Today is an optional memorial for St. Vincent Ferrer as well as being Wednesday April 5th, A.D. 2017 in the 5th Week of Great Lent in the Gregorian Calendar and Roman Catholic Church.
Today is also Bright Tuesday during Bright Week, Tuesday April 18th, A.D. 2017 in the Julian Calendar used by many Eastern/Oriental/Assyrian Orthodox Catholic Christians.
For this Litany, I will alternate and ask for the intercession of one Saint from the West and then one Saint from the East. Saints and Martyrs who are pre-Schism (the worst event to ever occur to Christendom since the Crucifixion of Jesus - A.D. 1054) and are celebrated by both the Roman and Eastern Christian Churches today will be listed last.
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This picture moved me to tears. Our Great Holy Father Pope Francis, the Successor of St. Peter and servant of the Servants of God, the Primus Inter Pares (first among equals [of Bishops]) of the Roman Catholic Christian Church, embraces His Most Divine All-Holiness the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, our Great Lord and Father Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Primus Inter Pares of the Great and Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic Christian Churches and the Successor of St. Andrew. Sts. Peter and Andrew, pray for us!
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Roman Catholic Christian Saint Vincent Ferrer, pray for us!
Eastern Orthodox Catholic Christian Saints and Blessed martyrs and Fathers of the St. David-Gareji Monastery, pray for us!
We also commemorate today two holy and Wonderworking Icons of the Ever Virgin Theotokos, Mary most Holy!
The "Shuisky" icon of the Most Holy Theotokos and the Iveron Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, O Most Holy Theotokos, Save us!
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| The Shuisk-Smolensk Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God was written in the years 1654-1655 in the Resurrection parish of the city of Shui, where at the time raged an unrelenting pestilence |
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| The Iversk Icon of the Mother of God (which at present is preserved on Athos) was in the IX Century situated with a certain pious widow, living near Nicea. During the time of the emperor Theophilos (82-842), the Iconoclasts in their attempts to abolish the veneration of holy icons, came to the house of this Christian, and one of the soldiers struck the image of the Mother of God with a spear. Where it was struck, there immediately flowed out blood. |
St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow, pray for us!
St. Antonio Blasi, pray for us!
Sts. and Martyrs Theodulus, reader, and Agathopodes, deacon, and those with them at Thessalonica, pray for us!
St. Antonius Fuster, pray for us!
St. and New Hieromartyr Alexis the Priest, pray for us!
St. Becan, pray for us!
St. Blasius of Auvergne, pray for us!
St. and New Hieromartyr Nicholas the Priest, pray for us!
St. Catherine of Palma, pray for us!
St. Venerable Publius of Egypt, pray for us!
St. Claudius of Mesopotamia, pray for us!
Sts and Venerables Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus of Egypt, pray for us!
St. Conrad of Saxony, pray for us!
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Our Holy Father Francis, Pope of Rome, Sovereign Pontiff of the Universal Church and servant of the Servants of God, the lowest of all who is the highest of all, receiving a blessing from The Most Reverend Father in God, Justin Welby, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan |
St. Venerable Mark the Anchorite of Athens, pray for us!
St. Venerable Plato, abbot of the Studion, pray for us!
St. Ferbuta of Seleucia, pray for us!
St. Venerable Theodora, nun, of Thessalonica, pray for us!
St. Gerald of Sauve-Majeure, pray for us!
St. New Martyr George of New Ephesus, pray for us!
St. Irene of Thessalonica, pray for us!
St. Philip the First, metropolitan of Moscow, pray for us!
St. Juliana of Mont Cornillon, pray for us!
St. Maria Crescentia Hoss, pray for us!
Sts. and Martyrs Theodora and Didymus of Alexandria, pray for us!
St. Mariano de la Mata Aparicio, pray for us!
St. Fermus, pray for us!
St. Pausilippus, pray for us!
St. and New Martyr Argyra at Constantinople, pray for us!
St. Peter Cerdan, pray for us!
St. New Martyr Panaghiotis of Jerusalem, pray for us!
St. Raimondo of Monteolivio, pray for us!
St. Stephen of Hungary, pray for us!
St. Venerable Ethelburga, queen and Abbes of Lyminge, Kent, pray for us!
St. Theodore the Martyr, pray for us!
Saint Martyrs Claudius, Diodorus, Victor, Victorinus, Pappia, Serapion, and Nicephorus, pray for us!
St. Zeno the Martyr, pray for us!
The Saint Martyrs of North-West Africa, pray for us!
The 120 Saint Martyrs of Seleucia, pray for us!
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| Our Holy Father Francis, Pope of Rome, embracing his brother in Christ, His Holiness Mar Gewargis III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian [Catholic] Church of the East |
Saints and Martyrs commemorated today in both the Roman and Eastern Churches:
The 5 Saints and Holy Virgin Martyrs of Lesbos, Greece, pray for us!
St. Derfel Gadarn of Lianderfel, Dervel the Mighty, pray for us!
All you holy Saints of God, pray for us!
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| The Pope and the Pope embrace as brothers in Christ! Our Holy Father Pope Francis, the Pope of Rome and the Holy See of St. Peter the Apostle, embraces his brother in Christ, Pope Tawadros II, the Pope and Lord Archbishop of the Great City of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Orthodox and Apostolic Throne of St. Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle that is, in Egypt, Pentapolis, Libya, Nubia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and all Africa, and Dean of the Great Catechetical School of Theology of Alexandria, the Successor of the Thirteenth among the Holy Apostles St. Mark the Evangelist and Disciple of Peter, Pope Tawadros II embracing the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles St. Peter, Pope Francis, the servant of the Servants of God and servant to Pope Tawadros the Father of Fathers. |
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| All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. - the First Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians, chapter XII, verses XI-XIII |
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Jesus lifted his eyes to heaven and prayed thus: I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine; all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
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Yours in Christ,
Jason Michael Spyridon Prewara
[Sources used to compile this Litany - Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church website Catholic Saints dot info The Omniscient Google! The Wonderful Bible Gateway Blogspot/Blogger what I use to blog! ]
This is really good stuff!
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