Synaxis of the Holy glorious Forerunner and Baptist John the Baptist We received upfront with God lit to celebrate the holy day of Epiphany the Synaxis of the Most Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, as minister to the mystery of divine baptism. Drafted the festival this and other fairs of Saint John, so do not let the silence that none of the miracles. On the same day we remember and transfer pantimis hand of Saint John to Vasilida cities, which is as follows: In the city Sebaste, which is said to have buried the body of John the Baptist, was the evangelist Luke, who took the right hand that Prophet body and went to the city of Antioch. The hand of the Baptist performed a there numerous miracles, including the following. There was a dragon, a huge serpent, which nest in the limits of the city, which its inhabitants and the pagans honored with an annual sacrifice. When the time came, one was drawn by the Christians to offer to the beast his little girl. Because the dragon he came crawling out of its nest, showing an unexpected sight, and with huge open mouth accept the victim and maul with his teeth. For this reason the father of her daughter implored with sighs God and the Baptist to relieve his daughter from the bitter death. So sofizetai this: He asks to pray the holy hand of the Forerunner. And while it could follow, secretly cut with the teeth of the thumb and fingers out of the temple having achieved his goal. Well, when was the day of sacrifice and attended the people to see the sight, appear for the father bringing his daughter. He approached the terrible serpent, and when he saw it to gape and ask the victim, dart into the throat of the sacred finger, which immediately led to the death of the reptile. When this happened, the true father returned to live his daughter, narrating the paradox of salvation, and the crowd of people surprised about the great miracle anepempe thanks to God and the Baptist, while built and maximum temple in honor of John the Baptist. It is said that during the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross raised this fair hand of the high priest, and when lifting sometimes extends sometimes shrinks. And when extended means that there will be fruit euphoria, and when retracted, there will be concerns poverty. Thats why many of them occasionally kings wished to seize the holy hand of the Forerunner, predominantly not Konstantinos and Romanos by Porphyrogenitus. Well, and while they reigned, a deacon of the Church of Antioch, named Job asked and took with him the holy hand of the Forerunner, time of epilychnias sequence, in which a habit, as delivered to the Christians, might be the sanctification. The holy hand of the great prophet filochristos the king kataspastike with lust and apethese palaces. Consists not in this congregation Forakio . The congregation of St. John the Baptist gives rise to the hymns of the Church to show the awful big personality with diverse virtues. And first of hymns note that the beatitude of St. John of the Church recommends that the glorification of Jesus Christ. Paneffime precursor Christ ... in devoutly blessed, Christ doxazomen. Because of course if St. John is so large in the ecclesiastical firmament, is why was associated with the Lord as a prophet and forerunner, as Baptist and Martyrdom. From the Lord got any light and any value of John, with full awareness of this. That is why it is the lamp that revealed the brightness of the glory of the Father, Jesus Christ. As a lamp seems common knowledge of the glory of the Father brightness, Fanenton college (San lamp revealed in all its radiance of the glory of the Father, who appeared with the body). And this is also why the main virtue was the virtue of humility, the condition for the existence of Gods grace in man. Forward in Christ feels the vast nothingness of CDR am capable, fiber kypsas rabies the shoe strap that. Ive have need of in your baptism and thou erchi to me? The emphasis of the prophetic and precursor component to St. John is the core of poetry of hymnographers of saints. St. John sent by God to prepare the way of Christs presence. Illuminate us, the fotisanta every man, when he saw the Baptist ... deiknysin him and saith per folks ∙ see the lytroumenos Israel, free us from the damage (When he saw the Baptist our lighting that illuminated every man, Jesus Christ shows and tells the people: to the one who redeems Israel, who frees us from wear). His paths proitoimasas Lord, marched before him prophets (Preparing the streets of the Lord, and marched before him, the prophets). The extended arm even of Saint John the Baptist and the finger with which indicated the Lord to his disciples in the Jordan