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Holy and Glorious Pascha Preparation Fourteenth Day - Great Lent - Second Sunday: The Sunday of the Veneration of the
Holy Relics and Saint Gregory Palamas with Procession with the Holy Relics and Presentation of Holy Relics for Veneration (27th Day before the Transition Period)
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The Second Sunday of Great Lent commemorates the Holy Relics of the Saints and Saint Gregory Palamas.
Holy Relics of the Saints are Commemorated on the Second Sunday of Great Lent
In 1843, His Beatitude, Patriarch Maximos III
Mazloum, Patriarch of the cities of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, of Cilicia, Syria, Iberia, Arabia Mesopotamia, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, of all of Egypt and the entire East, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Bishop of Bishops, the Thirteenth of The Holy Apostles, ordered that the relics of the the saints to be venerated on this day. Also, Patriarch Maximos III composed a Office for this feast.
Two saints do NOT have relics of their bodies:
Procession with the Holy Relics and Presentation of the Holy Relics for Veneration
We have a procession with the holy relics and a presentation of the holy relics for veneration by all the faithful at the end of the Divine Liturgy. These actions are to show that we understand the true meaning of relics. Relics are not
venerated for themselves, but for the holiness of the people of God from
whom they originated. Relics remind us of the power of God in the lives of human beings. Holy relics of the saints help us to focus on them but we do not worship the actual relics.
Gregory Palamas is Commemorated on the Second Sunday of Great Lent
<This is my current understanding. I am researching this issue.
In 1971, the Holy Synod approved commemorating Gregory Palamas on the Second Sunday of Great Lent. The reason was that Gregory Palamas' theology is the basis for many prayers. Also, that Holy Synod wrote a Kontakion and a Troparion for Gregory Palamas.
This decision of the Holy Synod is mentioned in a footnote in a book published in 1992. The book was written in Arabic by the Liturigical Committee of the Patriarchate. A rough translation of the title is "The Holy Divine Liturgy".
According to His Grace Bishop Nicholas J. Samra,
Auxiliary and Protosyncellos of the Eparchy of
Newton and Rev. Fr. Peter Boutros, frpeter@typicon.com, Gregory Palamas is a Saint of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
Some theologians consider Gregory Palamas to be a Church father because he developed accepted, strong theology in some areas.
Gregory Palamas was a great mystical theologian who wrote extensively about the Uncreated Light or Uncreated
Energies of Holy God. Unlike the Divine Essence, the very Being of Holy God, which is not visible or accessible to human beings, the Divine Light or Divine Energies of Holy God, like grace, are visible and accessible to us. The great Byzantine mystical tradition of Hesychasm -- silent contemplation of God -- is built upon St Gregory's theology of the Uncreated Light.
In 1359, Gregory Palamas died.
One of Gregory Palamas' followers, Philotheus, Patriarch of
Constantinople declared him a saint in the year 1368, established a
feast day on 14 November, and ordered a special commemoration on the
Second Sunday of Great Lent. Melkites did not officially honor Gregory
Palamas on the Second Sunday of Great Lent until the Holy Synod made its
decision in 1971. (My understanding is that for centuries some Melkites
followed the Greek Orthodox pratice and honored Gregory Palamas on the
Second Sunday of Great Lent.) Melkites do not commemorate Gregory
Palamas on 14 November.
For more information on Georgy Palamas, Saint Gregory Palamas
Gospel
St Mark (2:1-12) The reading is the story of Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ' healing of the paralyzed man. The paralyzed man brought by his friends to see and
hear Jesus in Capernaum. When the crowd was so thick that they could not get through, they did not let that stop them. They
climbed onto the top of the house and removed the roof and lowered their friend down into the room where where Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ was.
Impressed with their faith, Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ forgave the man's sins. When some
people questioned how he could forgive sins, he also healed the man of
the paralysis, to demonstrate that The Holy Son of Holy God has the authority from Holy God to
forgive sins.
This Gospel story shows the power of
Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ as Holy God to forgive sins and to heal physical illness. It also shows the close connection between sin and sickness and
death, which would not be in the world if sin had not disrupted the original perfect relationship between Holy God and creation. Also, this Gospel story reminds us once again of the healing
power of Holy God's mercy, but it also reminds us that our strong faith can do
good not only for ourselves but for others.
