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8 07 2020 News, Uncategorized

Major obstacles to unity with Orthodox are resolved. What’s left?

Major obstacles to unity with Orthodox are resolved. What’s left? (Interview)

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25th October: Today's Saints
O Saints of God, intercede for us.The Saint of the day 25 October

† Holy Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius (346)
St Tabitha of Joppa

Both Marcian and Martyrius lived in Constantinople and were disciples of the Patriarch St Paul the Confessor (November 6), murdered in exile by the Arians. During the reign of the Arian Emperor Constantius, They fearlessly confessed that the Son of God is of one essence with the Father and is truly God.

For their confession they were beheaded by the Arians and buried outside the city. Soon afterward, miracles began to be wrought at their tomb; and St John Chrysostom later built a church over it.


Saint Tabitha was restored to life by the Apostle Peter (Acts 9:39-40), and afterwards died in peace.

Troparion — Tone 3
In holy zeal you dispelled the error of Arius / and proclaimed the Trinity, one in essence. / Holy martyrs Marcian and Martyrius, / unshaken bulwarks of Orthodoxy, / entreat Christ our God to grant us His great mercy.

Kontakion — Tone 4
(Podoben: “As You were voluntarily raised...”)
From your youth you were good athletes, wise Marcian and Martyrius, / vanquishing the Arian heretics; / you kept the faith perfect by following in the footsteps of your bishop and teacher Paul, / therefore, you are worthy to be with him in eternal life, / as respected defenders of the Holy Trinity.



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24th October: Today's Saint
O Saint of God, intercede for us.The Saint of the day 24 October

† Holy Martyr Arethas and those with him (524)

'These Martyrs contested for piety's sake in the year 524 in Najran, a city of Arabia Felix (present-day Yemen). When Dhu Nuwas, ruler of the Himyarite tribe in south Arabia, and a Judaizer, took power, he sought to blot out Christianity, especially at Najran, a Christian city. Against the counsels of Arethas, chief man of Najran, the city surrendered to Dhu Nuwas, who immediately broke the word he had given and sought to compel the city to renounce Christ. Led by Saint Arethas, hundreds of martyrs, including women, children, and babes, valiantly withstood his threats, and were beheaded and burned.

After the men had been slain, all the free-born Christian women of Najran were brought before the tyrant and commanded to abjure Christ or die; yet they rebuked the persecutor with such boldness that he said even the men had not insulted him so contemptuously. So great was their faith that not one woman was found to deny Christ in all Najran, although some of them suffered torments more bitter than most of the men. In alliance with Byzantium, the Ethiopian King Elesbaan liberated Najran from Dhu Nuwas soon after and raised up churches in honour of the Martyrs. Najran became a place of pilgrimage until the rise of Islam a century later.

At the end of his life King Elesbaan, who was also called Caleb, retired into solitude as a hermit; he sent his crown to Jerusalem as an offering to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He also is commemorated on this day as a saint. Saint Arethas' name in Arabic, Harith, means "plowman, tiller," much the same as "George" in Greek.' (Great Horologion)

Ethiopia is still a Christian nation, surrounded by Islamic states. The late Emperor Haile Selasse's name means, in Ethiopian, "Power of the Trinity."

Troparion — Tone 1
Through the sufferings which Your holy martyrs Arethas and his companions / endured for Your sake, O Lord, / we beseech You, O Lover of mankind: / heal all of our infirmities.

Kontakion — Tone 4
Today the radiant feast of the passion-bearers Arethas and his companions / comes to us as a herald of joy; / as we celebrate it we glorify the Lord on high.

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