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Saints&Reading: Friday, March 24, 2023

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SAINT SOPHRONIUS, PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM (638)

Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, was born in Damascus around 560. From his youth, he was distinguished for his piety and love for classical studies. He was especially proficient in philosophy and was known as Sophronius the Wise. The future hierarch, however, sought the true philosophy of monasticism and conversations with the desert-dwellers.

He arrived in Jerusalem at the monastery of Saint Theodosius. There he became close with the hieromonk John Moschus, becoming his spiritual son and submitting himself to him in obedience. They visited several monasteries, writing down the lives and spiritual wisdom of the ascetics they met. Their renowned book, the LEIMONARION or SPIRITUAL MEADOW, emerged from these notes, which was highly esteemed at the Seventh Ecumenical Council.

To save themselves from the devastating incursions of the Persians, Saints John and Sophronius left Palestine and went to Antioch, and from there they went to Egypt. In Egypt, Saint Sophronius became seriously ill. During this time he decided to become a monk and was tonsured by Saint John Moschus.

After Saint Sophronius recovered his health, they both decided to remain in Alexandria. There they were received by the holy Patriarch John the Merciful (November 12), to whom they rendered great aid in the struggle against the Monophysite heresy. Saint Sophronius had an affliction of the eyes at Alexandria, and he turned with prayer and faith to the holy Unmercenaries Cyrus and John (January 31). He received healing in a church named for them. In gratitude, Saint Sophronius then wrote the Lives of these holy Unmercenaries.

When the barbarians began to threaten Alexandria, Patriarch John, accompanied by Saints Sophronius and John Moschus, set out for Constantinople, but he died along the way. Saints John Moschus and Sophronius then set out for Rome with eighteen other monks. Saint John Moschus died at Rome. His body was taken to Jerusalem by Saint Sophronius and buried at the monastery of Saint Theodosius.

In the year 628, Patriarch Zacharias of Jerusalem (609-633) returned from his captivity in Persia. After his death, the patriarchal throne was occupied for two years by Saint Modestus (December 18). After the death of Saint Modestus, Saint Sophronius was chosen Patriarch. Saint Sophronius toiled much for the welfare of the Jerusalem Church as its primate (634-644).

Toward the end of his life, Saint Sophronius and his flock lived through a two-year siege of Jerusalem by the Muslims. Worn down by hunger, the Christians finally agreed to open the city gates so the enemy could spare the holy places. But this condition was not fulfilled, and Saint Sophronius died in grief over the desecration of the Christian holy sites.

Written works by Patriarch Sophronius have come down to us in the area of dogmatics, and likewise his “Excursus on the Liturgy,” the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt (April 1), and about 950 troparia and stikheras from Pascha to the Ascension.

While still a hieromonk, Saint Sophronius reviewed and corrected the Rule of the monastery of Saint Savva the Sanctified (December 5). The saint’s three Canons for the Holy Forty-Day Great Fast are included in the contemporary Lenten Triodion

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VENERABLE ALEXEI of GOLOSEEVSKY SKETE, KIEV CAVE 1917)

Whenever people came to Mother Alypia (Avdeeva; c. 1910-1988) of the Goloseevsky Hermitage [named after the Goloseevsky district in Kiev.—Trans.], a renowned twentieth-century holy eldress, and sought her help, she would tell them first to go to the grave of Hieromonk Alexei (Shepelev). “Go to the cemetery! A saint lies there,” the blessed nun used to say. She knew about the elder’s sainthood, though he was canonized five years after her death.

“A little monk is coming!”

Several years before Venerable Alexei’s birth his mother, Maria Kuzminichna Shepeleva, knew that her child would be born with disability. She was warned about this beforehand by Archbishop Anthony (Smirnitsky) of Voronezh, who knew her very well. When they were present at the uncovering of the relics of the Holy Hierarch Metrophanes of Voronezh together, the archbishop suddenly said to Maria: “You will give birth to a son with a physical handicap. But do not let it grieve you as he will be a true servant of God.”

A few years later, on Bright Monday April 14/27, 1840, a boy was born in the Shepelev family and was named Vladimir. It turned out that the boy was dumb. But this physical impairment saved Vladimir from military conscription which was then compulsory for all children of noble families, and the Shepelevs family was of the nobility.

