Services at St. Andrew

Saturday 10/8

@9:30am Steven and Jennifer (Balva) Vezos of Miami FL will baptize their son.

@11am Anthony and Victoria (Stamoutsos) Pilovsky of New Providence will baptize their daughter.

Sunday 10/9
+3rd Sunday of Luke +Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom @9:30am

Artoclasia Service: NATIONAL CHURCH MUSIC SUNDAY

Saint Andrew will observe Church Music Sunday with the Service of Artoclasia for the health and wellbeing of our chanters and choir members. On this day, we will recognize those women and men who have heard and responded to the Lord’s invitation to be church musicians: that is, parish chanters and choir singers. As church musicians, these people represent the laity in the liturgical dialogue of our worship services. Their prayers in song enhance the beauty of our worship.

Memorial Services:

A 40 DAY MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held for the repose of the soul of +Evangelos "Angelo" Karnegis, beloved husband of Paula (Colombaris), father of Nicholas and Kelly (Daniel) Santero, grandfather of Colton, brother of: George Carnegis, Anna Mardas, Connie Schmidt, Maria Karapanagiotis and Pat Bzdek.

A THREE-YEAR MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held for the repose od the soul of +Kyle Marshall, son of Katherine Giokas-Marshall and William Marshall, brother of Sydney, and grandson of Kiki Giokas and Linda Marshall. Relatives and friends are invited to join the family downstairs in the social hall for refreshments in honor of his blessed memory.

May their memory be eternal! Αιωνίαημνήμηαυτών!

Religious Education Open House: on Sunday 10-9 after Liturgy

Meet your children’s Teachers and review their Religious Material for the year.

Sunday 10/16
+Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council +Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom @9:30am

Participation in services is also available via livestream - go to: Home | St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church (orthodoxws.com) and choose LIVESTREAM on the Menu bar

Prayers/Liturgy can always be found at: https://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/public/dcs/dcs.html

Online Giving System: Website: https://www.standrewgonj.org/ and choose PayPal / online WeShare

Announcements

Mr & Miss GOYA Pageant: is on Sunday October 9^th at the Hanover Manor. Congratulations Despina Sedereas and Evangelos Clapsis for being our Saint Andrew representatives. We wish all the participants blessing in all their endeavors.

CAR RAFFLE was drawn last Sunday 9/25 at 1PM
Congratulations to the Winning Ticket Number 01630
2022 /MERCEDES-BENZ C300 W4 MSRP $53,395 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

THANK YOU to all the volunteeers who worked at last Saturday's GYRO TAKE OUT and all who supported it by placing a food order.

Sunday school students please sit in reserved pews B1-B3 (center left) after receiving Holy Communion, please proceed to your classrooms via the Social Hall.

GOYA Members please sit in reserved pews A3-A5 (extreme left)

SUNDAY COFFEE Hour is hosted by the Saint Andrew PTA
Bagels are donated by Jimmy Psaras of ALFA BAGELS on Route 10 in Randolph, NJ
Coffee is donated by Aristotle Leontopoulos of Coffee Associates in Edgewater, NJ

Coffee Hour ON Sunday:10/16 DOP, 10/23 GOYA, 10/30 Bakaliko, 11/6 Philoptochos, 11/13 PTA, 11/20 DOP, 11/27 Bakaliko, 12/4 Philoptochos, 12/11 PTA, 12/18 DOP, 12/25 Christmas

GREEK DANCE Program will begin Thursday September 15^th
INFO & REG GREEK SCHOOL | St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church (orthodoxws.com)
Please complete: Family & Student Information Form 2022-23
and indicate dance level
Group 1 (ages K thru age 7) 6:30pm
Group 2 (ages 8-11) 7:15pm
Group 3 GOYA (ages 12-18) 8:00pm

GOYA
Please use the link below to register. ..... ... Registration costs $125 for the first child and $100 for siblings. Please pay the registration on the WeShare Link, under GOYA Event. Registration helps subsidize many of our events: Volleyball, Basketball, District and Youth Commission fees, Pizza socials, Mr & Miss GOYA, Religious Retreats, Olympics Snacks, Senior Send Off (just to name a few events).
WE SHARE LINK

