked by wolves on 3 May 519 in the forests of Leinster, Ireland
Skilled worker in gold and silver, and manuscript illuminator. Hermit in a cell in Old Connell, Ireland near the Liffey river. His reputation for holiness attracted would-be disciples. Friend of and co-worker with Saint Brigid; they ran first double monastery together. First bishop of Kildare, Ireland c.490. Baptised Saint Tigernach of Clogher. Died while on pilgrimage to Rome, Italy.
• Sainted ECUMENIUS 伊库麦尼 the Wonderworker, bishop of Tricca (990)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Οἰκουμένιος Ἐπίσκοπος Τρίκκης
• ELWIN (Ethelwin) of Lindsey, Bishop (8th c.) the 2nd Bishop of Lindsey. He was a close friend of St Egbert whom he accompanied to Ireland and where he reposed
Saint Ethelwin was a monk at Ripon Abbey. He succeeded Saint Cuthbert as a hermit on Farne Island, where he lived for twelve years. After his death, he was buried at Lindisfarne. This may be the same person as Saint Elwin of Lindsey, to whom Farmer gives the feast of June 29. He reports that "Challoner seems to have invented May 3 as his feast, with his brother Saint Aldwyn, abbot of Peartney and two other brothers, Edilhun and Egbert".
• FUMACH Hermit in Scotland; First Christian missionary in Banffshire, Scotland. A healing well there is named for him
• Child Martyr GABRIEL of Białystok
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαβριὴλ ὁ Μάρτυρας ἐκ Πολωνίας
• GLUVIAS (Glywys) (6th c.) brother of St Cadoc of Llancarfan in Wales, he went to Cornwall, where he founded a monastery. A church in Cornwall is dedicated to him
• GREGORY Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake; Abbot of Kamennoi Monastery (1416)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ροστώβ, Γιαροσλάβλ καὶ Λευκῆς Λίμνης
• Sainted HILDEBERT Archbishop of Mainz (937)
• JUVENAL of Narni (369/377) 1st Bishop of Narni in central Italy
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰουβενάλιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ναρνί
Saint Juvenal was ordained to the priesthood by Pope Saint Damasus and became the first bishop of Narni in central Italy. According to legend, he saved Narni from the Ligurian and Sarmatian invaders by calling down a great thunderstorm. He is styled a martyr by Saint Gregory the Great, but this is uncertain. Because over the centuries hagiographers have confused him with other saints of the same name, little can be said definitively about his life. Saint Juvenal is depicted in art as holding a sword in his mouth. He may also be portrayed holding a chalice.
• Translation (1011) of the relics of St LUKE 路加 of Mt Stirion (953)
Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Λουκᾶ τοῦ ἐν Στειρίῳ
• MAMAI 玛麦 catholicos of Georgia (744)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μάμας Πατριάρχης Γεωργίας
Saint Mamai served as chief shepherd of the Georgian faithful from 731 to 744. The information we have about his life is scarce, but it is known that Saint Mamai was abbot of Zedazeni Monastery and died a martyr for Christ. Outstanding in his achievements and endowed with profound spiritual wisdom, Saint Mamai was enthroned as Catholicos of Georgia at a time when the catholicos and the Georgian king were frequently the first victims of invading armies.
• NM MARIA (Mary Mirabella) 玛利亚 Methymopoula of Crete (1826)
• Translation of the relics of Martyr OLAF King of Norway (1030)
• PAMBUS of Georgia
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πάμβος Πατριάρχης Γεωργίας
• Martyr PAUL 帕弗罗 of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Παῦλος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Venerable PETER 彼得 the Wonderworker, bishop of Argos (10th c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἄργους
Through the prayers of the saint the food, set aside for the hungry, never ran out.
• Righteous presbiter PHILIP of Zell, Hermit; Anglo-Saxon pilgrim. Hermit near Worms, Germany (770)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Φίλιππος ὁ ἐν Βόρμς
A pilgrim from England, he settled as a hermit near Worms in Germany. With several disciples, he founded the monastery of Zell - so called from his own original cell - which later grew into the town of Zell. He was also a good friend of King Pepin.
