January 26, 2014 THIRTY-SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTEOST. Our Venerable Father Xenophon and His Wife Mary. Our Holy Father Joseph, Archbishop of Thessalonica. Epistle: 1 Tim. 1:15-17 Gospel: Luke 18:35-43 According to the Gregorian Calendar for Pascha Troparion: Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; for the Lord has shown the might of his arm. By his death the Lord has trampled Death; he has become the first-born of the dead; he has delivered us from the depths of Hades and has granted great mercy to the world. Kontakion: Today, you arose from the grave, O merciful Lord; you led us out of the gates of Death. Today, Adam exults and Eve rejoices. With them, the prophets and patriarchs ever praise the might of your divine power. Common for a Venerable Troparion - Tone 8: In you, O father, the divine image was strictly preserved; taking up your cross, you followed Christ. You taught us by example how to spurn the flesh, for it passes away, and how to care for the soul, which is immortal. Therefore, O venerable Euthymius, your soul rejoices with the angels. Kontakion - Tone 2: You armed yourself in a godly way with purity of soul, and you wielded unceasing prayer as a mighty spear, piercing the armies of demons. Our father Euthymius, pray without ceasing for all of us. The Synaxion (Lives of the Saints) Our venerable father Xenophon and his wife Mary. Xenophon was a Senator in Constantinople, where he led a holy Christian life with his wife Mary and their two sons, Arcadius and John. On their way to Phoenicia to study law, the young men were shipwrecked and barely managed to escape with their lives. The parents set out to find them, and, on discovering them in a monastery in Jerusalem, they too entered the monastic life, equal to one another in the ardor of their souls. (520)
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