COMMEMORATED ON FEBRUARY 26
At the moment we think of the phenomenon of the boiled wheat performed by the holy Furthest Wounded person Theodore the Join up (February 17). Fifty years at the back the death of St Theodore, the sovereign Julian the Apostate (361-363), wishing for to commit an atrocity upon the Christians, commanded the city-commander of Constantinople to smattering all the discard grub in the marketplaces with the blood untaken to idols concerning the before time week of Furthest Lent. St Theodore, having appeared in a dream to Archbishop Eudoxius, expected him to inform all the Christians that no one essential buy at all at the marketplaces, but rather to eat fit to be eaten wheat with have a weakness for (kolyva).In safeguard of this act, the Regular Priestly annually celebrates the holy Furthest Wounded person Theodore the Join up on the before time Saturday of Furthest Lent. On Friday end of the day, at the Cherubic Liturgy of the Presanctified Aid late the prayer at the ambo, the Law to the holy Furthest Wounded person Theodore, calm by St John of Damascus, is sung. At the back this, kolyva is blessed and circulate to the solid. The celebration of the Furthest Wounded person Theodore on the before time Saturday of Furthest Lent was set by the Patriarch Nectarius of Constantinople (381-397).
TROPARION - Main 8
Impartial Novelist, with wisdom onerous, You mercifully order all things,
and see that which is looked-for to all men:
Add rest, O Peer of the realm, to the souls of Your servants who last fallen frozen,
for they last placed their commitment in You, our Author and Fashioner, and our God.
KONTAKION - Main 8
Via the saints see rest, O Christ, to the souls of Your servants,
where present-day is neither frailty nor despair, and no especially sighing,
but life ceaseless.
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