συνοδικός
June 8 / May 26
2018 (7526)
Friday 2nd Week after Pentecost // 9TH FRIDAY OF PASCHA // 2018 //
1ST FRIDAY OF APOSTLES' FAST // 2018 //
• Icon of the Mother of God of SELIGERSK-Vladimir (16th c.)
The Icon of the Mother of God of Seligersk-Vladimir was brought in the 16th century by the Monk Nil of Stolobensk (Comm. 7 December and 27 May) to the island of Seliger, where the saint pursued asceticism and founded a monastic hermitage. The celebration for the Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God is done also on 7 December.
• Icon of the Mother of God “THE HELPER OF THE SINNERS” from Koretsk
The prayer for the “The Helper of Sinners” Icon comes from the Theotokos addressing us with the words, “I am the Helper of sinners before My Son, Who hast agreed to always heed Me when I pray for them.”
• "TABYNSK" (1572) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos // 9TH FRIDAY OF PASCHA // • "KURSK-ROOT" (1295) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos // 9TH FRIDAY OF PASCHA // SEP 8 // NOV 27 // MAR 8 //
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀλφαῖος καὶ Κάρπος οἱ Ἀπόστολοι ἐκ τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα
家布施是70使徒之一。他一直跟随圣徒帕弗罗传道，帕弗罗委任家布施为色雷斯的瓦尔纳的主教。家布施也曾到过克里特传讲福音，并在自己的住所接待过曾经担任过希腊最高法院法官的圣迪奥尼西。根据圣迪奥尼西的印证，家布施心地纯正、温和、单纯，主同他的天使曾亲自向他显现，由此，在他没有得到来自天国的异像之前他绝不开始事奉圣礼。为了基督的名，家布施遭受了许多磨难，最后惨死在犹太人的手下，他的灵魂由此得以进入上帝的国度，以喜悦的目光在荣耀之中注视上帝的面容。
阿尔法乌斯是其中的12位使徒，即雅各和玛特泰的父亲。阿尔法乌斯最后得以安然离世。
• Martyrs ABERCIUS (Albercius or Albericus) 阿维尔基 and HELEN 艾莱尼 (1st c.) children of Apostle Alphaeus
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀβέρκιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
Ἡ Ἁγία Ἑλένη ἡ Μάρτυς
The Holy Martyrs Avercius and Helen, by tradition, were children of the holy Disciple Alphaeus. For confessing faith in Christ Jesus, Saint Avercius was bound naked amidst a bee-hive and died a martyr from the sting of the bees. His sister, Saint Helen, was pelted with stones.
• MM SYMMETRIUS (Simitrius) Presbyter and a group of 23 Martyrs in Rome arrested while praying in the church of St Praxedes and beheaded without trial (159)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σιμίτριος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ
• FUGATIUS (Phaganu, Fagan, Ffager) and DAMIAN (Diruvianus, Deruvian, Dyfan) (2nd c.) sent by Pope Eleutherius to England to preach the Gospel
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Φουγάτιος καὶ Δαμιανός
• Martyr PRISCUS a Roman legionary officer and a great multitude of other Christians of Besançon near Auxerre (272)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πρίσκος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ ἡ συνοδεία αὐτοῦ
Priscus, a Roman military officer, several soldiers under his command, and a number of citizens of Besançon were martyred under Aurelian near Auxerre, France, where they had hidden themselves from the persecution. The Martryology of Jerome mentions Priscus as a martyr. Their relics were discovered by Saint Germanus of Auxerre, who built churches in memory of them.
• Martyrs FELICISSIMUS, HERACLIUS and PAULINUS (303) under Diocletian in all probability in Todi in Umbria in Italy where their relics are still venerated
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Φηλικίσσιμος, Ἡρακλῆς καὶ Παυλίνος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• New Hieromartyrs MILAN 弥琅 Banjac 班雅克 and MILAN 弥琅 Golubovic格路博维克 of Drvar, Serbia (1941-1945)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Δερβίσης
亚历山大出生于土耳其暴君对德撒洛尼基进行统治的时代。年少时受到土耳其人的蒙骗，由此信奉了伊斯兰教。起初，亚历山大对此并没有良心上的苦责，还同其他穆斯林人一同去朝圣，成为伊斯兰教的苦修教士。当亚历山大以伊斯兰教苦修教士的身份来到德撒洛尼基时，他开始痛苦地自责起来。在进行忏悔中，在他的脑海中产生了一个念头，这就是只有通过他自己的鲜血才能洗清叛离基督的可怕罪恶。因此，他进行了忏悔，并决定为基督殉道。他来到土耳其人面前表白了自己的基督信仰，由此被土耳其人投入到监狱中，并对他进行了残酷的折磨。虽如此，但亚历山大只是这样喊道：“我出生时是一名基督徒，我也要作为基督徒而死亡！”最后，土耳其人判处亚历山大死刑，但亚历山大却非常喜悦，他认为，通过这个审判他的罪过才能被宽恕，上帝才能接受他的牺牲。亚历山大于公元1794年在斯密尔纳被斩首，由此得到了天国和地上教会对他的赞美。
• Sainted AUGUSTINE 奥古斯丁 of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (605)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐγουστίνος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Καντουαρίας
He is the founder of the Church in southern England, which at that time was almost entirely pagan, though Christianity thrived in the Celtic lands of Ireland, Wales and parts of Scotland. Augustine, a monk at the monastery of St Andrew in Rome, was chosen by Pope Gregory I to lead a mission to England. He and a party of about forty monks landed in England in 597; they were received warmly by King Aethelbert, who was baptised by Augustine and thus became the first Christian king of the Anglo-Saxon people. In 601 Pope Gregory made Augustine Archbishop of Britain, and he established his cathedral at Canterbury, where he also established a monastery. Saint Augustine worked unsuccessfully to unite his churches with those of the Irish monks and hierarchs, who followed different liturgical practices, kept a different date of Pascha, and disapproved of the less severe Roman monastic practices introduced by the Archbishop.
