13 Monday of the Holy Spirit

TheAnnunciationRublev TheMondayoftheHolySpirit As it is the custom of the Church, on the day after every great Feast, to honour those through whom it came to passour Lady on the day after the LordsNativity,JoachimandAnnaafterourLadysNativity,theholyBaptistthe dayafterTheophany,andsoforthonthisdaywehonourourGodtheAllholy Spirit,theComforterpromisedbyourSaviourtoHisdisciples(John14:16),Who descended upon them at holy Pentecost and guided them into all truth(ibid. 16:13),andthroughthem,us. Restfromlabour. Texts:TheGreatHorologion1997TheHolyTransfigurationMonasteryBrookline,Massachusetts02445 ThePentecostarion1990TheHolyTransfigurationMonasteryBrookline,Massachusetts02445 TheSynodiconoftheHolySpiritTheTrueVineIssueNumbers27&28Spring2000pp.85108.

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DismissalHymn.PlagalofFourthTone LESSEDartThou,OChristourGod,Whohastshownforththefishermenas supremely wise by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit, and through themdidstdrawtheworldintoThynet.OBefrienderofman,glorybetoThee. Kontakion.PlagalofFourthTone NCE, when He descended and confounded the tongues, the Most High dividedthenations;andwhenHedividedthetonguesoffire,Hecalledall menintounity;andwithoneaccordweglorifytheAllholySpirit.

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Selected Hymns from THE PENTECOSTARION MONDAY AFTER PENTECOST MATINSAfterthefirstReadingfromthePsalter,theSessionalHymn:

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YEfaithful,letuskeep*andcelebratemostradiantly*thispostfestaland last feast; * this is the day of Pentecost, * which doth fulfil the appointed time and the promise. * For on this day, the fire * of the Good Comforter * straightway came on earth, * as though in the form of tongues, * and it enlightened the disciples * and proved them Heavens initiates. * Behold, the Comforterslightiscomeand*hathilluminatedthewholeworld.(Twice)AftertheSecondReadingfromthePsalter,thefollowingSessionalHymn:

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OMINGdowntothoseonearth,*theHolySpiritsspringwasseen*inthe form of fiery streams * apportioned spiritually to all, * as it bedewed and enlightenedtheLordsApostles.*Andthus,thefirebecame*acloudbedewing them, * filling them with light, * and raining flames on them. * And through them,gracehathbeenvouchsafedus*byfireandwaterinverytruth.*Behold, theComforterslightiscomeand*hathilluminedthewholeworld.(Twice) TheSynaxarionoftheMenaion,thenthefollowing: Onthisday,theMondayofPentecost,wecelebrate theAllholyandLifecreatingandOmnipotentSpirit,WhoisGod, andOneoftheTrinity, andofonehonourandoneessence andoneglorywiththeFatherandtheSon.

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Verses Oeverybreath,glorifytheSpiritoftheLord, ThroughWhomtheimpudenceoftheevil Spiritsismadetovanish. BythecomingoftheHolySpirit,andthe IntercessionsofThineApostles,OChrist God,havemercyonus.Amen.

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EXAPOSTILARION ThirdTone.ThouWho,asGod,adornest

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THOU Allholy Spirit, * Who from the Father dost proceed, * and Who throughtheSonhastdescended*ontheunlettereddisciples:DoThounow sanctifyandsave*allthatacknowledgeTheeasGod.(Twice)AnotherExapostilarion.SameMelody

HE Father is Light; the Word is Light; and the Holy Spirit is Light, * Who was sent to the Apostles * in the form of fiery tongues; * and thus through Himallcreation*isilluminatedandguided*toworshiptheHolyTrinity. ForthePraisesweallowforsixversesandchantthefollowingStichera,repeatingeachone:

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N the Prophets Thou didst proclaim unto us the way of salvation, and the grace of Thy Spirit hath shone in the Apostles, O our Saviour; thou art God Who art from the beginning, and for time to come and unto the ages, Thou art ourGod.Glory;bothnow. PlagalofFourthTone

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Foldthetongueswereconfoundedbecauseoftheaudacityinthebuilding of the tower, but now the tongues are made wise because of the glory of Divineknowledge.ThereGodcondemnedtheimpiousbecauseoftheiroffence, and here Christ hath enlightened the fishermen by the Spirit. At that time the confusion of tongues was wrought for punishment, but now the concord of tongueshathbeeninauguratedforthesalvationofoursouls.TheGreatDoxologyandthedismissal.

