24th Week
Monastic Lectionary Vigils
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| Gregory’s work must be seen as the culmination of Eastern mystical theology |
WEDNESDAY 18/09/2013
First Reading
Hosea 11:1-11
Responsory fer
31:20; is 54:8
Is
Ephraim a son so dear to me, a child in whom I so delight, that
as often
as I rebuke him I must remember him still? + My
heart yearns for him, I am filled with tenderness toward him, says the Lord.
V. In
excess of anger, for a moment, I hid my face from you, but with everlasting
love I will take pity on you.+ My
heart ...
Second
Reading From
a homily by Saint Gregory Palamas
Hom. 3:PG 151, 36
Hom. 3:PG 151, 36
Before creating us our Maker brought this whole universe into being
from nothing, for the sustenance of our bodily existence. But as for improving
our conduct and guiding us toward virtue, what has the Lord in his love of
goodness not done for us? He has made the whole of this perceptible universe a
kind of mirror of heaven, so that by spiritual contemplation of the world
around us we may reach up to heavenly things as if by some wonderful ladder. He
has implanted in us the natural law, as an inflexible rule, an infallible judge
and an unerring teacher: this is our conscience. If we look deep within
ourselves, then, we shall need no other teacher to show us what is good, and if
we look outside ourselves we shall find the invisible God visible in the things
he has made, as the Apostle says.
After providing a school of virtue in our own nature and in the created
world, God gave us the angels to protect us, he raised up the patriarchs and
prophets to guide us, he showed us signs and wonders to lead us to faith, and
gave us the written law as a supplement to the law of our rational soul and the
teaching of the world around us. Then at last, when we had scorned all this in
our indolence - how different from his own continuing love and care for us! -
he gave himself to us for our salvation. He poured out the wealth of his divinity
into our lowly condition; he took our nature and became a human being like us,
and was with us as our teacher. He teaches us the greatness of his love and
proves it by word and deed, at the same time persuading those who obey him not
to be hard-hearted, but to imitate his compassion.
Those who manage worldly affairs have a certain love for
them, as do shepherds for their flocks and owners for their personal
possessions, but this cannot be compared with the love of those who share the
same flesh and blood, and especially the love of parents for their children.
Therefore, to make us realize how much he loves us, God called himself our Father;
for our sake he became man, and then, through the grace of the Holy Spirit
conferred in baptism, he caused us to be born anew.
Responsory
1 fn 4:9.16b;
fn 3:16
God's love
for us was revealed when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might
have life through him. + God is love, and
whoever lives in love lives in God and God lives in him.
V. God loved
the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that whoever believes in him should
not perish but have eternal life. + God
is love ...
http://www.demotix.com/news/1595977/dedication-church-st-gregory-palamas-university-chapel#media-1595873 Bucharest, Romania, Europe
Romanian Orthodox Church celebrates St. Gregory Palamas (Grigore Palama), Archbishop of Thessalonica. On this occasion, the parish church St. Gregory Palamas - University chapel will celebrate its patron.
Romanian Orthodox Church celebrates on November 14 St. Gregory Palamas (Grigore Palama), Archbishop of Thessalonica. On this occasion, the parish church St. Gregory Palamas - University chapel will celebrate its patron.
Archbishop Gregory (Grigore) of Thessaloniki, called Palama was born in Constantinople.
For his struggles with heretics was honored with the great gift of the bishop, holding the chair of Thessaloniki and pastoral significance it with great dignity.
Church "St. Gregory Palamas' (Grigore Palama) was consecrated on 26 November 1998. Interior painting was executed in 2004 by Mihai Coman and students of the Theological Institute of Bucharest Heritage Department at the expense of Polytechnic University.
More informations at http://www.basilica.ro/stiri/hram-la-biserica-isfantul-grigorie-palamai-paraclis-universitar_878.html
Archbishop Gregory (Grigore) of Thessaloniki, called Palama was born in Constantinople.
For his struggles with heretics was honored with the great gift of the bishop, holding the chair of Thessaloniki and pastoral significance it with great dignity.
Church "St. Gregory Palamas' (Grigore Palama) was consecrated on 26 November 1998. Interior painting was executed in 2004 by Mihai Coman and students of the Theological Institute of Bucharest Heritage Department at the expense of Polytechnic University.
More informations at http://www.basilica.ro/stiri/hram-la-biserica-isfantul-grigorie-palamai-paraclis-universitar_878.html
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