• Venerable BARLAAM of Khutyn (1192) // 1ST FRIDAY OF APOSTLES' FAST // NOV 6 //
• BÉCÁN a hermit near Cork in Ireland in the time of St Columba; founder of Kilbeggan, Westmeath, worked in a monastery there (6th c.)
• Venerable BEDE of Jarrow (673-735)
• Translation of the relics BERTILLA (692) Abbess of Chelles
• COLMAN
• ELEUTHERIUS Pope of Rome (189)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐλευθέριος Ἐπίσκοπος Ρώμης
Born in Nicopolis, Epirus, Greece; died in Rome, May 24, c. 189. Although Eleutherius, son of Habundius, was Greek, he became a deacon in Rome and was elected pope about 174 to succeed Saint Soter. He is known only for his decree that any food fit for humans was suitable for Christians ― probably issued against the rigorism of the Gnostics and the Montanists. The story of his sending missionaries to Britain is abandoned by most modern scholars.
• Translation (1534) of the relics of New Martyr GEORGE 格奥尔吉 of Kratovo and Sofia (1515)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Βουλγαρίας
• Venerable GODO (Gond) Abbot in Oyes (690)
• GUINIZO (1050) born in Spain became a monk at Montecassino in Italy
• INNOCENT Bishop of Cherson (1857)
• Venerable JOHN 约翰 of Psichaita the Confessor of Constantinople (825)
从年轻时起约安就从这个世界中隐退，来到了君士坦丁堡的皮斯凯塔修道院。因为对主基督的爱，约安在修道院中潜心修行多年时间。因为约安对圣像非常虔敬，由此，他遭到了流放。
• Martyr JULIUS a Roman soldier (302) by beheading at Dorostolum in Mysia of Asia Minor
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰούλιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Uncovering (1521) of the relics of Venerable MACARIUS 玛喀里 abbot of Kolyazin (1483)
Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Μακαρίου
• ODUVALD a noble who became a monk and later Abbot and Confessor of Melrose Abbey in Scotland (698)
Odulvald was a Scottish nobleman - the governor of the province of Laudon. He renounced the world in order to enter Melrose Abbey, where he found his joy in singing the verses of the Psalmist about our delivery from slavery. Eventually, he became abbot of Melrose, where he was noted for his continued advancement in spiritual fervor, his gift of tears, and constant prayer. His sighs after heaven were crowned with a joyful and happy death ten years after that of Saint Cuthbert.
• Martyr QUADRATUS in North Africa; the subject of a panegyric sermon by Saint Augustine of Hippo
• QUADRATUS the Apologist (130) Bishop of Athens, Confessor
Possibly a disciple of the apostles, Quadratus is believed to have been bishop of Athens. Eusebius calls him a man of God and testifies that he was endowed with an eminent gift of prophecy and that his words were confirmed by miracles. Quadratus is believed to have been the author of the first Christian apology - a defense of Christianity addressed to Emperor Hadrian, which re-ignited the flames of faith that had been doused by intense persecution.
• REGINTRUDIS 4th Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey near Salzburg in Austria
• Sainted SYNESIUS Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus, Wonderworker (5th c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Συνέσιος
• Hieromartyr Apostle Judas THADDÄUS (44) in Babylon, today Han-al-Mahawil in Irak
• Hieromartyr ZACHARIAS Bishop of Vienne suffered under Trajan (106)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζαχαρίας ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
Carpos was one of the Seventy Apostles. He was a follower and companion of the Apostle Paul by whom he was appointed as bishop of Varna in Thrace. He also preached the Gospel in Crete where he received St Dionysius the Areopagite in his home. St Dionysius testifies that Carpos was a man with an exceptionally pure mind, meekness and innocence and that the Lord Jesus, with His angels, appeared to him in a vision, and that he never began the Divine Liturgy unless he did not had a heavenly vision beforehand. Enduring many assaults for the Name of Christ, he finally suffered at the hands of the unbelieving Jews and was killed and, with his soul, took up habitation in the kingdom of God to delight eternally gazing upon the Lord in glory.
