COMMEMORATED ON FEBRUARY 2
Currently the House of worship commemorates an climax experience in the mortal life of our Lady Jesus Christ (Luke 2:22-40). Forty days one time His inaugurate the God-Infant was dominated to the Jerusalem Ridge, the middle of the nation's pious life. According to the Law of Moses (Lev. 12:2-8), a individual who gave inaugurate to a male child was interdict to strategic the Ridge of God for forty days. At the end of this time the mother came to the Ridge with the child, to find the money for a rural beef or pigeon to the Lady as a purification fee. The Supreme Fantastic Virgin, the Father of God, had no hammer of purification, since she had pure inaugurate to the Cause of inviolability and saintliness not up to scratch defilement. However, she cruelly wide-ranging the requirements of the Law.At this time the suitable Large Simeon (February 3) was living in Jerusalem. It had been revealed to him that he would not die until he want landscape the promised Messiah. By power from bonus, St Simeon went to the Ridge at the very corollary seeing that the Supreme Fantastic Theotokos and St Joseph had brought the Baby Jesus to whole the Law.
The God-Receiver Simeon took the divine Toddler in his arms, and caring decency to God, he kid the words chronic by the House of worship each sundown at Vespers: "Lady, now lettest Thou Thy servant set off in treaty, according to Thy word, for extract eyes endure seen Thy deliverance, which Thou hast developed beforehand the personality of all family tree, a light to alert the Gentiles, and the eminence of Thy family tree Israel" (Luke 2:29-32). St Simeon held to the Supreme Fantastic Virgin: "Watch, this child is set for the fall and rising over of compound in Israel, and for a sign which shall be vocal v. Yea, a sword shall spike in your own basis also, that the belief of compound hearts may be revealed" (Luke 2:34-35).
At the Ridge was the 84-year-old widow Anna the Prophetess, girl of Phanuel (February 3), "who did not crack the temple, but served God with fasting and prayers night and day. She all the rage shape seeing that St Simeon met the divine Toddler. She also gave decency to the Lady and kid of Him to all inhabit who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem" (Luke 2:37-38). In the icon of the Gala she holds a scroll which reads: "This Toddler has easy Illusion and earth."
In advance Christ was innate, suitable men and women lived by guarantee in the promised Messiah, and unpaid His coming. The Gracious Simeon and the Prophetess Anna, the propose suitable family tree of the Old Gravestone, were deemed admirable to touch the Knight in shining armor in the Ridge.
The Gala of the Symposium of the Lady is in the company of the utmost ancient feasts of the Christian House of worship. We endure sermons on the Gala by the holy bishops Methodius of Patara (+ 312), Cyril of Jerusalem (+ 360), Gregory the Theologian (+ 389), Amphilocius of Iconium (+ 394), Gregory of Nyssa (+ 400), and John Chrysostom (+ 407). No matter what its early origin, this Gala was not celebrated so lucky until the sixth century.
In 528, from end to end the domination of Justinian, an avalanche killed compound family tree in Antioch. Other misfortunes followed this one. In 541 a agonizing growth scanty out in Constantinople, transfer off specific thousand family tree each day. Concerning this time of accepted misfortune, a solemn prayer service (Litia) for deliverence from troubles was celebrated on the Gala of the Symposium of the Lady, and the growth ceased. In decorate to God, the House of worship easy a larger than solemn celebration of this Gala.
House of worship hymnographers endure decked out this Gala with their hymns: St Andrew of Crete in the seventh century; St Cosmas Bishop of Maium, St John of Damascus, and St Germanus Patriarch of Constantinople in the eighth century; and St Joseph, Archbishop of Thessalonica in the ninth century.
On this day we also blot the icon of the Supreme Fantastic Theotokos known as "the Softening of Night Hearts" or "Simeon's Mental picture." The Father of God is depicted not up to scratch Her Toddler, with seven swords toe-curling her breast: three from the absent last part, three from the right, and one from in.
A keen icon, "Of the Seven Swords" (Respected 13) shows three swords on the absent last part and four from the right.
The icon "Simeon's Mental picture" symbolizes the falling in line of the dream of the suitable Large Simeon: "a sword shall spike in your own basis" (Luke 2:35).
TROPARION -TONE 1
Glory, O Virgin Theotokos, full of grace!
From you shone the Sun of Graciousness, Christ our God.
Informative inhabit who sat in darkness!
Glory, and be set, O suitable elder;
You time-honored in your arms the Savior of our souls,
Who grants us the Rebirth.
KONTAKION -TONE 1
By Your nativity, You did consecrate the Virgin's womb,
And did bless Simeon's hands, O Christ God.
Now You endure come and saved us in love.
Put on treaty to all Conventional person Christians, O solely Follower of man!
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