Today, March 28, our Holy Church honors the memory of St. Herodion, one of the Seventy Apostles, as well as St. Hilarion the Younger, former abbot of the monastery of Pelekiti.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, as is known, had, in addition to the narrow circle of twelve disciples, symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel, a wider circle of seventy disciples, among whom St. Herodias, who is revered today, stood out.
Following the command of the God-Man to "go and make disciples of the nations," Herodion became a zealous preacher of the Holy Gospel, a follower and associate of the Apostle Peter. His missionary duty took him to parts of Greece, where he was ordained bishop of New Patras, that is, Hypatidus (Patras, following the bishop of Patras Stratoklis). The apostle of the Gentiles, Paul, who in his letter to the Romans calls him his "kinsman," also had great respect for him.
Herodion performed his episcopal duties with spiritual zeal and devotion and for this reason incurred the enmity of the Gentiles. After they captured him, they tortured him mercilessly and finally led him to martyrdom. Thus St. Herodion, by his martyrdom, also joined the cloud of martyrs for the faith.
St. Pentecost teaches us that repentance and forgiveness presupposes the virtue of humility. It is a necessary supply so that man can live in the bliss of the Kingdom of the Blessed Triune God, despite all the arrows the devil throws, struggling in vain to afflict the soul of the struggling Christian.
The struggling Christian with his silent fighting course and the realism that everything in this world is human, we do not forget the words of Paul in his letter to the Romans, "When sin is multiplied, grace is multiplied."(Rom. 5'20).
Our Lord Jesus Christ, as is known, had, in addition to the narrow circle of twelve disciples, symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel, a wider circle of seventy disciples, among whom St. Herodias, who is revered today, stood out.
Following the command of the God-Man to "go and make disciples of the nations," Herodion became a zealous preacher of the Holy Gospel, a follower and associate of the Apostle Peter. His missionary duty took him to parts of Greece, where he was ordained bishop of New Patras, that is, Hypatidus (Patras, following the bishop of Patras Stratoklis). The apostle of the Gentiles, Paul, who in his letter to the Romans calls him his "kinsman," also had great respect for him.
Herodion performed his episcopal duties with spiritual zeal and devotion and for this reason incurred the enmity of the Gentiles. After they captured him, they tortured him mercilessly and finally led him to martyrdom. Thus St. Herodion, by his martyrdom, also joined the cloud of martyrs for the faith.
St. Pentecost teaches us that repentance and forgiveness presupposes the virtue of humility. It is a necessary supply so that man can live in the bliss of the Kingdom of the Blessed Triune God, despite all the arrows the devil throws, struggling in vain to afflict the soul of the struggling Christian.
The struggling Christian with his silent fighting course and the realism that everything in this world is human, we do not forget the words of Paul in his letter to the Romans, "When sin is multiplied, grace is multiplied."(Rom. 5'20).
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