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Perhaps du... more informationHoly Week 05/04/24 Holy Week is very special in our monastery, as are all of the festal services. They ... more informationPalm Sunday 04/28/24 Palm Sunday is a most glorious holy day on the eve of Holy Week. According to tradit... more informationHoly Unction - Photo Report 04/23/24 more information2024 Great Lenten Diocesan Clergy Retreat 04/10/24 The annual Great Lenten northern American diocesan clergy retreat was held at Holy Trinity... more informationVeneration of the Cross and Annunciation of the Th... 04/07/24 This year, the feast of the Annunciation coincided with the Sunday of the Veneration of th... more informationSecond Weekend of Great Lent in the Monastery 03/30/24 This past weekend in the monastery had many grace-filled blessings. His Eminence, Ar... more informationFor more news click here Announcements 00000 Monday April 15 Funeral of Protodeacon Joseph Jarostchuk Announcements 00000 Monday April 15 Funeral of Protodeacon Joseph Jarostchuk - 04/12/24 more informationUkranian Church Crisis Orthodox Life Book Launch: Schmemann’s Foundations of Russian Culture Bishop Luke: Reflections on Travels in Australia The Descent of the Holy Spirit and the Birth of the Church The Light of Christ’s Resurrection St Tikhon of Zadonsk: The World and The Sun The Crown of Wisdom is the Fear of the Lord Orthodox Russia О поѣздкѣ Іеромонаха Игнатія въ Латвію, ч. II О поѣздкѣ Іеромонаха Игнатія въ Латвію Архимандритъ Игнатiй (Озеровъ) ЦЕРКОВНАЯ ДИСЦИПЛИНА ДЛЯ ДУХОВЕНСТВА И МӀРЯНЪ, ЧАСТЬ V Daily Readings More ObservancesPrologue of Ochrid The Prologue from Ohrid: May 1 1. THE HOLY PROPHET JEREMIAH Jeremiah was born about six hundred years before Christ in the village of Anathoth not far from Jerusalem. He began to prophesy at the age of fifteen during the reign of King Josiah. He preached repentance to the king and noblemen, false prophets and priests. During the reign of King Josiah, Jeremiah barely escaped death from the murdering hands of the enraged nobles. Concerning King Jehoiakim, he prophesied that the king’s burial would be like the burial of an ass, i.e., his dead body would be tossed outside Jerusalem and that his body would be dragged along the ground without benefit of burial: " He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem " ( Jeremiah 22:18 ). Because of this, Jeremiah was cast into a prison. Not being able to write in prison, Jeremiah invited Baruch [the son of Neriah], who stood near the small window of the prison and dictated to him. When this prophecy was read to the king, the enraged king grabbed the paper and threw it into a fire. Divine Providence saved Jeremiah from prison and the word of the prophet was fulfilled in Jehoiakim. Concerning King Jeconiah [son of Jehoiakim, King of Judah], Jeremiah prophesied that Jeconiah would be taken to Babylon with his entire family and that he would die there. All of which came about shortly: ". . . after that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah " ( Jeremiah 24:1 ). " . . . when he carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem " ( Jeremiah 27:20 ). Under King Zedekiah, Jeremiah placed a yoke around his own neck and walked through Jerusalem prophesying the fall of Jerusalem and bondage under the yoke of the Babylonians. " Thus said the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes and put them upon thy neck " ( Jeremiah 27:2 ). " I spoke also to Zedekiah, king of Judah, according to all these words saying, bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live " ( Jeremiah 27:12 ). To the Hebrew captives in Babylon, Jeremiah wrote telling them not to hope for a speedy return to Jerusalem for they would remain in Babylon for seventy years, which came to pass. " This whole land shall be a ruin and a desert. Seventy years these nations shall be enslaved to the king of Babylon " ( Jeremiah 25:11 ). In the valley of Topheth near Jerusalem [ the Valley of Slaughter ], where the Jews offered children as a sacrifice to the idols, Jeremiah took a potter’s clay vessel in his hands and shattered it before the people prophesying the impending humbling of the kingdom of Judah. " Even so, I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel that cannot be made whole again " ( Jeremiah 19:11 ). The Babylonians shortly captured Jerusalem, slew King Zedekiah, plundered and destroyed the city, and beheaded a great number of Jews in the Valley of Topheth on the same spot where children were slaughtered for sacrifice to the idols and where the Prophet Jeremiah smashed the potter’s vessel of clay. Jeremiah, with the Levites, removed the Ark of the Covenant from the Temple to Mt. Nebo where Moses died and there he hid the Ark in a cave. However, he hid the fire from the Temple in a deep well. Jeremiah was forced by some Jews to accompany them to Egypt where he lived for four years and was then stoned to death by his countrymen. To the Egyptians, Jeremiah prophesied the destruction of their idols and the arrival of the Virgin and the Christ-Child to Egypt. There is a tradition which states that King Alexander the Great visited the tomb of the Prophet Jeremiah. By order of King Alexander, the body of Jeremiah was translated and buried in Alexandria. 2. THE VENERABLE MARTYR ACACIUS, THE SANDAL-MAKER Acacius was from the village of Neochorion near Thessalonica. Mistreated greatly by his master craftsman in Serres, Acacius converted to Islam. Later [he returned to the Faith] and as a penitent and monk, he lived in the Monastery Hilendar [Mt. Athos]. His needy and Christ-loving mother counseled him: "As you willingly denied the Lord, so now you must willingly and bravely accept martyrdom for the Sweet Jesus." The son followed the advice of his mother and with the blessings of the fathers of the Holy Mountain, Acacius traveled to Constantinople where the Turks beheaded him on May 1, 1816 A.D. His head is preserved in a reliquary in the Russian monastery, St. Panteleimon on Mt. Athos. 3. THE VENERABLE PAPHNUTIUS OF BOROVSK Paphnutius, the son of a Tartar nobleman, later embraced the Christian Faith. At age twenty, Paphnutius was tonsured a monk and continued to live his life in a monastery until his ninety-fourth year, when he reposed in the Lord. Paphnutius was a virgin and an ascetic. Because of this, he became a miracle-worker and discerner. He died in the year 1478 A.D. HYMN OF PRAISE THE PROPHET JEREMIAH Jeremiah , chaste one...