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Someone please make sure Bojan is okay on Thursday because that’ll be rough 🥹🥹🥹

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Saints&reading: Sunday, November 12, 2023

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THE PRIESTMARTYR ZENOBIOS, BISHOP OF EGEIA, AND HIS SISTER ZENOBIA (285)

The Hieromartyr Zenobius, Bishop of Aegea, and his sister Zenobia suffered a martyr’s death in the year 285 in Cilicia. From childhood they were raised in the holy Christian Faith by their parents, and they led pious and chaste lives. In their mature years, shunning the love of money, they distributed away their inherited wealth giving it to the poor. For his beneficence and holy life the Lord rewarded Zenobius with the gift of healing various maladies. He was also chosen bishop of a Christian community in Cilicia.

As bishop, Saint Zenobius zealously spread the Christian Faith among the pagans. When the emperor Diocletian (284-305) began a persecution against Christians, Bishop Zenobius was the first one arrested and brought to trial to the governor Licius. “I shall only speak briefly with you,” said Licius to the saint, “for I propose to grant you life if you worship our gods, or death, if you do not.” The saint answered, “This present life without Christ is death. It is better that I prepare to endure the present torment for my Creator, and then with Him live eternally, than to renounce Him for the sake of the present life, and then be tormented eternally in Hades.”

By order of Licius, they nailed him to a cross and began the torture. The bishop’s sister, seeing him suffering, wanted to stop it. She bravely confessed her own faith in Christ before the governor, therefore, she also was tortured.

By the power of the Lord they remained alive after being placed on a red-hot iron bed, and then in a boiling kettle. The saints were then beheaded. The priest Hermogenes secretly buried the bodies of the martyrs in a single grave.

Saint Zenobius is invoked by those suffering from breast cancer.

SAINT STEPHEN MILIUTIN, KING OF SERBIA (1320), HIS BROTHER DRAGUTIN, (monk Theoctistus 1316) AND THEIR MOTHER HELEN (1306)

Saint Stefan (Stephen) Miliutin, King of Serbia, his brother Dragutin, and their mother Elena (Helen): Saint Stefan was the younger son of king Stefan Urosh I, and grandson of First-Crowned King Saint Stefan (Comm. 24 September). He ruled Serbia from 1275 to 1320. Stefan Miliutin received the throne from his elder brother Dragutin, a true Christian, who after a short reign transferred power over to his brother, and he himself in loving solitude withdrew to Srem, where he did secret ascetic deeds in a grave-pit, dug by his own hand. During his righteous life, Saint Dragutin toiled much over converting the heretic Bogomils to the true faith. His death occurred on 2 March 1316.

      Saint Stefan Miliutin, having become king, bravely by both word and by deed, defended the Orthodox Serbs and other same-faith peoples from numerous enemies. Pious Stefan did not forget to thank the Lord for His beneficence. More than 40 churches were built by him, as also many monastery and vagrant hostels. The saint particularly concerned himself with the Athonite monasteries.       When the Serbian kingdom fell, the monasteries remained centres of national culture and Orthodoxy for the Serb nation. Saint Stefan died on 29 October 1320 and was buried at the Bansk monastery. After two years his undecayed relics were uncovered.

Saint Elena, the pious mother to her sainted sons, after the death of her husband devoted her whole life to pious deeds: she built a shelter for the impoverished, and constructed a monastery for those wanting to live in purity and virginity. Near the city of Spich she erected the Rechesk monastery and endowed it with the necessities. Before her death, Saint Elena accepted monasticism and expired to the Lord on 8 February 1306.