When the boy turned three, his father died. His mother Maria Kuzminichna played the main role in his upbringing, above all implanting Christian qualities in her son, namely mercy and godliness. They would often visit the Kitayevo Hermitage in Kiev, which at that time was famous for its holy elder—Schema-Hieromonk Théophile (Gorenkovsky), a fool-for-Christ. One day, seeing Vladimir with his mother in the yard, the elder greeted him with the words: “A little monk is coming! A little monk…” Another time he treated little Vladimir with pryaniks [traditional Russian honey or spicy cakes which are considered to be among the main symbols of Russia.—Trans.], saying: “Now fall on pryaniks! And when you grow up, you will receive Christ.” By these words the elder most probably predicted Vladimir’s future priesthood.

“In Truth He Is Risen!”

When Vladimir reached the age of twelve, he was exempt from attending a military school on account of his dumbness. But his mother was in a very distressed state of mind and dreamed of her son’s healing. She had a strong spiritual bond with Metropolitan Philaret (Amfiteatrov) and turned to him for help and counsel. The hierarch consoled her and invited them to his house church for the service on Pascha Sunday. When they came up to him to kiss the cross after the service, the metropolitan blessed Vladimir to kiss his palitsa1 as well. After that he said to the boy: “Christ Is Risen!” But the adolescent was silent. Metropolitan Philaret repeated the same greeting twice, and lo and behold, he at last heard the response: “In Truth He Is Risen!” Thus Vladimir was miraculously healed from dumbness.

Obedience in the Lavra

After his miraculous healing young Vladimir joined the Kiev Caves Lavra. He was admitted with the blessing of Metropolitan Philaret on July 2, 1853, at the age of thirteen, and four days later his mother reposed. Thenceforth the metropolitan took it upon himself to take care of Vladimir and the first thing he did was make Vladimir his novice. Another spiritual mentor of Vladimir at that time was Elder Parthenius (Krasnopevtsev), now St. Parthenius of Kiev.

When the adolescent turned seventeen, St. Philaret reposed in the Lord. But before his death he saw to it that Vladimir was given an obedience at the Lavra’s printing house. The printer’s took him on officially on April 15, 1857.

It was then that the time of trials for the young ascetic came. Blessed John (Kovalevsky) “the Barefoot” of Kiev, a fool-for-Christ (now canonized) who frequented the Lavra, once warned Vladimir that he should beware of “womankind”: “They will come for you to the Lavra shortly.” Indeed a month later a noblewoman arrived at the Lavra. She knew the Shepelev family and through other relatives tried to lure the young novice out of the monastery by hook or by crook to marry him. It was only thanks to the interference of the father-superior of the Kiev Caves Lavra Archimandrite Varlaam that Vladimir remained in the monastery...

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ISAIAH 29:13-23

13Therefore, the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips, But have removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men, 14 Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work Among this people, A marvelous work and a wonder; For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.” 15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the Lord, And their works are in the dark; They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?” 16Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; For shall the thing made say of him who made it, “He did not make me”? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? 17 Is it not yet a very little while Till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest? 18 In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.19 The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord, And the poor among men shall rejoice In the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing, The scornful one is consumed, And all who watch for iniquity are cut off— 21 Who make a man an offender by a word, And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, And turn aside the just by empty words. 22 Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall not now be ashamed, Nor shall his face now grow pale; 23 But when he sees his children, The work of My hands, in his midst, They will hallow My name, And hallow the Holy One of Jacob, And fear the God of Israel.

PROVERBS 14:15-26

15 The simple believes every word, But the prudent considers well his steps. 16 A wise man fears and departs from evil, But a fool rages and is self-confident. 17 A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, And a man of wicked intentions is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly, But the prudent are crowned with knowledge. 19 The evil will bow before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous. 20 The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, But the rich has many friends. 21 He who despises his neighbor sins; 22 Do they not go astray who devise evil? But mercy and truth belong to those who devise good. 23 In all labor there is profit, But idle chatter leads only to poverty. 24 The crown of the wise is their riches, But the foolishness of fools is folly. 25 A true witness delivers souls, But a deceitful witness speaks lies. 26 In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, And His children will have a place of refuge.