Kontakion, Troparion, Exapostilarion, and Vespers Sticheron or Doxastikon
TROPARION (TONE 8)
O victorious witness of the Lord, blessed is the earth that received your
blood, and holy are the heavenly places that opened to your souls. You
have vanquished the enemy in battle and proclamined Christ with
courage. We beg you to intercede with Him who is all good that He may
save our souls.
VESPERS STICHON OF ST GREGORY PALAMAS (TONE 6)
Your lips are full of grace, O Holy Father Gregory.
You have become a shepherd of the Church of Christ, teaching your spiritual flock
to believe in the Trinity, consubstantial in one Godhead.
Prayer for the Second Sunday of Great Lent
O Word of God, my Lord Jesus Christ,
I am lost in the wilderness of my transgressions: call me back to You.
I am keeping away from You because of my many sins: draw me back to You.
I am dead: give me new life.
Let my Lent be an occasion for me to shed tears that will cleanse me.
I cry out to You: "O Christ, my Lord, have mercy on me,
for You are gracious and generous in your mercy."
Pascha Cycle
The Sundays of Great Lent are within the Pascha Cycle.
The Sundays of Great Lent are between the Fourth Sunday of the Triodion: Sunday of Cheese fare - Forgiveness and the Transition Period between Great Lent and Great and Holy Week. Great Lent begins on Clean Monday and ends on the Friday after the Fifth Sunday of Lent.
How to determine when the Second Sunday of Great Lent occurs
Great Lent is Forty Days.
A count back from the date of Pascha is made.
Sundays of Great Lent or Pascha Cycle
Sunday | Name | Day of Great Lent | Day before Transition Period | Apostolos | Gospel | Action | Saint |
Vespers of Clean Monday | Service of Forgiveness | Vespers of 1st day of Great Lent | Eve of 40th day before Transition Period | | | Forgive | |
Clean Monday | 1st day of Great Lent | 1st day of Great Lent | 40th day before Transition Period | 1 Cor. 3:18-23 | Lk. 21:8-36 | | |
1 | Sunday of Triumph of Orthodoxy | 7th day of Great Lent | 34th day before Transition Period | Heb. 11:24-26, 32-40, 12:1-2A | John 1:43-51 | Procession with holy ikons and presentation for veneration | |
2 | Sunday of Veneration of Holy Relics
Gregory Palamas
| 14th day of Great Lent | 27th day before Transition Period | 2nd Cor. 4:6-15 | Mk. 2:1-12 | Procession with holy relics and presentation for veneration | All Saints have Relics
St. Gregory Palamas |
3 | Sunday of Veneration of Holy Cross | 21st day of Great Lent | 20th day before Transition Period | Heb. 4:14-5:6 | Mk. 8:34-9:1 | Procession with Holy Cross and presentation for veneration | |
4 | Commem- oration of Our Holy Father John Climacus | 28th day of Great Lent | 13th day before Transition Period | Heb. 6:13-20 | Mk. 9:17-31 | | Our Holy Father John Climacus |
5 | Commem- oration of Our Venerable Mother Mary of Egypt | 35th day of Great Lent | 6th day before Transition Period | Heb. 9:11-14 | Mk. 10:32b-45 | | Our Venerable Mother Mary of Egypt |
Friday after Fifth Sunday | Last day of Great Lent | 40th day of Great Lent | 1st day before Transition Period | Eph. 2:4-10 | Mt.
4:1-11 | | |
Traditions
Traditions of Great Lent and Holy Week Melkite Greek Catholic Church Eparchy of Newton
More Information
Saint Ignatios of Antioch Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Then click on Resources. The first category is Lenten Information.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Lent But Were Afraid to Ask St. George Melkite-Greek Catholic Church, Sacramento, CA
Second Sunday of Great Lent Saint Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Click on The Triodion Celebrations for Great Lent
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Second Sunday of Great Lent Saint Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Click on The Triodion Celebrations for Great Lent
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