Haralampi
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Lenten services w/Ephraim Prayer.
Hieromartyr Charalampus the Bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly
Commemorated on February 10
The Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia, the Martyrs
Porphyrius and Baptus and Three Women Martyrs suffered in the year
202.
St Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia (Asia Minor), successfully spread
faith in Christ the Savior, guiding people on the way to salvation.
News of his preaching reached Lucian, the governor of the district,
and the military commander Lucius. The saint was arrested and brought
to trial, where he confessed his faith in Christ and refused to offer
sacrifice to idols.
Despite the bishop's advanced age (he was 113 years old), he was
subjected to monstrous tortures. They lacerated his body with iron
hooks, and scraped all the skin from his body. During this the saint
turned to his tormentors, "I thank you, brethren, that you have
restored my spirit, which longs to pass over to a new and everlasting
life!"
Seeing the Elder's endurance and his complete lack of malice, two
soldiers (Porphyrius and Baptus) openly confessed Christ, for which
they were immediately beheaded with a sword. Three women who were
watching the sufferings of St Charalampus also began to glorify
Christ, and were quickly martyred.
The enraged Lucius seized the instruments of torture and began to
torture the holy martyr, but suddenly his forearms were cut off as if
by a sword. The governor then spat in the face of the saint, and
immediately his head was turned around so that he faced backwards.
Then Lucius entreated the saint to show mercy on him, and both
torturers were healed through the prayers of St Charalampus. During
this a multitude of witnesses came to believe in Christ. Among them
also was Lucius, who fell at the feet of the holy bishop, asking to be
baptized.
Lucian reported these events to the emperor Septimus Severus
(193-211), who was then at Pisidian Antioch (western Asia Minor). The
emperor ordered St Charlampos to be brought to him in Antioch.
Soldiers twisted the saint's beard into a rope, wound it around his
neck, and used it to drag him along. They also drove an iron nail into
his body. The emperor then ordered them to torture the bishop more
intensely, and they began to burn him with fire, a little at a time.
But God protected the saint, and he remained unharmed.
Many miracles were worked through his prayer: he raised a dead youth,
and healed a man tormented by devils for thirty-five years, so that
many people began to believe in Christ the Savior. Even Galina, the
daughter of the emperor, began to believe in Christ, and twice smashed
the idols in a pagan temple. On the orders of the emperor they beat
the saint about the mouth with stones. They also wanted to set his
beard on fire, but the flames burned the torturer.
Full of wickedness, Septimus Severus and an official named Crispus
hurled blasphemy at the Lord, mockingly summoning Him to come down to
the earth, and boasting of their own power and might. The Lord sent an
earthquake, and great fear fell upon all, the impious ones were both
suspended in mid-air held by invisible bonds, and only by the prayer
of the saint were they put down. The dazed emperor was shaken in his
former impiety, but again quickly fell into error and gave orders to
torture the saint.
And finally, he sentenced St Charalampus to beheading with a sword.
During his final prayer, the heavens opened and the saint saw the
Savior and a multitude of angels. The holy martyr asked Him to grant
that the place where his relics would repose would never suffer famine
or disease. He also begged that there would be peace, prosperity, and
an abundance of fruit, grain, and wine in that place, and that the
souls of these people would be saved. The Lord promised to fulfill his
request and ascended to heaven, and the soul of the hieromartyr
Charalampus followed after Him. By the mercy of God, the saint died
before he could be executed. Galina buried the martyr's body with
great honor.
In Greek hagiography and iconography St Charalampus is regarded as a
priest, while Russian sources seem to regard him as a bishop.
Synaxis of the Hierarchs of Novgorod, Buried in the Cathedral of the
Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) in Novgorod
Commemorated on February 10
The Synaxis of Novgorod Hierarchs is also celebrated on October 4 and
on the third Sunday after Pentecost. On October 4, 1439 St John
(September 7) appeared to the presiding hierarch St Euthymius (March
11) and ordered him to serve a special panikhida in memory of those
buried at the Sophia cathedral (the Russian princes and Archbishops of
Novgorod, and all Orthodox Christians) on the Feast of the Hieromartyr
Hierotheus, first Bishop of Athens.
Then the incorrupt relics of St John (September 7) were uncovered.
Afterwards, the Synaxis was established to mark the glorification of
the Novgorod hierarchs. E. E. Golubinsky says that because these
hierarchs remained unknown at the time of their glorification, he
determined this date for their common celebration was established in
the period between the time of the Moscow Council of 1549 and the time
of the formation of the Holy Synod (E. E. Golubinsky, History of the
Canonization of Saints in the Russian Church. Moscow, 1903, p. 157).
Included in the Synaxis of Novgorod hierarchs are: St Joachim of
Korsun, first bishop of Novgorod (988-1030); St Luke the Jew, bishop
(October 15, 1060); St Germanus, bishop (1078-1096); St Arcadius,
bishop (September 18); St Gregory, archbishop (May 24, 1193); St
Martyrius, archbishop (August 24, 1199); St Anthony, archbishop
(October 8, 1231); St Basil the Lame, archbishop (July 3, 1352); St
Simeon, archbishop (June 15, 1421); St Gennadius, archbishop (December
4); St Pimen, archbishop (1553-1571); Aphthonius, metropolitan (April
6, 1653).