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performed by SAVVAS BALTZIS, CHRISTOS DELIDIMOS, NIKOS DRAGONAS, ALTIN HUTA, NIKOS KALOGERAKIS, TASSOS KARACHALIOS, KONSTANTINOS KARVOUNIARIS, YORGOS KOPSIDAS, YORGOS KOTSIFAKIS, EURIPIDES LASKARIDIS, YORGHOS MATSKARIS, MARIOS METTIS, YIANNIS NIKOLAIDIS, CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS, FEVOS PAPADOPOULOS, TASSOS PAPAIOANNOU, ARIS SERVETALIS, DIOGENIS SKALTSAS, DROSSOS SKOTIS, PAVLOS STATHAKIS, MANOLIS THEODORAKIS, SIMON TSAKIRIS, KONSTANTINOS YIANNAKOPOULOS and EVANGELOS ZARKADAS

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Part 2: Note "Musik an David"

White Fence & Ty Segall - Time

Dear Meadow - Sleepy Silver Door

Aguaturbia - Heartbreaker

Rollo Weissensee & Blend - Pastis Duval

Shabjeed & Al Nather - Mtak Mtak

Arca - Arca (komplettes Album, ich revidiere meine Entscheidung zu Best Album und wähle dieses :) arca hat unter anderem das fka twigs Album mit produziert)

Shygirl - Freak

Coucou Chloe - Flip U

Sevdaliza- Oh My God

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Lord Lightning

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Bloomdido

Vladimir Dubyshkin - Lady of the Night

Chopin - Mazurka

Erik Satie - Gnossienne

Brutalismus 3000 - Pentagramm

Ariel Pink - Not enough violence

DIIV - Under the sun

Aleide - 123

Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks

Amnesia Scanner - AS Too Wrong

Arigto & Nicolas Savva - Fragile Resistence of of Falling silent

Bauhaus - Bella Lugosi‘s Dead

Beach House - Space Song

Best Coast - Boyfriend

BETWEEN FRIENDS - affection

Big Thief - Shark Smile

binki- wiggle

Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper

Bonjr - it‘s ok, you‘re ok

BRONCHO - China

Chilly Gonzales - Lana Del Rey Medley

CHLOBOCOP - 999 (oder Narcotics)

Dream Wife - Sports!

The Emotions - Blind Alley

The Exploited - Sex & Violence

The Friends of Distinction - And I Love Him

Fugazi- Waiting Room

The Garden - Clench to Stay Awake

Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies

Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa: I. Ludus

Grouper - Dragging a Deer up the hill

The Hails - Sugar

HYUKOH - Wanli

IDLES - I‘m scum

Jagwar Ma - Howlin

Japanese Telecom - Cigarette Lighter

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

John Maus - ... And the Rain

Julien Andreas - Lethal Hardcore 3

Juniore - Magnifique

La Goony Chonga - Dimension

Lebanon Hanover - Gallow Dance

Unaloon - Codependency

Lime Cordiale - Screw Loose

Low - In the Drugs

The Marias - Only in my Dreams

Mystique Braves - To Myself

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - As I Sat by her side

Papooz - Ann Wants to Dance

The Pink Slips - Sweet Talker

Psychic TV - The Orchids

Ragamuffs - Used to Be

Remi Wolf - You‘re A Dog

Rui Ho - Theia Impact

Ryo Fukui - Early Summer

Salami Rose Joe Louis - I Miss You So

SALES - Chinese New Year

Shamir - On My Own

ShitKid - Highway

Shuggie Oties - Aht Uh Mi Head

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Arabian Knights

The Sister Of Mercy - Never Land

The Skellywags - Don‘t Preach Me

Skeggs- Spring Has Sprung

Slaves - The Hunter

Still Woozy - Wolfcat

Tigers Jaw - The Sun

Tom Hengst - Click Block

TV Girl - Birds Don‘t Sing

Vacations - Days

Veruca Salt - Seether

Yves Tumour - ALLES ICH LIEBE SEINE MUSIK

Zola Jesus - Skin

Swans - A little God in my hands

13th Floor Elevator - You‘re Gonna Miss Me

Future Beat Alliance - Hippocampus

Aïsha Devi - Mazda

A.A.L. - Alucinao

Pan Daijing - Disease

Astrid Gnosis - Drop Dead

Textasy - Deja Vu Bass (oder Touch My Level aus SoundCloud)