EPHESIANS 2:4-10

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

LUKE 8:26-39

26 Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. 27 And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs. 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, "What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!" 29 For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had often seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles; and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness. 30 Jesus asked him, saying, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," because many demons had entered him. 31 And they begged Him that He would not command them to go out into the abyss. 32 Now a herd of many swine was feeding there on the mountain. So they begged Him that He would permit them to enter them. And He permitted them. 33 Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned. 34 When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. 35 Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. 36 They also who had seen it told them by what means he who had been demon-possessed was healed. 37 Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. And He got into the boat and returned. 38 Now the man from whom the demons had departed begged Him that he might be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you. And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

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Have you heard of the wanderlust gene? Scientists discovered the existence of the DRD4-7R genome not long ago. They say that roughly 20% of us have it! Those 20% apparently possess a stronger urge to explore new places, ideas, foods, relationships and embrace adventure, movement and change. Also those who have this gene are more creative, more rebellious, and ever hungry for a new ways of seeing the world. Other traits inherent to the wanderlust gene include being impulsive and pro-risk. Of course, speaking from our personal experience, you have to be at least a little pro-risk to be self-employed for most of your adult life or to abandon a perfectly comfortable life at 50 plus years old to live in an 80 square foot van.

Okinawa, Japan 2010

Moray, Peru 2013

Grand Canyon 2013

Capri, Italy 2013

Athabasca Glacier, Alberta 2015

Lake Okanagan, BC 2015

Vancouver Island, BC 2015

Mount Rushmore 2016

We humans come from a long line of migrators and from cultures that moved almost constantly. Have you ever watched one of those videos that shows how people have moved around Europe the past couple hundred years? It’s fascinating to watch borders change, in some cases pretty dramatically. Norman Davies wrote a booktitled, Microcosm Portrait of a Central European City, where he uses the city of Breslau as a portrait of change and migration. It’s name has changed at least 12 times and been tossed back and forth between the Germans and Poles with many changes in ethnic majority over the course of 1,000 years. We both come from families with a history of migration and travelling great distances.

Our case for possessing the wanderlust gene:

Julie:

When I was in grade one my maternal grandfather, Vladamir Nedin, told me that our family in Romania were gypsies. I was so excited to share this news with my friends and classmates that show and tell could not have come soon enough.

Julie’s Grade One Class Photo, middle row, 8th from the left

At 6 years old I began imagining the truly exciting life my eastern European family were sure to be living. I have no doubt that my grandfather’s stories fuelled my own wanderlust. He left everyone he knew and loved in Romania at 19 years old and walked the breadth of Europe over the course of a year. I imagine it was during this time that he learned to speak Hungarian, Yiddish, Italian, German, French and English, the definition of a polyglot. He wore through countless pairs of shoes and slept in barns in all the countries between Romania and Belgium, eventually boarding a ship in Antwerp bound for Quebec, Canada. From Quebec he travelled by train to Regina, Saskatchewan where he was welcomed by a community of Serbians. It is here that he met and married my grandmother, Julka Yakovlev, who with her parents and sister emigrated from Serbia.

First Serbian Orthodox Church in Canada, Regina Saskatchewan; my great grandparents were founding members

Of course that is just one story passed down of immigration in my family. As is typical of most Canadians, all of my family came from somewhere else. On my father’s side they emigrated from Ireland, Scotland and Austria.

Russell Gibb, in his late 80s

Vlada Nedin, in his 60s

As a kid I loved hearing travel stories from various members of my family. My paternal grandfather, Russell Gibb, had a penchant for riding the rails in the United States. My favourite story involved him losing his identification which turned up in the possession of a dead man. Unfortunately, for a period of time his family thought him to be dead but instead he was mistakenly doing time in Georgia on a chain-gang.

Julie’s mom, Christine (on right), and her friend, Donna (on left)

At eighteen, my mom, Christine, and her best friend travelled from Detroit to San Francisco by train. I am sure that I never saw my mom more happy than when she shared stories of this journey.

Julie with her brother, Rusty, and father, Bill, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; approx. 1974

My dad, Bill, possessed a desire to travel and explore and an eagerness to document these experiences for as long as I can remember.

Postcard to Julie’s grandparents, 1973

I went on my first airplane at ten years old. My parents let me fly from Windsor to see my best friends who were spending the summer in North Bay. By twelve years old I dreamt each night of the day I would leave my hometown and of the places I would travel. For me, dreams of my future included going to university, travelling extensively and being self-employed. Lucky for me, I am able to share all of these dreams and more with the best person I know.

