COMMEMORATED ON OCTOBER 1
The Exemption of the Record Hallowed Theotokos: "In our time the Virgin stands in the midst of the Cathedral, and with choirs of Saints she slight prays to God for us. Angels and Bishops remember Her, Apostles and prophets take pride together, Since for our sake she prays to the Inoperable God!"This powerful create of the Mother of God occurred in the mid-tenth century in Constantinople, in the Blachernae church everyplace her robe, envelop, and part of her belt were sealed at the rear of essence transferred from Palestine in the fifth century.
On Sunday, October 1, clothed in the All Nocturnal Vigil, so the church was brimming with family at prayer, the Fool-for-Christ St Andrew (October 2), at the fourth hour, lifted up his eyes towards the proclaim and beheld our limit Hallowed Lady Theotokos coming supervise the air, radiant with calm light and delimited by an commission of the Saints. St John the Baptist and the holy Apostle John the Theologian accompanied the Queen of Paradise. On bended reach the Record Hallowed Virgin tearfully prayed for Christians for a have a yen time. Hence, coming secretive the Bishop's Throne, she continued her prayer.
On one occasion completing her prayer she took her envelop and come into view it frozen the relations praying in church, protecting them from enemies each evident and discreet. The Record Hallowed Lady Theotokos was radiant with calm formality, and the protecting envelop in her hands gleamed "beyond than the brightness of the sun." St Andrew gazed shuddering at the powerful indication and he asked his proponent, the blessed Epiphanius standing not in favor of him, "Do you see, brother, the Hallowed Theotokos, praying for all the world?" Epiphanius answered, "I do see, holy Jerk, and I am in awe."
The Ever-Blessed Mother of God implored the Member of the aristocracy Jesus Christ to need the prayers of all the relations job on His Record Hallowed Class, and to retort straight away to her negotiation, "O Heavenly King, need all family who pray to You and ask for on my name for help. Do not let them not go disallowed from my icon unheard."
Sts Andrew and Epiphanius were excellent to see the Mother of God at prayer, and "for a have a yen time observed the Distrustful Role come into view frozen the relations and dazzling with flashes of formality. As have a yen as the Record Hallowed Theotokos was here, the Distrustful Role was in addition evident, but with her variance it in addition became discreet. On one occasion plunder it with her, she not here slow the exalt of her visitation."
At the Blachernae church, the overtone of the powerful create of the Mother of God was remembered. In the fourteenth century, the Russian pilgrim and clerk Alexander, saw in the church an icon of the Record Hallowed Theotokos praying for the world, depicting St Andrew in be inattentive of her.
The Early Soundtrack of St Nestor reflects that the loving negotiation of the Mother of God was crucial what an struggle of a immeasurable pagan Russian line under the management of Askole and Dir. The spread celebrates the divine break down of the line which threatened Constantinople itself, soon in the existence 864-867 or according to the Russian historian Vasiliev, on June 18, 860. Dryly, this Gala is considered important by the Slavic Churches but not by the Greeks.
The Early Soundtrack of St Nestor in addition annotations the powerful escape followed an all-night Vigil and the sinking of the garment of the Mother of God clothed in the waters of the sea at the Blachernae church, but does not introduce Sts Andrew and Epiphanius and their indication of the Mother of God at prayer. These later elements, and the first phase of the celebrating of the Gala of the Exemption, emerge to postdate St Nestor and the Soundtrack. A pick up ancient times complication oblige be noted under (October 2) dating St Andrew's death to the court 936.
The court of death oblige not be masses trustworthy, or the word that he survived to a ripe old age at the rear of the indication of his youthful, or that his indication obscure some later pagan Russian engagement which met with the extraordinarily future. The nuance that St Andrew was a Slav (or a Scythian according to other sources, such as S. V. Bulgakov) is enthralling, but not by design fussy. The weight of Slavic early payment and repopulation clothed in Greece is the take of college disputes.
In the Overture, a Russian book of the twelfth century, a ticket of the setting up of the special Gala marking this point states, "For so we heard, we realized how wondrous and lenient was the indication... and it transpired that Your holy Exemption prerequisite not maintain without festal celebration, O Ever-Blessed One!"
That's why, in the festal celebration of the Exemption of the Mother of God, the Russian Cathedral sings, "Among the choirs of the Angels, O Self-ruling Lady, with the deserving and elated prophets, with the First-Ranked Apostles and with the Hieromartyrs and Hierarchs, pray for us sinners, glorifying the Gala of your Exemption in the Russian Topography." As well, it would emerge that St Andrew, contemplating the powerful indication was a Slav, was tiring detainee, and became the slave of the local public of Constantinople named Theognostus.
Churches in reverence of the Exemption of the Mother of God began to hangout in Russia in the twelfth century. Usually comfortable for its architectural excellence is the temple of the Exemption at Nerl, which was built in the court 1165 by holy Prince Andrew Bogoliubsky. The pains of this holy prince in addition resolved in the Russian Cathedral the Gala of the Exemption of the Mother of God, about the court 1164.
At Novgorod in the twelfth century here was a monastery of the Exemption of the Record Hallowed Theotokos (the assumed Zverin monastery) In Moscow in addition under Tsar Ivan the Execrable the place of worship of the Exemption of the Mother of God was built at the church of the Hallowed Trinity (comfortable as the church of St Rosemary the Lucky).
On the Gala of the Exemption of the Record Hallowed Theotokos we request the confirmation and offerings of the Queen of Paradise, "Honor us in your prayers, O Lady Virgin Mother of God, that we not ebb by the encroachment of our sins. Sentinel us from every evil and from grievous woes, for in you do we nightmare, and venerating the Gala of your Exemption, we detonate you."
TROPARION - Tone 4
In our time the extort make official the spread with joyillumined by your coming, O Mother of God.Beholding your leafy image we intensely cry to you:"Retain us beneath the darling envelop of your protection; topic us from every form of evil by pleading Christ,your Son and our God that He may atone for our souls."
KONTAKION - Tone 3
In our time the Virgin stands in the midst of the Churchand with choirs of saints she slight prays to God for us.Angels and bishops honey,apostles and prophets take pride together,considering for our sake she prays to the pre-eternal God.