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The Synodicon of the Holy SpiritThrough which the Enemies of the Holy Spirit Are Severed From the Church of Christ A Confession and Proclamation of the Orthodox Piety Of the Christians, in Which All the Impieties of the Heretics Are Overthrown and the Definitions Of the Catholic Church of Christ Are SustainedTobereadontheSecondDayofPentecost, KnownasMondayoftheHolySpirit. 1 To those who confess that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone, with no intermediary,justastheSonisbegottenfromtheFatheralone,withnointermediary,according to the testimony of God the WordHimself to HisApostles at the season ofHisPassion for the salvationoftheworld,whenHesaid,ButwhentheComforteriscome,WhomIwillsendunto youfromtheFather,eventheSpiritoftruth,whichproceedethfromtheFather,Heshalltestifyof me, 2 and to those who accept unaltered this divine testament of our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, EternalMemory. To those who know and believe that the Father is the only source of the supersubstantial Godhead, and that the Son and the Holy Spirit possess their existence from the Father directly andwithnointermediary,liketwoshootsorflowersfromoneroot,orliketwosupersubstantial lights,accordingtothegreatDionysius, 3 eminentinthingsdivine,orliketwobeamsfromone sunandtworiversfromthesamesource,asthedivineGregoryofNyssadeclares;butwhodo notaccepttheimpiousandspuriousdoctrineswhichcontendthattheSonisrelatedtotheFather directlyandwithnointermediary,buttheHolySpiritisdistantandmediated,andthusalas! thesedoctrinesalienatetheHolySpiritfromtheFathershypostasisandintroducesomesortof interval and limit between the Father and the Spirit, and so fall into the abyss of tritheism; wherefore,tothosewhodonotacceptsuchinnovationsoftheheretics,butwhoevenuntodeath itselfconfessunadulteratedthewordofpiety, EternalMemory.

TheselectionsfromthetextofTheSynodiconoftheHolySpiritpresentedherehavebeenchosen forpresentationtoTheVirtualParish.PleaserefertothecompletetextfoundinTheSynodiconof theHolySpiritTheTrueVineIssueNumbers27&28Spring2000pp.85108. 2St.John15:26. 3St.DionysiustheAreopagite,DivineNames,III(PG3,672a)1


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Tothosewhobelieveandconfessone,perfectGodinthreeperfecthypostases,inFather,Son, andHolySpirit;theFatherisperfectGod,theSonisperfectGod,theHolySpiritisperfectGod, the Holy Trinity: one perfect God; the Father is not a defective God, the Son is not a defective God,theHolySpiritisnotadefectiveGod(forneitheristheHolyTrinityacompoundGod,a compositeofimperfectparts),buttheDivinityisentireandperfectintheFather,theDivinityis entireandperfectintheSon,theDivinityisentireandperfectintheHolySpirit;tothosewho confessthattheHolyTrinityisoneDivinity;simpleandsuperabundant, 4 neithermeasuredby degrees nor constrained by any subordination, and that this Holy Trinity as one simple God, possessesonehonour,glory,andthrone, EternalMemory.