St. Andrew GOYA Registration 2022-2023

Mondays: @7:00-8:30pm GOYA Basketball /gym

Tuesdays: @7:30 -9PM GOYA Volleyball /gym

Wednesdays: 7:00-8:30pm GOYA Basketball /gym

Thusdays: @8:00pm Greek Dance GROUP 3 / GOYA

Knitting & Pillow Ministry: Will meet on the following Wednesdays to knit blankets and scarves as well as sew and stuff pillows. Join us on 10/12, 10/26, 11/9, & 12/14 | Let us know if you can join us or just come pick up some yarn to knit at home.

save the dates

60^th Anniversary Gala Sunday November 13^th at the Meadow Wood in Randolph NJ see flyer below (PLEASE RSVP BY Oct 30th)

Fr. John's Message

LORD’S Voice

Sunday, October 9, 2022 3rd Sunday of Luke

AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR

As Jesus Christ was heading towards the city of Nain, he ended up in front of a crowd of people accompanying the body of a young man, who was the only son of a widow. Before this event, the Lord felt the woman's pain and, approaching her, He told her not to cry. Then, after touching the dead body of the young man, He resurrected him, by asking him to get up from the funeral bed. The people who were present, seeing this miracle, felt awe and gave praise, "that God visited his people".

So, we notice that our Lord was saddened, seeing the dead body of the young man, and the crowd that was with the widowed mother. His sorrow is particularly related to one of His two natures; His humanity, His human feelings, were manifested in the same way, as happens to every person who witnesses such a scene, that is, the burial of a young person. Parents and relatives are certainly inconsolable. We chant during the Epitaphion Lamentation during the Matins of Holy Saturday: "Oh my sweet spring, my sweetest child, where did your set?", rendering the lamentation of the Most Holy Theotokos before the dead body of her Son. Faced with the fact of death, and indeed of a young person, it is difficult for one to ease the pain of parents. Often, just supporting the bereaved, has great value.

Christ and human pain

As far as the divinity of Jesus Christ is concerned, Christ is concerned, one could wonder why He felt grief, when as God, He knew that He could resurrect the young man. However, from the New Testament, we also know the case of the death of His friend, Lazarus. And there, our Lord, seeing the people who mourned and the sisters of the deceased, He was so sorry that, as mentioned in the holy texts, He wept. Why did He express Himself in this way, while He knew that He could resurrect him?

His sorrow and tears are not only about His human nature, but also the divine one. The Creator of everything, the One who creates, Who blesses and sanctifies the universe, the treasure of goods and granter of life, self-life, it is not possible for Him to accept and be reconciled with death and decay. The state of createdness goes against incorruption, with which the Triune God endowed us at Creation. With original sin, decay entered creation, and the image of God was tarnished. Man was created to resemble God through communion with Him. Death is against life. Jesus Christ, before the event of the burial, was saddened because He saw that the creature, which He Himself had created, ended up in the grave because of the corruption of human nature. If we humans made something with love and zeal, something beautiful and worthwhile, and then we saw it in the trash can useless, wouldn't this cause us grief? Much more so, the same applies to God, who created everything only from love, because He Himself is love.

The certainty of eternity

Decay as a state of creation, is in contrast to the loving and salvific plan of God. Our Participation in Divine Communion, in the living body and blood of the risen God, is the gift that He offers us for eternal life, He who, not tolerating death, He abolished it with His sacrifice and He restored its tarnished image. "Unto forgiveness of sins and eternal live" the priest prays during the imparting of the Immaculate Mysteries to the faithful. So let us approach the sacred Chalice for Divine Communion with respect, faith, and love, let us prepare ourselves spiritually with confession of our sins and our daily vigilance, and let us be sanctified, by partaking of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Archim. A.A,

Daily Calendar

Monday 10/10

@7-8:30pm GOYA Basketball /gym

Tuesday 10/11

@7:30 -9 pm GOYA Volleyball /gym

Wednesday 10/12

@7-8:30pm GOYA Basketball /gym

Thursday 10/13

@4:30pm Hellenic Afternoon School Classes

Greek Dance ●Group 1 @6:30pm ●Group 2 @7:15pm ● GROUP 3 /GOYA @8:00pm

@7pm Bible Study in Fr John’s Office

Saturday 10/15

St Andrew Philoptochos SBA Retreat

Sunday 10/16

+Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council +Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom @9:30am

