{"id":47009,"date":"2018-08-18T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/vesti\/%category_vesti%\/the-triumph-of-the-cross-the-holy-maccabean-martyrs-and-the-beginning-of-the-dormition-fast\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T12:56:54","slug":"the-triumph-of-the-cross-the-holy-maccabean-martyrs-and-the-beginning-of-the-dormition-fast","status":"publish","type":"vesti","link":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/reports\/services-sacraments\/the-triumph-of-the-cross-the-holy-maccabean-martyrs-and-the-beginning-of-the-dormition-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"The triumph of the Cross, the Holy Maccabean Martyrs and the beginning of the Dormition Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the most holy Tree \u2013 the strong hope of faithful, deliverance from the curse, the joy of all nations is placed before us, revealing the master of evil. Faithful, let us venerate it with joy.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> canticle of the Canon<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">B<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y presenting the most powerful weapon of peace and the undefeated victory \u2013 the Holy Cross of Christ, and by the memory of the Holy Maccabean Martyrs, the Divine Church begins today with the two weeks long Holy Dormition Fast. And this is its calling: \u201cFaithful come and venerate the life-giving Tree, on which Christ &#8211; The King of Glory voluntarily opened His arms in order to rise us to the original bliss, that the enemy separated us from and distanced us from God just for one bitter delight\u201c. Come faithful let us wisely correct the sin of our ancestors with this holy and blessed Fast, to bring joy to our soul and please our Lord. It\u2019s wise of the Church to begin with the Holy Cross &nbsp;this fasting fit, because it \u201cprepares a path to heaven for those who venerate it with unshakable faith, and the One Who crucified Himself on it enjoins to the angelic union those who celebrate Him with love\u201d. A perfect example for restraint and dedicated following of the Divine Law, is the life and martyrdom of the seven Old Testament Maccabean Martyrs, along with their mother Solomonia and the teacher Eleazar, who boldly confessed their faith in God the King of All before the torturing king: \u201cNot even the sword, nor the beasts, nor the wounds could separate us from Him, we would rather die here, together with our old mother and the father teacher, so that we could live and rejoice forever in the never ending eternity\u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This luminous triumph of the Cross of Christ and the glorious Maccabees, was celebrated prayerfully and gratefully by the brothers Holy Bigorski Monastery, with the bringing out and veneration of the Holy Tree, right after the great praise hymn. The Service was such a great spiritual delight for us, especially the Divine Liturgy served by our Elder, Archimandrite Parthenius and the hieromonks and hierodeacons of our brotherhood. After the Liturgy, according to the ecclesiastical tradition, the Elder blessed the water and the honey produced this year, as a kind of symbolical presentation of the sweetness of the Fast and the spiritual fit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May our Lord bless the beginning of this Holy Dormition Fast!<\/span><\/i><\/em><\/span><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46671,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1529,1533,1531,1527,1528,1532,1530],"category_vesti":[1132],"tags_vesti":[41,40],"lokacii":[],"class_list":["post-47009","vesti","type-vesti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-theotokos-fast","tag-blessing-of-the-water","tag-eleazar-en","tag-cross","tag-maccabean-martyrs","tag-solomonia","tag-dormition-fast","category_vesti-services-sacraments","tags_vesti-glavna","tags_vesti-izbrani"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vesti\/47009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vesti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vesti"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vesti\/47009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47009"},{"taxonomy":"category_vesti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_vesti?post=47009"},{"taxonomy":"tags_vesti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags_vesti?post=47009"},{"taxonomy":"lokacii","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lokacii?post=47009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}