Tothosewhoacceptandespousetheholy,venerableandecumenicalsevenCouncils;namely, thefirst,whichwasassembledagainstArius,thesecondagainstMacedoniusandApollinarius, and third against Nestorius who was of Jewish opinion, as well as the fourth against the Monophysites, and the fifth against Severus and Origen, and certainly, moreover, the sixth againsttheMonothelites,andtheseventhagainsttheIconoclasts,andalsotheseventhagainstthe IconoclastswhichshonewithOrthodoxyintheirformulatedcanonsanddefinitions, 5

EternalMemory. As the Prophets have seen, as the Apostles have taught, as the Church has received, as the teachershavesetforthindogmas,astheworldhasunderstood,asgracehasilluminated,asthe truth was demonstrated, as falsehood was banished, as wisdom spoke boldly, as Christ has awarded;thusdowebelieve,thusdowespeak,thusdowepreach 6 theholyandimmaculate andblamelessFaith,bythegraceofourtrueGod,Whosaid,Heavenandearthshallpassaway, butMywordsshallnotpassaway. 7 Therefore,toallwhohavestruggledbygivingthemselves overtobeilltreatedevenuntodeathitselfforthesakeofpiety,

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To Conon, John, Mark, Clement, Maximus, Theodoretus, Theoctisus, Barnabas, Jeremias, Gregory, Joseph, Gerasimus. and Germanus, who were truly righteous martyrs and confessors and champions of Orthodoxy, who after many unbearable maltreatments underwent death by fire, 8

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. TheSevenEcumenicalCouncilsandtheirdatesare:NiceaI,325;ConstantinopleI,381;Ephesus, 431;Chalcedon,451;ConstantinopleII,553;ConstantinopleIII,68081;andNiceaII,787. 6AnextractfromtheSynodiconofOrthodoxy. 7Matt.24:35. 8TheThirteenRighteousMartyrsofCyprus.TheywereburnedbytheLatinsin1231for remainingstaunchinOrthodoxy.4 5


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So likewise do they who violate and despise piety receive curses; wherefore we who constitute the plentitude of piety, we publiclylay upon the impious the curse which theyhave putuponthemselves. 9

Anathema.

To those who do not deign to consent to the unaltered and unadulterated holy Symbol confessed by the Orthodox, that is to day, that one which was evangelically formulated by the FirstandSecondHolyCouncilsandconfirmedbytherest, 10 butwhoratheramenditanddistort it to support their own belief, thereby not only corrupting the conciliar traditions of the holy FathersandoftheholyandGodinstructedApostles,butalsothedefinitionsofourtrueGodand Saviour,JesusChrist,

Anathema.

To those who do not confess that the Holy Spirit proceeds and has His existence from the Father withno intermediary in the like manner as the Son is begotten from the Father with no intermediary,accordingasGodtheWordHimselfdisclosedandasthechurchhasreceivedfrom onhighthroughtheFathers,andwhoaccountasworthlessthetraditionofourGodandSaviour Jesus Christ while accepting impious and spurious doctrines which contend that the Son is related to the Father directly and with no intermediary, but that the Holy Spirit is distant and mediated, and who thusalas!alienate the Holy Spirit from the Fathers hypostasis and introducesomesortofintervalandboundarybetweentheFatherandtheAllholySpirit,andso fallintothegulfoftritheism.

Anathema.

TothosewhoundertaketodogmatizecontrarytoourMasterChrist,fortheydeclarethatthe Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and from the Son, from the Son directly and with no intermediary, but indirectly from the Father and with an intermediary; that is, just as the Son proceedsdirectlyfromtheFather,sotheSpiritproceedsfromtheSon;andtothosewhodareto say that the Son is the proximate cause of the Spirit while the Father is the remote cause, as though the Spirit were in actuality from the Son, but only potentially from the other, and who thusintroducedegreesandsuccessionsofcauseandeffectintothesimpleandindivisibleTrinity,

Anathema.