THE VISION OF CARPOS (LETTER VIII) BY ST DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE
When I was once in Crete, the holy Carpos [2 Tim. 4:13] entertained me, a man, of all others, most fitted, on account of great purity of mind, for Divine Vision. Now, he never undertook the holy celebration of the Mysteries, unless a propitious vision were first manifested to him during his preparatory devout prayers. He said then, when some one of the unbelievers had at one time grieved him (and his grief was, that he had led astray to ungodliness a certain member of the Church, whilst the days of rejoicing were still being celebrated for him); that he ought compassionately to have prayed on behalf of both, and taking God, the Savior, as his fellow-helper, to convert the one, and to overcome the other by goodness [Rom. 11:21], and not to have ceased warning them so long as he lived until this day; and thus to lead them to the knowledge of God, so that the things disputed by them might be clearly determined, and those, who were irrationally bold, might be compelled to be wiser by a judgment according to law.
Now, as he had never before experienced this, I do not know how he then went to bed with such a surfeit of ill-will and bitterness. In this evil condition he went to sleep, for it was evening, and at midnight (for he was accustomed at that appointed hour to rise, of his own accord, for the Divine melodies) he arose, not having enjoyed, undisturbed, his slumbers, which were many and continually broken; and, when he stood collected for the Divine Converse, he was guiltily vexed and displeased, saying that it was not just that godless men, who pervert the straight ways of the Lord, should live. And, whilst saying this, he besought Almighty God, by some stroke of lightning, suddenly, without mercy, to cut short the lives of them both.
But whilst saying this, he declared that he seemed to see suddenly the house in which he stood, first torn asunder, and from the roof divided into two in the midst, and a sort of gleaming fire before his eyes (for the place seemed now under the open sky) borne down from the heavenly region close to him; and the heaven itself giving way, and upon the back of the heaven, Jesus, with innumerable angels, in the form of men, standing around Him. This indeed he saw above, and himself marvelled; but below, when Carpos had bent down, he affirmed that he saw the very foundation ripped in two, to a sort of yawning and dark chasm, and those very men, upon whom he had invoked a curse, standing before his eyes, within the mouth of the chasm, trembling, pitiful, only just not yet carried down by the mere slipping of their feet; and from below the chasm, serpents, creeping up and gliding from underneath, around their feet, now contriving to drag them away, and weighing them down, and lifting them up, and again inflaming or irritating with their teeth or their tails, and all the time endeavoring to pull them down into the yawning gulf; and that certain men also were in the midst, co-operating with the serpents against these men, at once tearing and pushing and beating them down. And they seemed to be on the point of falling, partly against their will, partly by their will; almost overcome by the calamity, and at the same time resigned.
And Carpos said, that he himself was glad, whilst looking below, and that he was forgetful of the things above; further, that he was vexed and made light of it, because they had not already fallen, and that he often attempted to accomplish the fact, and that, when he did not succeed, he was both irritated and cursed.
And, when with difficulty he raised himself, he saw the heavens again, as he saw it before, and Jesus, moved with pity at what was taking place, standing up from His super-celestial throne, and descending to them, and stretching a helping hand, and the angels, co-operating with Him, taking hold of the two men, one from one place and the other from another, and the Lord Jesus said to Carpos, whilst His hand was yet extended, "Strike against Me in future, for I am ready, even again, to suffer for the salvation of men; and this is pleasing to Me, provided that other men do not commit sin. But see, whether it is well for thee to exchange the dwelling in the chasm, and with serpents, for that with God, and the good and philanthropic angels."
These are the things which I heard myself, and believe to be true.
REFLECTION OF ST NIKOLAI VELIMIROVICH
We should not desire the death of a sinner, but his repentance. Nothing grieves the Lord more, Who suffered on the Cross for sinners, then when we pray to Him for the death of a sinner and thereby to remove him from our path. It happened that the Apostle Carpos lost his patience and began to pray that God send down death upon two sinful men; one a pagan and the other an apostate from the Faith. Then the Lord Christ Himself appeared to Carpos and said: "Strike me; I am prepared to be crucified again for the salvation of mankind." St Carpos related this event to St Dionysius the Areopagite and he wrote it down and gave it to the Church as a lesson to all, that prayers are needed for sinners to be saved and not for them to be destroyed, "for the Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).
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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