his repose, St. established that his feast be MARCH 8, 2015 appeared to him in a vision. St. celebrated on this day. Gregory Palamas fell asleep in ST. SPIRIDON ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL the Lord on November 14, 1359. His holy are kept in the 400 Yale Ave., Seattle, WA 90109 The Virgin Mary, the Apostle Cathedral of . Since WEEKLY PUBLICATION John, St. Dimitrios, St. Antony works without right faith avail the Great, St. John Chrysostom, nothing, we set of SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT and angels of God all appeared faith as the foundation of all that Tone 6. St. Gregory Palamas. Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves to him at different times. Nine we accomplish during the Fast, Lavra. St. Theophylactus, of Nicomedia (842-845). Ven. Lazarus (1391) years after his repose, a council by celebrating the Triumph of and Athanasius (15th c.), of Múrom. Apostle Hermas of the Seventy (1st c.). in headed by Orthodoxy the Sunday before, Hieromartyr Theodoretus of Antioch (4th c.). Ven. Dometius (363). The “KURSK- ROOT” of the Most-holy . Patriarch Philotheos (1354-1355, and the great defender of the 1362-1376) proclaimed the teachings of the holy Fathers sainthood of Gregory Palamas. today. ST. GREGORY PALAMAS Patriarch Philotheos himself compiled the life and services for the , when it was

LOOKING AHEAD Wednesday, March 11: 6:30pm Liturgy of PG After his glorification in 1368, a father became a prominent Friday, March 13: 9:00am 9th Hour and Liturgy of PG second commemoration of St dignitary at the court of Gregory Palamas (Nov 14) was Andronicus II Paleologos, and 9:30am Liturgy Saturday, March 14: appointed for this day, the endowed with fine abilities and 6:30pm Vespers Second Sunday of , as great diligence, Gregory 9:30am Liturgy a second "Triumph of mastered all the subjects which Sunday, March 8: 5pm Vespers at St. Katherine Orthodoxy." then comprised the full course of (Kirkland) medieval higher education. Gregory was born in the year Gregory, barely twenty years Web: www.saintspiridon.org Ph: 206.624.5341 Rector: Archpriest Yuri Maev 1296 in Constantinople. His old, withdrew to Email: [email protected] Home: 425.216.3671 in the year 1316 were he was prayer a heretical error. He tonsured and began on the path ridiculed the teachings of the of . The head of this about the methods of (Resurrection) monastery began to teach the prayer and about the uncreated Tone 6 young man the method of light seen by the hesychasts. The Angelic Powers were at Thy tomb; the guards became as unceasing prayer and mental dead men. Mary stood by Thy grave, seeking Thy most pure activity, (or prayer of the heart), St Gregory, at the request of the body. Thou didst capture hell not being tempted by it. requiring solitude and quiet, Athonite monks, replied with Thou didst come to the Virgin, granting life.// known as "". After verbal admonitions at first. But O Lord, Who didst rise from the dead, glory to Thee. resettling at the small at seeing the futility of such efforts,

Glossia the future hierarch he put his theological arguments

Gregory became fully imbued in writing. Thus appeared the Tone 8 Troparion (St Gregory Palamas) with the spirit of hesychasm and " in Defense of the Holy adopted it as an essential part of Hesychasts" (1338). In 1351 the O light of Orthodoxy, teacher of the , its confirmation, his life. In the year 1326, because Council of Blachernae solemnly O ideal of monks and invincible champion of theologians, of the threat of Turkish upheld the Orthodoxy of his O wonderworking Gregory, glory of and invasions, he and the brethren teachings. But the people of preacher of grace,// retreated to Thessaloniki, where Thessaloniki did not always intercede before the Lord that our souls may be saved! he was then ordained to the holy immediately accept St Gregory, priesthood. and he was compelled to live in

various places. On one of his Tone 8 (St Gregory Palamas) In the 1330s events took place in travels to Constantinople the the life of the Eastern Church Byzantine ship fell into the Holy and divine instrument of wisdom, joyful trumpet of which put St Gregory among the hands of the Turks. Even in , together we sing thy praises, O God-inspired most significant universal captivity, St Gregory preached to Gregory. Since thou now standest before the Original Mind, apologists of Orthodoxy, and Christian prisoners and even to guide our minds to Him, O Father,// brought him great renown as a his Moslem captors. A year later, so that we may sing to thee: Rejoice, O preacher of grace! teacher of hesychasm. About the St Gregory was ransomed and year 1330 the learned returned to Thessaloniki, where

Barlaam had arrived in he was appointed Metropolitan. Tone 4 Kontakion (from the Lenten Triodion) Constantinople from Calabria, in He tended his flock in an

Italy. He was the author of apostolic manner for some Now is the time for action! Judgment is at the doors! So let us treatises on logic and astronomy, twelve years, and wrote many rise and fast, offering alms with tears of compunction and a skilled and sharp-witted books and treatises on the most crying: Our sins are more in number than the sands of the sea; orator, and he received a exalted doctrines of our Faith. St. but forgive us, O Master of all,// university chair in the capital Gregory was a living Gospel. so that we may receive the incorruptible crowns! city. Saying that it was God gave him the gift of healing, impossible to know the essence especially in the last three years of God, he declared mental before his death. On the eve of