SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELIST GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH may 10, 2015

sunday of the samaritan woman he Holy Martyr Photini (Svetlana) the Samaritan Woman, her sons Victor (named Photinus) and Joses; Tand her sisters Anatola, Phota, Photis, Paraskeva, Kyriake; Nero’s daughter Domnina; and the Martyr Sebastian: The holy Martyr Photini was the Samaritan Woman, with whom the Savior conversed at Jacob’s Well (John. 4:5-42). During the time of the emperor Nero (54-68), who displayed excessive cruelty against Christians, St Photini lived in Carthage with her younger son Joses and fearlessly preached the Gospel there. Her eldest son Victor fought bravely in the Roman army against barbarians, and was appointed military commander in the city of Attalia (Asia Minor). Later, Nero called him to Italy to arrest and punish Christians. Sebastian, an official in Italy, said to St Victor, “I know that you, your mother and your brother, are fol- lowers of Christ. As a friend I advise you to submit to the will of the emperor. If you inform on any Chris- tians, you will receive their wealth. I shall write to your mother and brother, asking them not to preach Christ in public. Let them practice their faith in secret.” St Victor replied, “I want to be a preacher of Christianity like my mother and brother.” Sebastian said, “O Victor, we all know what woes await you, your mother and brother.” Then Sebastian suddenly felt a sharp pain in his eyes. He was dumbfounded, and his face was somber. For three days he lay there blind, without uttering a word. On the fourth day he declared, “The God of the Christians is the only true God.” St Victor asked why Sebastian had suddenly changed his mind. Sebas- tian replied, “Because Christ is calling me.” Soon he was baptized, and immediately regained his sight. St Sebastian’s servants, after witnessing the miracle, were also baptized. Reports of this reached Nero, and he commanded that the Christians be brought to him at Rome. Then the Lord Himself appeared to the confessors and said, “Fear not, for I am with you. Nero, and all who serve him, will be vanquished.” The Lord said to St Victor, “From this day forward, your name will be Photinus, because through you, many will be enlightened and will believe in Me.” The Lord then told the Christians to strengthen and encourage St Sebastian to peresevere until the end. All these things, and even future events, were revealed to St Photini. She left Carthage in the company of several Christians and joined the confessors in Rome.

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αναστασιμον. Ἦχος δ´. resurrectional. Mode 4. ὸ φαιδρὸν τῆς Ἀναστάσεως κήρυγμα, τοῦ Ἀγγέλου hen the women Disciples of the Lord * had Tμαθοῦσαι αἱ τοῦ Κυρίου Μαθήτριαι, καὶ τὴν προ Wlearned from the Angel the joyful message of the γονικὴν πόφασιν ποῤῥίψασαι, τοῖς Ἀποστόλοις Resurrection* and had rejected the ancestral decision,* καυχώμεναι ἔλεγον· Ἐσκύλευται ὁ θάνατος, ἠγέρθη they cried aloud to the Apostles triumphantly:* Death Χριστὸς ὁ Θεός, δωρούμενος τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα has been despoiled, Christ God has risen,* granting His ἔλεος. great mercy to the world. Ἀπολυτίκιον της εορτης. Ἦχος πλ. δ´. Apolytikion of the feast. Mode 8. εσούσης τῆς Ἑορτῆς, διψῶσάν μου τὴν ψυχήν, Lord, midway through the feast, give drink to my Μεὐσεβείας πότισον νάματα· ὅτι πᾶσι Σωτὴρ O thirsty soul from the waters of true religion. For to all ἐβόησας· Ὁ διψῶν ἐρχέσθω πρός με καὶ πινέτω. Ἡ You the Savior cried aloud, “Let whoever is thirsty come πηγὴ τῆς ζωῆς, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, δόξα σοι. to Me and drink.” As the fountain of life, O Christ our God, glory to You. Ἀπολυτίκιον toy naoy. Ἦχος πλ. a´. Apolytikion of the feast. Mode 5. ουκάν τον πανύμνητον καὶ ἅγιον ἀπόστολον, τὸν he holy Apostle, the All-hymned Luke, * who is ac- Λτῆς Ἐκκλησίας γνωστὸν συνθέτην τῶν Πράξεων Tknowledged by the Church of Christ * as the recorder τῶν Ἀποστόλων, τόν τε σεμνὸν τοῦ Εὐαγγελίου of the Acts of the Apostles, * and the splendid author of Χριστοῦ ὑπομνηματιστήν, ἀξίως τιμήσωμεν ὕμνοις the Gospel of Christ. * Let us praise with sacred hymns ὁσίοις, ὡς νοσημάτων ἀνθρωπίνων καὶ φυσικῶν as a physician, * who heals the infirmities of man, * and ἀσθενειῶν θεραπευτήν, τὸν καθαίροντα πληγὰς τοῦ the ailments of nature, * who cleanses spiritual wounds, πνεύματος, καὶ ἀδιαλείπτως πρεσβεύοντα ὑπὲρ τῶν and prays unceasingly for our souls. ψυχῶν ἡμῶν. Κοντάκιον. Ἦχος πλ. δ´. Kontakion. Mode 8. ἰ καὶ ἐν τάφῳ κατῆλθες ἀθάνατε, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ᾍδου hough You went down into the tomb O Immortal Εκαθεῖλες τὴν δύναμιν, καὶ ἀνέστης ὡς νικητής, TOne yet You brought down the dominion of Hades Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, γυναιξὶ μυροφόροις φθεγξάμενος, and You rose as the victor O Christ our God and You Χαίρετε, καὶ τοῖς σοῖς Ἀποστόλοις εἰρήνην called out ‘Rejoice,’ to the Myrrh-bearing women and δωρούμενος ὁ τοῖς πεσοῦσι παρέχων ἀνάστασιν. gave peace to Your Apostles O Lord who to the fallen grant resurrection.

instead of αχιον εστιν… sun,* and He has fully illumined all the faithful,* O Lady The angel cried to her who is full of grace: O pure full of the grace of God. Virgin rejoice, and again, I say: Rejoice; for your Son has Communion Hymn. Mode. 1. risen from the dead on the third day. eceive the Body of Christ, taste the immortal fount. e glad and exultant, O divine gate of the light.* R Instead of: BFor your Son, namely Jesus, having set within ‘We have seen the true light…’ the tomb,* rose and is shining more brightly than Christ is risen… THE READINGS OF THE DAY

