συνοδικός
January 11 / December 29
2019 (7527)
Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ
THE 14 000 INFANTS (HOLY INNOCENTS) SLAIN BY HEROD AT BETHLEHEM (1ST C.). VEN. MARCELLUS, ABBOT OF THE MONASTERY OF THE UNSLEEPING ONES (485). VEN. THADDEUS, CONFESSOR, OF THE STUDION (818). VEN. MARK THE GRAVE-DIGGER, THEOPHIL AND JOHN OF THE KYIV CAVES (11THC.). VEN. LAURENCE OF CHERNIHIV (1950)
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• Commemoration of ALL ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS who died from hunger, thirst, the sword and freezing 纪念所有因饥荒、干旱、刀兵、寒冷、及一切天灾人祸而丧生的正教信徒
On the 29th of December, the Holy Church commemorates All Christians who died from starvation, thirst, or the cold, or were put to death by the sword. Their Synaxis was celebrated in the august Church of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos of Chalkoprateia, west of Hagia Sophia, wherein is kept the holy Soros.
Τὰ Ἅγια Νήπια (περίπου 14.000) ποὺ ἐσφάγισαν μὲ διαταγὴ τοῦ Ἡρώδη
In our own day, the icon of "Rachel weeping for her children" (Matthew 2:18) has come to commemorate also the tens of millions of children who have died through abortion.
Seeing a rival in the small child born in Bethlehem, Herod massacred all the male children in this important village under two years of age. Warned in a dream, Joseph fled to Egypt with the Virgin and the child Jesus. Thus was realized the prophecy of Jeremia: "A voice was heard in Rama, weeping and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted, because they are no more." (Matthew 2:18)
The wrath of God soon fell upon Herod himself: a horrid condition struck him down and he died, eaten by worms while still alive. Before his death, the impious king murdered the chief priests and scribes of the Jews, and also his brother, and his sister and her husband, and also his own wife Mariam, and three of his sons, and seventy men of wisdom who were members of the Sanhedrin. He initiated this bloodbath so that the day of his death would not be one of rejoicing, but one of mourning.
• Venerables MARK 玛尔克 the Grave Digger and brothers THEOPHILUS 德奥斐洛 the Weeper and JOHN 约安 of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1102) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Antony Near Caves of the Lavra // DEC 29 // SEP 28 // 2ND SUNDAY OF GREAT LENT //
• Martyrs CALLISTUS, FELIX and BONIFACE in Rome
• Martyrs DOMINIC, VICTOR, PRIMIAN, LYBOSUS, SATURNINUS, CRESCENTIUS, SECUNDUS and HONORATUS in North Africa
• Hieromartyr ARCADIUS Bishop of Tver (1937)
• Hieromartyr THEODOSIJ Belen’kij, presbiter, priest (1885-1937/1938) day of martyrdom, shoted at Tül’kuzbas at Chimkent of South Kazakhstan
• Hieromartyr archpriest NICHOLAS Tolgskij (1886-1937/1938) day of martyrdom, shoted at Lis’ja Balka in Chimkent, South Kazakhstan
• Martyresses NATALIA Sundukova (1887-1941/1942) together with JEVDOKIA Nazina (1902-1941/1942), NATALIA Silujanova (1905-1941/1942), ANNA Borovskaja (1907-1941/1942), MATRENA Navolokina (1894-1941/1942), VARVARA Derev’agina (1912-1941/1942), ANNA Popova (1898-1941/1942), JEVDOKIA Guseva (1912-1941/1942), JEVFROSINIA Denisova (1906-1941/1942), AGRIPPINA Kiselöva (1903-1941/1942), NATALIA Vasil’jeva (1899-1941/1942) day of martyrdom, shoted at Karlag NKVD KZ, Kazakhstan
• Venerable LAURENCE (Luka Proskura) of Chernigov (1868-1949/1950)
Monk and teacher at the monastery of Clonard, Ireland. Rector in 650. Noted scholar and master of Greek and Latin. Wrote several theological treatises and biographies of Saint Brigid, Saint Fechin and Saint Patrick.
