Who is celebrating 4th of July today according to the calendar: Hieromartyrs Donatus Theophilus Theodotus and Theodorus, Martyrs Cyprillis and Aroas, Lucia and Apollonius
Saint Andreas, the Archbishop of Crete of Jerusalem, left the Church many doctrinal writings and speeches, but mainly “harmonious melodies” (Theophanes), which included him among the great hymn writers of the Church, “as he causes pleasure in the hearts with the hymns of the Holy Trinity, of orders of the saints and the Immaculate Virgin”.
Hymn writer of the Great Canon But his most brilliant song, with which he fills the hearts of the Orthodox believers every year, leading them to repentance, is his Great Canon, which, sung on the fifth week of the fasts of Holy Lent, is a summary of the entire divine economy, Old and New Testament. According to the hymn writer of Theophanes, this work seals the saint, which is why in his synaxari (July 4) he notes: “The shepherd of Crete, whose work was Megas Kanon, died and found a great crown for his labors.”
From this extensive work (regarding 250 tropes), which would be good for Christians to enjoy often during the year, we choose a trope (from the Gode in a modern Greek rendering), which we think has a special significance for the our time, the so foreign and paradoxical, as it unfortunately walks where it meets “nothing” as the absence of meaning in life. And with good reason: we humans walk according to our will and not according to God’s will.
Source: ekklisiaonline.gr
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