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The Annunciation of the Theotokos. Matins and Divine Liturgy 7:30-10:30am.

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Από την ομιλία της Θεολόγου κ. Ελισάβετ Σπηλιώτη "Νηστεύσωμεν αδελφοί σωματικώς, νηστεύσωμεν και πνευματικώς" Α μέρος.

Tomorrow Wednesday 8th of March our Holy Orthodox Church celebrates: Our Righteous Father Theophylaktos the Confessor, Bishop of Nicomedia His Eminence Metropolitan Theophylaktos of Tripoli and all Libya will celebrate the Pre-Sanctified Liturgy at our Church from 6-7:30pm. Saint Theophylaktos (Theophylact) was from the East, and his native city is unknown. He Theophylaktos lived at Constantinople in the eighth century during the time of the Iconoclast heresy. After the death of the iconoclast emperor Leo IV the Khazar (775-780 A.D.), Emperor Constantine VI (780-797 A.D.) ascended the throne. At the same time, the holy Patriarch Paul (commemorated August 30), not having the strength to continue guiding the flock in the face of iconoclasm, voluntarily resigned his office in 784 AD. Saint Tarasios (commemorated February 25) was chosen in his place. At that time, he was an eminent imperial counsellor. Under the supervision of the new Patriarch, the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787) was convened to condemn the Iconoclast heresy. A relatively peaceful time began for the Church, and monasteries again began to fill with monks. Saint Theophylaktos, a gifted disciple of Saint Tarasios, with the blessing of the Patriarch, went to a monastery on the coast of the Black Sea with Saint Michael (commemorated May 23). God granted the zealous ascetics by their God-pleasing labours and intense prayer the gift of wonderworking. During a drought, when the workers in the field were weakened by thirst, the saints prayed and an empty vessel became filled with enough water to last the entire day. After several years in the monastery, Patriarch Tarasios consecrated them both as Bishops. Saint Michael was made Bishop of Synada, and Saint Theophylaktos was made Bishop of Nicomedia. Heading the Church of Nicomedia, Saint Theophylaktos cared for the flock entrusted to him. He built churches, hospices, homes for wanderers; he generously distributed alms, was the guardian of orphans, widows and the sick, and personally attended those afflicted with leprosy, not hesitating to wash their wounds. When the iconoclast Leo the Armenian (813-820 A.D.) came to the imperial throne, the terrible heresy burst forth with renewed strength. After the death of Saint Tarasios, his successor Saint Nicephoros (commemorated June 2) called together a number of Bishops to help him in fighting the iconoclasm of Emperor Leo the Armenian, who reigned from 813-820 A.D. Among them was Saint Euthymios, Bishop of Sardis (commemorated December 26), who had attended the holy Seventh Ecumenical Synod (Council) in 787 AD. St Euthymios was exiled three times for the sake of the holy icons, and for defying the Emperor Theophilos’ command to renounce the veneration of the icons, was scourged from head to foot until his whole body was one great wound, from which he died eight days later, about the year 830. Saint Joseph of Thessalonica (commemorated July 14); Saint Michael of Synnada (commemorated May 23); Saint Emilian, Bishop of Cyzicus (commemorated August 8); and Saint Theophylaktos, who boldly rebuked Leo to his face, telling him that because he despised the long-suffering of God, utter destruction was about to overtake him, and there would be none to deliver him. Leo the Armenian, according to the Saint’s prophecy, was slain in church on the eve of our Lord’s Nativity, in 820 AD. For his bold prophecy, Saint Theophylaktos was sent into exile to the fortress Strobilus (in Asia Minor), where he languished for 30 years until his death around 845 A.D. After the restoration of icon-veneration in the year 847 AD under the empress Saint Theodora (commemorated February 11) and her son Michael, the holy relics of Saint Theophylaktos were returned to Nicomedia. Dismissal Hymn (Plagal of Second Tone) You lived a life hidden in God, O all-famed Theophylaktos, but Christ revealed you to all as a shining light set upon the spiritual lamp-stand, and He placed in your hands the tablets of the Spirit’s doctrines; whereby do enlighten us. Kontakion (Third Tone) We praise you as a firm champion of Orthodoxy and a censor of heresy. And so we cry to you, “O Theophylaktos, divine initiate, save from every temptation those who faithfully hymn you, and pray that our souls may be saved”.

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