• ALBERT of Gambron (7th c.) a courtier who became a hermit and later founded the small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France
Seventh century courtier. Disenchanted with the worldly life, he lived for a while as a hermit. Founded the abbey of Gambron-sur-l'Authion, France, which simultaneously used the Rules of Saint Benedict and Saint Columbanus, and served as its first abbot.
• Martyress ANYSIA
• M ANTONY of Damaskus, martyred in Ar-Raqqa (799)
• Venerable ATHENODORUS 阿提诺多若 the Leper (4th c.) disciple of St Pachomius the Great
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀθηνόδωρος
• Venerable Elder BASILISCUS 瓦西利斯科 the Hesychast of Siberia (1824)
• Venerable monk BENJAMIN 文雅敏 of Nitria in Egypt (392)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Βενιαμίν
Walk on the royal path and count off the miles, and do not be discouraged.
• King and Prophet DAVID (10th c. BC)
Son of Jesse, and a shepherd in his youth. Anointed by the prophet Samuel. During war with the Philistines, David, relying on God, slew the giant Goliath and won the friendship of Jonathan, son of Saul; courtier. Married to Saul's daughter Michol. Forced into exile for political reasons. Married to Abigail.When Saul and Jonathan fell in battle, David was chosen King of Judah and Israel; he reigned for 33 years. Founder of the Judean dynasty at Jerusalem. National hero as a youth, soldier, reformer, father, prophet, musician, poet, hymnist, writer, sinner, and penitent.
See 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Chronicles.
• Venerable Abbot EBRULFUS (Evroult) of Ouche (596/626-706) born in Bayeux in France, he became a monk at the monastery of Deux Jumeaux, and later founded a monastery at Ouche and also other smaller monasteries
Merovingian courtier. A married layman, he made financial arrangements for his wife, who may have later become a nun, and left the court of King Childebert I to become a monk at Deux Jumeaux abbey. He and a small group of brothers left to become hermits in the nearby forest of Ouche. Ebrulf converted a band of highway robbers to the faith. With them, the brothers, and some spiritual students who gathered around them, he founded a small monastery near Ouche, and served as its abbot. It emphasized self-sufficiency for the house, manual labour offered to God for the men, and was so successful that several other small houses were founded nearby.
• Righteous presbiter ECKHART of Halberstadt (1048)
• FLORENT (Florentius) de Bourges (664) Bishop of Bourges, France for 20 years. Known for his intense spiritual life, and his work to enhance the spiritual life of his flock. The town of Saint-Florent-sur-Cher is named for him
• Venerable GEORGE 格奥尔吉 bishop of Nicomedia (9th c.) composer of Canons and Troparia
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεώργιος Ἐπίσκοπος Νικομήδειας ποιητὴς ἀσματικῶν Κανόνων καὶ Τροπαρίων
• Hosiosmartyr GIRALD (Girard, Giraud) (1031) a monk at Lagny in France and later Abbot of Saint-Arnoul, he became Abbot of Fontenelle where he was murdered
• Hieromartyr LIBOSUS (Libóso, Lybosus) of Vaga (258) Bishop of Vaga (modern Béja, Tunisia). Part of the Council of Carthage in 256. Several of his letters have survived to today. Martyred in the persecutions of Valerian
• Venerable monk and Emperor LOTHAR I (855) Germany
• Bishop MAEDÓC (Maedhog) of Lismore (Lis-mór) (7th c.)