TothosewhoattributeordinalrankstothesupremelyhymnedandindescribableTrinity,that is,first,second,andthird,asthereinallthingssubjecttotimeandseparatedbyplacealthough Basil the Great cries out: Not by addition do we number, increasing from one to many, and saying, one, two, and three, or first, second and third; for God says, I am the first and I am hereafter 11 anddonotconfess,instead,anorderaccordingtothedifferencesofthehypostatic properties (to wit, the Fathers property of being unbegotten, the Sons property of being begotten, and the Holy Spirits property of procession), for as Dionysius, eminent in theology declares: The properties of the superessential, divine generation are not interchangeable in

AnextractfromtheSynodiconofOrthodoxy,firstaparaphrase,thenadirectquotation. Thatis,theNiceneCreed,asitiscommonlyreferredto,whichisrecitedineveryOrthodox LiturgyandinmanyotherservicesoftheChurch. 11St.BasiltheGreat,OntheHolySpirit,XVIII,45(PG32,149b).HequotesEsaias44:6(LXX).9 10


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regard to one another. The Father is the sole source of the superessential Godhead, since the Father is not the Son, nor the Son the Father: for the hymns reverently guard the properties of each of the divinely ruling hypostases 12 therefore, to those who, as was said, subordinate the SontotheFather,andtheHolySpirittotheSon,whentheyspeakoffirstandsecondandthirdin rank, 13

Anathema.

TothosewhofalsifyandvariouslycorruptthedivineandscaredwritingsofthedivineFathers, thatis,ofthegreatAthanasius,BasiltheGreat,EpiphaniusofCyprus,Cyril,Maximusthe Confessor,andtheremainingdivineandOrthodoxholyFathers,

Anathema.

TothosewhoassailthedivineFathersandwhoendeavourtodogmatizecontrarytoPhotius, the most holy Patriarch, Theophylactus of Bulgaria, Euthymius Zigabenus, John Phournes, the ProtosofMountGanus,NicholasofMethone,andtheremainingchampionsofpiety,andthose whoslanderthesegenuinechampionsofpietyfortheirtruedevotiontothetruedogmasofthe ChurchofChristandcallthemdeceiversanddistortersoftheOrthodoxFaith,

Anathema.

Tothosewhoofferazymes 14 [thatis,unleavenedbread]insacrificeandwhotherebyscornGod the Words Incarnation and symbolically advocate Apollonarius heresyfor Apollinarius dogmatizedthattheLordtookuponHimselfaheavenlybodywithoutsoulormind,andhealso saidthattheLordcameforthfromMaryonlyinappearance,asifpassingthroughaconduit:for in Adam, on account of the fall, sin of thought was inherent in the human mind, while sin of actionwasinherentintheflesh;therefore,ifGodtheWordtookuponHimselfhumannature,He wouldnotbewithoutsin,thereforeHedidnottakeuponHimselfhumannature,butapureand sinlessheavenlybody,fashionedwithoutsoulormindaforetimeinheaven,withtheDivinityof the Onlybegotten filling up the place of soul and mind; whereof these texts were offered in proof: No man hath ascended up to Heaven, but He that came down from heaven, 15 and beingfoundinfashionasaman; 16 thence,theinitiatesofthisApollinariuscelebratedasacrifice of azymes, which contained neither leaven nor salt, corresponding, it is said, to the assumed

St.DionysiustheAreopagite,DivineNamesII,5(PG3,641d). Ourclergyareespeciallysensitivetotheseimportantmatters.Theyhaveadirectbearingonthe purity of our confession of the Orthodox Faith. Recently one of the senior Fathers at the monasteryinBrookline,Massachusettsrecalledatimewhenhewasquestionedbyaclergyman. Where,hewasasked,doyoufindintheFathersoftheChurchthephraseThefirstPersonof theTrinity?InreplytheFatherrespondedthatnowherehadheeverfoundsuchaphrase. ThisarticleofConfessionandProclamationofOrthodoxPietyinTheSynodiconoftheHolySpirit anathematizesanysuchattributionofordinalrankstothesupremelyhymnedandindescribable Trinity. 14Azymes,i.e.,unleavenedbread,whichwasofferedintheEucharistincontradistinctiontothe Orthodox, who retained the ancient custom of using leavened bread. Azymes were introduced intotheLiturgyintheWestaroundthe8thcentury. 15John3:13. 16Phil.2:8.12 13