Sidiki Diabaté - Choisie

Parcels - Tied Up Right Now

Clinic - The Equalizer

Claire Lafutt - Mojo

Sexy Sushi - Sex Appeal

Clara Lucini - La grenade

Abra - Roses

Kris Wu - Tian Di

Cerrone - Supernature

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Κήρυγμα Μητροπολίτου Μόρφου κ. Νεοφύτου κατά τη Θεία Λειτουργία την Ε΄ Κυριακή των Νηστείων ( Οσίας Μαρίας της Αιγυπτίας), που τελέσθηκε στον ιερό ναό Αγίου Νικολάου της κοινότητος Πολυστύπου, της μητροπολιτικής περιφέρειας Μόρφου (03.4.2023). Ψάλλει ο πρωτοψάλτης της Ιεράς Μητροπόλεως Μόρφου κ. Μά... https://orthodoxia.online/orthodoxia-vinteo/mitropolitis-morfou-apo-tin-osia-maria-tin-aigyptia-ston-osio-savva-tis-kalymnou/?feed_id=21977&_unique_id=642c891f5a601

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I want to tell you about my grandma. I was thinking a lot about her recently, about the news from her village, and generation trauma, and war, and all the stories she told me. I want them to live not only in my memory. Her name is Oleksandra. Here's she in her youth.

My mom says that I look very much like her. I'm not sure if that's true. What is true is that my grandma affected my life a lot (not always in a good way). I spent most of my summers with her. Working in the field, cooking, or waiting for a buyer for her veggies, she told me endless stories about everything - and I was a grateful listener.