The relics of these saints were buried or transferred to Novgorod's
Sophia Cathedral (except for St Germanus, St Gennadius and St Pimen)
therefore, in some sources their names are not included in the
Synaxis.
The October 4 celebration was established in connection with the
memory of the holy Prince Vladimir Yaroslavich of Novgorod (+ 1052),
and the February 10 Synaxis of the Novgorod hierarchs is celebrated in
connection with the holy Princess Anna of Novgorod (+ 1056).
Besides those mentioned, hierarchs who have separate commemorations
are: St Nikita the Hermit, bishop (January 31); St Niphon, bishop
(April 8); St John, archbishop (September 7); St Theoctistus,
archbishop (December 23); St Moses, archbishop (January 25); St
Euthymius, archbishop (March 11); St Jonah, archbishop (November 5);
St Serapion, archbishop (March 16).
AGG
> Liturgy is not permitted today. The services are served just like the
> Lenten services w/Ephraim Prayer.
***In which jurisdiction. My priest held Divine Liturgy this morning as
he does nearly all morning except Holy Week.
Father Gregory
news server has prevented me receiving this any chance of you posting the
full article please, can't think I have anyone who posted this
blocked..............mind you!
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Fr Gregory
"AGG" <agg1@holy_athos.gr> wrote in message
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Father Gregory
Today: Venerable Ephraim the Syrian.
No Liturgy, Hours Typika.....Vespers
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Fr Gregory
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wrote:
Father Valery fo St. Nicholas Cathedral, from whom I received this
originally, appended the comment on liturgies not being served that
day, which should have been from the rubrics. The jurisdiction is
OCA, but the rubrics would not differ ROCOR or Moscow Patriarchate or
probably Jerusalem. We would each of us have to look up the beginning
of Maslenitsa rubrics to see if they were correct.
The saints, if you meant them, are probably taken from the Prolog or
from the translation of St. Dimitri of Rostov's collection, all of
which use a number of local saints lives documents, the Synaxarion,
local lives (Nikolaj Velimirovic used several other printed
collections, including St. Dimitri of Rostov, and a lot of local lives
in the lbraries in Ohrid, some of which he Serbianized for he was
there in Ohrid after the Macedonian CHurch was forcibly put under the
Serbian Church during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia):
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wrote:
I looked in the typica at the OCA site but I think they have only
Vespers and Vigil info posted, see:
http://www.oca.org/tables-of-the-variable-parts-of-the-orthodox-service-of-vespers-2.html
One thing I don't know how to look up, although part is obvious, is
who constitutes a temple ranked saint or, specially a "Vigil rank
saint"? One presumes the former has to do with the naming and
dedication of the temple, or part of the temple , but the latter and
how precisely this affects the rubrics with regard to the liturgy,
hmmm.
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> On Feb 10, 11:57 am, "Father Gregory" <father.greg...@ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Today: Venerable Ephraim the Syrian.
>
> > No Liturgy, Hours Typika.....Vespers
> > --
> > Fr Gregory"AGG" <agg1@holy_athos.gr> wrote in message
>
> >news:hkugs...@enews1.newsguy.com...
>
> > > ++ wrote:
>
> > >> Liturgy is not permitted today. The services are served just like the
> > >> Lenten services w/Ephraim Prayer.
>
> > > ***In which jurisdiction. My priest held Divine Liturgy this morning as
> > > he does nearly all morning except Holy Week.
>
> I looked in the typica at the OCA site but I think they have only
> Vespers and Vigil info posted, see:
>
>
> One thing I don't know how to look up, although part is obvious, is
> who constitutes a temple ranked saint or, specially a "Vigil rank
> saint"? One presumes the former has to do with the naming and
> dedication of the temple, or part of the temple , but the latter and
> how precisely this affects the rubrics with regard to the liturgy,
> hmmm.
Here is what is printed for vigil last night at the OCA website, with
no clue as to the service today:
FEBRUARY 10
Wednesday of Cheesefare/Hieromartyr Haralampos, Bishop of Magnesia
(at Daily Vespers, Tuesday evening)
"Lord I Call..." Tone 2
Lord, I call upon You, hear me!
Hear me, O Lord!
Lord, I call upon You, hear me!
Receive the voice of my prayer,
when I call upon You!
Hear me, O Lord!
Let my prayer arise
in Your sight as incense,
and let the lifting up of my hands
be an evening sacrifice!
Hear me, O Lord!
v. (6) If You, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
But there is forgiveness with You.
Tone 2 (from the Octoechos)
When the Sun, O Word, beheld You nailed to the Cross,
the sky was darkened, unable to endure its own light.
The earth quaked, and the rocks were split;
the curtain of the Temple was torn in two.
The graves were opened and the dead arose.
Hell surrendered those held below, and the devils were defeated,//
and for all mankind sleep took the place of death.
v. (5) For Your name's sake I have waited for You, O Lord, my soul has
waited for Your word; my soul has hoped on the Lord.