Memorial Service: +Michael Protopapas, + Vasiliki and +Demetrios Grapsas

Sunday School all Grades age 3 through High School classes after Holy Communion

GOYA GAMES at Saint Andrew Fairview @ Randolph @2:30 VB J | @3:30 VB Sr | @4:30 BB-Sr | @5:30 BB-Jr

Monday 10/17

@7-8:30pm GOYA Basketball /gym

Tuesday 10/18

+Luke the Evangelist +Orthros @8am & +Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom @9:15am

@7:30pm Parish Council Monthly Meeting (rescheduled form 10/17)

@7:30 -9 pm GOYA Volleyball /gym

Wednesday 10/19

@7-8:30pm GOYA Basketball /gym

Thursday 10/20

@4:30pm Hellenic Afternoon School Classes

Greek Dance ●Group 1 @6:30pm ●Group 2 @7:15pm ● GROUP 3 /GOYA @8:00pm

@7pm Bible Study

News - Flyers - Registrations - Other

National Church Music Sunday

Saint Andrew will observe Church Music Sunday with the Service of Artoclasia for the health and wellbeing of our chanters and choir members.

Bible Study

Thursdays at 7pm on Oct. 13, 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10 & 17

letter from Fr John

in English & Greek /come celebrate the many blessings of our community.

60th Anniversary GALA

The 60th Anniversary of Saint Andrew Greek Orthodox Church will be an Elegant Gala Celebration on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH 2022 |RESERVATIONS & SPONSORSHIP LINK https://tinyurl.com/4zvfha8c (RSVP BY OCTOBER 30TH)

60th Anniversary - Saint Andrew

Reservation & Sponsorship

eGiving

eGiving is coming to Saint Andrew!

Family & Youth Info

Lord's Voice

FONI KYRIOU in Greek 10-9-22

Community Health Events

October 2022 - Atlantic Health System

TRUNK OR TREAT

Friday Oct 28 AT 6PM |rsvp https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4FADA828A6F58-standrew2 by 10-21-22

Prayer List

Prayer for a Sick Person:

Heavenly Father, physician of our souls and bodies, who have sent Your only-begotten Son and our Lord Jesus Christ to heal every sickness and infirmity, visit and heal (me) Your servant from all physical and spiritual ailments through the grace of Your Christ. Grant (me) patience in this sickness, strength of body and spirit, and recovery of health. Lord, You have taught us through Your word to pray for each other that we may be healed. I pray that You heal (me) as Your servant and grant (me) the gift of complete health. For You are the source of healing and to You I give glory, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen

Please keep these names in your prayers

Panagiota, Thomas, Robert, Eleni Leslie, Martin, Christos, Paula, Vakerie, David, Barbara, Cesar, Angeliki, Maria, Demetri, Karen, Andrew, Stan, Vasiliki, Marios, Theodore, Gregory, Fr. Konstantine, Mary, Eftihia, Ioannis, David , Andreas, Robert, Antonis, Susan, Alexandros, Gregory, Sophia, Tara, children and families of Ukraine, Ioanna, Landon, Lueda, Evangelia, Christine, Vasiliki, Anastasia, Aikaterini, Cynthia, Demetrios, Robin, Paraskevi, Theodore, Eleni, Athena, Katerina, Sophia, Eleni, Corinne, Maria, Ioannis, Eleana, Demetra, Kenneth, Eleni, Anastasios, Gregory, John, Marny, Chari, Nikolaos, Janet, Melissa, Marty, Andreas, Fotini, Georgia, Pamela, Haralambos, Photeine, Christina, Michael, Adrianne, George, Anastasia, Nicholas, Michael, Alexandra, Sofia, Joseph, Vasilios…

If you would like us to remember you or your loved one in our prayers, please contact the office. 973-584-0388 or send us an email to info@standrewgonj.org

Names will be kept on this list for approximately 3 months. Please resubmit Names if needed. Fr. John will pray for the Names above during the Proskomide “Offering of gifts” during the first part of the Divine Liturgy when our priest prepares the mystical gifts of bread and wine. Please keep these names in your prayers as well.