My grandma told me about her mother, Anna, and her extended family. When Anna was in her late teens, all her family - except her two younger sisters died of cholera. One of them, Maria, lived her life in the nearest town and her daughter was my grandma's best friend. Another, Daria, was executed with all her family by the Germans during WW2. Unlike her husband and daughter, Anna was a simple woman, almost illiterate. But we still keep rushnyky she sewed and embroidered. My grandma told me about her father, Savva. He was a school teacher and later - a principal. I'm sure she became a teacher because of him. Even after all these years, I felt how much she loved him. She even kept his portrait above her bed - not her sons' and not her husband's, but father's. My great-grandfather Savva was arrested on 10 May 1938. My grandma didn't say goodbye - one of her classmates told her he saw a black car near her house and she rushed there, but her father was already gone. About a month later, my great-grandma packed his belongings and went by foot to the city where he was imprisoned. She was told he was sentenced to 10 years in a correctional labor camp. Later, the family received a note that Savva died of pneumonia. Years after my grandma's death I found out that, in fact, Savva Towstanowsky was accused of 'belonging to a nationalist insurgent organization' and executed 15 days after the arrest. I try to find more information about his case, but the archives are inaccessible. But even without archives, I know that he was killed for being intelligent and for being a Ukrainian. My grandma told me about her brother, Hrihoriy. He was 2 years older than she was. In 1942 he was enlisted in the Red Army. Later, he was captured by the Germans, ran away, and hid from both the Germans and the Soviets somewhere in Crimea; later, the Soviets found him and mobilized him again. He was killed in February 1945 near Warsaw and buried in a mass grave there. He was just 19. (All my grandparents were raised by single mothers as none of my great-grandfathers survived the war). And, of course, my grandma told me about herself. I was curious and asked a lot of questions, though the real answers I got much later - when I learned how to compare facts. And... perhaps, many of my questions were indelicate, to say the least. I don't know know what my grandma felt when she told me about her childhood illness - she was about five when she fell ill so bad that her parents prepared a coffin for her. She was healed by a doctor from a German commune (one of the villages nearby). She didn't know his name, but was grateful to this man, and so am I. Most probably, he, and the rest of this village were deported or killed either during the Great Purge or WW2. There were themes I especially liked to know but she didn't want to elaborate much. Like, about the Holodomor. Her family survived - her father got some wheat for school members and pupils, and I know that he tried to save these resources to help others too. Unfortunately, he couldn't save all. His own brother died from hunger and exhaustion on the way from his village to my family's. (My grandma told me that parts of plants were edible and got very angry if we (me, my brother, and cousins) left food on our plates. I used to find it weird and frustrating. Not anymore). Another theme was WW2. There were a lot of books/movies/games about the war, and I was dying to learn about this time from a real witness. But my grandma was mostly silent. She and her mother lived under the occupation. A few times they heard explosions and hid in their cellar. Some German officers lived in the neighbor's house - one, a 'good one' gave her some chocolate, but she avoided all of them as much as she could. Then the Soviet army came. And in a few years, another famine came. They survived it too, miraculously. My grandma left her village to the uni in Zaporizhzhia and gained a stipend - some money and, the most important part, some grocery cards, that could be exchanged for flour, oil, sugar, etc. She sent some to her mom in the village and they survived. But... the neighbor's family didn't. After all these years, she remembered that family and especially - a girl of her age with long black braids. Maybe, they were friends. She never told me. (My grandma was very demanding about everything concerning education. Like, she asked me to draw pictures and then rated them - usually, not very high. Only now, I realize that it was her way to help me. Because in her world, if you weren't educated/skilled enough, you wouldn't survive. Or isn't worthy of living). The story of my grandparents wasn't a fairy tale. My grandpa was three years younger than my grandma and liked her a lot. But when my grandma remembered his courtship she sounded mostly... annoyed? She told me she didn't know why she'd married him - probably because they'd needed a man in the house and she'd felt pressure from people around (most of the men of her year were killed, and yet, unmarried girl in her late twenties was a laughingstock). They weren't heavenly happy together, but they were content and comfortable with each other. And when my grandpa died she grieved him. But some part of me is thinking... maybe, my grandma would've been much happier if she'd stayed alone with her books and studies. (My mom says that my grandpa - her father-in-law - was the wisest man she'd ever met. I wish I knew him better). My grandma had a long life. Her latest months she spent in the city, with my family. But a week before her death, she insisted on returning home; nothing could change her mind. My uncle drove her home on Sunday; my father promised to arrive on Saturday. But early in the morning on Saturday my uncle called and said that grandma was gone. That was 14 years ago. But I still miss her and dream about her village. It changed a lot and not the same, but still, it was my home too. I cannot lose it. Nowadays I feel like the echo of the past exterminations resonates strongly with the current one. I cannot avoid it; it affects me and my family even if tomorrow we return to our peaceful life at home (we won't). And sometimes... I wonder what will I tell my grandchildren about my life? If I live long enough to meet them, of course.

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Ψωμί και μια κουβέρτα / Bread and a Blanket (documentary, 38', 2020)

Δευτέρα 13 Δεκέμβρη του 1943, τα Καλάβρυτα πυρπολούνται από τον κατοχικό στρατό της Ναζιστικής Γερμανίας ενώ παράλληλα εκτελούνται όλοι οι άνδρες και οι έφηβοι του χωριού. Τρεις άνδρες που έζησαν τα γεγονότα ως παιδιά κλεισμένα στο Δημοτικό Σχολείο Καλαβρύτων με τα υπόλοιπα γυναικόπαιδα, διηγούνται την τραυματική αυτή εμπειρία.

It's Monday, the 13th of December in 1943, the small town of Kalavryta is set on fire by the occupation army of Nazi Germany while the entire male population is being gathered on a nearby hill and shot dead. This war crime will go down in history, along with the massacre of Acqui Division, as the largest mass killing in Greece during WWII. Three men, who witnessed these events as kids, locked up with the rest women, children and elderly people in Kalavryta's primary school, recall this traumatic experience.