epistle reading him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may nev- Acts of the Apostles 11:19-30 er be thirsty or come here to draw [water]!” Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered, “I have ow in those days, those who had been scattered abroad by no husband.” Jesus replied, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ the oppression that arose in connection with Stephen had for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have traveled as far as Phoe- nicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, and they N is not your husband. This you have said truthfully.” The woman were only proclaiming the word to Jews. But some of them, men of said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet! Our ancestors Cyprus and Cyrene, spoke to the Hellenists and preached the Lord expressed adoration in this mountain, and you [Jews] say that Je- Jesus when they arrived in Antioch. The hand of the Lord was with rusalem is the place where people should express adoration.” Jesus them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. News said to her, “Woman, believe me, a time is coming when neither of these things came to the ears of the Church which was in Jeru- in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you express adoration to salem. So, they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch. When the Father. You express adoration to what you do not know. We he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced. He encouraged express adoration to what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. them all to remain close to the Lord with a resolute heart. Indeed, But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and express adoration to the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is many people were added to the Lord. Then Barnabas went out to seeking such [people] to express adoration to him. God is a spirit, Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to and those who express adoration to him must express adoration Antioch. So it was that for a whole year, they assembled with the in spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Mes- Church and taught many people. The disciples were first called siah is coming, (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will Christians in Antioch. Now in these days, prophets came down proclaim all things to us.” Jesus replied, “I am he, the one who is from Jerusalem to Antioch. One of them, named Agabus, stood speaking to you.” Just then, his disciples arrived. They were aston- up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would take ished that he was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What place all over the world; and it happened in the days of Claudius are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” Then the Caesar. According to their ability, each one of the disciples deter- woman left her water jar, went away into the city, and said to the mined to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea. This is people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever indeed what they did, sending their gift to the presbyters through done! Could this be the Christ?” The people [then] went out of the hands of Barnabas and Saul. the city, and were coming to him. Meanwhile, the disciples urged gospel reading him, saying, “Rabbi, eat!” But he told them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” The disciples then said to one an- john (4: 5-42) other, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” Jesus said to t that time, Jesus arrived at a city of Samaria called Sychar, them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to near the parcel of ground that Jacob had given to his son accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are still four months AJoseph; and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his jour- until the harvest comes?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and ney, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman of look at the fields! They are already white for the harvest! And the Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me [some- one who reaps is receiving his wages and gathering fruit to eternal thing] to drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to life; so that both the one who sows and the one who reaps may buy food). The Samaritan woman then said to him, “How is it that rejoice together! For in this, the saying is true, ‘One sows, and an- you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” other reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, Others have labored, and you have entered into [the rewards of] “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give their labor.” Many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given because of the word of the woman who had testified, “He told me you living water!” The woman replied, “Sir, you have nothing to everything that I did!” For this reason, when the Samaritans came draw [water] with, and the well is deep! Where then do you get to him, they begged him to stay with them. So, he stayed there two that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave days, and many more believed because of his word. Then they said us the well and drank of it himself, as did his children and his live- to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, but stock?” Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be because we have heard for ourselves and [we] know that this is thirsty again! But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him indeed the Savior of the world, the Christ.” will never be thirsty again. Not only this, the water that I will give announcements Saturday, January 25, Great Vespers, 5pm

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!