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Sixth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Luke 24:36-53

At that time, having risen from the dead, Jesus went up and stood among His disciples and said to them, "Peace be with you." But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; handle Me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have." And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, He said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" They gave Him a piece of broiled fish [and some honeycomb], and He took it and ate before them. Then He said to them, "These are My words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about Me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled." Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name in all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." Then He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up His hands, He blessed them. While He blessed them, He parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the Temple blessing God.

Sixth Orthros Gospel
Κατὰ Λουκᾶν 24:36-53

Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἀναστὰς ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐκ νεκρῶν ἔστη ἐν μέσῳ τῶν Μαθητῶν, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν. Πτοηθέντες δὲ καὶ ἔμφοβοι γενόμενοι, ἐδόκουν πνεῦμα θεωρεῖν. Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Τί τεταραγμένοι ἐστέ, καὶ διατὶ διαλογισμοὶ ἀναβαίνουσιν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν; ἴδετε τὰς χεῖράς μου καὶ τοὺς πόδας μου, ὅτι αὐτὸς ἐγώ εἰμι, ψηλαφήσατέ με καὶ ἴδετε, ὅτι πνεῦμα σάρκα καὶ ὀστέα οὐκ ἔχει, καθὼς ἐμὲ θεωρεῖτε ἔχοντα. Καὶ τοῦτο εἰπών, ἐπέδειξεν αὐτοῖς τὰς χεῖρας καὶ τοὺς πόδας. Ἒτι δὲ ἀπιστούντων αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῆς χαρᾶς, καὶ θαυμαζόντων, εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Ἔχετέ τι βρώσιμον ἐνθάδε; Οἱ δὲ ἐπέδωκαν αὐτῷ ἰχθύος ὀπτοῦ μέρος, καὶ ἀπὸ μελισσίου κηρίου. Καὶ λαβών, ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν ἔφαγεν. Εἶπε δὲ αὐτοῖς· Οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι, οὓς ἐλάλησα πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἔτι ὢν σὺν ὑμῖν, ὅτι δεῖ πληρωθῆναι πάντα τὰ γεγραμμένα ἐν τῷ νόμῳ Μωσέως καὶ Προφήταις καὶ Ψαλμοῖς περὶ ἐμοῦ. Τότε διήνοιξεν αὐτῶν τὸν νοῦν, τοῦ συνιέναι τὰς Γραφάς· καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Ὃτι οὕτω γέγραπται, καὶ οὕτως εἴδει παθεῖν τὸν Χριστόν, καὶ ἀναστῆναι ἐκ νεκρῶν τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ, καὶ κηρυχθῆναι ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ μετάνοιαν καὶ ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν εἰς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, ἀρξάμενον ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλήμ. Ὑμεῖς δέ ἐστε μάρτυρες τούτων. Καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἀποστέλλω τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ πατρός μου ἐφ' ὑμᾶς· ὑμεῖς δὲ καθίσατε ἐν τῇ πόλει Ἱερουσαλήμ, ἕως οὗ ἐνδύσησθε δύναμιν ἐξ ὕψους. Ἐξήγαγε δὲ αὐτοὺς ἔξω εἰς Βηθανίαν, καὶ ἐπάρας τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ, εὐλόγησεν αὐτούς. Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ εὐλογεῖν αὐτόν αὐτούς, διέστη ἀπ' αὐτῶν, καὶ ἀνεφέρετο εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν. Καὶ αὐτοὶ, προσκυνήσαντες αὐτόν, ὑπέστρεψαν εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ μετὰ χαρᾶς μεγάλης. Καὶ ἦσαν διαπαντός ἐν τῷ Ἱερῷ, αἰνοῦντες καὶ εὐλογοῦντες τὸν Θεόν. Ἀμήν.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 75.11,1.
Make your vows to the Lord our God and perform them.
Verse: God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:16-18; 7:1.

