SYNAXARION WEEK OF THE PRODIGAL SON

Who, like me, a fornicator, - go, go: 

After all, God's bounty for all the open door. 

On this day we celebrate the return of the prodigal son, which is the divine fathers put in transistors in second place for the following reason. 

As some of you know of a lot of transgressions, from youth alive whoring, spending time idly, in drunkenness and uncleanness, and thus having run into the depths of evils, are giving up, which is the offspring of pride. Therefore, they did not want to go to the correct, exposing (as an excuse) capture evil, causing flow into the more evil. 

Synaxarion week of the Publican and the Pharisee

Creator of heaven and earth!

As Trisagion Hymn of the Angels,

On the Publican and the Pharisee:

In hypocritically who live, he is removed from the Church;

Christ, however, is acquired by you, the humble, inside.

Publican and Pharisee

At the start the day with God Triodion, which many of our holy and God-bearing fathers, poets, moved by the Holy Spirit, beautiful and properly accounted for, filling the songs. First coined tripesnets - believe in the image of the Holy Trinity and, - the great poet Cosmas [ ] for the Great Holy Week, the Passion of the Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, wrote the song with a short name of each day in the acrostic. After he and other fathers, especially Theodore of Studios and Joseph [2 ] , following his example, were liturgical succession for the other weeks of Lent - at first for his Studion monastery, above all, they wrote tripesntsy, and then following the instructions of their fathers, and were Align and other religious books.

The Sunday of Zacchaeus[1]

Synaxarion of the Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion

On this day, the Sunday before the beginning of the Lenten Triodion, we commemorate the repentance of the tax-collector, the Holy Apostle Zacchaeus, who desired to behold Christ.

The Holy Fathers placed today's commemoration here to prepare us, little by little, for dawning season of Great Lent. Knowing that we are basically slow to exhibit a desire for repentance, the Holy Fathers, by Zacchaeus' example, teach us in these preliminary weeks the need to recognize our sins and our need to turn away from them.

SYNAXARION FOR HOLY AND GREAT FRIDAY

On this day, Holy and Great Friday, we celebrate the awesome, holy, and saving Passion of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ—the spitting, the blows with the palm of the hand, the buffeting, the mockery, the reviling, the wearing of the purple robe, the reed, the sponge, the vinegar, the nailing, the lance, and above all, the Crucifixion and Death which He condescended to endure willingly for our sakes—and also the saving confession of the grateful thief upon the cross.

After our Lord Jesus Christ was sold for thirty pieces of silver and was betrayed by a friend and disciple, He was led to Annas the High Priest. Annas again sent the Lord to Caiaphas, where He was spat upon and at the same time mocked and laughed at. He heard them saying to Him, "Prophesy to us, Christ! Who is the one that struck you?" (Matt. 26:68). Then many false witnesses and accusers arrived, perhaps because He said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19) and because He said about Himself, "I am the Son of God" (Matt. 27:43), or because He said, "Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven" (Matt. 26:64).

SYNAXARION FOR HOLY AND GREAT THURSDAY

On this day, Holy and Great Thursday, according to the order which our Holy Fathers inherited from the Holy Apostles, and the Holy Gospels, we celebrate four events: the Holy Washing of the Disciples' feet, the Mystical Supper (the institution of the Holy Mystery of the Eucharist, which we celebrate to this day), the Lord's Agony in the Garden, and His Betrayal.

On the morrow, Friday, the Passover sacrifice of the Hebrews was intended to take place, namely the slaughter of the lamb reared for this purpose.

SYNAXARION: 

HOLY AND GREAT WEDNESDAY

On Holy and Great Wednesday the divine Fathers ordained a commemoration to be kept of the woman who was a harlot and who anointed the Lord with myrrh, inasmuch as this took place a short time before the saving Passion.

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, when He was in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came and poured most precious myrrh on the head of Christ and wiped His feet with her hair, rendering Him service at a very great cost to herself. This event is set forth here that, according to the Savior's word, her act of great fervor may be proclaimed to everyone everywhere, and because it occurred a short time before the Passion.

SYNAXARION: HOLY AND GREAT TUESDAY

On Holy and Great Tuesday, we commemorate the parable of the ten virgins, because the Lord related this parable to His disciples as He was going toward Jerusalem to His Holy Passion.

He told the parable of the ten virgins to call attention to almsgiving, at the same time teaching that every man must be ready before the end comes. He had spoken many times to them about chastity. Virginity is held in great honor, because it is indeed a great thing. Yet, lest anyone, while practicing this one virtue, neglect the others, and particularly love, by which the lamp of virginity is given light, he will be put to shame by the Lord.

Synaxarion: Holy and Great Monday

Synaxarion For Palm Sunday

By Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos

PALM SUNDAY

On this day, the Sunday of Palms, we celebrate the radiant and glorious Feast of the Entry of our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.

Sitting on a foal, He Who stretched out the Heaven

By a word seeketh to loose mortals from irrationality.

Synaxarion

After Lazarus had been raised from the dead, many, on beholding this event, came to believe in Christ.

Synaxarion For the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent

Synaxarion For the Fifth Saturday of Great Lent

By Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos

FIFTH SATURDAY of LENT

On the same day, the Fifth Saturday of the Fast, we celebrate the Akathist Hymn of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.

Verses

With unsleeping hymns doth thy city gratefully

Hymn her Protectress, who is unsleeping in battles.

Sunday of St Gregory Palamas

Lenten Synaxarion 

Now is the truly great preacher of the Radiant Light 

Led by the Source of Light to the never-setting Light 

This son of the divine and never-setting Light was a true man of God indeed, and a wondrous servant and minister of the divine mysteries, having been born in the imperial city (Constantinople) of most radiant and glorious parents. Through his virtue and instruction he desired to adorn not only the outer of mankind according to the senses, but also much of the unseen inner being. When he was yet quite young, his father died. His mother, brothers and sisters raised him and instructed him in morals, catechism and sacred scripture, and sent him to teachers of worldly wisdom, from whom he learned well. Cleverly combining his learning with a natural zeal, he soon became skilled in verbal arts. At the age of twenty, regarding all earthly things as inferior and passing dreams, he sought recourse to God the Author and Giver of all wisdom, to consecrate his entire self to God through a perfect life. Hence he disclosed his great love for God, his pious intentions and burning desire to his mother, and he found that for a long she too had been desirous of this and rejoiced at his decision. And straightway gathering her children his mother said with joy, 'Behold, I and the children God has given me!' And she disclosed to them the intent of the great Gregory, asking if it seemed to them to be good. And he with words of instruction soon convinced them all in earnestness to follow him in his love and withdrawal from life. Distributing then his earthly possessions to the poor according to the teachings of the Gospel, and cheerfully abandoning human love, earthly honor and the approbation of men, he followed after Christ.