APOLYTIKION OF SAINT NECTARIOS
The offspring of Silyvria*
and the guardian of Aegina* the true friend of virtue who appeared in the
last years. O Nectarios* we faithful honor you* as a godly servant of
Christ, * for you pour forth healing* of every kind for those who piously
cry out. * Glory to Christ who has glorified you; * Glory to Him who has
shown wonders in you; * Glory to Him who works healing through you for
all.
ΑΠΟΛΥΤΙΚΙΟΝ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΝΕΚΤΑΡΙΟΥ
Σηλυβρίας
τὸν γόνον
καὶ Αἰγίνης
τὸν ἔφορον,
τὸν ἐσχάτοις
χρόνοις
φανέντα ἀρετῆς φίλον γνήσιον,
Νεκτάριον
τιμήσωμεν
πιστοί, ὡς ἔνθεον
θεράποντα
Χριστοῦ. Ἀναβλύζει
γὰρ ἰάσεις
παντοδαπὰς
τοῖς εὐλαβῶς
κραυγάζουσι :
Δόξα τῷ
σὲ δοξάσαντι
Χριστῷ, δόξα τῷ
σὲ θαυμαστώσαντι,
δόξα τῷ
ἐνεργούντι
διὰ σοῦ
πᾶσιν ἰάματα.
Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles
Reading
The names of the Twelve Apostles are these: Simon, who was
called Peter, and his brother Andrew, the First-called; James the son of
Zebedee, and his brother John, who was also the Evangelist and
Theologian; Philip, and Bartholomew (see also June 11); Thomas, and
Matthew the publican, who was also called Levi and was an Evangelist;
James the son of Alphaeus, and Jude (also called Lebbaeus,
and surnamed Thaddaeus), the brother of James, the Brother of God; Simon
the Canaanite ("the Zealot"), and Matthias, who was elected to
fill the place of Judas the traitor
Cosmas and Damian the Holy Unmercenaries
Reading
These Saints, who are different from those that are celebrated on the
1st of November, were from Rome. They were physicians, freely bestowing
healing upon beasts and men, asking nothing from the healed other than
that they confess and believe in Christ. They ended their life in
martyrdom in the year 284, under the Emperors Carinus
and Numerian.
Deposition of the Precious Robe of the
Theotokos in Blachernae
During the reign of Leo the Great (457-474)
two patricians and brethren on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land lodged with
an old widow, a Christian of Jewish descent. Seeing the many miracles
wrought at a small shrine in her house, they pressed her until she
revealed to them that she had raiment of the most holy Theotokos kept in
a small coffer. Our Lady had had two virgins in her lifetime who attended
upon her; before her holy dormition, she gave each of them one of her
divine garments as a blessing. This old widow was of the family of one of
those two virgins, and it had come through the generations into her hands.
With the permission of God, that this holy relic might be had for the
profit of many, the two men took the garment by stealth and brought it to
Blachernae near Constantinople, and building a church in honor of the
Apostles Peter and Mark, they secretly enshrined the garment therein. But
here again, because of the multitude of miracles that were worked, it
became known to the Emperor Leo, and a magnificent church was built, as
some say, by that same Leo, but according to others, by his predecessors Marcian and Pulcheria, and
enlarged by Leo when the holy raiment was found. The Emperor Justin the
Younger completed the church, which the Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes
raised up immediately again after it had burned in 1070. It burned again
in 1434, and from that time it remained a small house of prayer together
with the renowned holy spring. After the seventh century, the name
Blachernae was given to other churches and monasteries by their pious
founders out of reverence for this famous church in Constantinople. In
this church John Catacuzene was crowned in
1345; also, the Council against Acindynus, the
follower of Barlaam, was convoked here (see the Second Sunday of the
Great Fast).
Special Announcement:
·
If someone wants to sponsor the
coffee hour, there is a sign-up sheet in the Hall. Please write legibly
your name next to the date you want to sponsor
·
We need oil (Extra Virgin Olive
Oil) for the Church, please donate.
·
Please notify us if someone in the
member of the family or yourself is sick, so that we may offer healing
prayer.
·
We
would like to remind all members of the Saint Nectarios Philoptochos
Society that there will be no meeting for the rest of Summer (from June,
July, and August, 2019). As usual, we go dark this summer.
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