Sunday, October 19, 2008

Eighteenth Sunday of Pentecost

Scripture readings


Saints and Martyrs

  • St John of Kronstadt
  • Holy Prophet Joel
  • Holy Martyr Varus
  • St Ethbin, the Monk
  • St Frideswide of Oxford, the Abbess
  • Translation of the Relics of St John, Abbot of Rila in Bulgaria


The Living in need of our Prayers

  • Olga (Soroka)
  • Kathleen
  • Luba
  • June
  • the newly Baptized child of God Alexander, Romeo, Christina and family, Lučiana and Dragoş
  • the Archpriest Ilyan

The Departed we Commemorated today


  • Aspasia
  • Yevgyeni
  • Demetrios
  • Ingraham-Mervyn

St John of Kronstadt


Born October 19, 1829, in Sura, reposed December 20, 1908, in Kronstadt.
"Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy,
but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the Lord,
Who has found you worthy to suffer for Him,
by struggling against the subtlety of the serpent,
and to be wounded for Him at every hour; for had you not lived piously,
and endeavored to become united to God,
the enemy would not have attacked and tormented you."

Troparion
With the apostles your message has gone out to the ends of the world,
And with the confessors you suffered for Christ!
You are like the hierarchs through your preaching of the word;
With the righteous you are radiant with the grace of God.
The Lord has exalted your humility above the heavens
And given us your name as a source of miracles.
O wonder-worker, living in Christ for ever,
Have mercy on those beset by troubles;
And hear us when we cry out in faith, O our beloved shepherd John!
Kontakion

This day the pastor of Kronstadt
Appears before the throne of God
Praying fervently on behalf of the faithful
To the chief pastor Christ, who has promised:
"I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it!"




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