Services in February
Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia
23 January / 5 February 2012
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Resurrection Tropar, Tone 1: When
the stone had been sealed by the Jews; / while the soldiers were
guarding Thy Most Pure Body; / Thou didst rise on the third day, O
Saviour, / granting life to the world. / The Powers of Heaven therefore
cried to Thee O Giver of Life: / glory to Thy Resurrection O Christ! /
Glory to Thy Kingdom; / Glory to Thy Dispensation, O Thou who lovest
mankind.
Tropar to the New Martyrs of Russia, Tone 4: O
ye holy hierarchs, royal passion-bearers and pastors, monks and laymen,
ye countless new martyrs and confessors, mean, women and children,
flowers of the spiritual meadow of Russia, who blossomed forth
wondrously in time of grievous persecutions, bearing good fruit for
Christ in your endurance: entreat Him as the One Who planted you, that
He deliver His people from godless and evil men, and that the Church of
Russia be made steadfast through your blood and suffering unto the
salvation of our souls.
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Resurrection Kondak, Tone 1:
As God, Thou didst rise from the tomb in glory, / Raising the world
with Thyself. / Human nature praises Thee as God, for death has
vanished. / Adam exults O Master, Eve rejoices, for she is freed from
bondage, and cries to Thee; / Thou art the Giver of Resurrection to
all, O Christ.
Kontakion of the New-Martyrs and Confessors (Tone 2): O ye new
passion-bearers of Russia, who have with your confession finished the
course of this earth, receiving boldness through your sufferings:
Beseech Christ Who suffered for you, that they who pray to you in the
hour of the testing of their faith may receive the gift of courage. For
ye are a witness to us who kiss your feet, that neither tribulation,
prison, nor death can separate us from the love of God.
Kondak for the Publican and the Pharisee, Tone 4: Let us flee the
bragging of the Pharisee, and learn the humility of the Publican, while
crying out unto the Saviour with groanings: Be gracious unto us, O Thou
Who alone dost readily forgive.
The Gospel According To St. Luke 18: 10-14
10 Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other
a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed
thus with himself, God, I thank You that I am not like other men—
extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the
tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise
his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, God be merciful to me
a sinner! 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house
justified rather than the other, for everyone who exalts himself will
be abased, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
“Great Lent is preceded by three preparatory Sundays. The first
preparatory Sunday of Great Lent is termed the
“Sunday of the Publican & Pharisee”. This Sunday’s Gospel parable
of the Publican & the Pharisee is read in order to
demonstrate that only prayer with heartfelt tears & humility, like
that of the publican, & not with a recounting of one’s virtues,
like that of the Pharisee, can call down upon us the mercy of God.
Starting with this Sunday & continuing until the fifth Sunday
of Great Lent, following the reading of the Gospel, during the
All-night Vigil, the contrite prayer is chanted, “The doors of
repentance open unto me, O Giver of Life...”
Archpriest Seraphim Slobodsky, The Law Of God
23 January / 5 February — Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs &
Confessors of Russia
In any case,
the world can and
must wholeheartedly use for its edification and correction the present
suffering by fire of the
Russian people. The Russian people undoubtedly will come out of this
fire holier, stronger and
greater than it ever was before. No good blacksmith throws nails into
the fire to be rid of them,
he does it to make something better out of them. We think and believe
that the Creator of the
Russian people allowed this great people to experience this flame of
suffering not to punish
and kill it, but in order that by its terrible example other peoples
may come to their senses and
understand that the Russian people will be even more greatly glorified
before heaven and
earth. Do not cry, but be happy. A great harvest of souls has ripened
in Russia. In these days the
tortured Russian people fill Paradise more than any other Christian
people on earth.
St. Nikolai (Velimirovic) of Ochrid
***Our traditional piligrimage to Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Elaine (25-25 November 2011)
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Kursk Root Icon of Our Lady of the Sign
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