Direction / Photography / Scirpt / Editing: Dimitris Gkrintzos Supervision: Maria Chalkou Assistant director: Nikos Gkrintzos Sound: Dimitris Gkrintzos, Margarita Chalakatevaki Music: Dimitris Gkrintzos, Margarita Chalakatevaki Subtitling: Dina Sotaki

Special thanks: Christos Foteinopoulos & Savvas Kazanis from the Municipal Museum of the Kalavritan Holocaust

23rd Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TDF) Thessaloniki, Greece | June 24, 2021 | Official Selection

14th Greek Documentary Film Festival (DOCFEST) Chalkida, Greece | November 24, 2020 | 2nd Prize for Best Short Documentary Film

11th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival (ETHNOFEST) Athens, Greece | November 26, 2020 | Official Selection

16th Athens Digital Arts Festival (AVARTS@ADAF) Athens, Greece | October 15, 2020 | Greek Premiere | Official Selection

7th Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival Sparti, Greece | July 22, 2021 | Official Selection

Balkan Can Kino Pop Up Film Festival 2022 Athens, Greece | April 21, 2022 | Official Selection

5th West Side Mountains Doc Fest Arta/Athens, Greece | August 9, 2022 | Official Selection

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Turned to Stone by Maria Savva

You never know what someone had been through in life. The stories elderly people have can be fascinating, but are they believable given their age. I love listening to stories from my grandparents and other elders. The way someone or something can change someone’s life journey. Should you let that happen? Is digging into someone’s past a good thing? Read this book, it’s short but a great story. I…

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Saints&Reading: Sun., July 17, 2022

July 17_July 4

THE HOLY ROYAL MARTYRS OF RUSSIA (1918)

Saint Nicholas, the last Russian Tsar, was born in 1868. As a child, he was very religious, guileless and free from malice.

Nicholas II was crowned as Tsar in 1894, following the death of his father Tsar Alexander. He began his reign with lofty hopes for peace, urging other nations to reduce the size of their armies, and to seek the peaceful settlement of international disputes. The Peace Conference at the Hague in 1899 laid the groundwork for the League of Nations and the United Nations.

He married Princess Alice of Hesse, who converted to Orthodoxy and took the name Alexandra. Their children were Olga (1895), Tatiana (1897), Maria (1899), Anastasia (1901), and Alexis (1904).

The glorification of Saint Seraphim of Sarov took place on July 19, 1903, and Tsar Nicholas attended the ceremonies at Sarov with his family. At that time he was given a letter written by Saint Seraphim more than seventy years before, which seemed to disturb him. Although the Sovereign never revealed the letter’s contents, it is believed that it was a prophecy of the bloodshed that would engulf Russia in less than fifteen years.

Saint Nicholas was executed by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg on July 4, 1918 along with his family and servants. The prisoners were awakened late at night and ordered to get dressed for travel. They went down to the cellar of the home in which they were being held, waiting for the word to leave. The Tsar sat on a chair in the middle of the room holding his son Alexis in his lap, while his wife and daughters stood around them.

The executioners entered the room and read out the order for their execution. Saints Nicholas and Alexandra died under the hail of bullets, but the children did not die right away. They were stabbed and clubbed with the butts of rifles. Their bodies were taken to an abandoned mine, cut into pieces, then piled in front of the mine. Sulphur and gasoline were poured on the bloody mound and set on fire. When the fire went out two days later, whatever remained of the bodies was thrown into the mine and grenades were tossed into it. Then the ground was plowed so that no trace of the disposal of the bodies remained.

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SAINT ANDREW, ARCHBISHOP OF CRETE

Saint Andrew, Archbishop of Crete, was born in the city of Damascus into a pious Christian family. Up until seven years of age the boy was mute and did not talk. However, after communing the Holy Mysteries of Christ he found the gift of speech and began to speak. And from that time the lad began earnestly to study Holy Scripture and the discipline of theology.

At fourteen years of age he went off to Jerusalem and there he accepted monastic tonsure at the monastery of Saint Savva the Sanctified. Saint Andrew led a strict and chaste life, he was meek and abstinent, such that all were amazed at his virtue and reasoning of mind. As a man of talent and known for his virtuous life, over the passage of time he came to be numbered among the Jerusalem clergy and was appointed a secretary for the Patriarchate -- a writing clerk. In the year 680 the locum tenens of the Jerusalem Patriarchate, Theodore, included archdeacon Andrew among the representatives of the Holy City sent to the Sixth Ecumenical Council, and here the saint contended against heretical teachings, relying upon his profound knowledge of Orthodox doctrine. Shortly after the Council he was summoned back to Constantinople from Jerusalem and he was appointed archdeacon at the church of Hagia Sophia, the Wisdom of God. During the reign of the emperor Justinian II (685-695) Saint Andrew was ordained bishop of the city of Gortineia on the island of Crete. In his new position he shone forth as a true luminary of the Church, a great hierarch -- a theologian, teacher and hymnographer.