• Venerable MARCELLUS 玛尔凯洛 of the Acœmetes (Akoimeton), abbot of the Community of the Sleepless Ones called "the Ever-Vigilant" in Constantinople (486) clairvoyant, healer and great wonderworker
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μάρκελλος
The Order of the Acœmetes differed from other Basilian monks only by this particular rule, that each monastery was divided into several choirs, which, succeeding one another, continued the divine office day and night without interruption: whence was derived their name, which signifies in Greek, without sleep. This institute was set on foot by a Syrian nobleman, named Alexander, who had borne an honourable command in the army several years; but renouncing the world in 402, built a monastery upon the banks of the Euphrates, in which he assembled four hundred monks. Coming afterwards to Constantinople, he founded a monastery not far from the city, towards the Euxine sea, in which he governed three hundred monks, whom he divided into six choirs. Alexander died in 430. His successor John removed his community to a monastery which he built at Gomon, a mile from Constantinople. St Marcellus, who was chosen third abbot of this house, raised the reputation of this order to the highest pitch. He was a native of Apamea in Syria, and, by the death of his parents, who were rich and of noble descent, he was left master of a plentiful fortune when he was in the flower of his age. Considering seriously with what vanities the little interval between a man’s birth and his death is usually filled in the world, he conceived a great distate of its fooleries, and repairing to Antioch, made sacred studies, and the exercises of devotion, his whole employment. By holy meditation he saw daily more and more clearly the emptiness of all worldly occupations and enjoyments. An infant with all its childish toys about it, thinks itself happy; and what are these, if compared to those fooleries which in manhood are called business or amusements? From this contempt of earthly things, his love of those which are heavenly, daily grew stronger; and it was not long before he bestowed on the poor his whole personal estate, and settled his real estate upon a younger brother. Thus disencumbered, he repaired to Ephesus, and there put himself under the direction of certain eminent servants of God. The greatest part of the night he spent in prayer, and the day he employed in copying good books, by the sale of which he gained not only his own subsistence, but also wherewith to relieve the poor. The reputation of the austerity and solitude of the Acœmetes drew him thither; and taking the habit, he ran in a religious course with incredible ardour. Upon the death of Alexander, the founder and first abbot, Marcellus had been chosen to fill his place, had he not concealed himself by a timely flight. When he returned, John, who had been chosen abbot, compelled him to be his assistant in the discharge of his office; and upon his demise Marcellus was raised to that dignity. The Order flourished exceedingly under his prudent and saintly administration; and when he was at a loss how sufficiently to enlarge his buildings, he was abundantly supplied with means for that purpose by Pharetrius, a very opulent gentleman, who took the habit with all his sons on the same day. About the year 465, Studius, a nobleman who had been consul in 463, founded for him and his monks a great monastery within the city, near the golden gate, in which there are said to have been one thousand monks at the same time. This house being called by the founder’s name, the Acœmetes were from that time called Studites. St Marcellus assisted at the council of Constantinople, assembled by St Flavian against Eutyches, whose heresy our holy abbot condemned, with the prelates who composed that venerable assembly.
• Martyress QUARTILLOSA of Carthage (258) married lay woman, and a mother. Martyred with her husband and son, whose names have not come down to us, the persecutions of Valerian
• Venerable monk and Hermit REGINBERT of Seldenbüren (962)
• Hosiosconfessor THADDEUS 塔德 of the Studion (818) a disciple of Theodore the Studite, was a defender of the veneration of holy icons
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θαδδαῖος ὁ Ὁμολογητής
• Venerable THEOPHILUS 德奥斐洛 of Luga and Omutch (1412)
• TROPHIMUS of Ephesus (1st c.) Gentile first century convert. Missionary with Saint Paul. Pilgim to Jerusalem where his Gentile presence in the temple stated a riot
• TROPHIMUS 特若斐默 1st Bishop of Aries in France (280)
Evangelist sent from Rome to Gaul c.250. Worked with Saint Saturninus of Toulouse and Saint Denis of Paris. First bishop of Arles, Gaul (modern France. His cultus is ancient; Pope Zosimus wrote about him in 417. Often confused with the Trophimus mentioned by Saint Paul the Apostle, they were actually centuries apart.
Ἐγκαίνια τοῦ Ναοῦ Ἁγίων Τεσσαράκοντα πλησίον τοῦ Χαλκοῦ Τετραπύλου
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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