River, are the central objects which uses the hymnographer since the eve of the feast of the Epiphany, in Doxastikon of Idiomela of Th hours to demonstrate just that is the Baptist Lord. Poetry here off and goes rocketing lyricism: thine hand the apsamenin Akiratos the top of the despot, meth Respondent and ring him to us kathypedeixas, wave for us, baptism, as boldness hath pollin (Your hand touched Panachrantou top of the despot, and the finger of which hand our suggested, lifted for us, baptism, because you have a lot of boldness before Him). The precursor element of the saint had however started very early. St. Baptist not daktylodeiktouse Christ only in the desert or the time of baptism. He recognize the Messiahship and His sue had already from the womb of the mother. The time of the visit of our Lords Mother Mary in her cousin Elizabeth after the Annunciation, when the unborn John leaped in her womb pregnant woman gerontisas mother, was the beginning of a precursor mission. Saint hymnographer the notes multiply Full Event of the Holy Spirit yet ventricle ing Mother, from within and alleged skirtimati Terpni the virginity fruit rejoicing eminysas, and worshiped, pansevasmie prophets (become full of the Holy Spirit, even when ferosoun inside the abdomen your mother, and sue chairontas with Terpni frisk the fruit of virginity, Jesus Christ, and worship him, the prophet pansevasmie). And even more: paved, when hymnography, the coming of Christ into Hades, when He found there three-day after the expiration of the crucifixion sacrifice. Rejoice and evingeliso percent in Hades fanerothenta God in the flesh (happy evangelistikes and to users in Hades God manifested as man). The hymns of the Church can not be mentioned extensively in the vision of God in the lives of the saint. Provided the net and isangelis state of (emerged as purity utensil, supernatural virtue lampidosin iglaismenos, angel isangelon evingelisato Zacharias attached Venerable) - one without preconditions can not be vision of God - God gave him the grace of tunneling his spiritual eyes to see the glory of the Triune God, at the time of the Baptism of the Lord. Ypsothen prosevlepsas wise John Baptist, the Father of glory ineffable, Son ∙ in water and the Spirit saw, outgoing as peleian, launched and illuminating the ends ∙ dione Trinity in mystipolon anamelpontes, your We honor the divine panigyrin (By the grace of God wise saw John the Baptist, the ineffable glory of the Father, the Son into the water. And the Spirit saw that departed as a dove, and that cleans and brightens the ends. So glorify as adept in the Trinity and the divine honor thy feast ). And this is a truth that must be emphasized: the vision of the Epiphany by St. Baptist was vision and others who attended the Jordan River. John only, as of course attendees angels, heard the voice of God the Father and He saw the Holy Spirit as a dove to fly above the baptized Christ. Being prophets polytropos etheasanto and ainigmatodos proekiryxan, this vaptisai in Jordan katixiothis ∙ voice te akikoas patrician ouranothen, testified that the sonship ∙ and Spirit saw a dove-like, his voice drawing on the baptized (He who the prophets in many ways saw and enigmatic way proekiryxan, this worthy to baptisms in the Jordan. And heard the fatherly voice from heaven, who gave testimony to the sonship of Christ. And the Spirit saw the form of a dove, which brought the voice on the baptized) . The hymnographers, we said, taking the occasion to see other sides of Saint John: remember that the Lord praised him more than all prophets and other people (Prophet in proefise Prophets predominates in gennitois Despot major women everything) that was a great fighter for the truth, so he gave his life for this with a martyrs death (as a lamb acacia ierourgoumenos prosinechthis sacrifice), that was the mediator of the Old and New Testament (Prophets of a stamp ginoskomen as the Old and New mesitefsanta ). And of course that his preaching was that is the way all of our salvation: repentance. Wisdom of God kosmoumenos, proelilythas christokiryx ∙ crying gar fact scream Repent voice (jewelry wisdom of God, art thou come to preach Christ. Because you have become the voice of what cries out in the wilderness aloud: repent). Now that St. John we supervise from above, from the Kingdom of God which is, lets please with Brokerages to preserve our way to follow this divine preaching and to stand firm in inserts teachings and salutary doctrines of (supernatants us now, happy, supervising, tais Sais intercessions preservation, interim divine kerygmatic your next, panolvie and didachais insisting precursor.
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