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At Rome the emperor ordered the saints to be a well. Sebastian, Photinus and Joses had their legs brought before him and he asked them whether cut off, and they were thrown to dogs, and then they truly believed in Christ. All the confessors had their skin flayed off. The sisters of St Photini refused to renounce the Savior. Then the emper- also suffered terrible torments. Nero gave orders or gave orders to smash the martyrs’ finger joints. to cut off their breasts and then to flay their skin. During the torments, the confessors felt no pain, An expert in cruelty, the emperor readied the fierc- and their hands remained unharmed. est execution for St Photis: they tied her by the Nero ordered that Sts Sebastian, Photinus and feet to the tops of two bent-over trees. When the Joses be blinded and locked up in prison, and St ropes were cut the trees sprang upright and tore the Photini and her five sisters Anatola, Phota, Pho- martyr apart. The emperor ordered the others be- tis, Paraskeva and Kyriake were sent to the impe- headed. St Photini was removed from the well and rial court under the supervision of Nero’s daughter locked up in prison for twenty days. Domnina. St Photini converted both Domnina and After this Nero had her brought to him and all her servants to Christ. She also converted a sor- asked if she would now relent and offer sacrifice to cerer, who had brought her poisoned food to kill the idols. St Photini spit in the face of the emperor, her. and laughing at him, said, “O most impious of the Three years passed, and Nero sent to the prison blind, you profligate and stupid man! Do you think for one of his servants, who had been locked up. me so deluded that I would consent to renounce The messengers reported to him that Sts Sebastian, my Lord Christ and instead offer sacrifice to idols Photinus and Joses, who had been blinded, had as blind as you?” completely recovered, and that people were visit- Hearing such words, Nero gave orders to again ing them to hear their preaching, and indeed the throw the martyr down the well, where she surren- whole prison had been transformed into a bright dered her soul to God (ca. 66). and fragrant place where God was glorified. an interview Nero then gave orders to crucify the saints, with Fr. Roman Braga by Ms. Jessica Precop and to beat their naked bodies with straps. On the fourth day the emperor sent servants to see ow did your own struggles with the communist gov- whether the martyrs were still alive. But, approach- Hernment impact your spiritual life? ing the place of the tortures, the servants fell blind. The communists could not control what is inside An angel of the Lord freed the martyrs from their of you, but you couldn’t express what you were think- crosses and healed them. The saints took pity on ing, you were not able to express your opinion. And the blinded servants, and restored their sight by this not only as a a monk or as a priest or as a Chris- their prayers to the Lord. Those who were healed tian, but as an intellectual in general. Not all intellec- came to believe in Christ and were soon baptized. tuals in Romania during the communist regime were In an impotent rage Nero gave orders to flay the communists. In order to survive they were forced to say one thing but they believed something else in skin from St Photini and to throw the martyr down themselves. So they had a double life. It was one thing what they had in their mind and in their soul – their a lot of things, to read a lot of books and you become convictions, and another what they were express- the slave of the books, the slave of the knowledge, of ing aloud. It was all a matter of survival. So that was concepts of philosophy and so on. But you do not a very, very difficult life. It was not like here where have the time to meditate on who you are. When you you are not afraid of anything. You are not afraid to are free you are made out of quotations from books. express yourself; it was not like this. People were say- We were not allowed in prison to have any books. In ing exactly what the government asked them to say in 11 years I did not see a pencil or a piece of paper, or order to be able to have a job, to be a teacher, to have a a book, and not only myself, but all the intellectuals profession, to be able to provide for their family their and all the priests. The communists gave books and daily bread. But what they thought and believed the papers to read to simple folks because they wanted to communist couldn’t control. convince them to become communists. They wanted, We were happy in prison in a way. Let aside all the however, that the intellectuals be transformed into physical tortures Physical tortures are nothing. You beasts, become like animals. The interesting think is suffer from them even, you can even die. But the com- that it did not happen. Instead you became yourself munist imprisonment is worse than physical torture. because you started to examine yourself. Once you They want to keep you at the limit of normal and were out of prison, they were interested that you do abnormal, but they couldn’t control what is inside of not make propaganda to tell others what happened you. In a way, for a priest the communist prison was in prison, and so on and so many of us were expelled good because there in prison we were praying. Once from the country just