19 Jan 2025
Julian calendar:
06 Jan 2025
Pred. April Next
PayPal
Pred. 1947 Next


+++ The Theophany

+++ The TheophanyWhen the Lord Jesus had lived for thirty years from His birth in the flesh, He began His teaching and saving work. He marked this very beginning of the beginning by His Baptism in the Jordan. St Cyril of Jerusalem says: "The beginning of the world - water; the beginning of the Gospel - the Jordan." At the Baptism of the Lord in the water, that mystery was revealed to the world that was predicted in the Old Testament and fabled in ancient Egypt and India - the mystery of the Holy Trinity of God. The Father revealed Himself to the sense of hearing, the Spirit to the sense of sight and the Son, further beyond these, to the sense of touch. The Father gave His testimony of the Son, the Son was baptized in the waters and the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, hovered over the waters. And when John the Baptist bore witness of Christ and said: "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (Jn. 1:29), and when he immersed the Lord in the Jordan and baptized Him, there were thus revealed both the mission of Christ in the world and the path of our salvation. That is to say: Christ takes upon Himself the sin of the whole human race. He dies under it (the immersion) and rises again (the coming up out of the water), and we must die to the old, sinful man and rise again, cleansed, renewed and re-born. Here is the Saviour and here is the way of salvation. The Feast of the Theophany is also called the Illuminating, for in the Jordan there is given to us an illumining, revealing God to us as Trinity, consubstantial and undivided. That is one thing. And the other is that each of us baptized in the water is illumined by the Father of lights, through the merits of the Son and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

April 1947
SunMonTueWedThuFriSut
  New Martyr Nicholas of Karamanos in Smyrna (1657)
1
water
St. martyr Longinus
2
water
Martyrs Philemon and Domnina of Rome
3
water
Martyrs Callinica and Basilissa of Rome (2nd c.)
4
water
Saint Ipomoni - holy and right believing Empress Helen Dragas Palaiologos
5
oil
+++ Palm Sunday (The Entry of our Lord into Jerusalem) - Cveti
6
fish
St. Senuphius the Wonderworker of Latomos (9th c.)
7
oil
Martyr Pullius the Reader.
8
water
Prophet Hanani (Ananias)
9
water
Thursday of Passion Week, Holy Thursday
10
oil
+++ Holy Friday, Good Friday
11
strict fast
Holy Saturday
12
strict fast
+++ Easter, Holy Pascha
13
fast-free
+++ Bright Monday, Renewal Monday
14
fast-free
+++  Bright Tuesday, Renewal Tuesday
15
fast-free
Venerable Nectarius, abbot, of Bezhetsk (1492
16
fast-free
Venerable Zosimas, abbot of Vorbozomsk (1550)
17
fast-free
Five girls martyred at Neanidor of Lesbos
18
fast-free
New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace (1835)
19
fast-free
Venerable Leucius, abbot of Volokolamsk (1492)
20
fast-free
New Martyr John Naukliros ("the Navigator") in Thessaly (1699
21
fast-free
Newly revealed Martyrs Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene of Lesbos (1463)
22
fast-free
New Martyr Demos of Smyrna (1763)
23
oil
Venerables Euthymius (1456) and Chariton (1509), abbots of Syanzhema
24
fast-free
St. Basil, bishop of Ryazan (1295)
25
oil
Martyr Eleutherius of Persia (4th c.)
26
fast-free
New Martyr Demetrius of the Peloponnesus, who suffered at Tripoli (1803)
27
fast-free
St. Leonidas, bishop of Athens
28
fast-free
Monk-martyr Christopher
29
fast-free
Venerable Macarius of Corinth (1805)
30
oil
   
If You liked our Work and effort then please consider to make a kind donation:
PayPal



Moon phases for April , 1947 (Serbia)
05 Apr 1947 Full Moon
13 Apr 1947 Third Quarter
21 Apr 1947 New Moon
28 Apr 1947 First Quarter