عبرانیان ۴.۱-۱۳ (رساله)

۱پس به‌هوش باشیم مبادا با اینکه وعدۀ راه یافتن به آسایش او هنوز به قوّت خود باقیست، آشکار شود که احدی از شما، از دست یافتن به آن باز‌مانده است. ۲زیرا به ما نیز چون ایشان بشارت داده شد. امّا پیامی که شنیدند، سودی برایشان نداشت، زیرا با آنان که گوش فرا دادند به ایمان متحد نشدند. ۳ولی ما که ایمان آورده‌ایم، به آن آسایش راه می‌یابیم. چنانکه خدا فرموده است: «پس در خشم خود سوگند خوردم که به آسایش من هرگز راه نخواهند یافت،» و با این همه، کارهای او از زمان آفرینش جهان به پایان رسیده بود؛ ۴زیرا در جایی راجع به روز هفتم بیان می‌کند که: «خدا در هفتمین روز، از همۀ کارهای خویش بیاسود،» ۵و باز در قسمتی که در بالا نقل شد، می‌گوید: «به آسایش من هرگز راه نخواهند یافت.» ۶بنابراین، از آنجا که این حقیقت به قوّت خود باقی است که برخی می‌باید به آن آسایش راه یابند، و آنان که پیشتر بشارت یافتند، به سبب نافرمانی راه نیافتند، ۷پس خدا دیگر بار روزی خاص را مقرر فرمود، و پس از گذشت سالهای بسیار، در مزامیر داوود، از ’امروز‘ سخن گفت و آن‌گونه که پیشتر بیان شد، فرمود: «امروز، اگر صدای او را می‌شنوید، دل خود را سخت مسازید.» ۸زیرا اگر یوشَع به آنها آسایش بخشیده بود، مدتها بعد، خدا از روزی دیگر سخن نمی‌گفت. ۹پس قوم خدا هنوز باید از آسایش شَبّات برخوردار شوند؛ ۱۰زیرا هر کس که به آسایش خدا داخل می‌شود، او نیز از کارهای خود آسودگی می‌یابد، همان‌گونه که خدا از کارهای خود برآسود. ۱۱پس بیایید به‌جدّ بکوشیم تا به آن آسایش راه یابیم، مبادا کسی از نافرمانی آنان سرمشق گیرد و در‌لغزد. ۱۲زیرا کلام خدا زنده و مؤثر است و بُرنده‌تر از هر شمشیر دو دم، و چنان نافذ که نَفْس و روح، و مفاصل و مغزِ استخوان را نیز جدا می‌کند، و سنجشگر افکار و نیّتهای دل است. ۱۳هیچ چیز در تمام آفرینش از نظر خدا پنهان نیست، بلکه همه چیز در برابر چشمان او که حساب ما با اوست، عریان و آشکار است.

لوقا ۱۹.۴۵-۴۸ (انجیل)

۴۵سپس به صحن معبد درآمد و به بیرون راندن فروشندگان آغاز نمود، ۴۶و به آنان گفت: «نوشته شده است که ”خانۀ من خانۀ دعا خواهد بود“؛ امّا شما آن را ’لانۀ راهزنان‘ ساخته‌اید.» ۴۷او هر روز در معبد تعلیم می‌داد. امّا سران کاهنان و علمای دین و مشایخ قوم در پی کشتن او بودند، ۴۸ولی راهی برای انجام مقصود خود نمی‌یافتند، زیرا مردم همه شیفتۀ سخنان او بودند.

نبی حبقوق

He prophesied in the time of Joachim, just before the Jewish people were taken into captivity in Babylon. He himself escaped captivity, and after Jerusalem was destroyed, returned to his homeland. Once he was taking some food to his harvesters when an Angel transported him to Babylon to feed the Prophet Daniel in the lions’ den, then bore him back to Judea (this is told in the full version of the book of Daniel, ch. 6 LXX). The third chapter of his prophecy is used as the Fourth Ode of the Matins Canon(the Ode is usually sung in full only in monasteries during Lent, but the eirmos of the Fourth Ode, sung in many parishes, usually refers to the Prophet). His holy relics were found through a revelation in Palestine during the reign of Theodosius the Great, and a chapel built there. His name means “Father of the Resurrection.”

شهید مقدس میروپه (میروپِا) خیوس (۲۵۱)

She was born in Ephesus. At baptism, she was consecrated by her mother to serve at the shrine of St Hermione, one of the four daughters of the Apostle Philip. Many pilgrims came to be anointed with a miracle-working myrrh that flowed from St Hermione’s body — and from her service at the shrine Myrope received the name by which she is known. Later, she and her mother went to the island of Chios to flee the persecution of the Emperor Decius.

When the holy martyr Isidore (May 14) was beheaded, Myrope secretly recovered his body and gave it honorable burial. The governor Numerius was furious, and ordered his soldiers to find the body or themselves be beheaded. Unable to let innocent people suffer for her act, Myrope presented herself to the governor and told him where she had buried the body. At Numerius’ order, the holy girl was tortured and thrown in prison. There a heavenly light illuminated her cell and St Isidore himself appeared to her with a company of angels, saying ‘Peace to thee, Myrope: thy prayer has ascended to God, and thou shalt soon be with us and receive the crown prepared for thee.’ Myrope, filled with joy, gave up her soul to God at that moment. One of the guards who had witnessed these events believed in Christ, and not long afterward was baptized and received a martyr’s death.

پدر مقدس ما آتاناسیوس " رستاخیز کرده," منزوی غارهای کیف (۱۱۷۶)

After many years of ascetic struggle, Athanasius died and was prepared for burial. After lying dead for two full days, he inexplicably came back to life: the monks who came to bury him were astonished to find him sitting up and weeping. The brethren gathered around him and asked him many questions about what he had seen of the next world, but he would only answer ‘Save yourselves!’ When they pressed him further, he said ‘If I told you, you would not believe me or want to listen to me.’ His final reply was ‘Repent every moment, and pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and to His most pure Mother.’ He then shut himself in his cell and lived another twelve years, taking only bread and water and never speaking again to anyone.

قدیس (استفان) اوروش, پادشاه صربستان (۱۳۶۷)

“The son of King Dušan, he ruled during the difficult time of the fall of the Kindom of Serbia. Humble, pious and gentle, he refused to attempt to restrain the power of the powerful nobles by force. Amongst these was Vukašin, who brought about his death. Good King Uroš suffered a martyr’s death on December 2nd, 1367, at the age of thirty-one. Killed by men, he was glorified by God. His wonderworking relics were preserved in the monastery of Jazak in the Fruška Gora, whence they were taken to Belgrade in 1942, during the Second World War, and placed in the Cathedral beside the bodies of Prince Lazar and Despot Stephen Štiljanovic. During the reign of this benevolent king, the monastery of St Nahum was built beside Lake Ochrid by one of Uroš’s nobles, Grgur.” (Prologue)

قدیس پورفیریوس کاوسوکالیویا (۱۹۹۱) (۱۹ نوامبر ت.ق)

One of the true God-bearing Elders of our own time, he was glorified by the Church in 2013.