When the good thief saw You, O Christ,
the only fruitful Vine,
he was most clever, and stole forgiveness of his ancient sins,
speaking softly with grace.
Let us all make haste to do as he did, and cry://
“Remember us also, O Lover of mankind!”
v. (4) From the morning watch until night, from the morning watch let
Israel hope on the Lord.
Your Cross shines indeed like a star in the Church, O Christ,
burning demons, while giving light to the faithful.
It puts to shame those who crucified You,
whose ancestors, held enslaved in Egypt,
were led out by the wood that foreshadowed the Cross,//
and were satisfied in the wilderness with honey from the rock.
v. (3) For with the Lord there is mercy and with Him is plenteous
redemption, and He will deliver Israel from all his iniquities.
Tone 6 (for the Hieromartyr) (Having placed all their hope)
You set yourself completely apart for the Master from your youth;
you desired Him and followed in His steps.
You were cleansed from the filth of the passions
and enriched with the grace of God to perform healings.
You worked glorious wonders and became a martyr,
remaining steadfast through all the assaults of the torturers
through the power of Him Who was killed on the Cross.//
Fervently pray to Him on behalf of our souls!
v. (2) Praise the Lord, all nations! Praise Him, all peoples!
Though your blessed, long-suffering and invincible body was pierced
with nails,
O athlete Haralampos,
you kept your soul steadfast and your mind unharmed.
The desire for God enflamed you, O glorious one,
urging you to endure all the forms of torture.
You were a passion-bearing martyr who shared in the sufferings
of Christ.//
Pray to Him with boldness on behalf of our souls!
v. (1) For His mercy is abundant towards us; and the truth of the Lord
endures for ever.
You suffered and inherited truly brilliant joy,
ineffable glory and eternal rejoicing.
You were an honored priest and revered athlete,
a brave warrior, who drowned the armies and hosts of the serpent in
the streams of your blood.
By grace and godly prayer you truly raised the dead,//
praying with boldness on behalf of our souls.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Tone 2 (Cross-Theotokion)
As Symeon foretold, a sword pierced your heart, O all-pure Lady,
when you beheld Him Who shone forth from you,
condemned by the iniquitous,
and lifted up upon the Cross,
tasting vinegar and gall,
His side pierced and His hands and feet run through with nails;
lamenting, you cried out://
“O my most sweet Child!”
Wednesday of Cheesefare/ St Haralampos, Bishop of Magnesia
Aposticha
Tone 1 Idiomelon (from the Lenten Triodion)
O faithful, let us receive with joy
the divinely-inspired announcements of Lent!
Like Ninevites of old, like harlots and publicans,
who heard John preaching repentance,
let us prepare ourselves through fasting
for the Master's communion in Zion!
Let us wash ourselves with tears of purification;
let us pray to behold the fulfillment of Pascha, the true revelation!
Let us prepare ourselves to adore the Cross and Resurrection of Christ
our
God!//
Do not deprive us of our expectation, O Lover of mankind!
v: I lift up my eyes to You, enthroned in the heavens! Behold, as the
eyes of
servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to
the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till
He have mercy upon us. (Ps. 122/123:1-2)
(Repeat: “O faithful, let us receive with joy …”)
v: Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have had
more than enough of contempt. Too long our soul has been sated with
the scorn of those who are at ease, the contempt of the proud. (Ps.
122/123:3-4)
Tone 1 (to the Martyrs)
You made a wise exchange, O saints:
you offered your blood and received heaven in return.
You suffered for a time and now rejoice eternally.
Your trade was wise indeed!
Forsaking the corruptible, you received the incorruptible.
Now rejoicing with the angelic host,//
you ceaselessly praise the consubstantial Trinity.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Tone 1 (Cross-Theotokion) (O all-praised martyrs)
When the most pure Virgin saw her Son on the Tree,
her heart was pierced with a sword of sorrow, and she cried aloud:
“How can the Creator of all be lifted on the Cross as one condemned//
in His desire to save mankind? “
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Tone 8 The Lenten Troparia
Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of grace! The Lord is with
you.
Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the Fruit of your womb; //
for you have borne the Savior of our souls.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
O Baptiser of Christ, remember us all,
that we may be delivered from our iniquities;//
for to you is given grace to intercede for us!
Now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Intercede for us, O holy Apostles and all the saints,
that we may be delivered from perils and sorrows;//
for we have acquired you as fervent intercessors before the Savior!
Beneath your compassion we take refuge, O Theotokos.
Do not despise our supplications in adversity,//
but deliver us from perils, O only pure and only blessed one!
Liturgical texts for this service represent modified versions of
translations provided by Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery, Otego, New York
and St. Tikhon’s Monastery, South Canaan, Pa. The Department of
Liturgical Music and Translations of the Orthodox Church in America
expresses its gratitude to Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery and St.
Tikhon’s Monastery and to those translators whose work has been
consulted at times in the course of reviewing and modifying these
texts to their present form: Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware),
Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash), Archimandrite Juvenaly, William Benedict
Churchill, Isaac Lambertson, St. Vladimir’s Seminary, and Holy
Transfiguration Monastery, among others.