Brethren, you are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Προκείμενον. Plagal Fourth Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 75.11,1.
Εὔξασθε καὶ ἀπόδοτε Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ ἡμῶν.
Στίχ. Γνωστὸς ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ ὁ Θεός, ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ μέγα τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ.

τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Κορινθίους β' 6:16-18, 7:1.

Ἀδελφοί, ὑμεῖς ἐστε ναὸς Θεοῦ ζῶντος, καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ θεός ὅτι Ἐνοικήσω ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσω· καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῶν θεός, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι λαός. Διὸ, Ἐξέλθετε ἐκ μέσου αὐτῶν καὶ ἀφορίσθητε, λέγει κύριος, καὶ ἀκαθάρτου μὴ ἅπτεσθε· κἀγὼ εἰσδέξομαι ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἔσομαι ὑμῖν εἰς πατέρα, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἔσεσθέ μοι εἰς υἱοὺς καὶ θυγατέρας, λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ. Ταύτας οὖν ἔχοντες τὰς ἐπαγγελίας, ἀγαπητοί, καθαρίσωμεν ἑαυτοὺς ἀπὸ παντὸς μολυσμοῦ σαρκὸς καὶ πνεύματος, ἐπιτελοῦντες ἁγιωσύνην ἐν φόβῳ θεοῦ.

Gospel Reading

3rd Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 7:11-16

At that time, Jesus went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep." And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, arise." And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and "God has visited his people!"

3rd Sunday of Luke
Κατὰ Λουκᾶν 7:11-16

Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἐπορεύετο εἰς πόλιν καλουμένην Ναΐν· καὶ συνεπορεύοντο αὐτῷ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἱκανοὶ καὶ ὄχλος πολύς. ὡς δὲ ἤγγισε τῇ πύλῃ τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐξεκομίζετο τεθνηκὼς υἱὸς μονογενὴς τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ αὕτη ἦν χήρα, καὶ ὄχλος τῆς πόλεως ἱκανὸς ἦν σὺν αὐτῇ. καὶ ἰδὼν αὐτὴν ὁ Κύριος ἐσπλαγχνίσθη ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ· μὴ κλαῖε· καὶ προσελθὼν ἥψατο τῆς σοροῦ, οἱ δὲ βαστάζοντες ἔστησαν, καὶ εἶπε· νεανίσκε, σοὶ λέγω, ἐγέρθητι. καὶ ἀνεκάθισεν ὁ νεκρὸς καὶ ἤρξατο λαλεῖν, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὸν τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ. ἔλαβε δὲ φόβος πάντας καὶ ἐδόξαζον τὸν Θεόν, λέγοντες ὅτι προφήτης μέγας ἐγήγερται ἐν ἡμῖν, καὶ ὅτι ἐπεσκέψατο ὁ Θεὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ.

Saints and Feasts

October 09

The Righteous Patriarch Abraham and his nephew Lot

The holy Patriarch Abraham, born a pagan, ten generations after Noah, when the knowledge of God had perished from among men, became the beginning of God's dispensation for the universal renewal and salvation of man. He was called out of his country--the land of the Chaldees, that is, Mesopotamia--to the land of Canaan, and received the promise that through his seed all the nations of the earth should be blessed; through his singular faith in the promises of God, he was justified before the giving of the Law and the coming of Grace; through his willingness to sacrifice Isaac, he portrayed the love wherewith God loved the world in sacrificing His only-begotten Son. The greatness of Abraham, and the trials that he and his righteous nephew Lot underwent, are set forth in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, chapters twelve through twenty-five. See also the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers, December 11-17.

October 09

Poplia the Confessor of Antioch

October 09

3rd Sunday of Luke

October 16

Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council

On the Sunday that falls on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we chant the Service to the 350 holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which gathered in Nicaea in 787 under the holy Patriarch Tarasius and during the reign of the Empress Irene and her son, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, to refute the Iconoclast heresy, which had received imperial support beginning with the Edict issued in 726 by Emperor Leo the Isaurian. Many of the holy Fathers who condemned Iconoclasm at this holy Council later died as Confessors and Martyrs for the holy Icons during the second assult of Iconoclasm in the ninth century, especially during the reigns of Leo the Armenian and Theophilus.

