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Orthodoxie.com (French) · Aug 13 View source View full article on hyper.nooz.ai

1er août (ancien calendrier) /14 août (nouveau) - Orthodoxie.com

🌐 Quote shown in the original French — English translation below

… ne t’avait été donné d’en haut. Pilate, ayant entendu ces paroles, amena Jésus dehors; et il s’assit sur le tribunal, au lieu appelé le Pavé, et en hébreu Gabbatha. C’était la préparation de la Pâque, et environ la sixième heure. Pilate dit aux Juifs: Voici votre roi. Mais ils s’écrièrent: Ote, ôte, crucifie-le! Pilate leur dit: Crucifierai-je votre roi? Les principaux sacrificateurs répondirent: Nous n’avons de roi que César. Alors il le leur livra pour être crucifié. Ils prirent donc Jésus, et l’emmenèrent. Jésus, portant sa croix, arriva au lieu du crâne, qui se nomme en hébreu Golgotha. C’est là qu’il fut crucifié, et deux autres avec lui, un de chaque côté, et Jésus au milieu. Pilate fit une inscription, qu’il plaça sur la croix, et qui était ainsi conçue: Jésus de Nazareth, roi des Juifs. Beaucoup de Juifs lurent …

For · Caesar
Sentiment: neutral

The chief priests are asserting their allegiance to Caesar over any other king.

🇬🇧 English translation

August 1st (Old Calendar) / August 14th (New) - Orthodoxia.com

Beginning of the Dormition Fast

Procession of the Holy, Venerable, and Life-Giving Wood of the Cross. The seven Maccabean brothers: saints Abime, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusubon, Achim, and Marcellus with their holy mother Salome and their preceptor the elder saint Eleazar, martyrs (166 BC); saints Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cyriacus, and their five companions, martyrs in Perge in Pamphylia (4th century); saint Exuperius, first bishop of Bayeux (4th century); saint Severus, evangelizing priest in the Hautes-Pyrénées (around 502); saint Arcade, bishop of Bourges (549); saint Jonat, abbot at Marchiennes (690); hieromartyr Demetrius Pavsky, priest (1937).

THE PROCESSION OF THE HOLY CROSS [1]

On this day, it was customary in Constantinople to bring out the relic of the precious Cross from the imperial palace and carry it to Hagia Sophia, escorted by a crowd of priests and deacons who incensed it along the route. They would first stop at the small baptistery, where the service of the sanctification of the waters was celebrated, and then the Cross was placed on the altar of Hagia Sophia. From the Great Church, in the following days, they would go around the city, district by district, until the eve of the feast of the Dormition (August 14), in order to purify the air and protect the inhabitants of the capital from the epidemics that spread more easily during these hot days. After thus providing health and comfort to all who venerated it with faith, the holy Cross was then brought back to the palace.

[1] Taken from the Synaxarion of the hieromonk Macarius of Simonos Petras.

TROPARIA AND KONTAKIA OF THE DAY

Troparion of the Cross, Tone 1

Save your people, O Lord, and bless your inheritance; grant to your faithful victory over enemies and protect by your Cross the nations that belong to you.

Troparion of the holy Maccabean brothers, Tone 1

Through the sufferings that the Saints endured for you, allow yourself to be moved, O our God; heal all our pains, O Lord, friend of mankind, we pray to you.

Kontakion of the holy Maccabean brothers, Tone 2

Columns of divine Wisdom numbering seven, seven-branched lampstand of the light of God, most wise Maccabeans, sublime Martyrs before the letter, with your Witnesses pray to the God of the universe for the salvation of those who sing of you this day.

Kontakion of the Cross, Tone 4

You who freely suffered to be exalted on the Cross, grant your benevolence to the new people called by your name, O Christ our God; give strength to your faithful servants, protecting them from all adversity: may your covenant be to them a weapon of peace, an invincible trophy!

EPISTLE OF THE DAY

1 Cor. 1:18-24 (Procession of the Cross)

For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing; but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. As it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And I will annihilate the intelligence of the intelligent. Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since the world, through its wisdom, did not know God in the wisdom of God, it pleased God to save believers through the foolishness of preaching. Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles, but the power of God and the wisdom of God to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks.

GOSPEL OF THE DAY

Jn. 19:6-11, 13-20, 25-28, 30-35 (Procession of the Cross) At that time, the chief priests and the elders of the people conspired against Jesus to destroy him. They went to Pilate, shouting: "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them: Take him yourselves, and crucify him; for I find no guilt in him. The Jews answered him: We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. He entered again into the praetorium and said to Jesus: Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer. Pilate said to him: Do you not answer me? Do you not know that I have authority to crucify you and authority to release you? Jesus answered, "You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above." Having heard this, Pilate brought Jesus out; and he sat on the judgment seat at the place called the Pavement, in Hebrew Gabbatha. It was the day of Preparation of the Passover, about the sixth hour. Pilate said to the Jews, "Behold your king." But they cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar.” So he handed him over to be crucified. Then they took Jesus and led him away. Jesus, bearing his cross, came to the place called the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle. Pilate also made an inscription and set it on the cross, which read: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said, "It is finished.” He bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Now it was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was a great day. The Jews therefore asked Pilate that the legs of the crucified should be broken and taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. He who saw it has borne witness, and his testimony is true.

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