9/11/11

Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ὀνησιφόρος καὶ Πορφύριος οἱ Μάρτυρες

Σχίστηκαν οἱ σάρκες τους καὶ πέθαναν βαπτισμένοι στὰ αἵματά τους, κατὰ τὸν διωγμὸ τοῦ Διοκλητιανοῦ. Καὶ οἱ δυὸ ὑπηρετοῦσαν σὲ διάφορα φιλανθρωπικὰ ἔργα τῆς Ἐκκλησίας. Συγχρόνως, ἀνήκαν στὴν ὁμάδα ποὺ ἀνίχνευε κατὰ τὴν διάρκεια τῆς νύκτας καὶ ἀνεύρισκε σώματα μαρτύρων, ποὺ ρίχνονταν στὶς χαράδρες. Τὰ μάζευαν καὶ τὰ παρέδιδαν νὰ ταφοῦν μὲ τὴν ἁρμόζουσα τιμή.
Κάποτε, ὅμως, τοὺς ἀνακάλυψαν καὶ τοὺς συνέλαβαν. Κατόπιν τοὺς ἐξεβίασαν νὰ ἀρνηθοῦν τὴν πίστη τους. Ἀλλὰ ἐκεῖνοι ἔμειναν σταθεροὶ στὴν ὁμολογία τῆς ἁγίας πίστης στὸν Χριστό, χωρὶς νὰ φοβηθοῦν τὶς ἀπειλὲς καὶ τὰ ἐπικείμενα μαρτύρια. Τοὺς ἔδεσαν, λοιπόν, πίσω ἀπὸ ἄγρια ἄλογα, τὰ ὁποῖα τοὺς ἔσυραν μὲ δυνατὸ καλπασμό, μέσα ἀπὸ ἀγκάθια καὶ πέτρες. Ὅταν τὰ ἄλογα σταμάτησαν κουρασμένα, μετὰ ἀπὸ ἀρκετὲς ὧρες δρόμου, τὰ σώματα τῶν μαρτύρων βρέθηκαν διαμελισμένα, πνιγμένα στὸ αἷμα. Καὶ ὅπως ἀναφέρει ἡ Ἀποκάλυψη, «εἶδον τὴν γυναίκα μεθύουσαν ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τῶν ἁγίων καὶ ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τῶν μαρτύρων Ἰησοῦ». Εἶδα δηλαδὴ τὴν γυναίκα, ποὺ εἶναι ἡ διεφθαρμένη εἰδωλολατρικὴ κοινωνία, νὰ μεθάει ἀπὸ τὸ αἷμα τῶν χριστιανῶν, ποὺ καταδίωκε, καὶ ἀπὸ τὸ αἷμα τῶν μαρτύρων τοῦ Ἰησοῦ. Ἄλλα ὁ Θεὸς «ἔκρινε τὴν πόρνην... καὶ ἐξεδίκασε τὸ αἷμα τῶν δούλων αὐτοῦ ἐκ χειρὸς αὐτῆς». Ἔπειτα, ὅμως, ὁ Θεός, ἔκρινε καὶ καταδίκασε τὴν πόρνη, τὴ νοητὴ Βαβυλώνα, καὶ ἐκδικήθηκε τὸ αἷμα τῶν δούλων του, ποὺ χύθηκε ἀπὸ τὰ χέρια της.

Ἀπολυτίκιον. Ἦχος γ’. Θείας πίστεως.
Θείαν ὄνησιν, ἰχνηλατοῦντες, πορφυρίζοντα, ὤφθητε κρίνα, Ὀνησιφόρε κλεινὲ καὶ Πορφύριε· ὅθεν ὡς ἅρμα τοῦ Λόγου χρυσήλατον, πρὸς τὴν οὐράνιον νύσσαν ἠλάσατε. Θεῖοι Μάρτυρες, Χριστῷ τῷ Θεῷ πρεσβεύσατε, δωρήσασθε ἡμῖν τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.

Κοντάκιον. Ἦχος δ’. Ἐπεφάνης σήμερον.
Τῆς Τριάδος πρόμαχοι τροπαιοφόροι, ἐν ἀθλήσει ὤφθησαν, Ὀνησιφόρος ὀ σοφός, σὺν Πορφυρίῳ κραυγάζοντες· Χριστῷ συμπάσχειν ζωῆς ἐστι πρόξενον.

Μεγαλυνάριον.
Ὄνησιν πηγάζει τὴν ἀληθῆ, ὑμῶν ἡ πρεσβεία, ὥσπερ κρήνη ὑπερχειλής, τοῖς ὑμῶν αἰνοῦσιν, Ὀνησιφόρε Μάρτυς, μετὰ τοῦ Πορφυρίου, τὰ κατορθώματα.

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Angelo Vecchione είπε...

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“My Father is at work until now, so I am at work”
(John 5:17)
“I bless you my children! Today I wish to speak to you about God’s work in these times and about the general picture in which your life and your mission is inserted.
“Try to understand, above all, that you did not happen to be in the reality in which you are by accident, but you are here because of a precise divine project. Whatever you might think about yourselves or others might think about you, know that your life is precious and irreplaceable in the time and place in which you find yourselves to be, according to God’s projects. You have been preordained for this reality, and for this reason God gave you irreplaceable and original potentialities. No one in the universe is equal to you, because God’s creativity is unlimited and inexhaustable, and because each one of you is absolutely unique in his being and in his way of acting.
“Unfortunatly, many on Earth live below their potentiality, because they do not make of themselves a gift to Me. I am the only One to know pefectly the Father’s project for each one of you, because from Him I received the order to bring to completion His work in every person. I am acting in you by the power of the Holy Spirit, who enlightens you, cloaks you, constantly inspires you pointing out the avenue towards Me, so that I might reveal to you the Will of the Father for each one of you.
Without me you shall never truly be able to know yourselves, nor to be able to understand what is asked of you to do in this life.
“The Holy Spirit and I are constantely at work in order to realize the Father’s project in each one of you, but we can do this only with the help of your freedom, that is, only when you willingly and freely choose to love and serve God and you offer to Him your life. This is the indispensable condition so that your potentialities activate and are at work. In fact, by the moment you decide to live for God and to be totally abandoned to His will, within you the action of the Holy Trinity starts working, and little by little, transforms your life and your thoughts. Thus, you are beginning to become conscious of who you are in God and to make a mark on reality, a creative mark, because it is divine creativity working in you. I wish you to be conscious about what I am saying to you, because the knowledge that God is active in you, independently from your human limitations and frailties, is determinant for your mission in the time in which you live.
“Yours is a grand time and a difficult time for the entire universe. Grandiose for the power of the events that the hand of God is preparing, and difficult because it is a time of battle with the powers of evil, an always more open battle.
All this does not refer to the planet earth alone, but to the entire creation and all the people who inhabit many other planets. I have already told you that they are children of God as you are, and that I gave My life for them as well. They are your brothers in whom the project of My Father has to be perfectly accomplished, just as it is in yours.
“What is the project of the Father? To bring back the entire creation to the state of integrity and perfection it had before original sin; to bring back every person to the dignity and glory of a child of God. All men and every creature that exists in the universe must be made free from corruption and death which infiltrated themselves in the work of God because of the sin of your forefathers. Humanity must return to a correct relationship with God, by recognizing His authority and by submitting to His guide. How is the Father going to realize this project? By recapitulating all creation in Me, since He gave Me all power in the whole universe.
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