Travel labels on Sig Munoz’s suitcase

Christian:

Signono Carlos Munoz was my maternal great-grandfather. The story goes that he made his way from Chile to St. Louis, Missouri where he met my great-grandmother, Nannie Redman. Once married they settled and raised their family in Montclair, New Jersey. Sig, as he was known, seemed to be a wheeler and dealer from a very young age.

Young Signono Munoz, the cowboy

Menu from Grand Hotel Hungaria

Older Signono Munoz, the businessman

Turns out he even owned a railway – the Santa Fe Central Railroad. I found out recently that once while he was in Santa Fe, New Mexico playing poker, he won the rights to drill for oil on Navajo land when it was still the wild west. There is a treasured family photo of Sig, looking very much the cowboy, taken, we have been told, while bunk mates at the Bell Ranch, near Tucumcari, with the infamous, Billy the Kid. In his twenties he bought into a gold mine, started boiler companies, and later owned among other companies, the Cosmopolitan Shipping Company, the Federal Export Corporation and a steel mill in Pittsburgh. He travelled extensively throughout his life by ship, train, horseback and automobile.

Santa Fe Central Railroad

Henry Rollins – A great way to learn about your own country is to leave it. 

  Christian’s grandfather, James Redman Munoz

Sig’s son, my grandfather, James Redman Munoz, followed in his entrepreneurial travelling father’s footsteps. Most of the stories I know of my grandfather’s exploits were related to me by my parents. I found a journal he kept when he was just nineteen years old, while serving as Purser aboard the S.S. Indradeo. The log details excursions through the West Indies, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), etc. The journal entries aren’t all pleasant and also contain strong, often racist language in reference to the different cultures he encounters.

James Munoz diary entry while Purser on SS Indradeo, 1911

Journal entry dated Tuesday, June 27th, 1911 – Hong Kong

We went ashore this morning and stayed until evening. The European buildings here are very handsome. Also the various statues. The streets (in the English section) are wide and well paved. I took the trolley up to the peak and had a fine view of the harbour and the country but could not see very far because of the clouds. (includes an illustration of Hong Kong and Kowloon)

Journal entry dated Wednesday, August 16th, 1911 – Woosung, Shanghai

The plague is getting quite bad here. Both the Bubonic and Pneumonic. The American doctor has not allowed any of the sailors, firemen or cooks ashore, however he hasn’t stopped us yet. I don’t hardly think he will.

Journal entry dated Thursday, August 17th, 1911 – Woosung, Shanghai

They are killing a Chinaman (sic) in the native city this week. He is a priest and killed another in a row. They have him in a big wooden cage on wheels with wooden stocks around his neck which (the former) hang from the top of the cage. The toes of his feet just touch the top of a pile of bricks on the bottom of the cage. However, after about 24 hours his neck has stretched enough for him to stand on the bricks. They then knock another brick away and continue the process until he is dead. They have him in front of the gates of the native city for the day and then move him onto the next entrance. (includes an illustration of the rolling cage with a figure)

My father, Angus, fought and survived World War II. Having learned to fly in the army, he and a friend started Atlas Aviation upon returning to Ottawa after the war. He continued to work in aviation for the rest of his life. He is, in fact, an inductee in the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame. My brother, Jamie, followed in his footsteps and became a pilot and spent many years flying in Africa and in the arctic.

Wanderlust: An irresistibly strong desire to wander or travel.

The truth is it doesn’t actually boil down to a single gene, but for romantics like us these scientific findings make us feel connected to the nomads in our own ancestry and are an easy explanation for our sometimes impulsive, spontaneous, risky decision-making and deep-seated need to travel to new places.

Us with Annie and Elia at Versailles, France 2006

  Our case for possessing the Wanderlust Gene Have you heard of the wanderlust gene? Scientists discovered the existence of the DRD4-7R genome not long ago.