Saint Andrew composed many inspired writings, including the Great Canon of Repentance which is sung on Monday through Thursday of the first week of Lent, after the usual beginning of Compline, and following Psalm 69/70. In current Greek practice the Great Canon begins after the Doxology. The Great Canon of Repentance includes 250 troparia within its 9 Odes. Before each Troparion of the Canon, we make the Sign of the Cross and bow and sing "Have mercy upon me, O God, have mercy upon me." On Thursday of the fifth week, the Great Canon is sung continuously in its entirety. After Psalm 90/91 "God is with us," is read plainly and without a melody (outside of Great Lent). During Lent, however, the verses are sung slowly by the choir with the refrain "For God is with us" after each verse.1

Saint Andrew has also composed the Canon for the Feast of the Nativity of Christ, three Odes for Compline of Palm Sunday, and also in the first four days of Passion Week, as well as verses for the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord, and many other Church hymns. His hymnographic legacy was continued by other great composers of following ages: Saints John of Damascus (December 4), Cosmas of Maiuma (October 12), Joseph the Hymnographer (April 4), Theophánēs the Branded (October 11), etc.

Church historians are not of the same opinion as to the date of death of the saint. One suggests the year 712, while others -- the year 726. He died on the island of Mytilene, while returning to Crete from Constantinople, where he had been on churchly business. His relics were transferred to Constantinople. In the year 1350 the pious Russian pilgrim Stephen Novgorodets saw the relics at the Constantinople monastery named for Saint Andrew of Crete.

Source: All texts orthodox Church in America

JOHN 15:17-16:2

17 These things I command you, that you love one another.18 If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.' 26 But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

1 These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

HEBREWS 8:3-6

3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer.4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;5 who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."6But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

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Cataloging my books. Sixth Category: Biographies and Hagiographies. Books listed in alphabetical order. - The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages, by Nancy Marie Brown - Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, by Jill Lepore - The Book of Saints: Inspirational Stories and Little-Known Facts, by Jenny Schroedel - The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized And Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century, by Howie Carr - The Confession of Saint Patrick, trans. John Skinner - The Confessions of Saint Augustine, trans. R.S. Pine-Coffin - Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, by Hannah Arendt - Genie: A Scientific Tragedy, by Russ Rymer - Jesting Pilate: Travels Through India, Burma, Malaya, Japan, China, and America, by Aldous Huxley - I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban, by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb - In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, by Diane Guerrero - Irish Saints, by Robert T. Reilly - Journal of a Soul, by Pope John XXIII - Léonie Martin: A Difficult Life, by Marie Baudouin-Croix - The Life of Saint Benedict, by Saint Gregory the Great, edited by Edward van Speybrouck - The Life of Saint Francis, by Saint Bonaventure, trans. Ewert Cousins - A Life Under Serfdom: The Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, trans. Boris B. Gorshkov - Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl - Saint Maria Goretti: In Garments All Red, by Fr. Godfrey Poage, CP - The Master as I Saw Him, by Sister Nivedita - Monster: My True Story, by Aileen Wuornos and Christopher Berry-Dee - Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, A Man to Match His Mountains, by Eknath Easwaran - Rachel’s Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott, by Beth Nimmo and Darrell Scott - The Story of Thomas Moore: The Remarkable Life of a Man for All Seasons, by John Farrow - Tolkien, Man and Myth: A Literary Life, by Joseph Pearce - Won by Love: Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe V. Wade, Speaks Out for the Unborn as She Shares Her New Conviction for Life, by Norma McCorvey and Gary Thomas - The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, by Diane Ackerman That’s... 27 so far. If you want the ISBN numbers, let me know

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