so we do not to tell the others you are convicted (of “crimes” you did not commit) what was going on in prison. you are placed in a cell, there is nothing else. They put How did you witness Christ is prison? the intellectuals and especially the priests in solitary In prison most of the time you were by yourself. confinement at least one or two years, and in a way I was in a forced labor camp too. In the forced labor that was very good for us. Not having anywhere to camp we had our groups of prayer and we had priests go or even look out a window because there were no that were hearing confessions. Each priest had a windows in those cells of solitary confinement you group around him. We witnessed Christ more in the have to look, to go somewhere; and so you go inside forced labor camp because there was not too much yourself, inside your heart and inside your mind to control there. It was a large community and the com- examine yourself, to see who you are and why God munists were interested in how much you worked. In brought you into this world. You question whether prison it was impossible to witness Christ, even if you God even exists, and what is your relationship with were alone or maybe two in the same cell. Sometimes God. there were four in the same cell, but you only talked When we were free we did not have time to ask to a small group of people. In the force labor camps ourselves these questions. Our faith was superficial we even had the liturgy there because we had priests, because you can learn a lot of things and can have a without vestments and without anything else other mind like an Encyclopedia full of all the knowledge, than a piece of bread, and some tonic wine that the but if you don’t know yourself and who you are!. Even doctors in the hospital provided. I was in a forced if you know everything in the world you are superfi- labor camp with 16,000 people, and there was a hos- cial if you do not ask yourself who am I? Why do I pital and the doctors were from among the prisoners exist? What is the destiny of my life? Why did God so they provided tonic wine for us for the liturgy and create me? If I believe in God what does God want we spared two pieces of bread from breakfast and so from me? These things when you live in freedom you we had liturgy. The guards did not know we had lit- do not ask yourself because you are in a hurry to do urgy; as they were passing by, they thought we were just babbling; we sure did not show it. I remember in me, and me, and I;” Who are you? You are nobody. prison though, in the cell, a priest had liturgy under Try not to pay too much attention to you. But when the blanket; when the guard entered he covered ev- you say can I do something for you? Maybe you need erything with the blanket. me? That is meaningful Christian love. So suffering Why is suffering important as a Christian? in this world is permitted by God that other Chris- Suffering is good not only for Christians but for tians might concentrate their love on those suffering everybody. Because if you do not suffer you do not people and do something for them, to sacrifice them- understand anything. Suffering is a good experience. selves for them. In our own life suffering is permitted And in the scriptures it says that suffering is a sign that so we understand why Jesus was crucified. God loves you. In the Epistle to Hebrew Chapter 13, I am able to forgive. I pray for those guards that tor- St. Paul says that if you do not suffer you are not chil- tured us in prison. I am not against them because I un- dren of God. Who is the Father who does not chastise derstand they were forced to do that. And you forgive His children? He punishes His children because He only when you suffer. When you do not suffer you do loves them. If you do not suffer you are not the sons of not want to forgive, then you are condemned. There God. After you experience suffering, you understand was a movie-maker who came and made a movie with more and better things in this world, much deeper me and Fr. Calciu. The interviewer said “how can you than the others who do not experience any suffering. forgive them?” Well why not? They are the image of So suffering is maturing you in your spiritual life. You God. We know that in that kind of regime they were should not avoid suffering but you should not look forced to kill us, to torture us, to do what they were for it. God takes care of that. There is a lot of suffering told to do, otherwise their families would not have in the world. So many families who have children in bread to eat. You are able to forgive when you suffer. the hospital. My doctor has a daughter 11 years of age When you do not suffer you are not able to forgive. with bone cancer; they are young, what a suffering for You say “no, no, no, you should not do such and such that family whose daughter may be dying. We ask our- a thing and if you do you should be punished because selves why? you did it”. So suffering is very important in Christian God allows into this world to have beggars and life. crippled people and all this because otherwise we How is life in America different than your experi- would not be able to be charitable. We have to exer- ence in Romania? cise our love because love is not just the word, is it I thought I came to a free country. And that is true; something that we must do. And you do things for you have the freedom to do anything