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soulless body, for the leaven is mixed in for a figure of the soul, and the salt for the mind; wherefore,theyfashiontheirbreadevenayearbeforehandandstoreitaway,callingitpure;and aftertheblessingtheydecreethatthebreadisleavenedevenastheheavenlybodyinventedby them possessed a mind and soul after the union with the Divinity; and this bread is separated from the other breads of oblation offered for the Saints, just as that heavenly body is not consubstantialwiththeSaintstothose,therefore,whoofferunleavenedbreadforsacrificeand whodenytheIncarnationofGodtheWord,

Anathema.

To those who in any way undertake investigations into new doctrines concerning the divine and incomprehensible Trinity, and who search out the difference between begetting and processionandthenatureofbegettingandprocessioninGod,andwhoincreasewordsanddo not abide and persist in the definitions handed down to us by the disciples of Christ and the divineFathers,andtherebytheystriveuselesslytodisputeoverthingsnotdeliveredtous,

Anathema.

TothosewhoscornthevenerableandholyEcumenicalCouncils,andwhodespiseevenmore theirdogmaticandcanonicaltraditions;andtothosewhosaythatallthingswerenotperfectly definedanddeliveredbytheCouncils,butthattheyleftthegreaterpartmysterious,unclear,and untaught,

Anathema.

TothosewhoholdincontemptthesacredanddivinecanonsofourblessedFathers,which,by sustainingtheholyChurchofGodandadorningthewholeChristianChurch,guidetodivine reverence,

Anathema.

THE CONDEMNATION OF THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BECCUSIn addition to the foregoing, let all things written and dogmatized by John Beccus 17 and publicly taught by him in the Church, all the texts falsified both by him and others and evilly construed in order to devise and verify that heresy assailing the Holy Spirit, be placed under anathema.

The End of The Synodicon of the Holy Spirit JohnBeccus,EcumenicalPatriarchfrom1275to1282,waselevatedtothethronebyEmperor Michael Paleologus VIII in order to implement the Union of the Council of Lyons (1274). As a UniatePatriarchate,heisrememberedchieflyforthemanypersecutionsanddeathsheinflicted upontheOrthodoxfaithful.HewasdeposedwhenAndronicusIIaccededtotheImperialThrone in1282.TheOrthodoxformerPatriarch,GregoryII,whohadbeendeposedbyJohnBeccus,then recoveredhisthronein1283.17


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AClosingFootnote FromOnceDeliveredtotheSaintsBy FatherMichaelAzkoul2000SaintNectariosPress FatherMichaelwrites: Of particular interest to Orthodox is the filioque. The Lutheran convert to Orthodoxy, Adam Zernicavius, in his Tractatus de processione Spiritus Sancti (written in Latin), (17951796; translatedintoGreekbyE.Bulgaris,ArchbishopofCherson(1776[sic]);andintoRussianatthe beginningofthetwentiethcentury,uncoverednumerousforgeriesinthewritingsoftheFathers. For example, he examined the original MSS of the Venerable Bede and found that the phrase Spiritus sanctus ex filio procedat and other word which accommodate the Latin heresy are interpolations.StBedesrecordoftheSynodofHatfield(679)decreestheHolySpiritineffably proceeding from the Father and the Son as proclaimed by the Holy Apostles (A History of the EnglishChurchandPeople.Bk.IV,chap.17)intheLatintextreferstothetemporalmissionofthe Spirit(SeeP.Ranson,TheFilioque:theVitalOrthodoxUnderstandingoftheProcessionofthe Spirit, in Orthodox Light VII, 1 [1995], 1160; and C. Lampryllos, La Mystification fatale: tude orthodoxesurleFilioque.Lausanne,1987.OnthecorruptionofthewritingsoftheLatinFathersin particular,seepages117120.;i.e.inOnceDeliveredtotheSaints.p.44n.25.

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