October 11

Philip the Apostle of the 70, one of the 7 Deacons

Saint Philip, who had four daughters that prophesied, was from Caesarea of Palestine. He preached throughout Samaria; it was he also who met the eunuch of Candace, the Queen of the Ethiopians, as the eunuch was reading the Prophet Esaias, and he instructed and baptized him (Acts 8:26-39). He reposed in Tralles of Asia Minor while preaching the Gospel.

October 14

Kosmas the Hagiopolite

Saint Cosmas was from the Holy City, Jerusalem, and was a contemporary and peer of Saint John of Damascus (Dec. 4), with whom also he was reared when, because of his orphanhood he was adopted by Sergius, Saint John's father, and with whom he had the same instructor. About the year 743, he was elected Bishop of Maiuma, a coastal city of Palestine, aforetime under the jurisdiction of Gaza, with the name Port Gaza. During the reign of Saint Constantine the Great, it became a separate township and at that time was renamed Constantia, after Constantine, the son of the Emperor (see Sozomen, Eccl. Hist., V:3). Cosmas became an excellent hymnographer, from whence he is called "the Composer and Melodist," Among his many compositions are the Canon of the Cross (Sept. 14) and the Canon for the Nativity of Christ, "Christ is born, give ye glory."

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

From on high didst Thou descend, O Compassionate One; to burial of three days hast Thou submitted that Thou mightest free us from our passions. O our Life and Resurrection, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Ἐξ ὕψους κατῆλθες ὁ εὔσπλαγχνος, ταφὴν καταδέξω τριήμερον, ἵνα ἡμᾶς ἐλευθερώσῃς τῶν παθῶν. Ἡ ζωὴ καὶ ἡ Ἀνάστασις ἡμῶν, Κύριε δόξα σοι.

Apolytikion for Apostle James, Son of Alphaeus in the Third Mode

O Holy Apostle James, intercede with the merciful God that He grant unto our souls forgiveness of offences.

Απόστολε Άγιε Ιάκωβε, πρέσβευε τώ ελεήμονι Θεώ ίνα πταισμάτων άφεσιν, παράσχη ταίς ψυχάς ημών.

Apolytikion for the Church in the First Mode

Hymn of the Apostle St. Andrew: As first of the Apostles to receive the call, and very brother of the prince of them, intercede O Andrew, with the Master of all of us, peace to all the world to grant, and to our souls His great mercy.

Απολυτίκιο του Αποστόλου Ανδρέου: Ως των Αποσόλων πρωτόκλητος, και του κορυφαίου αυτάδελφος, τον Δεσπότην των όλων Ανδρέα ικέτευε, ειρήνην τη οικουμένη δωρήσασθαι, και ταις ψυχαίς ημών το μέγα έλεος

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.

Προστασία τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἀκαταίσχυντε, μεσιτεία πρὸς τὸν Ποιητὴν ἀμετάθετε. Μὴ παρίδῃς ἁμαρτωλῶν δεήσεων φωνάς, ἀλλὰ πρόφθασον, ὡς ἀγαθή, εἰς τὴν βοήθειαν ἡμῶν, τῶν πιστῶς κραυγαζόντων σοι· Τάχυνον εἰς πρεσβείαν, καὶ σπεῦσον εἰς ἱκεσίαν, ἡ προστατεύουσα ἀεί, Θεοτόκε, τῶν τιμώντων σε.

Wisdom of the Fathers

That dead man was being buried, and many friends were conducting him to his tomb. But there meets him Christ, the Life and Resurrection, for He is the destroyer of death and of corruption; He it is "in Whom we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28); He it is Who has restored the nature of man to that which it originally was; and has set free our death-fraught flesh from the bonds of death.

St. Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, Homily 36.42, p. 153., 5th Century

The virgin's son met the widow's son. He became like a sponge for her tears and as life for the death of her son. Death turned about in its den and turned its back on the victorious one.

St. Ephrem the Syrian

Commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron, 6.23. (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. vol. 3: Luke, Intervarsity Press)

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