you want, as long those who need them. So that is why there are or- as you do not to hurt anybody. If you hurt anybody for phan children and crippled people and so many other sure you have to suffer the consequences. Speaking of things, for us to exercise our love for our neighbor the freedom of conscious and thought, I doubt that because Jesus said love God with your whole heart we are free because being free to do everything you and whole mind but love your neighbor as you love can destroy yourself if you are not mature. Freedom yourself. But if my neighbor does not need my love without responsibility is not freedom. Only when what is love? Just a hand shake? That is not love. Or to you are prevented of doing what you want to do, then give him a hug? That is nothing. Go there and take a you understand freedom. But when you say “I want to crippled person on the street and give him a hug and do everything I want” you are not free. Think about ask him what can I do for you? That is love. Not to Genesis, the first book in the Bible, when God created live for yourself; to live for others and always to deny man, he did not understand what freedom was until yourself; to forget yourself and remember that others God told him you cannot touch this tree; the tree is exist. That is Christian life. Not to say “what about a symbol, it is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So if God created man free, then you ask why converse with God and God wants you to talk with He gave him a limit: “do not touch this.” Without this Him because prayer is not as much as you read in limit man cannot understand what freedom is. Free- the book or how long you are kneeling, prayer is the dom is just a word if you do not have restrictions. So whole life. When you eat, when you drink, when you freedom without discipline is not freedom. And many drive the car, when you discipline your children: You in our culture here in America think that they do not are in a state of prayer. Life is a liturgy. It is not only have to respect anything or anybody; they are free to in church that liturgy takes place, the liturgy is out- do everything. This is not freedom. side the church building too. The whole life should What are some ways we can find Christ today, in the be a liturgy- if you have the feeling of the existence of American society? God. But you have to get that feeling of the existence Well Christ first of all is in you. Christ is not just of God… how? I always say, especially to young peo- some nice guy. He is God and God is within you. God ple, have a dialogue, a permanent dialogue with God. is in our conscious, in our heart, in our minds, is not Sure you are busy: you eat, you prepare your exam if something material you see outside of yourself. You you are a student, you work and you are very busy but find God in yourself. You descend in your personality. always say: “Lord I know You are here I didn’t forget We are eternal, we never die, the body is going to the You. Look at me and do not abandon me.” See many cemetery but the conscious, the person is continu- times this permanent dialogue with God becomes a ally living. So when you descend into yourself, your prayer because prayer is a communication between conscious is infinite. And this infinity is the temple man and God. of the living God. St. Paul says many times you are Prayer is not just a short time and you say “I fin- the temple of the living God because God lives within ished my prayer” and that’s it; you never finish your you. You find God when you know yourself, when prayer. The definition of prayer is this: the feeling you know who you are. If you neglect that, “I don’t of the presence of God in you. And if you have this have time to think about myself” you will never find feeling of the presence of God you are in a continual God because God is not something material, you do prayer. If you pray only when you pray you don’t pray not find him in a specific place. God is always with at all one of the monks said. So don’t pray only when you if you want Him to be with you. You find God you pray, you pray all the time because prayer is not when you find yourself. “Who am I?” Pay attention “give me, give me.” Prayer is to say I love you and I to these verses of the scriptures: “you are the temple want to spend time with you. Ask God something. of the living God because God lives within you.” And And don’t worry God is answering you even if you Jesus said: “remain in Me and I in you. I am the vine don’t think it. He’s giving you good hints and good and you are the branches” if you do not remain in me suggestions on how to resolve your problems. So to you do not have sap to feed yourself and you dry up. find God in our culture here is to be conscious that People who complain they do not feel God they are God exists first and God exists not outside of yourself dry branches. They have to remain in Christ and to but inside. And God is always with you and you can accept Christ by saying: “Lord, come, I am here. You get the feeling of the existence of God. created me. Open my heart because You created this heart. You created the door, enter please.” You have to talk with God everywhere you are. Walking on the street, driving the car, you can say “Lord You are in the front seat, I know that You are here tell me something. Why did You create me?” You have a lot of things, an infinite number of things to