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The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Christmas, 2016 +IRINEJ By the Grace of God Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, with all the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church, to all the clergy, monastics, and all the sons and daughters of our Holy Church: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, with the joyous Christmas greeting: Peace from God! Christ is Born! “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!” (St. Luke 2:14) We find ourselves, once again, before the Nativity Feast Day, before the feast day of immeasurable love of God, for today in the city of David Christ the Lord is born (cf. St. Luke 2:11), Emmanuel, which is to say, “God with us”. (St. Matthew 1:23) This great Mystery of the Incarnation of God the Logos, hidden from the beginning of the ages (cf. St. John 1:2), was first announced by the angels of God with their Christmas hymn of peace and love (cf. St. Luke 2:14). Then, they were joined by the shepherds and wise men from the east, gathering, therefore, both heaven and earth, angels and people, and all earthly nations, around the God-Child Christ in the Church of the Living God. (II Cor. 6:16) How do the evangelists, eye witnesses and servants of the Word of God (cf. St. Luke 1:2), testify to the event of Christ’s Birth which, according to the holy fathers, is a greater miracle then the creation of the world? The Holy Apostle Matthew in his Gospel writes to his Judean countrymen, desiring to witness based on the Old Testament prophecies that Jesus of Nazareth is, indeed, the Christ or Messiah, the Anointed One, the Savior of the world. (cf. Psalm 138; Isaiah 7:14) That is why he begins his Gospel with the genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ (cf. St. Matthew 1:1-17), emphasizing His real human nature. The evangelist in his genealogy lists the central persons of the Old Testament, especially accentuating Abraham and David the king, because the prophecies about the coming of the Messiah were mostly connected to the two of them, which came to be fulfilled with the Birth of Christ in Bethlehem of Judea. (cf. St. Matthew 2:5-6) The first part of the Gospel according to St. Matthew tells us loudly: For us and our salvation, God becomes a true man (cf. St. Matthew 1, 2); but in the second part of his genealogy, Saint Matthew tells us that the Messiah is the God-Man, that His Birth is above nature, from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary. (cf. St. Matthew 1:20) By taking on real human nature, Christ becomes one of us, (cf. St. John 1:14) remaining that which He always was from all eternity – Son of God and the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. This concisely is the good news according to the Evangelist Saint Matthew, the good news about the salvation of all people through faith in Jesus Christ. (cf. Galatians 2:16) The Holy Apostle Luke in his Gospel, which he addressed to his disciple Theophilos (cf. St. Luke 1:3) and then to every God-loving soul, gives the historical context of Christ’s Birth. With his apologetic witness he removes the doubts of all skeptics and unbelievers who have tried to claim that Christ the Lord is a legend or a person who did not exist, and he convinces them that Christ is a true and real historical Person and the Messiah. As an historian, Luke cites that Christ’s Birth happened in the time of the Roman Caesar Augustus, who reigned from the year 27 before Christ to the 14th year after His birth, and during the first general census of the populace at this time Quirinius governed Syria (cf. St. Luke 2:2). These are historical facts not denied even by exact science. Adding to the Matthian account, the evangelist Luke writes about Christ’s Birth not only to the Judeans, but also to all nations on earth. (cf. St. Luke 2:29-32) Saint Luke in his genealogy emphasizes that Christ is the Savior, the New Adam, the Head and spiritual founder of the New Israel – the blessed Kingdom of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit (cf. St. Luke 3:21-23), pointing to the liturgical dimension of this Feast Day. As a crown and a seal we add briefly the witness of the Holy Evangelist John the Theologian about the birth of Christ. This beloved disciple and apostle of Christ adds his Protoevangelion to Matthew and Luke. In it he brings the tidings that Christ is the pre-eternal Son of God, the Word of God, the Logos through Whom everything is created (cf. St. John 1, 1-3), and Who came into this world as the Light (cf. St. John 1:5), to proclaim to us a New and eternal Covenant of God and man: “For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (St. John 1:17; cf. Rom. 10:4) Dear brothers and sisters, that which was witnessed by the evangelists and apostles and which the Holy Fathers confirmed, we also witness to you today, on Christmas day, for “Christ is the same today, yesterday and forever.” (Heb. 13:8) That is