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28 03 2016 Features

Our Church in the Times of Malta – 50 years ago

An extract from the Times of Malta of today, 28/03/2016, a reprinting of an article which appeared exactly 50 years ago.

From The Times of Malta of 50 years ago – Read the short section about the two Greek Churches in Valletta.
(Thanks to Mr Dennis Mifsud who drew our attention to this item.)

An extract from the Times of Malta of today, 28/03/2016, a reprinting of an article which appeared exactly 50 years ago.

An extract from the Times of Malta of today, 28/03/2016, a reprinting of an article which appeared exactly 50 years ago.

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26th January: Today's Saints
O Saints of God, intercede for us.The saint of the day 26 January

† Our Holy Father Xenophon, his wife Mary and their sons Arcadius and John (6th c.)

audio.ancientfaith.com/sotd/01_26_xenophon_pc.mp3

Xenophon was a wealthy senator in Constantinople during the reign of Justinian. He and his wife Mary had two sons, Arcadius and John, to whom they gave every advantage of education. When they were of age, Xenophon sent them both to study law in Berytus (Beirut). But the ship on which they set out was wrecked in a storm, and the two brothers were cast ashore, alive but separated, neither knowing whether the other had survived.

Both brothers gave thanks to God for their salvation and, newly conscious of the vanity of earthly things, both became monks: John in Tyre and Arcadius in Jerusalem. Two years later, having heard no news from his sons, Xenophon made inquiries and found that they had never arrived at Beirut, and that they had seemingly perished in a shipwreck. Giving thanks to God, who gives and takes away, both Xenophon and his wife Mary put on coarse garments and went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In Jerusalem, they met the spiritual father of Arcadius, who told them that both their sons were alive and that they would soon see them.

By God's providence, John and Arcadius met one another at Golgotha and, joyfully reunited, spent some time serving Arcadius' holy Elder. Two days later Xenophon and Mary, visiting the Elder, spent time with their two sons but did not recognize them until the Elder revealed their identity. The parents wept for joy and decided immediately to take up the monastic life themselves. Giving away their considerable wealth, the two entered monasteries in the Holy Land. Both parents and sons went far in the life of prayer, being granted the power to work miracles and foreknow future events.

Troparion — Tone 4
O God of our Fathers, / always act with kindness towards us; / take not Your mercy from us, / but guide our lives in peace / through the prayers of Venerable Xenophon and his family.

Kontakion — Tone 4
You kept vigil in the courts of the Lord with your wife and two children, blessed Xenophon, / and you gladly lavished your wealth on the poor. / Therefore, you have inherited divine joy.
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