• Irish holy woman SAIRNAIT (Sourney) of Aidhne, who flourished in the County Galway area
• Zealous missionary SCANNAL of Cell-Coleraine (563) in Ireland was a disciple of St Columba of Iona
• Venerable THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia (1074)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος καθηγούμενος τῆς Λαύρας τῶν Σπηλαίων τοῦ Κιέβου
从年轻时起，德奥多西就避开言笑，一心专注上帝的旨意，并恒切进行祷告，由此，他经常遭到母亲的责备，特别是有一天，他的母亲看到了在他赤裸的身体上束上了一条铁带，使得鲜血染红了衣服。德奥多西曾经在圣经上看到有关主所说的一句话：“爱父母过于爱我的，不配作我的门徒”（玛特泰福音／太／玛10：37），之后他就离开了父母，来到了基督洞穴修道院拜见可敬的安托尼。安托尼收留了他，不久之后德奥多西接受了剪发礼成为一名修士。德奥多西的母亲找到了他，并要求他回家，他拒绝了母亲的请求，同时还说服了母亲，使她进入了一座女修道院。德奥多西因其苦行、谦卑以及善良而超越其他所有修士，深受安托尼的喜爱，并立他为修道院院长。在他担任修道院院长期间，修道院里的兄弟们之间的关系大大增进，同时建立了庵室，并全面引进了斯督迪修道院的诫规。上帝赋予了德奥多西丰盛的恩典，因为他的忠贞、恒切祷告、爱人如己，由此，这位上帝的仆人拥有很大的能力战胜不洁净之灵、医治病人，并能洞察人的命运。德奥多西同圣安托尼一起被认为是俄罗斯修道生活的奠基人。德奥多西于公元1047年安息主怀。他的圣髑能够治愈疾病，他的圣髑同圣安托尼的圣髑同被安放在一起。
Our righteous Father Theodosius was born in 1009, not far from Kiev, and brought up in Kursk. From early childhood he showed the wisdom of an elder, avoiding childish games and refusing to wear anything but the poorest of clothing. When he was about thirteen years old, and his father died, he began to humble himself even more, going out to work with the serfs in the field. His mother went so far as to beat him in her attempts to make him behave more respectably. Hearing of the labours of Saint Anthony of Kiev, he fled to him secretly and was accepted by him as his disciple. He was tonsured at the age of twenty-four by Saint Anthony's disciple Nicon, and was elected Abbot of the Caves Monastery in 1057, since Saint Anthony refused this out of humility, and lived his whole life as a hermit. It was Saint Theodosius who introduced in Russia the cenobitic rule of the Monastery of Studium in Constantinople, and under his guidance many monks attained to great holiness, and the monastic life spread. When Prince Svyatoslav drove out his elder brother the pious Prince Isyaslav, and ascended to the throne of Chernigov in his place, Saint Theodosius courageously rebuked him, and continued reproving him even when threatened with exile. At the request of Prince Shimon, the son of a Varangian (Viking) prince, the Saint wrote a prayer for the nobleman's forgiveness of sins, and, at his behest, had it placed in his coffin, whence arose this custom in Rusia. He reposed on May 3, 1074, being sixty-five years of age.
• Sainted THEOPHANES 德奥梵 of Vatopedi, metropolitan of Peritheorion near Xanthi (1353)
• Great Martyress XENIA 克塞尼 the Wonderworker of Kalamata in the Peloponnesus (4th c.) the Newly Revealed
Ἡ Ἁγία Ξενία ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς
Today commemorates Saint Helena's discovery of the True Cross in Jerusalem in the course of excavating the foundation for Constantine's basilica of the Holy Sepulchre on Mount Calvary. It is significant that the finding of the Cross is associated with Emperor Constantine, who signed the Peace of Milan permitting the toleration of Christianity as a result of a vision of the Cross in the sky.
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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