why we call upon you, with our pastoral care and love, to together take part in the Christmas celebration, to lay aside all earthly cares, to offer our gifts to the God-Child Christ – our spiritual gold, frankincense and myrrh; this means our faith, hope and love – to meet the Lord and our neighbors. Saint John Chrysostom has called Christmas the root of all Christian feast days, because in Christmas we are promised, and in some mystical and grace-filled way we are given before hand, the Meeting of the Lord, his Baptism, and Transfiguration, as well as the Cross and Christ’s Resurrection. That is why our people say: “Without God not even over the threshold” and “there is no greater slava (patron feast day) than Christmas”, for in Christmas our people have foretasted the Mystery of God and the salvation of all people in the Church of Christ. The Serbian people are a people of Christmas, a part of the People of God and of all generations of Christians; the people of Saint Sava, the people of Holy Tsar Lazar of Kosovo and of all the other martyrs and new-martyrs who have suffered in evil times, as did the slain children of Bethlehem (cf. St. Luke 2:16), for the truth and justice of God. We remember their sacrifice and beseech them to remember us in their prayers in the Holy Bethlehem that we may be worthy of our holy ancestors, as His Holiness Patriarch Pavle of blessed memory used to say. Christmas reveals to us the goal and meaning of our life on earth. As expressed in the language of the holy Fathers, God becomes man so that we may become gods, so that we may become “gods by grace,” fulfilling our existence with the fullness of divine grace. This is not a Christian exaggeration nor anthropological utopia. This is a reality of life in Christ. This is a reality that is a gift of God. Let us not allow anything of this world, the world that lies in evil (cf. St. John 5:19), to separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord (cf. Rom. 8:35)! The fullness of this love is seen in the Birth of Christ. That is why Christmas truly is the “day which the Lord has made to rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24) Christmas also points to the holiness of human life. This Feast Day calls us to theosis, not to destruction, to the service of life, not only biological but also eternal, and not to slavery or death. Saint Silouan the Athonite Elder tried in his life not to step on a worm, an ant, a flower, nor the smallest blade of grass. Life is given to everything by God, but especially to human beings, which in Christ are the icons of the Living God. (cf. II Cor. 4:4) Christmas strengthens and returns to us the biblical blessing: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” (Genesis 1:22) May the Lord grant that this blessing becomes a rule of life for the Serbian people and for all nations on earth, for in this way the hell of murdering brothers and unborn infants would be replaced by peace from paradise and the fullness of life. With this Christmas may Serbia come to life and may our families be filled with joy and children’s play! The Holy Gospel reminds us that if we do not become innocent like children we will not enter the Kingdom of heaven. (cf. St. Matthew 18:3) That is why Christmas is a feast day of our children as well, the feast day of the youth and future eternity. On this blessed Christmas day we pray to the Lord, the King of peace, (cf. Hebrew 7:2) to extinguish enmity among the nations, to save His people throughout the world, and to be merciful to us. May this Christmas call into communion all those who in any way have estranged themselves from the Church of the Living God! May heresies and schisms disappear, that all people, with fear of God, with faith and love, may approach the unity and life of the One, Holy, Catholic (Saborna) and Apostolic Church! For this unity the Lord Himself prayed in his archpriestly prayer: “That all may be one”. (St. John 17:21) We greet all our spiritual children in our Fatherland and those abroad with the Christmas salutation, calling them to live in mutual brotherly love – Christmas love. We especially pray for the crucified Kosovo and Metohija, our spiritual and national cradle, which the great Njegos has called a “great tribunal”. As long as there are Serbs, there will be Kosovo! Kosovo is the Serb’s soul! That is why Kosovo and Metohija will remain our country, for there is present both our Golgotha and our Jerusalem. May our God, the Only Lover of mankind, grant peace and blessing to all of His people, and according to the words of Holy Silouan the Athonite, grant that all people on earth may recognize Him by the Holy Spirit in the miraculous light of Christmas! PEACE FROM GOD - CHRIST IS BORN! INDEED HE IS BORN! A BLESSED NEW YEAR OF OUR LORD 2017! Given at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade at Christmas, 2016. Your intercessors before the cradle of the divine Christ-Child: Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch IRINEJ

