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یادبودها

  • شهیدان آدریان و ناتالیا
  • پدر مقدس ما تیتوئس تِبائید (سده ۴)

خوانش‌های کتاب مقدس

دوم قرنتیان ۶.۱۱-۱۶ (رساله)

۱۱ای قرنتیان، ما بی‌پرده با شما سخن گفتیم و دل خود را بر شما گشودیم. ۱۲ما محبت خود را از شما دریغ نمی‌داریم. شمایید که مِهر خود را از ما دریغ می‌کنید. ۱۳با شما همچون فرزندانم سخن می‌گویم؛ شما نیز دل خود را بر ما بگشایید. ۱۴زیر یوغ ناموافق با بی‌ایمانان مروید، زیرا پارسایی و شرارت را چه پیوندی است و نور و ظلمت را چه رفاقتی؟ ۱۵مسیح و بِلیعال را چه توافقی است و مؤمن و بی‌ایمان را چه شباهتی؟ ۱۶و معبد خدا و بتها را چه سازگاری است؟ زیرا ما معبد خدای زنده‌ایم. چنانکه خدا می‌گوید: «بین آنها سکونت خواهم گزید و در میانشان راه خواهم رفت، و من خدای ایشان خواهم بود و آنان قوم من خواهند بود.»

مرقس ۱.۲۳-۲۸ (انجیل)

۲۳در آن هنگام، در کنیسۀ آنها مردی بود که روح پلید داشت. او فریاد برآورد: ۲۴«ای عیسای ناصری، تو را با ما چه کار است؟ آیا آمده‌ای نابودمان کنی؟ می‌دانم کیستی! تو آن قدّوسِ خدایی!» ۲۵عیسی او را نهیب زد و گفت: «خاموش باش و از او بیرون بیا!» ۲۶آنگاه روح پلید آن مرد را سخت تکان داد و نعره‌زنان از او بیرون آمد. ۲۷مردم همه چنان شگفت‌زده شده بودند که از یکدیگر می‌پرسیدند: «این چیست؟ تعلیمی جدید و با اقتدار! او حتی به ارواح پلید نیز فرمان می‌دهد و آنها اطاعتش می‌کنند.» ۲۸پس دیری نپایید که آوازۀ او در سرتاسر ناحیۀ جلیل پیچید.

یادبودها

شهیدان آدریان و ناتالیا

“Husband and wife, they were both of noble and wealthy families in Nicomedia. Adrian was the governor of the Praetorium and a pagan, and Natalia was a secret Christian. They were both young, and had lived in wedlock for thirteen months in all before their martyrdom. When the wicked Emperor Maximian visited Nicomedia, he ordered that the Christians be seized and put to torture. There were twenty-three Christians hidden in a cave near the city. Someone handed them over to the authorities and they were cruelly flogged with leather whips and staves, and thrown into prison. They were then taken from prison and brought before the Praetor for their names to be noted. Adrian looked a these people, tortured but unbowed, peaceful and meek, and he put them under oath to say what they hoped for from their God, that they should undergo such tortures. They spoke to him of the blessedness of the righteous in the Kingdom of God. Hearing this, and again looking at these people, Adrian suddenly turned to the scribe and said: ‘Write my name along with those of these saints; I also am a Christian.’ When the Emperor heard of this, he asked him: ‘Have you lost your mind?’ Adrian replied: ‘I haven’t lost it, but found it!’ Hearing this, Natalia rejoiced greatly, and, when Adrian sat chained with the others in prison, came and ministered to them all. When they flogged her husband and put him to various tortures, she encouraged him to endure to the end. After long torture and imprisonment, the Emperor ordered that they be taken to the prison anvil, for their arms and legs to be broken with hammers. This was done and Adrian, along with the twenty-three others, breathed his last under the vicious tortures. Natalia took their relics to Constantinople and there buried them. After several days, Adrian appeared to her, bathed in light and beauty and calling her to come to God, and she peacefully gave her soul into her Lord’s hands.” (Prologue)

پدر مقدس ما تیتوئس تِبائید (سده ۴)

One of the great Egyptian Desert Fathers, he was a disciple of St Pachomius the Great and served as abbot of Tabennisi. Through his years of struggle in prayer, he attained to such purity of heart that whenever he raised his hands in prayer, his spirit was instantly caught up in pure contemplation of God. When one of the brethren asked him what path leads to humility, he answered ‘The path of humility is abstinence, prayer and considering oneself as the least of all creatures.’ He reposed in peace.