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Saint, Icons&Reading: Wednesday, January, 25, 2023

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THE NUN EUPRAXIA OF TABENYSSA (TABENEIA THE OLDER) (393)

Saint Eupraxia the Elder was the mother of Saint Eupraxia, maiden of Tabennisi (July 25). She was the wife of the pious senator Antigonus, who was related to the emperor Theodosius the Great (379-395). Following the birth of their daughter, the couple decided to live from that time forward as brother and sister. They distributed alms to the poor, hoping to inherit the heavenly Kingdom.

After she was widowed, Saint Eupraxia devoted herself completely to the service of the Lord. After visiting several monastic establishments and bestowing liberal alms, she came to the Tabennisi monastery in Egypt, where the abbess was the nun Theodula, known for her strict rule.

Deeply moved by the pure way of monastic life, Saint Eupraxia came often to this monastery and always brought her eight-year-old daughter with her. The virtues and prayers of her parents bestowed a particular grace of God upon the child, who desired to dedicate herself to God. To her mother’s great joy, the abbess Theodula kept the younger Eupraxia at the convent and blessed her to receive monastic tonsure.

Saint Eupraxia the elder continued her works of charity, and increased her fasting and prayer. Abbess Theodula, possessing the gift of clairvoyance, told her of her impending end. Learning of her imminent death, Eupraxia gave thanks to the Lord for His great mercy towards her. She bid farewell to the sisters of the convent and to her daughter. She left her with these parting words: “Love the Lord Jesus Christ, and respect the sisters. Never dare to think that they are below you and should serve you. Be poor in your thoughts in order to profit by spiritual treasures. Also remember your father and me, and pray for the salvation of our souls.” After three days the saint surrendered her soul to the Lord (+ 393) and was buried at the monastery, where her daughter continued her ascetic struggles.

ICON: THE “ AKATHIST” 

The “Akathist” Icon of the Mother of God is on the iconostasis of the Hilandar monastery’s katholikon. It is known as the “Akathist” Icon because, during a fire at the katholikon in 1837 an Akathist was being read before the icon, and it remained unharmed, to the joy of the monks.

This icon should not be confused with the Zographou Icon “Of the Akathist” (October 10).

ICON: THE "MILK-BEARING"

The “Milk-Giver” Icon of the Mother of God was originally located at the Lavra of Saint Savva the Sanctified near Jerusalem. Before his death, the holy founder of the Lavra foretold that a royal pilgrim having the same name as himself would visit the Lavra. Saint Savva told the brethren to give the wonderworking icon to that pilgrim as a blessing.

In the thirteenth century, Saint Savva of Serbia visited the Lavra. As he approached the reliquary of Saint Savva the Sanctified, the saint’s staff fell at his feet. The brethren asked the visitor his name, and he told them he was Archbishop Savva of Serbia. Obeying the instructions of their founder, the monks gave Saint Savva his staff, the “Milk-Giver” Icon, and the Icon “Of the Three Hands” (June 28 & July 12).

The holy archbishop took the icon to Hilandar on Mount Athos and put it on the right side of the iconostasis in the church of Saint Savva at the kellion of Karyes, which is attached to Hilandar. The icon was later named Typikonissa, since the Rule (Typikon) of Saint Savva was preserved there.

Source, all texts: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

JOHN 10:9-16 

9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

JAMES 3:11-4:6

11 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"? 6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:"God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."